About Us

The Shanti Center LLC is a visionary 1926 Craftsman House that holds a workspace for Bodywork & Wellness practitioners to do their healing work. With a fresh sea breeze, parking and potent nourishing energy, the Shanti Center boasts brilliant tenets who lead in their respective fields of healthcare. Come in for some amazing bodywork or a healing session!

Shanti Center LLC

700 Dupont

Bellingham , WA 98225 map it

Hours of Operation

M 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

T 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

W 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

Th 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

F 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

Sa By Appointment Only

S 08:00 AM - 07:00 PM

Shanti Center LLC

700 Dupont

Bellingham , WA 98225 map it

License: #604025815

Hours of Operation

M 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

T 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

W 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

Th 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

F 08:00 AM - 08:00 PM

Sa By Appointment Only

S 08:00 AM - 07:00 PM

Client Testimonials

Here's what our clients are saying

Lovely space

Emgee is warm, friendly and knowledgeable. She knows her stuff and I feel much less pain a day after my massage. Her hands know what to do!
Excellent all around

Super great vibe.
The Shanti Center is my favorite place for body work in Whatcom county. All the practitioners are warm and caring experts. The space is beautiful and parking convenient. I have worked with Susanna for nearly a decade helping me address recovery from back surgery and maintenance on ongoing physical issues. I've also worked with Elizabeth and had tremendous results from all her wisdom and care. This is a fantastic home for taking care of your body.

The Shanti Center is warm and welcoming. I know that my health and safety is the priority in this lovely space.
Elizabeth knows exactly what my needs are and can find the root cause of most issues! She has helped me to feel good and meet my personal athletic goals. Not sure what I would do without her! She's amazing!

The health benefits from the technique Elizabeth uses are outstanding. I am a 71 year old former Marine and retired Chiropractor. I injured my left shoulder playing football in High School and reinjured it in the early 80's. I thought it was healed until recently I had difficulty putting on my coat. After my first visit I not only had improvement in my shoulders range of motion but the overall feeling of wellness. Thank you Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Ruff is an incredibly talented healer. Great professionalism and very personable. She shows care and determination in assisting your body to heal. I greatly recommend her and the staff at Shanti Center.

There is really no better way to spend time than with a massage by Elizabeth. Knowledgeable, professional and empathetic she performs an amazing, deep massage that leaves you feeling better aligned and more settled in your skin.

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Susanna A.

License: WA #MA00012685

4 Verified Reviews

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I want to live in a world where we are free to do what the wild calls us to do. I feel blessed to have been supported to follow my calling.
For over 20 years I have practiced bodywork It has taught me about being present and offering a variety of healing space to my clients.
I have a niche in Clinical Visceral Abdominal massage, Orthopedic/Structural/ Injury treatment. I specialize in treating a large variety of digestive, nervous system symptoms, post surgery treatment to optimize healing, as well as low back, hip, pelvic pain and injuries.
I am a skilled in Pregnancy and Postpartumn Bodywork treatments.
I am a Birth Mentor for mothers, and fathers on their journey into parenthood. I have attended births for many years as a friend and since 2010 as a Holistic Birth Doula. This year I am honored to attend the birth of a baby who's mother's birth I was at 19 years ago!

Bodywork Services

Susanna- Interoral Massage

$130

60min

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Susanna - Advanced Body Therapy

$130

60min

$195

90min

$250

120min

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Susanna - Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage

$195

90min

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by Anonymous on Oct 30

Susanna is wonderful, intuitive and creates a comforting space to work her magic.

by Aaron on Feb 24

The Shanti Center is my favorite place for body work in Whatcom county. All the practitioners are warm and caring experts. The space is beautiful and parking convenient. I have worked with Susanna for nearly a decade helping me address recovery from back surgery and maintenance on ongoing physical issues. I've also worked with Elizabeth and had tremendous results from all her wisdom and care. This is a fantastic home for taking care of your body.

by Veronica on Dec 07

Susanna is professional and highly skilled. I left my prenatal massage feeling relaxed and rejuvenated. I will continue bodywork with Susanna as a part of my health and wellness regimen.

by Kymi on Mar 13

Susanna is fabulous! I couldn’t have made it through the last couple months without her as I have back pain from work and have been recovering from an injury. Highly recommend!

