About Sangha Center
Meet your certified Yoga and Licensed Massage Therapist.
Katie Hawks is a certified Yoga Therapist and Massage Therapist. In her private practice, she helps people safely and effectively manage stress, soothe anxiety, reduce chronic pain, process grief, and regulate the nervous system.
Katie Hawks, C-IAYT, LMT, ERYT-500
I've been interested in holistic health and wellness for as long as I can remember. When I was young, I read the book Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, MD, and thought that I would be a doctor someday. I was fascinated with the human body and inspired to help people feel better.
After struggling with weight gain, chronic pain from a low back injury, and anxiety during college, I continued to read every book I could find on nutrition, stress, healing, and health. With a long history of trauma, a body and mind riddled with stress and anxiety, and a dysregulated nervous system, I sought healing.
In 2008, I enrolled in a massage therapy school. This decision opened the doors to the world of wellness and began my healing journey. I started practicing yoga, studying acupuncture, and worked for the next decade in rehabilitation clinics offering clinical massage therapy, teaching yoga, and rehabilitative exercises. I became a certified Yoga Instructor, Health Coach, and Reiki practitioner with more than 1,000 hours of yoga training.
In 2014, my adverse childhood experiences, lifestyle, stress, and coping mechanisms caught up with me. I was hospitalized due to a heart arrhythmia. I spent several weeks in multiple hospitals with teams of doctors until I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, POTS, and Lyme disease. I wondered if I would ever be the same again, but there were blessings in the illness that dominated my life for years. I began to practice all of the healing modalities that I studied. During the challenges of chronic illness, I drew from the ancient healing system of yoga to reduce and manage symptoms and shift my attitude around suffering. I enrolled in a 3-year yoga therapy program that completely transformed my life! Today, I'm medicine-free, having treated disease by healing, transforming, and remembering who I am. The empathy and compassion I've learned from times of struggle are invaluable! Since, I've spent over a decade working for and managing small wellness practices.
Everything lead to opening Sangha Center. I feel grateful to be alive, so I've dedicated my life to serving others on their path to healing. This is my life's purpose. The human spirit perseveres, and that inspires me!
Katie’s offerings include: yoga therapy, massage therapy, energy work, and cupping
“Yoga Therapy has let me take back my life! It’s one-on-one approach targets all my areas of concern. It moves all my blocked energy from my hips, legs and heart central to make me more in control of my anxiety. Katie does a comprehensive work up each visit about how I am feeling and adds any new changes to my daily exercise. Yoga therapy has helped me at home and at work. This new tool has helped me tackle my day calmly and peacefully.”
— Laura H.
Meet your certified Massage, MFR, and Cupping Therapist and Reiki Practitioner
Anna Martinez
Anna found her love for massage therapy and all things related to body work in her 20’s. Having suffered from severe back pain and depression, she made the mind body connection. Since then, she has done many things. But, she is always led back to the body and mind, and how this can effect our body.
Anna went to the Soma institute of massage therapy and graduated in 2010. She loves to incorporate cupping and reiki in her sessions.
By day Anna does social Justice work as well as teaches yoga classes in her community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
For more info about Anna and her work visit https://www.thesubtlebodywellness.com/
Anna’s offerings include: massage therapy, myofascial release, reiki and cupping
Meet your Hypno-Therapist
Brittany Goers
I am Brittany Goers Certified Hypnotherapist! For most of my adult life I have worked in Corporate America. I was always wanting something different, something more. I have always known that Corporate America wasn’t for me, that I was meant to help people and make a difference. I originally found a craft that I fell in love with and started a small business. This just made my dreams bigger! I started my journey with Reiki training, and through a suggestion of a friend, I joined a workshop to help me on that journey. I had no idea it was a hypnosis workshop, and that day changed everything. I met Randi Light, my teacher and mentor, who is an award-winning hypnotherapist and hypnotherapist trainer!
On my first day of hypnosis class, I knew I was born to do this.
My mission is to guide you to break free from the patterns that hold you back and unlock your true potential. I invite you to take the first step towards a brighter future. Together we'll embark on a transformative journey using the power of hypnosis to unlock the extraordinary possibilities within you.
