Maria Lyons

Maria grew up in Cherokee, NC, where she attended Swain County High School and graduated in 1995. From there, she attended Meredith College in Raleigh, studying dance and theater. She returned to Swain County and opened a dance and theater company in Bryson City, Cherokee, and Sylva. She and her husband, Loyd, have two children and together run an outdoor advertising company that they built from the ground up in 1997. After 25 years of teaching dance education, she sold her studio and retired from the entertainment industry. She decided to go back to school to learn therapeutic massage at SCC. She recently opened her private practice out of Caplinger Chiropractic, located in Sylva. Massage by Maria is now open and taking new clients. Maria stayed in SCC to learn 12 more massage modalities which she incorporates into each massage session.