Meet our Crew
Karie - Holistic & Beauty Therapy
Karie is a multi award-winning professional therapist with nearly four decades of experience in the wellness and spa industry. Specialising in deep tissue and sports massage, she is also highly trained in spa and holistic therapies including hot stone treatments, facials, waxing, and well over 100 therapeutic techniques.
Throughout her career Karie has worked in prestigious settings including palaces, luxury spas, and five-star hotels in Mayfair, London, treating a wide range of clients from everyday visitors to VIPs and well-known public figures Gaining her hundreds of 5 star reviews -Today, she brings that same level of expertise and care to everyone who walks through The Grand Portal.
Over the past 15 years Karie has expanded her studies into areas such as quantum physics, the Silva Method, alpha hypnosis, and frequency meditation. She is passionate about working with sound and vibration, blending frequencies to create immersive experiences that help calm the nervous system and support balance between mind and body.
Her study of psychology and emotional trauma has further strengthened her therapeutic approach, allowing her to support clients both physically and emotionally.
Karie also has a deep personal interest in numerology, ancient rituals, moon cycles, and the emotional rhythms that shape our lives. Alongside her therapy work she enjoys art, design, and creative problem-solving — all of which influence the vision and atmosphere behind The Grand Portal.
Karie will be teaching and mentoring the next generation of therapists here at The Grand Portal in the coming months and she’s looking forward to sharing her decades of experience with those seeking excellence in their craft
Janina – Access Bars® Practitioner & slow breathwork Yoga.5-7pm Tuesdays only.
Hello, my name is Janina, and I am a certified Access Bars® practitioner for 5 yrs qualified, supporting clients to release mental, emotional, and physical stress so they can experience greater ease, clarity, and presence in their lives.
Access Bars® is a gentle, hands-on therapy that works with 32 specific points on the head. These points relate to different areas of life and, when lightly touched, can help clear limiting beliefs, habitual thought patterns, and stored tension. A single session can release years of accumulated stress and restriction, allowing the mind to quiet and the body to deeply relax.
I am also offering slow breath release yoga Tuesdays 6-7pm
The slow release allows the flow of breath to engage to muscles groups to help release tension and relax the mind through gentle Yoga.
Goddess Erica Maureen
For over ten years, Erica has devoted herself to exploring the wisdom of African goddesses from across the African continent and its diaspora. Her work blends art, storytelling, and spiritual guidance through Oracle card readings.
Alongside offering readings, Erica also creates her own original Oracle decks inspired by the Divine Feminine in African traditions. Her work is rooted in remembrance — honouring spiritual stories and goddess energies that have often been overlooked or forgotten.
Through her readings, Erica invites these powerful feminine voices back into the present, offering insight, reflection, and guidance for those seeking clarity on their path.
1st & 3rd Saturday every month.
Benoit Viellefon – Tarot Reader
Originally from France and living in the UK since 1998, Benoit offers intuitive, face-to-face tarot readings in both English and French.
For over 25 years he has travelled extensively across Europe and Asia as an artist and musician, performing for audiences ranging from local communities to royalty and international figures. Through decades of performing and connecting deeply with people from all walks of life, he developed a heightened intuition and an ability to read character, energy and circumstance with clarity.
Trained as an artist and having studied humanities at the Polytechnic University of Valenciennes, Benoit has long been drawn to philosophy, psychology, history, sociology and anthropology. Tarot became a natural meeting point for these interests — a symbolic system through which insight, experience and intuition can be brought together to offer meaningful personal guidance.
His readings are grounded, thoughtful and perceptive — designed to offer clarity rather than prediction alone.
Winter available 2nd &4th Saturday in the month. Spring &Summer request to book.
The, Grand Parade, Saint Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DN, GB
01424 575211
Monday: 13:00 - 17:00 · Tuesday: 12:00 - 19:00 · Thursday: 12:00 - 19:30 · Friday: 11:00 - 18:00 · Saturday: 10:00 - 17:00 · Sunday: 11:00 - 16:00