Lindsay W.

License: WA #MA60404824

22 Verified Reviews

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I have been practicing bodywork since 2013. As my practice has evolved I have served a wide range of clients with different backgrounds, needs and goals for bodywork. My sessions range from helping people get out of pain and shifting chronic pain patterns, to facilitating a deeper connection in body-mind-spirit and felt sense awareness, to promoting structural balance for more easeful posture and movement, to helping folks unwind from a stressful week at work. Whatever your goals for bodywork, I aim to meet you where you are and seek to understand how I can best support you in your journey. Through my practice I hope to contribute to a kinder, more compassionate, more embodied world.
I offer Soma Neuromuscular Integration as part of an 11-session series, ongoing treatment or maintenance sessions, and/or as stand-alone sessions designed to facilitate greater structural balance and easeful movement. This is also potent work for shifting chronic pain patterns and healing old injuries. I also offer Somassage and Integrative Massage Therapy for those looking for something more closely resembling typical massage therapy and for those seeking relaxation & stress relief. My work is slow, deep and meditative, with the intention of helping to ease your body/mind/spirit into deeper harmony and balance.
Learn more at www.somabodyworks.com.

by Anonymous on Jul 20

Lindsay's presence is very calming and warm. She used a variety of different techniques and really found some sore spots that I had forgotten were there! Over-all a great experience, can't wait to come back again!

by Anonymous on Jul 16

I am recovering from back surgery and Lindsay was willing to be patient with me and ease into applying pressure to relieve my shoulder aches.

by Thomas on Jun 11

Thank you for a wonderful and stress-releasing experience. I had been storing a tear's worth of stress and anxiety in my body. My body actually feels lighter after this massage. I don't think I realized how much I was physically holding on to all that stress.

by Anonymous on May 18

Lindsay does an amazing job!

by Anonymous on May 11

Lindsay is fantastic! Highly recommend!

by Ian on Apr 30

Very relaxing and therapeutic. I will definitely be coming back.

by Anonymous on Apr 30

Lindsay did really skilled, sensitive work that unwound my hips beautifully!! Thank you!

by Paula on Apr 09

Unique techniques that hit all the right spots

by Helena on Mar 27

Lindsay is very knowledgeable

by Anonymous on Mar 15

The best ever - and I've been getting massages for over 30 years. I've spent the morning telling all my co-workers who live in West Seattle.

Em W.

License: WA #MA60908586

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A fascination with embodied change has guided my work through its many phases and inquiries. A paradox: how do we become who we already are? In session this has evolved into an invitation for clients to organize around their own compassionate, grounded, coherent self. Physically, Soma Structural Integration informs my practice style—the global considerations of this modality resonate with my emotional and spiritual ethics, which also attend to whole-systems thinking. Soma allows very specific and focused myofascial listening to have vast implications throughout the entire body. Whether one’s goals are optimizing movement facility, bringing consciousness to embodied patterns, or recovering from an injury, touch-based containers are uniquely effective for the access they offer to the multiple domains that the ‘self’ inhabits. Alongside Soma Structural Integration, decolonization theory, embodied social justice, soul/spirit/energy work, and numerous other somatic and movement modalities have all created what I know as my practice and approach. I have a 500hr Yoga Teacher Training Certification, as well as 300+ hours spent studying Body-mind Centering. This has saturated my tablework with a sense of motion and multi-systems multiplicity. Outside of work, I’m pursing a graduate degree in counseling psychology. I enjoy depth nature connection, conscious dance, meditation, audiobooks, and making innovative muffins. What about you?

Bodywork Services

Em Waters- Soma Neuromuscular Integration

$125

75min

$150

90min

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Melissa S.

