Jan L. Saeger is an internationally trained and certified massage therapist. She received her license in Florida after fulfilling that state’s rigorous requirements at the Florida College of Natural Health, a school approved by the American Massage Therapy Association and accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation; she graduated with a degree in advanced soft tissue therapeutics. Ms. Saeger is also nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. She also received training and certification in Thai massage from the Traditional Medicine Hospital and the International Training Massage Institute (ITM) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Ms. Saeger also received certification in sen therapy from ITM.

Ms. Saeger is currently a full-time instructor and the massage therapy program coordinator for Keiser University in West Palm Beach, Florida, a 1000-hour massage therapy and associate of science degree program. She has owned and operated a successful massage and yoga therapy practice for more than a decade,working on amateur and professional athletes such as marathon runners, triathletes, and ballet dancers. Ms. Saeger specializes in the equestrian industry, working with professional trainers, riders, and show horses. Along with a partner, she formed an entrepreneurial company importing unique and exotic gifts from Thailand for massage therapists.

As one of the first therapists in the country to work on horses, she was certified by Equissage® in equine sports massage in 1994. A yoga practitioner for 31 years, she is a registered yoga teacher recognized by the Yoga Alliance and has taught yoga for the School District of Palm Beach County Adult Education/Community School. She is certified in Reiki and also works with Qi Gong.

Ms. Saeger was led into the alternative health field by one of her horses, Alfred, a young thoroughbred who was suffering from an idiopathic lameness.Having long recognized the benefits of therapeutic massage for herself, she set out on a quest to find a specific massage modality that would make her dressage horse rideable again. She found therapeutic massage and acupressure point massage were most effective in her horse’s recovery. She has since successfully combined therapeutic massage with Thai massage to rehabilitate countless show and pleasure horses, and she teaches other therapists these phenomenal techniques.

Before working in the massage therapy field, Ms. Saeger was an editor and production manager in the magazine publishing industry in New York City. The majority of her time was spent with the American Kennel Club as managing editor and production manager for its monthly publications. She was one of the prime movers in overhauling the magazine’s design and purpose by splitting the magazine into three different publications, creating two statistical periodicals and one editorial or contentbased magazine.

Ms. Saeger also was production supervisor for Ziff-Davis, at the time New York City’s largest magazine publisher. In that capacity, she was responsible for such notable titles as Car and Driver,Modern Bride, Runner, Flying, Boating, PC, PC jr., and Creative Computing. Besides directly supervising production managers for these titles, she played a role in accounting for the four-color production costs on all 75 Ziff titles.With the sale of Ziff-Davis, Saeger moved to a Wall Street investment firm, Lord, Abbett & Co., where she was production director for the Marketing Communications Department. At Lord, Abbett, she was responsible for a $2 million marketing budget and, as with her previous positions, she continued to provide the creative impetus behind editorial concepts through to printed pieces.

Work in publishing was a natural step for Ms. Saeger, who graduated from Alfred University with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and grew up in her family’s graphic arts and typesetting business.

Ms. Saeger currently lives in Loxahatchee, Florida, with her two Newfoundland dogs and two horses, an Irish draught and the thoroughbred, now age 27, whose injury led her into the healing arts.

Donna D. Kyle-Brown Donna Kyle-Brown has enjoyed 32 years of working and studying in the allied health field and has over 20 years’ experience as a published writer. Ms. Kyle-Brown began her health career by receiving a scholarship to Providence Hospital School of Radiological Technology in Mobile, Alabama. That began many years of working in hospitals, medical offices, and centers for chiropractic care. She received her Registered Medical Assistant Certification from the American Medical Technologists, a national certifying agency for the allied health profession, and has worked as an x-ray technician, medical office manager, insurance collection specialist, chiropractic assistant, physical therapy assistant, and lab technician in the medical field.

She was chosen at an early age to study shamanism from the Cherokee perspective and is a Certified Shamanic Counselor. She received certification as a Master Herbalist and in reflexology, and she is a Reiki Master/Teacher of the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition. Ms. Kyle-Brown currently owns Pathways, a business centered on natural health care practices. She also practices indigenous massage and crystal therapy of the Cherokee tradition.

Donna Kyle-Brown received a doctor of philosophy degree in religion in 1997 and a doctorate in motivation therapy from a nondenominational seminary in 2001. She has taught kindergarten, physical education classes for middle-school girls, writing classes, medical assisting classes, and massage lecture classes, and was the director of education for several years at an allied health vocational training center that included massage therapy as a program. In that role, she wrote the material for the massage therapy program and also taught anatomy and physiology, business and marketing, Reiki, reflexology, and CPR in the massage therapy program. She has received her Allied Health Instructor Certification from the American Medical Technologist Association.

During the past 15 years, Ms. Kyle-Brown has given numerous seminars and workshops promoting natural health care. She currently teaches for the Mobile (Alabama) County Parks and Recreation Department and is the Campus Director at Blue Cliff College of Gulfport, MS.

Ms. Kyle-Brown currently lives in Vancleave,Mississippi, a small town just north of the Gulf Coast, where she is active in many community endeavors. She is an avid naturalist, and when not writing or teaching, she enjoys spending time with friends, pets, and family.