Starfruit Studios is a healing arts business that focuses on connection, narrative and transformation.
Current offerings are
photography, massage, energy work and centering.
Milestone & Entrepreneurial Photography
Photography is a way to capture a moment in time and tell a story.
Starfruit Studios offers Milestone and Entrepreneurial photography sessions. Milestone and Entrepreneurial photoshoots can be done in a more traditional portrait style or documentary style where the photographer would follow the subject and capture more action based shots. A milestone session can be a bigger event with many people, or a more intimate tradition with just immediate family.
Entrepreneurial shoots are meant to provide a business owner with high quality images for their website, social media, flyers, ads, and promotionals.
Here are some examples of sessions offered to businesses owners: headshots of employees & owner, a day in the life shoot at your place of business capturing the essence of what you do in real time, or styled product / service shoots.
It's important for the photographer to capture the whole story in the images, and Starfruit Studios aims to spend time getting to know each of their clients and what they are about before doing a session.
“Kylin brings an extremely soothing energy to every appointment. Her massages are excellent, she really focuses on problem areas and makes sure to get all the knots out of them. Plus, she takes the time to chat at the end of the appointment and makes sure you leave feeling calm and refreshed.”
— Kailie
“Kylin is very welcoming and makes you feel comfortable from the start. She makes sure to focus on the areas that need more attention, and also incorporates other healing modalities in a holistic way. I always feel good after a massage with her!
— Julie
Massage & Reiki
Massage is a modality that elevates your mood, relaxes your physical body and resets the nervous system. You can choose from a focused area deeper pressure massage where more pointed movements are made or a firm pressure whole body massage that include more sweeping strokes. Reiki is the type of energy work currently offered. Reiki means universal life energy in Japanese.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed and during a reiki session the goal is to move any energy that has become stagnant and balance the energetic body.
The chakras are assessed and crystals might be used as well. Intuition balancing sessions called Centering, where card readings and somatic exercises take place are also currently being offered.
This type of session will start with a breathing exercise and include time for reflection, and can be helpful to book when at a crossroads in your relationship, job, or other area of your life.
In the future, workshops, retreats and other ways to connect will take place! The goal at the end of all Starfruit Studio sessions is that the client feels more connected, that their story has been heard and their spirit transformed.
“Kylin is a natural knot-picker, from conversation to her craft as a massage therapist. She seeks to understand where things get stuck and helps them flow, picking up on emotional and experiential issues and how they have settled into muscle and tissue. Her unique combination of intuition and physical skill allows for a holistic experience, especially valuable for reintegrating oneself with the body after traumatic events.”
— Callie
“I got so much insight from my Reiki session with Kylin. She was able to tap into exactly what I was feeling and experiencing. She gave me clarity and helped me to remove a deep seated block I was experiencing. She has a true gift and I’m so thankful for my experience with her.”
— Kelley
A little bit about me.
My background is in arts and I have an undergraduate degree in sculpture and art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. I have always been attracted to working with my hands and building in a concrete and conceptual sense. After graduating I taught preschool and middle school visual art before working at a photographer for a company and as an after-school program coordinator. I am an educator by design and much of the work I do now draws upon the skills I learned while teaching. While working for the photography company I decided I wanted to do sessions for people out on my own, and began taking pictures of friends and family and of musicians performing.
I was brought back to the healing arts when my dad was hospitalized with his second round of cancer in 2015. At Hackensack Medical there was a trained reiki practitioner performing reiki on the patients in the infectious disease unit. My dad told me the reiki helped with the pain from his tumors and gave him a sense of peace. After he passed I returned to Richmond where a friend offered me a free reiki session. The healing effects were profound. I felt so much peace and went home and began to clean my house! A month later I injured my hand and the surgeon botched the surgery causing nerve damage. It took several months of massage to regain sensation and mobility of my hand. Later that year I decided to get my reiki certification and my massage license so I could begin to help others on their own healing journeys.
The trauma that I witnessed while teaching and while my dad had cancer inspired me to devote my professional life to being a support person and offer sessions of healing and documentation. I hope to capture individuals' stories and help them connect to themselves, their communities, and families in a more authentic way.
Workshops & Events
Coming soon.