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Cypress Pillar Healing Arts

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Cypress Pillar Healing Arts

Cypress Pillar Healing Arts approaches a rebuilding of self using a multi-modal approach: Body, Mind, & Spirit are all nurtured.

Heal yourself using medicinal techniques, diet, meditation, martial arts & tai chi, dance, visual art, music, and more! Somewhere along the line, Cypress Pillar founders Brian and Misha decided life could be about joy and love. This decision was made, when all good things happen, riding together on a bus bumping along and dreaming. But, really, wouldn't it be amazing to wake up every morning pain free, strong, loving your *self?* How incredible to look forward to a long life filled with wonder and adventure, to know what to eat, to laugh, and to be stress free. Well, why couldn't we all live like that? We all have a bit of healing to do, and we can work together to move through it. Whether you're suffering from pain, stress, or body image issues, Cypress Pillar Healing Arts is passionate about creating a healing journey that is right for YOU. Misha and Brian believe that health should be accessible to all and offer our services at affordable prices. At our healing arts center you can enjoy acupuncture, massage, herbalism, Reiki and traditional Shamanic healing. Dr. Brian and Misha are the core of Cypress Pillar, and partner with a variety of skilled healers to bring these services to the community. We also offer small, intimate classes with one on one attention from our experienced facilitators and empower you to continue learning when you leave the classroom, too. Sensei Brian - Dr. Brian Nell holds a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and offers acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, and traditional Chinese massage. He specializes in injury recovery, sports injury, stress, anxiety, and depression as well as elder care. He is a fourth degree blackbelt in Pangai Noon kung fu, certified Tai Chi instructor, tea master, graphic designer, woodworker, computer animator, and generally adventuresome guy. Dr. Brian offers courses in a number of different healing arts and is known for his gentle yet charismatic teaching style. Misha - Misha Nell is a Clinical Herbalist, Reiki Master, Shaman and Intuitive Tarot Reader. She believes in helping people become healthy through a balancing of both the physical and spirit and is honored to assist folks seeking to work on this goal. Misha is a Master Teacher for Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance, a certified Master Naturalist and nature guide, reptile wrangler, mermaid, and founder of the dance troupes ShimmyBOOM, Caravan Project Sarasota, and PURE Sarasota. With over 20 years of teaching experience and a Master's degree in education, this award-winning instructor delights in creating dynamic programming to suit her audience's interests and needs.

12/30/2025

Kick off the New Year with kicking and punching!

Our martial arts experts here at Cypress Pillar Healing Arts are offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to get an intro into everything martial arts! For four Saturdays in January, you will have the opportunity to study with these dedicated and talented warriors.

Open to all levels and ages, this is a marvelous way to get insight into multiple different styles of martial art arts. Each weekend, you will explore a different martial art arts theme and learn practical applications of the fighting forms.

No experience? No problem! This class is absolutely intended for people who have never done it before and who would like to try it out.

Come join us in the dojo for Saturdays in January, and discover what a transformational experience participating in the martial arts can make in your life!

Hosted by Shihan and Shihan Only at Cypress!

12/29/2025

🌿January Workshops & Special Events❄️

We are kicking off 2026 with a robust selection of unique classes and workshops!

This coming month we are excited to offer new opportunities including:
❄️ Usui Reiki Level 1 certification
❄️Intro to Martial Arts
❄️FREE Clone Club Women’s Circle for peri & menopausal women

in addition, we have favorites like our monthly full ceremony with , tea & tarot with and ikebana study with

Each special event is presented by a knowledgeable and certified instructor. Our teachers don’t just talk to talk, they won’t the walk too, drawing from years of experience in their fields.

Check out the link in our bio to sign up and join us! Let 2026 be a year of learning and try something new!

12/28/2025

Ta Chiu 2025 ! 🔥💖🐎

What a marvelous evening of community and connection!

We gathered together to share food, good company, and all of our dreams and well wishes for the year ahead!

The horse burned beautifully this year, much to the delight of Cypress family near and far.

To those of you who came in person, and those of you who joined us from many miles away, we thank you for being part of our tribe.

May the new year be blessed and beautiful for us all!

12/27/2025

Our annual end of the year celebration is on for tonight!

Join for this end of the year tradition.
On December 27 we celebrate this Taoist holiday. This is our 17th year! Every year, Brian creates a paper horse that we will burn to carry our well wishes up to the heavens. We invite all of our friends and family, our beloved Cypress, pillar tribe, to join us and write list of names of all of those you wish to be blessed. We will put them in the horses basket and then Brian will lead us through a short ritual to give the horse to the fire and let our prayers reach the heavens.

You can join us in person at Cypress starting at 6:30 pm or virtually online via Zoom from anywhere in the world! (DM us or drop a 🔥in the comments for the zoom link)

If you want to join us virtually, you have until 4 PM to send us your list of names so that Misha can get them ready for the horse!

and if you’re joining us in person, please feel free to bring a snack or your holiday leftovers to share.

