Steve McLaughlin L.Ac,

Principal, K.H.S.J., M.S.O.M., L.Ac., M.C.S.E.,
Professor of Martial Arts

Program: Quantum School of Massage & Holistic Health HHP HMT

• Owner / Principal Quantum School of Massage & Holistic Health
• Masters of Science of Oriental Medicine (MSOM)
• Hawaii State Licensed Acupuncturist NCCAOM board certified
• Licensed Massage Therapist – Nevada – 1974
• Martial Arts Professor (50 years of teaching jujitsu) Holds rank
  of 8^th degree Black Belt DanZan Ryu Hawaiian Jujitsu (est Territory of Hawaii 1924), Judo 4^th degree Black Belt, Aikido, Kenpo Karate of 2^nd Degree Black Belts.
• Sensei and owner of the Hawaii Zenyo Jujitsu Kai, and the Hawaii Jujitsu Kodenkai, schools of traditional martial arts. Located in the historic landmark and one of the oldest Shinto Temple outside of Japan; the Daijingu Temple of Hawaii, Nu’uanu Valley, Oahu since 1994.
• Author owner of Hawaii’s #1 Women’s and Family Safety Program: the Kupale Hawaii Women & Children’s Domestic Safety and Assault Prevention.
• Fun Fact: Steve is a Knight! Knighted Hospitaller of the Orthodox Order of St. John of Jerusalem for his work with Assault Prevention.

Kathryn Julia LMT

State License/Certificate: HI MAT 870

Program: LMT Level 1, LMT 2 (+ Prenatal Massage) HHP Reiki 1 + 2

• Kathryn Julia has been teaching people to connect with bodies for nearly 40 years.
• LMT Program Advisor and QSMHH Student Counselor

Kathryn Julia, LMT 

● Massage Therapist 

● Reiki Master 

● Holistic Peer Counselor 

● Emotional Release Facilitator 

● Prenatal, Postpartum, & Infant Massage Instructor ● Doula 

● Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist 

Kathryn has been a professional Massage Therapist since 1978. Her main modality is full body relaxation massage. In this way we can access our ‘oxytocin’, which is the hormone that brings about healing, learning and balance. She has been educated in and practices massage for newborns, infants, pediatrics, prenatal and postpartum moms, geriatric and humanity in general. 

She had a deep curiosity about the human condition and through her education in body work and exploring the Spirit through the Arica Institute and Siddha Yoga she had come to her core belief that we are Spiritual Beings in a physical body. Therefore we can access the Spirit through the body. When we have mental and emotional disturbances/imbalances it interrupts our connection with Spirit. Bodywork is a way to bring about balance and connection with body/mind/emotions/Spirit. She has developed the understanding that the energy of Spirit is

Fun Fact: LOVE ❤️. Self Love, Love of others, Love of our environment and Love of our human experience.

Janet LaCroix LMT

QSMHH Student Massage Clinic Director

With a background in Electrical Engineering, Emergency Healthcare, Yoga and Massage Therapy, Janet brings to the QSMHH Clinic an open heart to help others heal, learn, and grow personally and professionally.

Bachelors Degree in Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) massage Therapist (8 years) 

Emergency healthcare as a first responder volunteering in the community (25 years)

Yoga Teacher 500 hours Certification (10 years)

Electric engineering and computer programming (25 years)

 Janet brings her professional experience as a Team leader responsible for training and developing teams to to our student clinic bringing a standard of excellence, teaching problem solving skills, supervising skill development, client communication and a positive attitude that includes both physical and energetic approach to bodywork, student skills and student records. Janet’s presence also creates a safe, clean, inviting and professional healing environment for supervising client-student interactions. The client massage clinic reviews from clients have been appreciative, heart felt and positive under the guidance of Janet.

“The Quantum School of Massage Clinic is a hidden gem on Oahu and a healing Oasis right near UH Manoa Campus. The energy of the clinic is really special. You can feel it when you walk in the door.

