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Stephanie Alley - US operations

Stephanie has strong backgrounds in textiles and the healing arts. She is a traveler and loves the ocean.


Stephanie was brought up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Raised by her mom with her younger brother Steve, they spent their summers at different beaches or cruising to Mexico. After graduating from private school she attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and studied Pre-Med Chemistry.
Stephanie then decided allopathic medicine was not the way she wanted to heal people. So she moved to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to obtain her degree in Massage and Body Mind Therapy at the Healing Arts Institute in Fort Collins. To help put her through school she sold her handmade jewelry and batik wares.


With school behind her she backpacked Central America. Upon her return to Colorado she realized the ocean was really where she wanted to live and work. She then moved to Charleston, South Carolina. It was there she met her husband Josh......

 

 

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