In a time when burnout is epidemic and quick fixes fall short, Andonia Fthenakis offers something rarer: a return to inner resonance through multidimensional healing. With her rich tapestry of personal transformation, deep reverence for nature, and fusion of ancient and modern therapeutic techniques, Andonia is redefining what it means to be well in today’s world. As the founder of Akouie – a healing arts initiative rooted in the Greek verb akouō, meaning “to listen”- she is restoring the sacred art of listening: to the body, the soul, and the quiet wisdom of the Earth.
From classroom to cosmic healing
Andonia’s journey into healing arts didn’t begin in a clinic – it began in a classroom. A former public school art teacher, she cultivated her intuitive connection to children, creativity, and the natural world. But when severe health challenges – including a chemical burn from prescribed creams and trauma from spinal and skull injuries – disrupted her life, she turned away from conventional medicine and into nature’s embrace.
In that moment of physical and emotional rupture, her true calling found its voice. “The natural remedies not only worked but left no side effects. The healing was often immediate,” Andonia reflects. This transformation birthed her path as a guide – not a healer – in the belief that “our bodies are designed to heal themselves.”
Akouie: Healing by listening
Akouie is more than a healing practice – it’s a sanctuary where sound, energy, movement, and creative expression converge. At the heart of Akouie lies a belief in deep listening – not just to sound, but to the wisdom our bodies carry across lifetimes, inherited memory, and soul intelligence.
From sacred sound journeys to intuitive energy work, Andonia’s sessions are not formulaic treatments but transmissions – each uniquely tuned to the individual or community she’s serving. Whether through private sessions, women’s circles, immersive retreats in Greece, or public library programs, Andonia creates healing spaces that feel timeless and timely at once.
Sonic alchemy and energy medicine
Armed with crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, and the haunting breath of the Andean condor flute, Andonia’s Sonic Alchemy is a balm for modern nervous systems on the brink. These vibrational sound therapies gently regulate, realign, and release deep-seated emotional blocks.
Her modalities – ranging from craniosacral unwinding to ThetaHealing and Reiki – integrate seamlessly with her training in the fine and somatic arts. Each method she offers aims to awaken dormant parts of the self, reconnecting individuals with their inner coherence.
“Within our energy field,” she says, “we carry the light of the universe, spiritual insights, and ancient wisdom. My role is to help people release that energy and return to balance.”
Andonia Fthenakis, founder of Akouie, uses crystal singing bowls and tuning forks in her Sonic Alchemy to help realign and rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit. Her approach blends ancient wisdom with modern energy medicine, creating healing spaces for deep self-connection and balance.
Healing as creative reclamation
With a BFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Special Needs Education focused on behavioral disorders, Andonia marries science and soul with seamless grace. Her work especially shines when she brings art into healing. Working with Autistic children and adults, she uses color, sound, movement, and ritual as tools for communication and self-regulation.
These creative, sensory-based tools allow participants – especially those often overlooked in mainstream care – to reconnect with their agency and express truths that words cannot reach.
Community-centered and corporate-aware
What makes Andonia’s work truly stand out is its reach. At Speak Out NY, she helps children with speech impediments. With Healing Waves, she brings sound meditation to special needs and neurodivergent communities. And through partnerships with public libraries, nonprofits, and centers like ACLD and JCC, she democratizes healing access with seasonal Earth-centered meditations and group sound baths.
Her reach also extends into corporate wellness programs, where high-stress workplaces find reprieve in her curated sessions of mindfulness, energy medicine, and creative reset – an innovative step that positions her among 2025’s top holistic entrepreneurs.
Rituals, retreats, and the rise of a movement
As her reputation grows, so does the reach of her offerings from her Diadiii. Alchemy Etsy store featuring wild-foraged botanical creations to her upcoming immersive retreats in the US and Europe, Andonia’s work touches lives in ways both personal and profound.
One of her signature offerings, the Monthly Moon Circles, blends sound, reflection, and ritual to create safe, sacred spaces for women to rediscover their truth. These circles, like all her work, are about coherence – between the body, the cosmos, and the soul.
Why she’s a leader to watch
In a time when spiritual entrepreneurship can sometimes feel performative or commodified, Andonia’s work is grounded in experience, ethics, and embodied wisdom. Her methodologies draw from emerging neuroscience and ancient cosmology alike, with tangible results in physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
What she is building through Akouie isn’t just a healing practice – it’s a legacy of reconnection. Her vision includes expanding access to holistic care across underserved communities, guiding more people to awaken the healer within.
In every tone she plays, every circle she holds, every product she crafts – there is the unmistakable frequency of a woman attuned to her purpose.
And that, truly, is a resonance the world needs now.
Andonia Fthenakis lives in Port Washington on Long Island, and can be contacted at Akouiealchemy@gmail.com; website: akouie.com
