Dr. Lori-Ann Gertonson is a practicing wholistic chiropractor and the founder of The Gertonson Institute, an integrative wellness center. She developed the Quantum Alignment ProcessT, a consciousness based healing system rooted in neuroscience, quantum physics, and spirituality. For over 30 years, she has helped individuals to heal and release pain, anxiety, and overwhelm in their lives, to create happiness in daily life, and to navigate life transitions with ease while connecting to a deeper sense of self and higher purpose.
She has incorporated all this experience into the theory and practice of Creative Self-Health. She is passionate about bringing a new perspective to healthcare through a Self-Health movement, by providing the knowledge and tools for people to take charge of their own health and healing, live well, and connect to Spiritual Intelligence. It is her goal to help people create a healthy, happy life feeling "alive" all the years of their life.
Toni Mandara has a deep interest in the intersections between complex cultural narratives, personal identity, and the embodied expression of connection with Spiritual Intelligence.
Her decades of training and experience in both the conventional medical world and the integrative health arts form a rich backdrop for her perspective on heal and healing. She has studied such diverse yet interconnected healing pathways through dreamwork, trauma recovery, Somatic movement, West African storytelling, personality systems, shamanic practices, and Buddhist inquiry. She has incorporated all these learnings into a synthesis called Somatic Process Healing.
She is an author and Somatic Process facilitator, with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not at the office, she can be found at work on her next book focused on culturally supportive forms of Self-Health for black women.