At Light Years we Hear you. we want to be on your team and we treat you that way. From the moment you walk through our RED DOOR, to the moment you Leave, all the stress of the world is kept outside.

A Team Approach

Integrating our methods into your care is what we are about. Whether you are beginning the journey or working with a PT, chiropractor, mental health professional and a team of doctors for specific conditions we are here to assist and support that care. We are actively learning and doing research in our field of medicine as well as other avenues of research. No matter how difficult your case may seem, we will study it and look for novel approaches that could lead to new pathways to move forward.

Being a team  we compliment each other, we support each other, and we are able to offer this type of custom treatment to our clients. Lucinda is tuned into the pre/post natal massage world and enjoys working with families and children. Aleks gravitates towards medical massage, trauma, “degenerative” conditions, scar tissue work, and somatic work (practitioners of somatic therapy address mind and body as intimately connected though not always in apparent ways.)

Lucinda Lin

  • Lucinda Lin-Degtyarev is a NY state licensed Acupuncturist and Massage therapist. As a married, working mother who went through graduate school while pregnant, she understands the push and pull of fulfilling various roles while rising to the challenges of cultivating a profession and healthy creative self. Lucinda is a graduate of the esteemed school Pacific College of Health and Science where she received her Bachelor of Occupational Studies and Master of Science in Acupuncture with Chinese Herbal Specialization. She had the privilege of learning from experts in her fields including Dr. Wen-Chiang Pai, Mingxia Li, Dr. Thomas Leung of Kamwo Herbs, and Kiera Nagle founder of MaMassage®.

    This triple combo of modalities is at the core of Lucinda's approach to working with her clients and patients. Her style of treatment is customized to each person and their presentation each time they work together. With her dual license, Lucinda can treat a wide variety of issues, but has special interest in promoting family health, prenatal/postnatal care, pediatric health, musculoskeletal pain, adrenal fatigue, and the mind-body connection. She strongly believes that what happens in the mind and heart has great influence in the physical body, and vice versa.

    Lucinda has a great love for and connection to the natural world; she is very happy hiking, camping, and doing yard work. Growing and using medicinal herbs is another way in which she connects to nature. While studying Chinese herbal medicine in school, she found out that her paternal ancestors were farmers of medicinal herbs in China. It was a great feeling for her to come full circle back to her roots.

Aleks Degtyarev, massage therapist

  • I am a licensed massage therapist (LMT) with the state of New York, conducting my practice in the space between body and language. I received my formal massage education at the Pacific College of Health and Science (formerly Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York City Campus) at the time, one of the best programs in the country. My intensive study was in both Sport/Medical Massage and Tui Na (Chinese  Medical Massage under Master Yang, Fukui). To understand the movement and flow of the body internally, I practice the art of Qi Gong under Master Hal Asbury. My study of sport medicine steered me in the direction of more gentle neurological philosophies like those proposed by Diane Jacobs, a clinical approach she has called, Dermoneuro Modulation (a careful approach to working with the central nervous system through specialized skin contact accessing the subcutaneous nervous system); as well as, Ortho-Bionomy as interpreted by Kathy L. Kaine (a gentle mobilization for nervous system re-patterning so that the body can perceive other options for easier movement and function.)

    In my current studies, I have undertaken the 3-Year Program for Somatic Experiencing™ as envisioned by Dr. Peter Levine: a body-oriented therapeutic model that helps access patterns of fight, flight and freeze, and discharge them in a safe and elegant way. Helping people regain their resilience and agency for a more connected and creative life.

    My desire has always been to be a poet. I admit, a strange desire in our day and age. To speak with the divine, I had to formulate my own language. I have had many teachers throughout my life, but none have been as instrumental in my development as my beloved mentor, Enrique Enriquez. I studied poetics of form with Enrique for over a decade and continue to do so. Above all, he has taught me the Language of the Birds. This is the ability to see the perfection of all things, in and out of time. Madelyn Kent, who developed the approach, Sense-Writing, has helped me bridge my language to my body using her own neurological approach coupled with the Feldenkrais Method. Every expression can now be one of a poetic nature- whether the movement of the tongue and vibration of the vocal cords or a leap to the center of all Creation.

Our Philosophy

We do not believe you must change to be happy. Rather, you must know and cultivate what is good about yourself. You already possess everything you need to be happy. There are many approaches to this end, and they all begin with touch. Nothing is more therapeutic than touch, this is something often lacking in medicine, this is the major component that we as practitioners fill in.