I believe true wellness comes from living in intention with ourselves, our bodies and our health; in connection with our community, our ancestors, peers, neighbors, and friends; communing with and honoring the land which bears our food and our medicine, the water and air within us and around us.
-Dr. Rachel Low
I’m Dr. Rachel Low (she/her), and this is what health means to me. This idea of communing is at the core of how I approach health and healing as a naturopathic doctor. Naturopathic medicine is more than just a way to treat disease, but a philosophy that permeates all aspects of life.
Rachel oversees all clinical programming and works directly with guests to provide naturopathic care during their retreat experience
Dr. Rachel Low is a Massachusetts & Connecticut licensed naturopathic doctor. She earned her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon in 2019. Upon completing her degree, she joined a busy primary care practice where she worked for a year before relocating to the Hudson Valley and starting her own private practice, now based in Great Barrington, MA. She has completed advanced training in integrative fertility, hormone health and menopause, areas that continue to be a large focus within her practice in addition to gut health, mental/emotional wellness, and general health. Her approach is rooted firmly in the naturopathic principles of addressing the root cause, often employing comprehensive functional lab assessments in the process, as well as treating the whole person, putting together all the pieces of the puzzle to go beyond symptom management and facilitate restorative healing. She uses clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, nutraceuticals and lifestyle counseling to build comprehensive, individualized treatment plans that are safe, evidence-based and effective.
Dr. Fred Lisanti (he/him) has been in private practice since 2004. He is a Massachusetts licensed naturopathic physician and acupuncturist and a graduate of the six year dual degree curriculum at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, OR, the oldest naturopathic university in North America.
Dr. Lisanti serves as the founder and guiding force behind Mountain Healing Sanctuary and is not a practicing naturopathic clinician at the retreat. He does offer acupuncture when available
Here, he obtained a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and a masters of science degree in Chinese medicine. His studies also included time spent in Amazonian Ecuador working closely with regional ethnobotanists and local shamans on botanical medicine and traditional healing methods. Dr. Lisanti is also trained in clinical hypnosis and nlp (neuro-linguistic programming). In addition, bringing naturopathic medicine to all communities, Dr. Lisanti offered international healthcare relief for tsunami victims in India and domestic service for underprivileged rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Lisanti uses an eclectic combination of naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, hypnosis, bodywork, movement, and lifestyle counseling to tap into each individual’s full potential for optimal health
In his spare time, Dr. Lisanti’s enjoys practicing what he preaches. All things movement; from biking, swimming, running, and skiing fill up the seasons. An avid gardener, he has curated a landscape dedicated to native and edible plants at the sanctuary. His days are spent stewarding the land and forest around it with his two beautiful daughters Sofi and Zoe and soulmate, wife Tammi.
Johanna is a licensed massage therapist, 500-hr Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Phoenix Rising yoga therapy practitioner, and certified AcroYoga teacher. She has been practicing bodywork since 2003 and teaching yoga since 2005.
Johanna offers massage therapy and yoga sessions that invite guests to release stress and return to ease in their bodies.
Johanna's work is rooted in presence, listening and connection. She incorporates a wide range of healing modalities to create a space where her clients unwind physical and emotional stress, and “come home” to their bodies as a place of comfort, ease, and vitality.
Johanna's work draws from her studies of numerous yoga and bodywork techniques including Phoenix Rising yoga therapy, prenatal yoga and massage, acroyoga and acropeutics, hatha-vinyasa, restorative& yin yoga, Thai yoga bodywork, Myofascial Release, deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy, Positional Therapy, reflexology, hot stone, Esalen massage, reiki, Chakra balancing, polarity, aromatherapy and ayurvedic bodywork.
Johanna served as a yoga teacher and the “Lead Massage Therapist” at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for over 10 years where she created and led trainings for the Healing Arts staff on the Kripalu Approach to Bodywork, teaching yoga and yoga philosophy for bodyworkers for a practice with greater presence and connection.
During her free time, Johanna can most often be found hiking, doing acroyoga, going to stand-up comedy and cuddling with her two cats.
Justin Torrico has more than 16 years of study and 10+ years experience guiding ceremonial experience rooted in the traditions of the Amazonian and Andes Mountains, Yoga, Tantra, Ayurveda, Qi Gong, Breathwork, mindfulness meditation.
Justin draws from deep study in Amazonian and Andean traditions to guide guests through cacao ceremony and breathwork, creating space for deep presence and inner connection.
After years of study and work with teachers in the U.S., Bali, India Nepal, and Peru he has returned to Mount Washington, MA the mountain valley of his birth where he is stewarding the creation of a regenerative farm, apothecary and living human culture.
As a lifelong student of the Truth Justin continues to study with his master teachers, recognizing every moment as a new beginning, fresh with possibility. All of his work and merit generated is dedicated to his ancestors and future generations, his teachers and the living wisdom traditions that through them have graced his life, and to the realization of the true causes of happiness in all sentient beings.