I’ve received wonderful massages from several of the students. The quality of the touch, pressure and bodywork is consistently good. I feel relaxed and energized afterwards for days.

These massages are a good value for hands-on massage and energy healing work.

Janet’s presence is calm and organized and you can tell she enjoys teaching the students. From the on-line booking, appointment reminders, to the hot towels, to the right amount of pressure to loosen up my neck and shoulders.

The students are kind and enthusiastic about their school. I can tell they enjoy studying massage here. I appreciate the entire experience. Thank you”

Janet teaches CEU massage courses in Lymphatic Drainage and Advanced Lymphatic Drainage at QSMHH.

Fun Fact: Did you know…. Janet holds 8  patents!

Dr. Gene Ang PhD

Program: HHP Quantum Spoon Bending / Energy Healing

• Gene was formally trained as a Neurobiologist at Yale University where he earned his doctorate in basic mechanisms of how the brain develops followed by a post-doctoral fellowship on how ultrasound can affect the developing cerebral cortex.   After his post-doctoral fellowship, Gene decided to step into the role of a facilitator of healing in order to directly interact with helping people
• Most of his work centers around the use of subtle energy to help align the subtle energy body, its channels, meridians, and energy centers to help restore balance and harmony so that healing can occur whether it be physical, emotional, mental, and/or spiritual
• Gene does not see himself as the healer but simply as part of the interconnectedness that occurs when facilitator, client, and Source/Love/God interact to bring healing forth.  He sees his teaching engagements and seminars as an extension of this interaction that occurs on multiple dimensions to bring wholeness and understanding to all involved.

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, Neurobiology, 2004

B.A., Stanford University, Human Biology and Philosophy/Religious Studies, 1992

Fun Fact: Gene had a brief stint as a break dancer. Proof still exists on the internet

Sally Klemm LMT

Program: QSMHH LMT Program & Teacher Advisor:

• Sally Klemm is an internationally recognized instructor
• Trained in craniosacral work before entering the Rolf Institute in 1985, Sally has the extraordinary ability to blend an organized cognitive style with deeply intuitive understanding of psyche and soma.
• Fun Fact: Sally Klemm solo sailed her own boat

Melia Goodenow -Hawaiian Flower Essences

HHP HMT students learn about aroma therapy, essential oils and Hawaiian flower essences. Our classroom is in Hawaii’s beautiful nature, in the kitchen, in the lab learning to create tinctures, massage oils and flower remedies, and in the massage clinic as we learn some of the many therapeutic uses (and contra-indications) of healing plants in hands-on practice. We have several instructors for in-depth training. We travel as a week long school field trip to Big Island to Volcano and the rain forest to study with master teachers and learn in nature and attune with the elements of Fire and the Forest; Pele and Hi’iaka.

Melia Goodenow – Flower Essences

“flower essences contain therapeutic benefits that aid in soothing and balancing the emotions and managing everyday choices.  Flower essences are the healers of the modern age, going to the root of our problems and emotional issues. They release us from hurtful and fearful memories that tie upon our health and energy; opening up once blocked areas to then be filled with the health and peace of the present moment. In the present moment is where we can see clearly and make good, healthy choices for our lives.”

Based on training passed down to their family from Kahuna La’au Lapa’au and other native plant medicine healers, Hawaiian Rainforest Naturals, Inc. has been making Hawaiian flower essences and body care treatments for over 25 years.  Co-founder, Melia Goodenow will be giving these workshops focusing on the special attributes of Hawaiian plants, flowers and their essences.

“Flower essences are designed to help you meet the challenges of everyday living.  Our mission is to help people bring their emotions into a state of Pono, harmony and connectedness with nature. This is the role of our flower essences, to bring people’s awareness into the present moment and release emotional tension caused by past experiences or worrying about the future.  In this state of Pono is where we make our flower essences, bringing the healing energy of the flowers forward. We strive to maintain Pono in all that we do. We put our integrity and Aloha into all of our products and treatments, always remembering to give thanks and to give back to the Earth by taking care of this unique and sacred place.”

