the experts

Our highly trained practitioners have spent many years fine tuning their hands in a process called ‘entrainment’ to detect the subtle movement and flow of energy. Upon booking your appointment and after an initial consultation, the practitioner will cater the session to your individual needs. Each of our practitioners are incredibly skilled. Together, we have over 75 years of combined experience.

Sean a Practitioner at Zen Den Newport

Sean Dunn

Hailing from Little Compton, RI, Sean’s interest in alternative health began with the desire to heal his own chronic pain. After sustaining severe injuries in a major car accident in 2008 and walking the allopathic medicine model for nearly 12 years, Sean found himself with more problems and more pain. He finally decided, in 2019, to explore other ways of healing. 

Prior to being a Practitioner of Polarity Therapy and Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Sean worked in the Hospitality Industry for 15 years. He realized that his career in Management and Restaurant Consulting, although successful, was not entirely fulfilling and his health, both mental and physical, was being negatively impacted. Over the past two years, Sean has completed 600 combined hours in Polarity Therapy and Cranio-Sacral Therapy, both at the Zen Den with Julia and Centro de la Terapia de Polaridad, in Tepoztlan, Mexico. Through the application of his coursework Sean has experienced a massive improvement in his own health and vitality— such a testament to these beautiful systems.

  • Polarity Therapy

    Magic Combo

    Therapeutic + Restructuring

    Peace + Calm

    Lymphatic Flush

    Total Body Integration

    Craniosacral Therapy

Megs Bugden

With roots in the southwest of Arizona, Megs has been surrounded by alternative therapies for most of her life.

She moved to the Ocean State for college, where her focus of study was Marketing, Public Relations & Political Science. Upon completion of her bachelors degree, Megs moved to Australia where she completed her Masters in Public Relations & Sports Marketing. The culture and lifestyle down under matched her love for health, wellness and nutrition.

Through life experience and owning a small business in Rhode Island for nearly a decade, Megs has come to realize her passion is to nourish others. She continues to do this through good food, proper nutrition, movement practices, and self care. She has navigated past her own health issues, which stemmed from imbalances in her Nervous and Digestive systems, and is excited to share what she has learned.

Using the hands-on approach of Polarity & Cranio-Sacral Therapy, blended with nutritional counseling and movement, Megs aspires to help other achieve and maintain their health goals.

Megs is continuing her education in the fascinating system of Biofield Tuning.

Rachael Brandenburg

Rachael was called to the healing arts in 1994, when she experienced profound results first-hand from Shiatsu therapy for her ongoing back problems. This led her to study at the Boston School of Shiatsu, where she specialized in Zen-Style Shiatsu. This style focuses on the full meridian path system in the body to promote good health by stimulating the body’s natural energy flow (Ki).

Her interest in the healing arts and ability to see, sense, and directly experience energy led her to study several paths of both Alternative and Western medicine. Rachael is a certified Shambala Reiki Master and Reverend, also practicing the energetic healing modalities of Divine Intervention, Diamond Platinum, Web-Working, DNA Activation, and Prema Birthing. Rachael is a licensed Registered Nurse and graduated with honors from Quincy College, MA. If you are interested in these forms of Advanced Energy Work, please call the Zen Den for further information.

Sheri Silva

Everything Sheri has studied thus far has carried her further along the path of Truth, Beauty, and Love. She calls this divinity, the ultimate dance of our life energies…understanding what it means to create a positive, balanced, vital beat in our everyday experience.

Sheri started with a career working in NYC in fashion and design. In 1998 her path into motherhood brought her back to Rhode Island where she began her holistic studies into yoga and Interior Design at RISD. She has been a student and instructor for 25 years and has had the blessings of many great teachers with her root teacher being Saul David Raye.

Sheri continues intense studies in sacred dance and is certified in Dance of Oneness, in addition to certification in Feng Shui, Reiki and Cranial Sacral. She is currently enrolled in second year with Her Mystery School. A school devoted to the teachings of the sacred feminine, which she is very passionate about sharing with other women.

Elyse Weeks

Elyse’s great joy in preparing seasonal, local food as a way to care for others goes hand-in-hand with Ayurveda’s in-depth and personalized care.  With clients, Elyse gets to share her passion of how enmeshed our emotional and physical well-being is to the food we consume, our emotions and habits.

Working with clients and families that are anywhere in their perinatal journey is Elyse’s true love and focus.  The nourishing focus of Ayurveda creates space for clients to receive next-level individualized care.

Every person is different. Every partnership is different. Every conception is different. Every pregnancy is different. Every birth is different. Every postpartum experience is different.

Your care should be unique to you and your current needs.

To book with Elyse, please visit: www.anahatahome.com or call: 401-218-2480

Julia Collins

Julia has been studying and practicing body + energy work for over 11 years, both locally and internationally. Every day she marvels over the growth and success of Zen Den. She is continually amazed at the results her clients’ achieve from this work and her incredibly gifted team. Zen Den has a total of six highly-skilled practitioners, each exceptional at their craft.

Julia loves to see clients move away from physical and emotional pain and towards greater freedom and joy. It is her goal to disseminate the practice and study of the systems of Polarity Therapy & CranioSacral Therapy to as many people as possible. It is her belief that through our own individual healing we can heal the world.

Upon graduating with honors from St. Lawrence Universitity in 2010, Julia relocated to Honduras for a few years to examine her breath as a Scuba Dive Master. After that, she received her 200 hour YTT through the Swara Yoga Academy in Nicaragua. The practice of yoga opened the door to understand the more subtle bodies and how to adjust them through the intentional redirection of energy.

Julia studied at Centro de Terapia de Polaridad, in Tepotzlan, Mexico from 2013-2016 with renowned ‘curanderos’, Eduardo Morales and Silvia Vega. She recently returned in 2021 with her family to complete a 100 hour course on the Vagus Nerve, her newest obsession.

She now teaches 12 levels of professional training in Polarity Therapy and 3 levels of professional training in CranioSacral Therapy. Please visit the ‘trainings’ page under the learn tab for more information on coursework.