Who We Are

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Who We Are

Minga Lily has spent over half her life living and traveling extensively throughout Southeast Asia and India. Growing up in Thailand she was steeped in Thai culture, language, and Buddhism, where at the age of 8 she was introduced to meditation and began studying and performing Traditional Thai and western dance. She returned to the states to pursue her higher education which culminated in her degree from Yale University where she studied psychology, child development and womans’s studies. In 1992 she was drawn back to Thailand where she embarked on an intensive study of Yoga, Meditation, and Traditional Thai Bodywork; while living amidst indigenous Lahu people in northern Thailand. Her teacher and close friend Ashokananda (author of The Art of Traditional Thai Massage) is arguably the most influential ambassador and leading teacher of Thai Massage to the west.

Ayurvedic concepts, cleansing diets, yoga practice, and nutrition are influential in her healing work with her clientèle. She currently teaches and studies Yoga therapy with Integrative Yoga Therapy.

Minga is often accused of being a healer’s healer and currently works throughout the

U.S., regularly teaching workshops in Traditional Thai Massage, women’s wellness, and partners Yoga. Since 1995 she has based herself in Los Angeles

and continues her bi coastal practice with children, healers, professionals, yogis, medical practitioners, dancers, chiropractors and artists.

Shawn was drawn to the healing properties of Yoga and Thai Massage while suffering from many syndromes and multiple injuries as a result of living an unbalanced lifestyle. This began his quest for healing for himself and has since expanded to the healing of others. He is very passionate about his work and feels he is answering his true calling by bringing healing to those with whom he works.

In addition to Thai Massage Shawn uses Cranio Sacral Therapy and Yoga Therapy to compliment the energetic and restorative aspects of his healing work. He also uses the principals of Yoga and Ayurveda as lifestyle guides for his clients. In his experience, beyond receiving work from a healer one must be willing to make lifestyle changes in one’s own life to find true lasting balance and health.

Shawn is a certified and affiliated practitioner and teacher of the Lotus Palm method of Thai Yoga Massage, is a certified Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. Has an IYT500 Yoga Therapy certification, currently studies Cranio Sacral therapy with Garry Straus of Polarity Healing Arts, has studied and developed a meditation practice since the age of thirteen, and teaches Muay Thai kickboxing currently training with legendary Sid Kru Rex and Muay Thai champion Kru Neil. He is presently based in Los Angeles and travels throughout North America (and sometimes beyond) teaching Thai Massage, Yoga, and partners Yoga workshops.