Melia is a flower essence practitioner and Head teacher for HRN classes and workshops. She practices lomilomi massage, energy healing, la’au lapa’au, ho’oponopono, hula and other various Hawaiian healing arts.  Her intuitive abilities and connection to nature make her workshops a transformative and amazing experience

Stephanie Keiko Kong

HHP – Sound Healing

Program: HHP Sound Healing Level 2 Sound Healing –

• Stephanie Keiko Kong is a transformational coach specializing in personal development through voice work. Stephanie holds over 10 certifications in yoga, meditation, Sanskrit mantra, functional movement, bodywork, energy healing, and more. Stephanie’s past work includes co-leading meditation teacher trainings in India, Japan, Sweden, and Australia; co-founding the yoga teacher training program at Yoga Hawaiʻi; teaching anatomy and kinesiology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; and voice acting for Hawaiʻi Public Radio.
• Fun Fact: Stephanie just summited Cotopaxi, Ecuador.. at 19,347 ft) this is the world’s highest active volcano

Karen ‘Lucky’ Thornton LMT

Program: HHP Nutritional Healing, Quantum Energy Healing. QSMHH advisor

Lucky has taught others to heal themselves for over 20 years in Hawaii and Sedona, Arizona, seeing over 1,500 healers graduate to heal themselves, their family, and their community. She is a certified Brain Management Consultant, and taught yoga for many years. She sold her yoga studio in 2011 to pursue her doctorate degree in Holistic Health. .

She has over twenty years of healthcare industry experience. Lucky studied Pre-med in Hawaii, Cleveland and England. She worked in Corporate America for 13 years, and returned to the medical field in X-ray (RT) in 1993.

A mother and grandmother, after selling the massage school in 2021, Lucky continues to enjoy contributing as a teacher, (Quantum Healing Energy) advisor and consultant and oversees the 60 hour Nutritional Healing Feb and July immersion programs at the QUANTUM SCHOOL OF MASSAGE & HOLISTIC HEALTH.

Fun fact: Lucky founded the Quantum Institute in 2011, the Quantum School in 2015 and started Quantum Institute International for Holistic Health. She sold the Quantum School in 2021.

Alexandra von Waaden

Program: HHP Tibetan Lu Jong Healing Yoga 2021-2022 via Zoom

• Alexandra (Sandy) teaches in-person healing classes in German and English in California, Germany, Hawaii & Sri Lanka and globally via Zoom.
• Teacher Lu Jong – Tibetan healing yoga (Tulkula Lobsang)
• Seraphim Energy Healing – bi-lingual German & English 
• Pilates, Yoga and Professional Sports Training
• Fun fact: Founder of Agapi Gardens, organic farm, vegan lifestyle, meditation & healing center located in Sri Lanka

Daniella Paulon

B.S. Psychology (Pontifical Catholic University of SP).
Certified Crystal Healing Teacher by The Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts – Kauai

Program: HHP Crystal Healing
I’m originally from Brazil, however I’ve been “called” to Kauai in 1996, where I completed beginning, intermediate and advanced crystal healing classes w/ founder of The Crystal Academy of Advanced Healing Arts: Katrina Raphaell.

This training completely changed my life as I started on this amazing spiritual path. I always knew I was here to help people, just wasn’t clear how. I’m also a psychologist, having obtained my degree in São Paulo, Brazil prior to moving to Kauai.

I later took a teacher’s training course, also on Kauai, and became a crystal healing teacher. I have taught in Brazil, as well as at Quantum School of Massage and Holistic Health.

Crystal healing affects all of our bodies, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It’s all about light, color and frequency. Crystals placed on the body resonate with our auric field, assisting in clearing blockages that have accumulated in certain areas due traumatic events over the years. Unprocessed emotions can cause energy to get stuck in certain places  and stop the natural flow of chi through the chakra system.

We are also collectively experiencing a deep paradigm shift currently on the planet, signaling the end of an era and beginning of a new one, an age of Light and this can cause challenges to some of our outgrown beliefs systems.

