Wendel Smith, PhD, LMT Board Member/Campus Director/Faculty. Teaches Swedish, Deep Tissue, Craniosacral, Myofascial Release, Ethics, Professional Development. Wendel is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of business experience. He has started and run several successful businesses. Despite his flair for business, Wendel’s first passion is the healing arts, with special emphasis on the mind-body connection. A naturally gifted empathic healer, he studied massage therapy with a heavy focus on Dr. John Upledger’s Craniosacral therapy. He ran a massage therapy school and an alternative health clinic that helped everyone from infants to the elderly with physical issues and emotional blocks. Many past clients still call on him for these services and refer friends and family to his care.

Sought after for his business acumen, team building skills, and compassionate leadership, Wendel has been asked to manage, develop, and run several other businesses ranging from nonprofits, an industry trade association, direct sales marketing teams, and three different alternative energy companies.

He has served in multiple capacities throughout the years in many different companies in a broad range of industries, but the cause dearest to him has been working with youth in Utah State Foster Care. Wendel and his wife have fostered fourteen children, adopted four of them and are well-known advocates and mentors in the foster-to-adopt program. He and his wife served on the board of the Adoption Exchange from 2001 - 2011, assisting in fundraising for foster/adoption placements in the western United States. They also recently began consulting with the leadership of the Utah State Transition to Adult Living program to help youth aging out of the foster care system develop life skills for a brighter future.

Wendel Smith currently has an active massage therapy license in the state of Utah since 2002 and is passionate about passing on his knowledge to the next generation of body workers and empathic healers.

Libiann Bowen Tangreen LMT, Owner/Education Director/Faculty. Teaches Swedish, Reflexology, Eastern Paradigm, Professional Development, Ethics, Safety and Sanitation,. Libiann received her start in the healing arts through the Nordblom American Institute of FootZonology, having studied with Dr. Charles Ersdal from the Center for Alternative Medicine in Kristiansand Norway from 1993 to 1995. She found her calling and decided to make natural healing her career and attended Utah College of Massage Therapy, Lindon Utah, graduating in August 2000. Her practice has included working in chiropractors offices, spas, private practice and she owned Innate Health Resource Center in Logan Utah from 2013-2014. Her additional education includes Eastern Paradigm and Micropoint Stimulation (Dolphin Neurostim), scar release and vagal nerve stimulation along with her regular massage practice. As someone with stereotypical retirement on the not so distant horizon, she has a strong desire to pass on her knowledge to the next generation of healers. That said, she has no plan to stop teaching for a while yet. https://libiann.massagetherapy.com

Peggy Layton LMT, Faculty

Teacher of Swedish Massage, Reflexology, Craniosacral, Safety and Sanitation, Ethics. Peggy  graduated from Myotherapy Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1995. She owns and operates The Therapy Center in Manti, Utah for the past 20 years and specializes in the following modalities:

Touch For Health, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Hot Stone Therapy, Foot Detox Therapy, Foot Zone and Reflexology, Facial Massage, and Lymphatic Drainage. Peggy is also certified in Hypnotherapy and Emotional Release work and combines emotional release with her massage therapy sessions.

In addition to her successful private practice, Peggy has worked part-time at The Yardley Inn and Spa in Manti, Utah for 25 years in Massage, Hot Stone, Foot detox, Facials, Reflexology, and Paraffin Wax Treatments.

Peggy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education from Brigham Young University specializing in the field of Home Economics and Food Science and Nutrition. She runs an online business called peggylayton.com specializing in Food Storage and Emergency Preparedness and is the author of 7 books on the subject of being prepared. Peggy specializes in preparing and using food storage products, prepping, gardening, canning and freeze drying. Peggy and Scott Layton are the parents of 7 adult children and 15 grandchildren.