Meet Alea: A Healer, Teacher, and Adventure Seeker
Alea is a multidimensional healer, yogi, and health coach. She graduated from Sacred Path Healing Arts School on O'ahu and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2016. A licensed massage therapist and RYT 200 yoga instructor with over 1,000 hours of teaching experience, Alea offers a wide range of wellness services.
She also creates yoga-inspired jewelry reflecting the chakra and energy centers. A passionate nature lover, she enjoys yoga, aerial arts, surfing, snorkeling, hiking, gardening, and working as a private chef. Most importantly, she’s the proud mother of her 13-year-old son, Ke’ohi.
At Alea Lani Massage and Yoga, our talented therapists provide expert massage therapy services designed to restore balance and promote overall well-being through personalized, holistic care.
Meet Our Therapists
Molly McLaughlin
Molly is a massage therapist, yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic practitioner. Her healing sessions blend Eastern and Western modalities, creating a deeply therapeutic and transformational experience. She specializes in integrative massage, deep relaxation, deep tissue, lymphatic drainage, Ayurvedic massage and treatment therapies, aromatherapy, cupping, gua sha, reflexology, and Reiki. Whatever the chosen modality, Molly sees and meets the unique needs of each individual.
Molly has more than 15 years of experience teaching yoga and warmly welcomes all people. She draws from decades of practice and learning across a wide range of styles and philosophies. She teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. From this breadth of experience, she customizes a practice that best serves you. Come as you are, and receive exactly what you need.
Tilsa Stith
Over 10 years of experienced in Lomi Lomi, Shiatsu, Swedish, Sports, Reflexology, Prenatal, Deep Tissue & Lymphatic Massage.
Jaylynn Jitchaku Waite
Jaylynn is a dedicated Massage Therapist since 2017. Trained at the Vive Institute of Big Island Academy of Massage in Hilo, HI. She has blend of techniques that she’s learned over the years. Focusing on traditional Lomi Lomi, Swedish, a little bit of sports massage with stretching. She believes in giving a full body massage because everything is connected but will personalize each session for her clients.
Outside work, Jaylynn embraces self-care and mindfulness through activities like, reading, dance, travel, and hiking. Her holistic interests complement her empathetic nature, creating a warm, inviting space for clients to relax and heal.
Tionna Kuhnhoff
Tionna joins us with over 25+ years of professional experience in the Health & Wellness Industry. Her experience began in college where she attended Park University in Kansas City, Missouri on a full athletic scholarship for fast pitch softball while engaging in the Sports Medicine/Athletic Training Program.
While at Park University, she gained experience in working with collegiate athletes that were striving to overcome athletic injuries as well as provide preventative care through proper exercise and strength training concepts.
Upon completing her undergraduate degree, she had discovered a true alignment with the art of massage and bodywork treatments. Her curiosity led her to The Arizona School of Massage Therapy, where she completed the 820 hour program which would prepare her for the National Certification Boards for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.
Her combined experience in massage therapy and personal training has given her in-depth understanding of the human body’s structure and function, which allows her to work with a variety of clientele.
Upon arriving to the Hawaiian Islands in 2017, she completed Lomi Lomi training at the Ho’onana Lomi Lomi Training center on Maui.
Tionna brings a blend of Eastern & Western modalities including Shiatsu, Thai Massage, Acupressure and Reflexology. Fundamentally, deep tissue, neuromuscular facilitation, PNF stretching and Trigger point therapy are utilized to free up entangled tissues.
Her style of blending other modalities such as Esalen, Cranial Sacral therapy and Reiki will have you feeling balanced, renewed and enlightened.