This is a beautiful low-key, community based offering that we love sharing with our friends and family. This is a beautiful way to close out the year with offerings of gratitude and prayers for all of the blessings we wish to receive.

#2026

12/19/2025

Coming this Saturday Dec 20!

We are excited to share our brand new series, Super Hero Skill!

Kicking off the series with wrist rockets, or slingshots, we will have a one hour class to teach you how to aim, fire, target and shoot these fabulously simple yet effective projectile tools.

This is a fun way to get to learn a new skill and just blow off some steam during this holiday season. Our certified instructors will teach you how to work with this tool and you’ll have a lot of fun playing!

Take a break from the busy holiday season and just have a blast with us!

12/15/2025

Our very own 's Kickstarter is in its final days. Grab a copy of her brand new, self-published deck: Oracle of the Wild TalismAnimals.

This 52 card deck is 100% human made, created by Misha (each card was originally hand painted in acrylic, inks, and watercolors) with a beautiful 190+ page guidebook that details the messages of each creature.

Misha shares, "This is not just a typical animal deck; I worked hard to weave in my background in science and environmental education with cultural, mythological, and spiritual lore about each creature too. And the deck features some really fun unusual creatures too like Manul, Lammergeier, and Tyrannosaurus Rex too! I'm so thrilled to be bringing this deck to life, after 10 years of dreaming and working on it. Thank you all so much for being part of making this dream come true!"

You can find the Kickstarter for the deck here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mishakitty/oracle-of-the-wild-talismanimals

12/14/2025

❄️Updated December Calendar!❄️

We’ve added a few special treats for your holiday season!

12/13/2025

Did you know that our amazing team of healers do off-site lectures and talks as well as see patients and teach classes? They do!

had a fantastic day sharing “Ancient Healing Medicine” on Longboat Key this last Thursday. During his talk, participants learned about:

☯️The history of traditional Chinese medicine

☯️Different modalities in TCM

☯️Acupuncture, Acupressure, and the channels in the body

☯️ How to self administer Tui Na, TCM’s massage modality

☯️ Key points for helping with longevity, energy, anxiety and more (and they even got to try acupressure and Tui Na too!)

We had a great time sharing this topic with the students at The Education Center at Temple Beth Israel. Next week, will be sharing all about Florida’s Healing Herbs as the second part of this series.

Want us to bring our healing magic to your group? DM us to set up a public speaking session.

12/10/2025

This coming Thursday you have an awesome opportunity to make Zentangle art with .me and learn runic wisdom with

Zentangle Tangled YuleRuneZ with James Edward Smith and Susan Moen CZT at Zentangle at The Crystal Cave’s zoom room!

Thursday December 11th 6-8:00 p.m eastern, $25.00 per person, registration is on PayPal: crystalcave.me@gmail.com using the friends and family payment option, please include your email for the zoom link.

Join us while James regales us with his vast knowledge on all things Runes for the first hour, including the history, lore, and magick of this ancient form of divination to use during the season of Yule. Then Susan will guide you through Tangling a Rune in a fun and festive way for the second hour! Celebrate Yule with us in this facinating class!! Don’t forget this class is on a THURSDAY!

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1940 Northgate Boulevard Suite B2
Sarasota, FL
34234

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm
Saturday	9am - 9pm

Website

http://www.cypresspillar.com/

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Somewhere along the line, Cypress Pillar founders Brian and Misha decided life could be about joy and love. This decision was made, when all good things happen, riding together on a bus bumping along and dreaming. But, really, wouldn't it be amazing to wake up every morning pain free, strong, loving your *self?* How incredible to look forward to a long life filled with wonder and adventure, to know what to eat, to laugh, and to be stress free. Well, why couldn't we all live like that? We all have a bit of healing to do, and we can work together to move through it. Whether you're suffering from pain, stress, or body image issues, Cypress Pillar Healing Arts is passionate about creating a healing journey that is right for YOU. Misha and Brian believe that health should be accessible to all and offer our services at affordable prices. We offer small, intimate classes with one on one attention from our experienced facilitators and empower you to continue learning when you leave the classroom, too. In addition to classes, look for our services to grow as Brian completes his Doctorate of Oriental Medicine. Sensei Brian - Brian Nell is a fourth degree blackbelt in Pangai Noon kung fu, certified Tai Chi instructor, tea master, graphic designer, woodworker, computer animator, and generally adventuresome guy. Currently studying oriental medicine, Brian offers courses in a number of different healing arts and is known for his gentle yet charismatic teaching style. Misha - Misha Nell is a bellydancer certified in multiple styles, kimono enthusiast, pilates and yoga devote, certified Master Naturalist and nature guide, reptile wrangler, mermaid, and founder of the dance troupe PURE Sarasota. With over 20 years of teaching experience and a Master's degree in education, this award-winning instructor delights in creating dynamic programming to suit her audience's interests and needs.