I look forward to working with you and helping you create the life you truly deserve!
Brittany’s offerings include: hypnosis, past life regression, and chakra cleansing
Meet your Guide for Energetic Harmony
Megan Morris
With over a decade of experience as a holistic practitioner, Meg M. has recently begun a new chapter in her journey. Transitioning from her role as the owner of a holistic coworking space, she now focuses on her private practice, where she continues to facilitate transformative experiences of healing and inner harmony.
Specializing in spinal energetics and energetic healing, Meg brings a wealth of experience and wisdom to her practice. Her approach seamlessly integrates ancient wisdom with modern understanding, creating a holistic framework that nurtures the interconnectedness of mind, body, and energy.
With compassion, integrity, and a deep reverence for the healing journey, Meg M. is dedicated to supporting individuals as they find peace and alignment within themselves.
Visit Meg and book your first session at https://beyondthemetaphysical.com/
Meg’s offerings include: spinal energetics
Meet your Shamanic Healer,
Ryan Krueger
IRyan Krueger specializes in wombwork, nervous system regulation, somatic embodiment massage as well as sound therapy, and multiple energy healing techniques.
Over the past 27 years, she has discovered and experienced multiple healing modalities that have assisted her in her own trauma healing. She has extensively studied these and has become certified in many of them. She mainly works with women to provide the pivotal care that is currently lacking in this area.
She plans to develop more offerings to further connect women to themselves and their divinity, mother to child, and to strengthen family dynamics.
Ryan’s offerings include: rose heart womb massage, shamanic healing, sound therapy and spiritual guidance
To book with Ryan, email her at ryankrueger.guidedenergy@gmail.com
Meet your Guide for Thai Bodywork
Ashely Baugh
Hello everyone! I'm Ashely Baugh. I am a Thai Body Worker and a 200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher in Valparaiso, IN. I found yoga while I was grieving a terrible loss. I was struggling with my mental health and felt so alone. I tried everything to get through my grief but the darkness kept crawling in, until I found yoga. When I realized how transformational yoga could be, I was inspired to become a lighthouse for others.
I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher training at Ohm Yoga Studio in 2021. My own yoga practice helped me to develop body awareness that led to me switching doctors, and finding answers to the health related issues I was experiencing. As I grew as a teacher and as I continue to be a forever student, I found myself seeking a deeper healing.
This led me to follow my best friend and enroll in Blue Lotus's Thai Healing Studies. I knew pretty quickly that this would be something I would study for the rest of my life. I have always loved receiving bodywork, but to be the one holding space for someone else, helping to facilitate their healing is one of the most precious things in the world to me. Thai bodywork is such a delicately intimate healing practice unlike anything else I have ever experienced, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from one of the only teachers in the United States who teaches it from a traditional Thai medicine standpoint. I graduated from my training in December 2023 as a 200 hour Thai Body Worker and continue to learn with my fellow classmates, best friend, and teachers.
In addition to yoga and bodywork, I am a Sound Journey Facilitator, co-owner and retreat leader at Sacred Liberation Retreats, a Mental Health First Aid Instructor with Porter County Substance Abuse Council, and my favorite role in this life is being a mom to my beautiful and spunky daughter, Rosalie.
Ashely’s offerings include: thai bodywork
We offer wellness products to support you on your journey.
At Sangha Center, we know that convenience is something our clients value. We strive to make it easy for our clients to make healthy lifestyle choices. As part of our integrative approach, clients can purchase a variety of wellness, cleansing and relaxation products onsite.
We are happy to help you select items recommended in your individualized plan. We can also recommend skin and bodycare, books and home and gift items to complete your wellness journey. Browse our carefully curated selection of goods and gifts to improve your health and elevate your spirits!
Some of the items we carry at Sangha Center include:
Snow Lotus Certified Organic Artisan Essential Oils
Personal Care Products (warming muscle balm, tongue cleaners, dry brushing/garshana gloves, nasya oil, eye pillows, elderberry syrup and more)
Books and Journals
Yoga Props (bolster, blocks, mat)
Gifts, Ritual and Self-Care Items (incense, palo santo, sage, malas, bath salts, etc.)
Interviews and features with Katie Hawks.