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Skincare Services

Skin Harmonizing Facial

$150

60min

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Xander H.

License: WA #MA 61332895

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I am a graduate of the massage program at Whatcom Community College, class of 2022. At WCC, I received training in Swedish relaxation massage, hydrotherapy, lymphatic facilitation techniques, myofascial techniques, pregnancy massage, sports massage, chair massage, cupping, and treatment techniques such as trigger point therapy, positional release, neuromuscular techniques, deep transverse friction, and ice massage. Treatment work (especially trigger point therapy) resonated most with me during my training and I’m passionate about helping my clients relieve painful symptoms that they present with and formulating treatment plans that help them build awareness in their bodies and manage their symptoms so that they can feel empowered, embodied, and rejuvenated. My intention for my practice is to practice clinical massage therapy and focus on treatment work. Given my well-developed manual therapy skills, I can also competently provide excellent therapeutic, full-body relaxation massage. I appreciate deep work when I receive massage and my understanding of my own body and biomechanics helps me to work deeply and apply an amount of pressure that some clients prefer; I can confidently call myself a deep-tissue therapist. My career as a yoga teacher and movement coach has been an immense inspiration for me to become a massage therapist and I’m excited to continue to grow as a wellness professional. My goal is to empower my clients by educating them about their body’s systems and helping them develop tools to maximize their physical health. WCC’s training had thorough ethical training and I am dedicated to do[ing] no harm and not asserting authority or power over my clients’ agency, expertise, and autonomy of their own bodies. I am highly skilled, ethical, and professional and I look forward to growing my expertise as a massage therapist and contributing to our growing industry. I deeply care about being an evidence and research-informed practitioner and am dedicated to conducting legitimate research throughout my career and thinking critically in all aspects of my career as a massage therapist.

Bodywork Services

Xander - Treatment Massage

$100

60min

$140

90min

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Leah G.

License: WA #MA00006272

0 Verified Reviews

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Receiving bodywork has been the most consistent and powerful pathway of obtaining health and increasing self awareness I have experienced. I graduated in 1992 from the Brian Utting School of Massage and continued training at The Bellevue School of Massage in Bodymind Shiatsu, and then at the Soma Institute in 2005 as a Certified Advanced Soma Practitioner. As a true believer and experienced provider and recipient of Soma and massage, I am honored to pass on the work to my clients who want to experience the gift of physical and emotional balance: freedom of pain, healing from injury, nurturing the immune system, increased flexibility and grace, self awareness and internal peace.

To receive bodywork is an act of kindness to self. You will become your own healer through the body’s divine wisdom. You will gain the experience of how to be your own sacred, compassionate witness so that healing occurs through the many layers that lead to the core of who you are. All of this can be done with the touch of wise hands and the act of deep listening. Deep listening occurs through the sensations you feel in your tissues, bones, nervous system, the pattern of your breath. All of these link to the conscious and unconscious mind, allowing an unfolding that promotes increased functioning of homeostasis throughout the all systems of body.

The varied disciplines of bodywork and energy medicine that I practice are all pathways to increased vitality and self understanding. Each modality acts as a tool to promote physical healing. For thousands of years, healers around the world have been keeping bodywork traditions alive because of the powerful effects they produce. When we are physically healthy and embodied, we live life more fully.

A little bit about Soma Neuromuscular Integration:
Not everyone knows about Soma Neuromuscular Integration. In a nutshell, it is a discipline of bodywork from an osteopathic tradition that focuses on transforming physical structure and emotional well being. How one lives in their body in stillness and in motion, determines how they perceive, interpret, and respond to life. Emotional and physical transformation occur when the the body releases historical physical holding patterns of injury, emotional experience, the effects of gravity on the body, and daily movement patterns. When someone’s body is released via the fascial web in this discipline, the nervous system has a chance to recalibrate, the body moves and lives with working suspension mechanics, giving people a chance to regain physical alignment and an emotional center point. In turn, one’s response to life becomes authentic because life is lived in the present moment.

