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Jan Kinder Officers St John

Jan Kinder is the founding director of The Self Centre at Caneel and The Self Centre International, LLC. She is a licensed registered nurse with a BA in psychology; certified music therapist; credential mind body medicine/Ayurveda and meditation instructor with Deepak Chopra, MD and David Simon, MD, since 1995. She’s a master-level clinician in the musical development/therapeutic and educational philosophy of Dr. Carl Orff since 1981, classical pianist, composer and vocalist. After four years of hospital nursing, Jan elected to explore an avenue for combining medicine, music and spirituality. During the 1980’s at Turtle Bay Music School in New York, she created and established comprehensive healing arts programs serving over 300 families, and community outreach programs serving the local schools. Concurrently, she designed a music therapy/music in medicine program for children and adults at Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Medical Center. In 1989, she was invited to develop and conduct similar curriculums for St. John School of the Arts, USVI. In 1996, she founded the Mind Body Health Institute in New Jersey, providing seminars and workshops in mind body medicine/Ayurveda, meditation and sound healing. In 2000, in collaboration with Caneel Bay Resort, USVI, she established The Self Centre at Caneel. Jan continues to nurture children through the arts at St. John School of the Arts where she presently holds the Executive Director position. As a seminar presenter, educator and professional speaker, she has served various populations in hospital/medical settings; corporations; universities; public and private schools; meditation and wellness centers; and the private sector. Mind-body-spirit interrelatedness and quality of life remain the themes of Jan’s work.