Sandy Priester is co-founder and Executive Director of LifeSpark Cancer Resources, a Colorado non-profit that provides comfort and support to individuals with cancer. The organization pairs cancer patients with Reiki and Healing Touch providers for weekly sessions.
Professional background: Sandy has practiced Reiki since 1989 and is both a Usui and a Karuna Reiki Master Teacher. She learned Healing Touch in 2000 and is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. Sandy holds an MBA (University of Colorado, Denver) and has 20 years experience with non-profits such as the American Cancer Society, QuaLife Wellness Community, and Healing Touch International. She has served in capacities such as Executive Director (Historic Boulder), and Interim Executive Director (Foothills Art Center), on boards, councils, and panels (Denver Mile High Rotary Club, Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Council for the Arts, Denver Career College), and roles in program development, fund raising, and marketing.
LifeSpark Cancer Resources: This Denver Colorado based organization, begun as a program at QuaLife Wellness Community in Denver, created a new nonprofit in 2005 to continue this important work. The organization matches Reiki and Healing Touch volunteers, who have been carefully screened and trained, with individuals with all types and all stages of cancer. Sessions occur in hospitals and churches throughout the Metro-Denver area and sessions occur weekly for a program duration of three to six months.
For more information about LifeSpark visit www.LifeSparkNow.org.