Training and credentials:
1989 Reiki level 1, Olympia WA
1991 Brian Utting School of Massage, Seattle WA
1997 Reiki level 2 and 3, Hanalei HI
1999 Bodymind Shiatsu Training BodyMind Shiatsu School, Bellevue WA
2005 Soma Neuromuscular Integration, Buckley WA
2009 Certified Advanced Training Soma Neuromuscular Integration, Buckley WA
2015 Theta Level 1, La Connor WA
2016 Theta Level 2, La Connor WA

Bodywork Services

Leah - Therapeutic Medical Massage

$155

75min

$195

90min

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Leah - Soma Neuromuscular Intergration/ Soma Series

$155

75min

$195

90min

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Leah - Emotional Facelift

$135

60min

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Leah - Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage

$155

75min

$195

90min

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Leah - PIP Claim

$150

60min

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Coaching Services

Leah - Theta Healing

$125

60min

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Hypnotherapy Services

Leah - Source Crafting

$125

60min

$145

90min

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Sarah M.

License: WA #AC61338246

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“I strive to listen to the wisdom of your body and spirit, to create space for the unfolding of stuck patterns, and to meet you where you are by acting as a guide on your healing journey of living a vibrant, connected life!”

Sarah provides gentle acupuncture (including non-insertive options) to treat states of dis-ease. She often incorporates Qigong Tuina energetic bodywork, Sotai neuromuscular re-education, as well as point-based aromatherapy and tuning fork vibrational sound therapy into healing sessions. Sarah is a NCCAOM board-certified and licensed acupuncturist in the state of Washington. She completed a 5-year Master of Science in Oriental Medicine degree at the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR and a Bachelor of Science degree at University of Miami in (her ridiculous yet gorgeous home state of) Florida.

Sarah found her place in the trees and mist of the PNW, a welcome sanctuary for redheads and gentle spirits alike, and she hopes to put down roots here in Bellingham. Outside of her practice, Sarah enjoys gardening, collecting stones, crafting, exploring topics in astrology and cosmology, and going for nature walks with her husband and pup. To learn more please visit her website: Kindred Earth.

Acupuncture Services

New Patient Acupuncture Visit

$150

90min

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Return Patient Acupuncture Visit

$120

60min

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Non- Needling Healing Session

$90

45min

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(Optional) Initial Consultation & Mini Treatment

$45

30min

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Cygne L.

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As a proud graduate of the Soma Institute of Structural Integration, I have acquired the skills to establish a profound connection with your neuromuscular system and the intricate fascial network within your body. My ultimate objective is to alleviate discomfort, combat stress, and conquer fatigue through the art of skillful unraveling, realignment, and re-education of deep-seated holding patterns.
By incorporating somatic influences into my practice, I strive to enhance your mental connection, fostering a heightened sense of body awareness and self-discovery. This holistic approach aims to achieve a harmonious integration of your mind and body, resulting in overall well-being.
The Soma Series Structural Integration 11 series program is our most comprehensive approach, designed to bring balance to your entire system. Whether you are new to this therapy or have already completed the series, a Somassage session serves as an ideal introduction or a maintenance session.

Bodywork Services

Cygne - Soma Structural Integration

$95

60min

$135

90min

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Average Rating:

5 (Based on 33 Reviews)

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by Anonymous on Oct 2023

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Lovely space

by Anonymous on Sep 2023

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Emgee is warm, friendly and knowledgeable. She knows her stuff and I feel much less pain a day after my massage. Her hands know what to do!

by Anonymous on Aug 2023

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Excellent all around

by Anonymous on May 2023

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Super great vibe.

by Aaron on Feb 2023

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by Holly on Aug 2022

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The Shanti Center is warm and welcoming. I know that my health and safety is the priority in this lovely space.

by Karen on Aug 2022

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Elizabeth knows exactly what my needs are and can find the root cause of most issues! She has helped me to feel good and meet my personal athletic goals. Not sure what I would do without her! She's amazing!

