Faculty
  
   
Martha Piesco-Hoff & Lawrence Hoff are Co-founders of Fire and Wind Healing Institute.

Martha is the director of the Fire and Wind Healing Institute. She graduated from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and trained there as a teacher. She was on the faculty of the school for Enlightenment and Healing in New York. She spent several years as the sophomore class Dean of the Snowlion Center, a 4-year healing school, in Provence France and Switzerland and is currently a senior staff member. She has conducted classes on empowerment in Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. She maintains a healing practice in Sparkill NY.

 
Lawrence is a healer. He studied with Michael Harner, Asian and Native American Healers. He was a senior staff member of the Snow Lion Center in Provence France and Switzerland and has done numerous workshops throughout the U.S. and Europe. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film and television and was a member of the Gurdjieff Foundation in New York for over twenty years. He also studied and teaches T'ai Chi Chuan.

 
Mary Mullin Mary Mullin heads the psychological department of the Fire and Wind Healing Institute. She graduated from Fire and Wind in 1997. She did her undergraduate work at Hunter College and has a Master of Science degree in Family Counseling from Iona College. From 1984 to 1989 she developed and directed a counselor-training program for credentialed alcoholism counselors at Robert Kessell Associates. She has been a therapist in private practice for more than twenty years and a yoga practitioner for over thirty years.

 
Ray Humphrey joined the faculty of Fire and Wind Healing Institute in 2001. He is a 1998 graduate of the school and a 1996 graduate of the Swedish Institute in New York. He has a Master of Computer Science degree from Purdue University. He also has extensive experience in the modalities of Bio-energetics and Core Energetics. Ray believes that the essence of all healing is a Heart Connection, which he uses in his day-to-day interactions and relationships. In addition to his work with Fire and Wind, he teaches computer programming classes and offers computer consulting.

The Student Body

There is no prerequisite for our school. Our students come from all walks of life, including doctors, psychotherapists, nurses, massage therapists, healers, as well as, business consultants, housewives, bankers, computer programmers, artists, secretaries, and others. A meaningful aspect of the training, in terms of personal and interpersonal growth, is the collective experience our students share with one another and the forming of a like minded community made up of unique individuals.