Meet Cherie
Hi there.
If I were an article of clothing, I’d be a denim shirt. Ok, anything denim, actually. I love old wood and mismatched things, and patina. I love nature and raw and real. For me, it is in the asymmetry that I feel the balance, in the weathering that I feel the wisdom.
I believe that how we do anything is how we do everything. Whether co-owning a multi-disciplinary therapeutic health spa, guiding students along treetops, across ridge lines, down swift and winding rivers, in college classrooms and treatment rooms, with groups and individuals, for over 30 years now, I have been facilitating experiences for people to explore their own depths of being, to grow and expand.
That goes for myself as well. I am intimately familiar with life’s trials, tribulations and triumphs. Like all of us, our roads are often long and winding. I feel immense gratitude for the gift of being a traveler, for my family who taught me what home feels like so I could go out and explore, knowing that my true home is within. I feel profoundly honored to get to have known the most extraordinary souls along the way, do the work that I do, love the people I love and create my own version of a dream life.
I look so forward to getting to know YOU and working together to create the life of YOUR dreams!
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My Background
Education
Bachelor’s of Psychology Degree, University of Denver, Denver, CO 1990 – 1994
Master’s of Expressive Arts Therapy Degree, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA 1995 – 1997
Certification/Training
Massage Therapy, Colorado Institute of Massage Therapy, Colorado Springs, CO 1999 – 2000
Neuromuscular Therapy, Colorado Institute of Massage Therapy, Colorado Springs, CO 2000
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) 2000
Visceral Manipulation – Upledger Institute, Phoenix, AZ 2005
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy – Michael Shea, Phoenix, AZ 2005
Advanced Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy - Scott Zamurut, Boulder, CO 2008 – 2009
Transform Coaching Academy - Eve Agee, 2018
License
Colorado Massage Therapy License #4897
Related Work
Challenge Course Facilitator 1992 – present.
Pikes Peak Community College Instructor 1999-2001
Radford University Instructor 2001-2004
Rainstar Massage College Instructor 2004-2006
Private Massage Therapist 2000-present
Co-owner Natural Balance (Multi-disciplinary Wellness) 2007-2010
Co-owner Blue Creek Therapeutic Health Spa 2010-2020
Private Coach 2018-present
See How I Work
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I love untangling things. A while back, I was telling a friend how much I love it and she said, “oh, really…” and brought me a couple of necklaces! I was thrilled! Here are the last 8 minutes or so of one of the Great Untanglings!
Whether it's necks or necklaces, regular ole life challenges or business ones, this untangling, caught on tape, turns out to be quite representative of how I go about working on things, in general. Watch it and you'll see what I mean!
Recently, my daughter has been tangling things, wrapping them up and giving them to me as gifts.
It’s a precious thing to be known.
That's me on a Tyrolean traverse '97