by Bob on Jul 2022

Verified

The health benefits from the technique Elizabeth uses are outstanding. I am a 71 year old former Marine and retired Chiropractor. I injured my left shoulder playing football in High School and reinjured it in the early 80's. I thought it was healed until recently I had difficulty putting on my coat. After my first visit I not only had improvement in my shoulders range of motion but the overall feeling of wellness. Thank you Elizabeth!

by Will on May 2022

Verified

Elizabeth Ruff is an incredibly talented healer. Great professionalism and very personable. She shows care and determination in assisting your body to heal. I greatly recommend her and the staff at Shanti Center.

by Karen on Aug 2021

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There is really no better way to spend time than with a massage by Elizabeth. Knowledgeable, professional and empathetic she performs an amazing, deep massage that leaves you feeling better aligned and more settled in your skin.

by Barbara on Aug 2021

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All good. Jason is a great asset to shanti wellness.

by Alaina on Aug 2021

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Shanti is a beautifully welcoming space for healing and connection.

by Connie on Jul 2021

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I love the vibe here.

by Tsena on Apr 2021

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Shanti Center is a peaceful and pleasing place to come for healing treatments. I love that they have a variety of practitioners there and that they are so connected to the community.

by Ken on Mar 2021

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I recommend Elizabeth and Shanti Center every chance I get. She is an awesome healer!

by Steven on Dec 2020

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Elizabeth is a Soma Neuromuscular Integration master. Deep bodywork that really makes a difference physically, and changes the outlook on life by releasing stuck pain and tissue inside the body. ❤️

by Stacey on Jul 2020

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The Shanti center is a calm and relaxing space

by Emily on Apr 2020

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Great space!

by Amelia on Apr 2020

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It's peaceful, clean, quiet, beautiful, warm and welcoming. Very easy to relax and feel at home during treatments. The selection of local teas is much appreciated, as is the assortment of information and curated products in their waiting room. Always have a smile on my face as I walk through the door, no matter what kind of day I'm having.

by Beatriz on Feb 2020

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I love being able to sit in the cozy lounge and drink a cup of tea before my session.

by Veronica on Dec 2019

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Great ambiance. Welcoming environment with positive energy.

by Jean on Nov 2019

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A calm and welcoming environment.

by Ryan on Aug 2019

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The Shanti Center feels like home. From the second you walk in the door you feel welcome calm and relaxed. Everyone I've met there in passing has been so nice and welcoming. It's a great atmosphere filled with truly amazing people.

by Scarlett on Aug 2019

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I loved knowing that I would be walking out of the session with a better understanding of my body!

by Anna on Aug 2019

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Very quiet and relaxing environment.

by Kitty on Jul 2019

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Elizabeth is incredibly skilled and really helped my muscle pain with one session. I signed up for the multi-session program and I’m really excited to continue working with Elizabeth. It’s hard to describe in words how much better my back felt after our session yesterday. I strongly recommend her therapy to anyone with muscle pain.

by Jill on Apr 2019

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Elizabeth is so professional, strong and intuitive, a difficult mix to find in a massage practitioner. She gets right to the difficulties and gets me back in motion everytime.

by Jordan on Apr 2019

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Shanti Center is a welcoming and comfortable place for excellent self-care.

by Jenna on Mar 2019

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The Shanti center is a welcoming, calm, clean environment. The online booking makes it super easy to scheduke appointments. Highly recommend!

by Anonymous on Mar 2019

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Amazing tea!

by Ken on Mar 2019

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Great location, beautiful facility, easy parking, calm atmosphere, friendly people.

by Connie on Mar 2019

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The Shanti Center is such a comfortable place to receive bodywork and facials. Highly recommend.

by Kymi on Mar 2019

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Super welcoming as soon as you open the door. Very comforting space.

Shanti Center LLC

700 Dupont

Bellingham , WA 98225 map it

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License: #604025815

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Bellingham , WA 98225
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