Dr. Maureen Hughes

PhD, LMT, CTT, CATP

Chief Instructor at Total Harmony School of SomaVeda

Lay-Minister and Chief Therapist at Total Harmony Integrated Wellness

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What I do as a SomaVeda® Thai Yoga and Indigenous Therapist is more than a “job”.  It is a way of life.  I love helping people.  When I was six years old my family asked me “Maureen, what do you want to be when you grow up”.  I said, “I want to help people”.  After being pushed into medical sciences (because MDs were powerful and well respected), I went the Pre-Med route at Loyola University in Chicago.  After realizing that the current medical system (granted this was 1995) has been demonstrated that it is not about being personally connected to the patient, but listening for maybe 5 minutes and suggesting some drugs or surgery for their issues… well, I just knew that there was a better way.  I kept pushing in the Western system by becoming a PhD Immunologist that was trained at Washington University in St. Louis.  I thought I wanted to cure cancer or AIDS. What I didn’t realize is that there is a way to do that… it’s called the immune system, and there are ways of modulating it safely without the use of pharmaceuticals. We use food and derivatives of food as medicine.

After years of searching for a way that I can talk to my clients and help them empower themselves to heal on all levels, I found SomaVeda®. The foundation of the practice is COMPASSION, and acts of LOVING KINDNESS which lead to VICARIOUS JOY and a SENSE OF BOUNDLESS PEACE.