Welcome to Wellness at East Wind
Meet The Healers of East Wind is a collective of dedicated practitioners united by a shared purpose: to restore balance, awaken vitality, and nurture the mind–body connection. Blending ancient traditions with modern mindfulness, our team offers transformative experiences through yoga, acupuncture, reiki, floating meditation, and sound baths. Each healer brings a unique path and practice to guide you toward inner harmony and renewal, creating a sanctuary where every breath, movement, and vibration becomes an invitation to heal.
Together, our diverse team of healers blend luxury, wellness, and mindful care to create an unparalleled sanctuary for body, mind, and spirit.
Anne Marie Foley
Spa Director, Reiki Master, Esthetician
Spa Director Anne Marie Foley has a business and management background along with almost 25 years experience in the spa and esthetics industry. She is a published author, Reiki Master, teacher and intuitive coach. She believes in cultivating a culture of compassion and kindness with both her staff and clients. Anne Marie has a passion for both the esthetics industry and the healing world. She leads with her warm Irish personality that is felt once you enter into the spa. She, along with her staff, will continue to strive to bring you services of excellence!
Learn more about Anne Marie and her book The Beauty of Authenticity: Embracing Your Truth to Live a Life of Meaning, Purpose, and Grace.
Sohelia Palazzo, Spa Manager
With over 40 years of leadership and business ownership experience in spa management, Sohelia brings a deep commitment to exceptional guest service and strong administrative skills. Throughout her career, she has led teams with positivity and respect, always striving to create a welcoming and professional environment that enhances guest satisfaction.
Sohelia often acts as the Bridal Coordinator for the Spa & Salon at East Wind on Long Island, where she is dedicated to supporting each bride with care, patience, and professionalism. She oversees daily operations, supports staff productivity, and helps guide the department toward organizational goals. Conflict resolution, understanding individual needs, and maintaining a calm, solution-focused approach are central to her work.
Even with many years of experience, Sohelia remains excited to come to work each day. She approaches her role with the same joy, gratitude, and passion she had when she first began — and she looks forward to many more years of serving guests and supporting her team.
Francine Pitarch
Francine Pitarch is a Tibetan Tones Practitioner trained at the Sonic Wellness Institute, Reiki practitioner and Nutritionist.
Francine has always had an affinity for ancient instruments including the Frame drum, Native American Flute and Vibroacoustic instruments such as Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks and gongs just to name a few.
After nearly 9 years of working with these healing instruments Francine loves to help people relax and find inner peace through meditation and the sounds of the harmonic instruments guiding one towards a state of balance and healing.
Francine continues to grow and develop her skills. She currently studies at the Frame Drum Academy and Horizons Flute School with renowned artists Marla Leigh and Jonny Lipford.
Susan LaSorsa
Susan LaSorsa is a Certified Energy Healing Practitioner with over 15 years of experience. Her journey into holistic healing began in 2008, when a search to deepen her meditation practice and find inner peace led her to discover the transformative power of sound, vibration, and the Singing Crystal Bowls.
Susan is a Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher, an Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) Practitioner, and a Certified Sonic Wellness Institute Tibetan Tones Sound Energy Facilitator. Through workshops, certifications, and private or group sessions, she shares her passion for meditation, energy healing, and crystals, continually expanding her community of like-minded and inspiring light workers. Susan is deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute her skills to volunteer organizations such as Strength For Life, Friends of Karen, and Kids Need More.
A member of both the International Center for Reiki Training and the Sound Healers Association, Susan holds a BA in Fine Art, an MA in Elementary Education, and is a retired New York State Certified Elementary School Teacher (Pre-K through Grade 6). Her enthusiasm for vibrational sound and energy healing blends in a magical and uplifting way that clients truly enjoy.
Mary M. Cooke (Cookie)
For Mary, massage therapy has been a calling of creativity with her total focus upon the needs of her client’s bodies, minds and spirits.
Cookie is a graduate of the Heartwood Institute in California, as well as the Swedish Institute in New York City. She is certified in Energetic Healing through a yearlong study focused on grounding, centering, and mindfulness meditation. Cookie is certified Reiki 1st degree, and obtained her reflexology certification through the Omega Institute. She is also certified in the Fundamentals of Sound Healing and Sound Metaphysics. In addition to her employment at the Spa at East Wind, in her 38 years of experience she has also worked in medical and hospice massage.
Sherry Cole
Sherry is an intuitive energy healer. With years of working with light and sound. She is a licensed massage therapist with healing hands of light. Working with others to open up the body and their energy centers to help them heal themselves. This work has advanced her into a certified sound healing practitioner as she has ascended to more interests of energy work. Working with frequencies of sound bath instruments and tuning forks. Specializing in Guided meditation, energy flow meditation dance, and breath work classes that have you feeling blissful, vibrant and alive.
