Dr. Carina Lopez smiling beside a mountain stream, in a green knitted sweaterThe terrainDr. Carina Lopez, ND, LAcreads the whole person
Sakis Stamou smelling a sprig of white wild flowers among green treesThe tableSakis Stamoutends the kitchen

Mid autumn · the Society's year

About the Society

The founders of Vitalist Healing Traditions

Two healers. One lineage.

Since 2012, Dr. Carina Lopez, ND, LAc, and Sakis Stamou have taught the vitalist traditions as one living practice, for women and families who want vitality to outlast a generation.

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  • Established2012teaching the vitalist traditions
  • LicensedND · LAcConnecticut and New York
  • LineageA living lineagetrained hand to hand by the masters of six traditions
  • Six traditionsOne practiceread whole, lived daily

Our calling

Every person carries a living force that knows the way back to balance.

The older traditions see each person as something whole and sacred, a life force moving through body, spirit, family and season. Our work is to honour that force, to help you hear it again, and to keep this way of seeing alive for the generations after us.

  1. IWhy we do this

    Our purpose

    To serve the life force in every person. We see healing as a remembering: of the body's own wisdom, of the rhythms of nature, and of the sacred bond between a family and its table.

  2. IIWhat we do

    Our mission

    To read each person whole, from the iris to the kitchen, and to teach the vitalist traditions so they can be lived daily, at home, by the people who keep them.

  3. IIIWhere it leads

    Our vision

    A generation of women and families who carry this knowledge as an inheritance: steady in body, at peace in spirit, and ready to pass it on.

Our values

Guided by NatureWe follow the season and the body's own pace.
Grounded in IntegrityYour next step is named because it is truly indicated.
Moved by LoveTwo founders, one family table: the care we give is the care we keep at home.

Two refusals, one path

Two lives, told side by side, beat for beat, until they meet.

Dr. Carina LopezCarinathe terrain

The road not taken

Carina

Conventional medical education, left behind when her own experience with illness inspired her to seek the relationship between body, mind and spirit.

The journey

Carina

Belize, India, Bridgeport, Pelion.

The teachers

Carina

The University of Bridgeport, George Vithoulkas at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, Robert Street, Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing, the Indigenous healers of Belize, Guru Dharam and Siri Sat, Raymond Fernando and Christiane Heilmann.

Dr. Carina Lopez

Dr. Carina Lopez, ND, LAc

Naturopathic Doctor · Licensed Acupuncturist · Classical Homeopath · Master Herbalist · Certified Iridologist & Sclerologist · Energy Healing Practitioner · QHHT Hypnosis · NOVA Non-Ocular Vision Instructor · Quantum Speed Reading Instructor

Healing the Body, Awakening the Heart & Exploring Consciousness

Dr. Carina Lopez is a naturopathic doctor, licensed acupuncturist, classical homeopath, master herbalist, certified iridologist and sclerologist, energy healing practitioner, QHHT hypnosis practitioner, and NOVA Non-Ocular Vision instructor. As co-founder of Vitalist Healing Traditions, she brings together traditional healing wisdom, energetic practices, and consciousness exploration to help individuals reconnect with their innate capacity for healing and transformation.

An Unconventional Path to Healing. Her journey began in conventional medical education, but her personal experience with illness inspired her to seek a deeper understanding of the relationship between body, mind, and spirit.

She obtained her Doctorate at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, earned her Master's degree in Acupuncture, pursued postgraduate studies at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy in Greece, and apprenticed under homeopath Robert Street in India. She also earned a Masters in Herbalism through Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing, and became certified in iridology under Toni Miller and in sclerology under Dr. Leonard Mehlmauer.

Her studies led her to Indigenous healers in Belize, the Meher Baba Free Homeopathic Dispensary in India, and the traditional herbal wisdom of Ikaria, Greece.

Reads: Iris, sclera, face, tongue and constitution
Languages: English · Spanish

Begin with your Foundations Map

Sakis StamouSakisthe table

The road not taken

Sakis

Civil engineering at the University of Thessaly, left for the kitchen.

The journey

Sakis

Ikaria, Athens, New York, Pelion.

The teachers

Sakis

Le Monde culinary school in Athens, Phoenix Aurelius, Sajah Popham and the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Demetra George and Christopher Warnock of the School of Renaissance Astrology, Todd Caldecott, Robert A. Bartlett.

Sakis Stamou

Sakis Stamou

Healing-foods educator · Herbalist · Spagyrist

“I teach food as daily medicine, and I make remedies the slow way, as the alchemists did.”

Sakis trained as a civil engineer, then left the drawing board for the kitchen. On Ikaria he learned how the long-lived eat; in Athens he spent two years at Le Monde culinary school. In the United States, Phoenix Aurelius initiated him into the hermetic arts and the spagyric art.

