Meet the Collective
Acupuncturist, Yoga Instructor & Owner of The Estuary
Meet Stefanie- Acupuncturist & Yoga Instructor
Stefanie is the creator of Root + Sky Wellness, where she strives to help everyone feel healthier, happier and overall more in tune with their bodies. Stef uses acupuncture, light bodywork, cupping and other traditional Chinese medicine modalities to treat conditions such as pain, anxiety, fertility, prenatal care, depression, chronic fatigue, ADHD, digestion and more. Stef strongly believes that this beautiful ancient, simple and effective medicine can vastly improve everyone’s lives. Along with practicing acupuncture, Stef has been teaching yoga for over a decade.
Holistic Esthetician
Meet Shannon - Holistic Esthetician
Shannon helps clients embrace, slow beauty through holistic living. Her 20 years of experience infusing traditional aesthetics and herbalism has taught her that we thrive when we treat our skin with whole plant ingredients, eat clean, rest peacefully, honor our own intuitions, cultivate healthy relationships, feel happy in our environments, move our bodies, choose patience over quick fixes, and accept ourselves as we are. She loves blending custom botanicals that align with not only your skin care needs, but your emotional needs as well. A direct connection to the plant world not only nurtures the skin, but also the mind, body, and spirit.
You are the healer in your own journey, and I look forward to guiding you along your unique path.
Professional & Licensed Makeup Artist
Meet Marlo Freedman - Licensed & Professional Make up Artist
Marlo is a licensed, professional makeup artist who has been illuminating the North Shore & Greater Boston for over 14 years. With a deep passion for her craft and expertise in skincare education, she knows how to offer glowing complexions with natural yet flawlessly executed makeup looks. Integrating chic, plant based skincare products and individualizing techniques for each client to bring out their best features. Perhaps Marlo's most appealing qualities are her reassuring nature and never-ending patience. She truly wants every client to love their skin and be thrilled when they see their makeup.
Registered Nurse, Shamanic Reiki Master + Sound Practitioner
Meet Lauren Aloisio
Lauren is a New England based Registered Nurse, Shamanic Reiki Master/Teacher and Sound Practitioner/Teacher. Throughout her own journey of being diagnosed with cancer at 27 years old, she has found incredible solace in the world of integrative therapies. Lauren enjoys guiding others on shamanic, reiki infused, sound journeys for deep meditative, healing experiences. In 2020, Lauren brought the first offerings of Sound Therapy to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Lauren’s mission is to bring more education, awareness and access to the integration of wellness practices into hospitals and the mainstream world.
LMT | E-RYT-500 | Birth Doula | Postpartum + Newborn Care Doula & Reiki Master
Meet Hilary
Meet Hilary Mcllvene
Hilary McIlvene has been a holistic practitioner on the North Shore for 15 years, through the modalities of yoga, bodywork, energy work, and most recently birthwork. All of her work is through the lens of “whole-istic” care, meaning she works with an understanding that nothing in the body works in isolation, therefor, we must treat the whole being. While both men and women are welcome to receive treatment, she offers women-specific work such as perinatal massage, birth and postpartum doula services, and bodywork to promote breast and abdomen health and recovery.
Reiki Master / Hair Stylist
Meet Sheila Reiki Master & Hair Stylist
Working as a stylist for the past decade, Sheila developed a deep love and appreciation for the client-stylist relationship. Through her own personal growth and healing journey she began to to explore the different techniques in which she could bring more holistic experiences to her clients. Exploration led her to Reiki, a craft she has studied and a service she has built over the past two years, earning her a Reiki Master certification.
Sheila continues to love her career in hair and is committed to continuing to grow in both areas. She will be available exactly where she is, at Reverie, for hair services throughout the week, but is excited to announce she is adding one day to her schedule (Thursdays!) specifically focused on reiki in her new North Shore studio at The Estuary, in Essex, MA. Sheila uses a combination of light touch, tinctures, tarot, and crystals to release energy that no longer serves you. Her reiki studio is a place where you will sip tea, rest your body, and restore yourself in a safe space that promotes a truly mindful and healing experience.
When you can't find her spending time with her amazing clients, you can trust she is waking up early to catch the sunrise at the beach by her house, or taking a walk in the woods, trying to snap pictures of all the birds.
Craniosacral Therapy & Intentional Bodywork
Meet Kayla
Meet Kayla Lemieux- Kayla Lemieux is an integrative bodywork practitioner who is passionate about exploring the vast and expansive realms of the unseen. Intentional Bodywork Sessions are a deep dive into the intersection of the state of our nervous system, our conscious and unconscious beliefs, and the quality of our soft tissues. She utilizes a variety of modalities including craniosacral therapy, boneholding, fascial work, pelvic mapping, and scar tissue remediation. Each session is uniquely crafted with the intention of addressing what is present at the time of visit.
Kayla deeply values the primacy of the Autonomic Nervous system. As a foundation for hands-on work, she supports clients in developing and refining practices that support nervous system tracking and regulation. This establishes a felt sense of safety within the body, and creates fertile ground for shift and lasting change.
“My role as a hands-on practitioner is to reflect what I am sensing with my hands. By getting quiet and slowing down, we make space for what is longing to be seen. Through our exploration and time together, I invite you to discover what wisdom is waiting for you within your own flesh.”
Yoga Instructor
Meet Kirsty Yetter
Kirsty is a lifelong dancer, mover, and seeker. Certified in India in 2011, she has been teaching yoga since 2017. She also has a Master’s in Dance/Movement Therapy, which greatly supports her yoga journey. She is currently teaching in many locations throughout the Northshore and specializes in restorative, prenatal, and slow flow yoga. Forever interested in deepening her own practice as a lifelong yoga student, Kirsty hopes to bring depth and love to each class she teaches.
Pre/Post Natal Yoga Instructor | Doula
Meet Lana Ivy
Lana's yoga journey began nearly fifteen years ago, when she took her first studio class with a dear friend and mentor. Through many life changes and stages, yoga has remained a constant in Lana's life. Lana is fascinated by the magic alchemy of breath and movement that yoga freely offers. Lana completed her 200hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with Down Under Yoga in 2023.
Pre/Post Natal Yoga Instructor | CNM
Meet Kara Mears, CNM
Kara Mears is a mother, stepmother, wife, bilingual Certified Nurse Midwife with a Master of Science in Midwifery from Thomas Jefferson University and the Baystate Midwifery Education Program, and a Certified Pre/Postnatal Yoga Instructor. She also holds a BA in Photojournalism and Magazine Writing from Emerson College.
Kara lives on the North Shore of Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband, daughter, stepdaughters, dog, two cats, and many Dutch bunnies. When she’s not supporting women in pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, Kara loves making scratch pizza with her family, impromptu kitchen dance parties, and year-round ocean dips.