Dr. MaryAnn H. Gulyas

Dr. Gulyas has been a music educator in the Capital District for 35 years. She taught elementary and middle school general music, chorus, and band at Brown School and Saint Gregory’s School for Boys. MaryAnn has also been teaching at the college level since 2005 Hudson Valley Community College. She has developed courses and curriculum for four 100-level music classes. She is the advisor to the HVCC Choir Club and the Instrumental Club.

Dr. Gulyas received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Skidmore College. Her master’s paper was entitled “The Process of Listening to Music: How it Modulates Nervous System Activity and Affects Emotion” (2007).

Dr. Gulyas recently completed her doctorate in higher education with a focus on the adult learner from Walden University. Her published doctoral study is entitled “Community College Students’ Perspectives on Music Listening as a Means to Cope with Stress” (2022).

MaryAnn is the CFO of her husband’s chiropractic practice, Northeast Spine and Wellness.

MaryAnn lives in Clifton Park with her husband Dr. Joseph Gulyas. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.

Dr. Joseph “Joe” Gulyas

After graduating from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs) and then New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Joseph “Joe” Gulyas and his wife Maryann returned to the capital region to begin his Chiropractic practice. Now with 30 years in service to the community in 2 locations, we not only believe in a lifetime approach to wellness, we’ve seen it in action!

Dr. Gulyas specializes in a non-surgical, non-drug approach to holistic healthcare. We sometimes forget that each of us is different (thank goodness for diversity), so we each need to be assessed individually for our strengths, problems, and goals.

A master of his craft, Dr. Gulyas believes in common-sense medicine wrapped around 30 years of professional experience as a chiropractor. His patients know that there will be no drugs given, but there will be relief through a full case history and exam, testing, and for the patient to be listened to, and THEN a plan of action is created. 

Dr. Joe and his colleagues at Northeast Spine and Wellness work as a team to meet patients where they are at and get them where they want to go, educating patients for sustained wellness across their lifetime.

Grace M. Tuma, MA

Grace is a certified Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga instructor. She received 200 hours of certification from It’s Yoga San Francisco.

Grace holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University, CO.

Grace is a Full Mesa carrier from the Inca Shaman Tradition. She went through Rites of Passage and The Four Directions with Shaman Dani Burling, Your Sacred Destiny, in CA. She descends from the Peruvian Tradition of Shamanism offered by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. Through her studies of Buddhism, Grace has incorporated aspects of Bön Shamanism into this healing modality.