He went on to study online with Sajah Popham at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, learned traditional astrology with Demetra George and Christopher Warnock of the School of Renaissance Astrology, and completed Todd Caldecott's Food as Medicine and Phytomedica programs online at the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine. In 2023 he completed the Prima and Secunda classes with Robert A. Bartlett. Today, from Pelion, he reads constitution at the table and makes spagyric preparations by hand.

Reads: Constitution at the table: food energetics and daily rhythm
Languages: Greek · English

Discover your Food Energetic Type

New York · midsummer

The meeting

Carina and Sakis embracing on a rocky coast, the sea behind them

They met in New York, and found they were both born under Ashwini, the star of the twin healers of the Vedic sky. They married on Bow Bridge in Central Park on Saint John's Day, at midsummer.

“That evening we jumped the fire together. We have worked side by side ever since: her readings and his kitchen, one conversation across two crafts.”

Today they teach from their home in Greece, raise their son at the same table, and work with members worldwide.

Meet CarinaMeet Sakis

One column from here

What we mean by vitalist

Every tradition we teach rests on one old observation: a living body is ordered from within by a force that keeps it warm, mends it, and moves it toward balance. The healers of antiquity called it the healing power of nature, vis medicatrix naturae. Chinese medicine calls it qi. Hahnemann called it dynamis. The names differ; the observation is the same.

To be a vitalist is to work with that force rather than over it. What the body shows is read as its own language. The task is to read the whole terrain, clear what stands in the way, and offer the smallest measure that is enough: a food, a plant, a rhythm, a single well-chosen preparation. Then to watch, and wait, and keep rhythm.

This is why we read before we suggest anything. It is why the kitchen matters as much as the reading, and why we measure change in seasons. And it is why we teach: these traditions were always meant to live in a household, kept by the people in it and handed to their children.

  • I

    Ordered from within

    A living force keeps the body warm, mends it, and seeks balance.

  • II

    Read the terrain

    Constitution, temperament and season, before any single sign.

  • III

    The least that is enough

    Clear the obstacle, then offer the smallest measure, and watch.

  • IV

    Rhythm and direction

    Change unfolds in layers, at the pace the body sets.

Six traditions, one line

Read the essay: The Vitalist Approach

The Vitalist Method

How we work together

  1. 1

    Assess

    We read you first: constitution, terrain and pattern, from the iris to the kitchen.

    Carina leads · Foundations Map or Whole Reading

  2. 2

    Apply

    We draw on the traditions: homeopathy, the herbal traditions, Chinese pattern work, food by its nature.

    Both founders · Reset-90

  3. 3

    Embody

    You live it daily, through small rituals and healing foods kept faithfully.

    Sakis leads · Vitalist Praxis

  4. 4

    Pass On

    You hand it to your children, so healthy rhythm becomes a family inheritance.

    Both founders · The family table

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Proof

Heard across the traditions

As heard on

  • Homeopathy Hangout
  • The Natural Nurse and Dr. Z
  • Columbia University's Just Food Conference
  • NE Women's Herbal Conference
  • NYANP
  • NYU Higher Education Opportunity Programs
  • Huffington Post
  • NY1
  • Daily News

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Honest care

Questions, honestly answered

What are the founders' credentials?

Dr. Lopez is a naturopathic doctor, licensed acupuncturist, classical homeopath, master herbalist, certified iridologist and sclerologist, energy healing practitioner, QHHT hypnosis practitioner, and NOVA Non-Ocular Vision instructor; her naturopathic license is held in Connecticut and her acupuncture license in New York. Sakis is a healing-foods educator, herbalist and spagyrist; his training is listed with each teacher. Within the Society, both founders work as educators.

Where are you?

In Pelion, Greece, and New York, working with members worldwide by secure video.

What does membership mean?

A private society, guided by its Sacred Governance Charter. Joining asks only for your intention, and it opens the door to readings and pathways.

Why two founders?

The reading and the kitchen show different halves of the same person. Together they make one map.

Which languages?

English and Spanish with Dr. Lopez; Greek and English with Sakis.

How does the Society's education fit with the care I already have?

It sits alongside it: members share what they learn with the people who look after them.

Every lineage begins with a conversation.

Fifteen unhurried minutes with a founder, free and without obligation, to find the pathway that is truly yours.

Dr. Carina Lopez

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Your constitution, the readings of eye, face and tongue, homeopathy, the herbal traditions, energy healing and QHHT hypnosis.

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Dr. Carina LopezSakis Stamou

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Choose either founder: the call is where we decide together. Free, fifteen unhurried minutes.

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Sakis Stamou

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Food by its nature, the family kitchen, wild herbs and hand-made preparations.

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