Crystal healing can assist in revisiting those beliefs, letting go of the ones that no longer serve us, replacing them with more up to date views of life and what it means to be alive for each one of us, as well as find purpose and peace in our daily life.

“ The Journey is The Destination “

Fun fact: Danielle is a world traveler, but her house at the base of Koko Head is a magical crystal healing temple and if you are good, she might invite your class to a field trip at her hale.

Brian Lofton LMBT

Therapeutic massage, The Feldenkrais Method™, Visionary Craniosacral Work™, Active Dreamwork™, Visceral Manipulation, Clinical and Holistic Herbalism, certification in Manual Lymphatic Drainage—

Program: LMT Level 2 Cranial-Sacral

• Brian Loftin LMBT, is a hands-on therapist and holistic and Clinical Herbalist, who seeks to help people open their inner doors, through the medium of skillful and compassionate touch. Truth, integrity, honesty, skillfulness, and professionalism—these are the elements in his life and work he most cherishes and most values when offering his method to his clients and students. “What is healing after all, but the search for truth.”

Michael Merrimer LMT

LMT Professional Development – Life Skills

Program: LMT Level 1 + 2 Yoga / Acupressure /Massage

Michael Merrimer, LMT 5342 has been teaching and working with clients on Oahu since 1998. A massage therapist, he began looking at ways to help his clients be more proactive in addressing their stiffness, soft tissue pain, and stress-related discomforts, introducing yoga as an active part of his massage practice.

My philosophy in practice draws on an ingrained sense of personal responsibility and integrity throughout my life.  Listening to a client’s needs and interests allows for mutual understanding in the process of the treatment, helping to assure a more successful outcome. Outside my office practice, I have worked with the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii as a clinical massage instructor participating in a multi-year study of massage for breast and prostate cancer patients. I have been contracted by Honolulu businesses to provide on-site massage and health care for office workers. I have served on the Hawaii Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association where I focused on continuing education and professional development. I was able to set up advanced medical massage workshops and have done volunteer massage for special events such as Special Olympics, Strength for the Journey,Food Bank, Life Foundation, The Art of Massage.

My experience in conducting yoga exercises for community groups has been useful in helping people better understand body movements and limitations at Specialty Health Centers such as Kapiolani Woman’s Health Center, Arcadia, Pohai Nani, Shambala Center, Hawaii Woman’s Center.

On a more personal note, I have interests in travel (especially Italy);  anthropology;  music;  alternative medical practice; alternate culture;  ocean sports.

Fun Fact: Michael is a 1960’s Height Ashbury survivor

Thai Massage (20 hours) with Christiane Coty LMT

Program: LMT Level 2

Many people believe that the health benefits of Thai massage include lowering stress, boosting energy, and improving athletic performance.

Thai massage is a cultural healing practice that uses gentle pressure and stretching techniques to relax the whole body. This is an ancient healing practice that originated in India. It dates back to around 2,500–7,000 years ago.

The technique that Thai massage practitioners use is very different from what people in the West may be accustomed to when we hear the word “massage”. Unlike Swedish or shiatsu massage techniques, in which a person passively lies on a bed, the client lies on the floor fully clothed and participates more actively in the massage much like partner yoga or assisted stretches. The massage practitioner may use feet, hands, knees, elbows, or even special massage tools to assist in the muscle stretches that help the person feel limber and lively.

Note: Pictured is Pyewacket, well known Facebook personality, she is a mixture of Siamese/Mongoose.
She is our director of brick relaxation techniques, and is eager to learn Thai Massage.

Fun Fact: Cristina is born in Japan

Xavier Staub L.Ac

Program: LMT Level 2 Shiatsu / Acupressure

W. Xavier Staub, MA, PhD, LAC. Xavier provides teaching and lectures, as well as personal consultation toward designing and customizing a supportive and fearless awakening.

After 30 years as a student of the art, Xavier continues to share his experience as a 6th degree black belt and senior teacher of the USAF. His continued studies in acupuncture and natural healing have further informed his life and healing practice.