Kira Treloar and Brian Drewwyer, along with Bruce, recently opened Stardust Healing Center at 415 S. Stevenson Avenue in downtown Iron Mountain, offering a variety of products and services for mindfulness and wellness. It offers. (Jim Paul/Daily News Photo)
IRON MOUNTAIN — Brian Drewyer and his partner Kira Treloar made a decade-old dream a reality when they opened Stardust Healing Center at 415 S. Stevenson Ave., Suite 10. It was time.
For the past 10 years, Drewyor and Treloar have been organizing a mindfulness and wellness festival around the area known as the Stardust Experiment.
The name Stardust comes from a song Drewyo wrote about the cosmic journey we’re all on.
Stardust Healing Center is a place for a variety of health and mindfulness practices, including traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, and sound therapy.
Treloar previously studied sociology, worked for several years in a nonprofit organization, and ran her own jewelry business. She recently completed her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine and is currently pursuing her Ph.D.
Ms Treloar said her health problems had left her bedridden at one point, but she had benefited greatly from acupuncture and herbal medicine and now wanted to help others.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, acupuncture is a traditional Chinese method used to alleviate health conditions and symptoms such as pain.
“It’s a little different from how Western medicine views the body.” Mr Treloar said. “Chinese medicine believes that the body is in constant change. We call this yin to yang, or body balance, and seek to achieve harmony through various diagnostic methods.”
Drewyer has a degree in psychology and is known in the area as a popular live music act, One Human Band.
“I’m going to do life coaching and health and wellness consulting.” Drewire said. “So I study personality types and the Enneagram and a lot of the traditional forms and psychology. But I also look at them almost in a broader form, which is what your passion is in life, and health. And I like to apply them to ways to focus my passions around a more balanced approach to creating a holistic system of wellness.”
Drewyer also plans to draw on his musical background to offer sound therapy. Sound therapy uses music played in a therapeutic manner combined with deep introspection techniques to improve health and well-being. Drewyer said sound therapy sessions will include not only guitar and classical piano, but also native flutes, Tibetan singing bowls and binaural beats.
Stardust Healing Center treats each person individually and as a whole person to balance the system, Dreweau said.
In addition to treatment rooms, Stardust Healing Center is a pharmacy offering wellness herbs, Chinese and Western plant and herbal blends, essential oils, and tea and mushroom coffee alternatives (both caffeinated and decaf) .
Stardust Healing Center also features works by local artists and handmade jewelry. Mr Treloar said local artists were happy to have an outlet and were keen to display their work.
Opening a downtown store with practice rooms and retail space is what Drewyor and Treloar call the first phase of their plan. Drewyer said he hopes to acquire land next year for a retreat center with a geodesic dome and yurt that will be the location for yoga and wellness retreats.
Drewyo also practices Qi Gong and Tai Chi, ancient forms of Chinese martial arts that optimize energy within the body, mind, and spirit to improve and maintain health and well-being. Drewyer hopes to open a qigong and tai chi school at the retreat center.
Stardust Healing Center is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and can be reached at 906-221-2157 or by email at stardusthealingcenter@gmail.com.
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