Gloria Kaye

Dr. Gloria Kaye, April 28, 2024 formerly of Santa Barbara, CA and recently of Voorhees, NJ. Mother of Andrew(Margie) Meltzer, Melanie (late Richard) Harada and Jamie (Alan) Tate. Grandmother to Marlania and Ashton Meltzer, Daniel and Alisa Harada, and Adam and Matthew Tate.

An energetic and holistic healer with over 40 years of experience, she “touched” the lives of thousands of patients. Working in conjunction with physicians and healthcare professionals, she built a successful practice in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She helped well-known personalities, professional athletes, business executives, senior citizens, and families both United States and abroad. She also helped many of her patients beloved pets.

She taught medical students at UCLA the art of the Healing Touch. She loved film and was featured in the short film, based on her book “Healer’s Hands – Healer’s Heart.” She created many instructional videos demonstrating various techniques for addressing common ailments using yoga as a foundation.

Dr. Kaye, frustrated with traditional elder-care facilities, opened her own senior care facility, Casa Glorietta, where she offered nutritional home-cooked meals, and a home away from home.

She received her BA from Glassboro, her MA from Penn State and her Ph.D from the International College in Clinical Psychology and was a licensed marriage, family and child counselor.

In 1980, she received a substantial grant to support her dissertation examining the effects of yoga on recovering drug addicts.

Dr. Gloria Kaye was also an accomplished pianist, flutist, and a yoga instructor. She is the author of several articles as well as two books. She has produced various CDs featuring her music and enjoyed sharing the stage with an impromptu jazz quartet.

She will be laid to rest in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus, NJ.

She was loved and adored by many and will be sorely missed.