Body Beloved is based on the belief that your needs are of the utmost importance. Karen is committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of her business is from repeat customers and referrals.

 I would welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver you the best service in the industry.

Karen Kelly, is a NYS Licensed Massage Therapist, with advanced certification in the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal massage. She is a graduate of Bennington College, Finger Lakes School of Massage and is working on her M.S. in Midwifery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Karen is an experienced Birth Doula, having attended over 50 births in the past few years, at homes, birthing centers and hospitals. In the past couple of years she has worked extensively in the field of women's fertility. To date, she has helped many women achieve conception, and many others regulate their periods, and relieve painful symptoms of PMS, endometriosis and symptoms associated with a prolapsed or misaligned uterus. 

A Lineage of Teachers  I am blessed to have apprenticed and learned this work directly from the source. Dr. Rosita Arvigo teaches Maya Abdominal Massage techniques, Dr. Arvigo learned these techniques of healing from her mentor, Don Elijio Ponti, the renowned Maya shaman of Belize, Central America, with whom she apprenticed for ten years. Before accepting her as his apprentice, Don Elijio secured Rosita's promise that she would remain in Belize to care for "his people," a promise she has honored to this day. Don Elijio passed away in 1996 at the age of 103.Thanks to Rosita, much of his vast knowledge of herbal and physical healing has been preserved. She has spent the last thirty years studying, and later, teaching, Maya medicine. Rosita now works tirelessly both in Belize and the United States, sharing all she learned from Don Elijio and other traditional healers about herbs, physical, emotional and spiritual healing.