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Libby Volckening, Director Studio A (413-834-4524 or yogalibre@yahoo.com)
A graduate of the 200- and 500-hour embodyoga™ Teacher Training at YogaCenterAmherst, Libby has been leading group exercise classes since 1988 and has held certifications from the American Council on Exercise and YogaFit®. Libby teaches Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a dynamic, breath-centered style of Hatha yoga influenced strongly by the Viniyoga tradition, in which flowing sequences of postures are woven into a balanced, whole body-mind experience. 
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Anna Meyer, Director Studio B (413-320-7993 or annagsmeyer@gmail.com)
A 200-hour certified yoga instructor with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies, Anna has maintained a life-long practice in both bodywork and in devotion. In 2010 she became a certified yoga teacher in the Kripalu style of yoga. Since then, she has been teaching yoga classes throughout the Pioneer Valley. Anna’s classes incorporate breath work, deep stretching, invigorating movement and thorough relaxation. Having been a practitioner and student of yoga philosophy, discipline and spirituality since her youth, Anna enjoys sharing the gifts she has been given by offering respectful, insightful, and educational yoga classes.
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Maya Apfelbaum (978-399-3101 or mayafireart@aol.com), an accomplished multi-media artist, performer, director, and educator, just returned from 3 1/2 months in Southern India, where she also lived as a child. She returned there to do further research and teach about elephants, community building, movement, masks, and theatre. She holds an interdisciplinary M.A. in Arts, Culture and Ecology from Lesley University where she first developed "Elephants Uprising", a work which evolved out of a life-long love for embodying spirit through dance, yoga and ritual, combined with a passion for building respectful relationships with the many living beings with which we share this earth. Maya continues creative work in all these realms via various projects and classes in which she also offers others a set of tools, as well as the time and space, in which to explore and nurture a sense of magic, connection, creative possibility, and inner peace and knowing. She teaches and performs at education centers, festivals, and conferences both regionally and internationally (and has presented her elephant dance/theatre piece as the opening act for renowned activists and conservationists such as Joanna Macy and Jane Goodall and at wholistic institutes like Omega Institute). Maya is also at work on several upcoming RiverFest Parades and a Sacred Water Eco-Theatre Project. Please contact her if you would like more information on participating, helping with, or attending any of her Mask, Parade, or Eco-theatre workshops or performances.
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Megan Bathory-Peeler (413-772-0078 or dancinghands@verizon.net) is a life-long lover of movement, consciousness, connection, and communication. She began her career as a Movement Artist and Choreographer with degrees from Smith College in Dance and Body-Based Systems of Communication. Since 1993, Megan has also been Nationally Certified as a Massage and Bodywork Therapist integrating her work as a Certified Practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, Matrix Repatterning, CranioSacral Therapy, Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, and Pre- and Peri-natal, Birth and Attachment Therapy. Now as an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher and Wellsprings Practitioner, Megan creates a context in her classes and personal sessions that allow people to return home to their selves in order to reclaim the power of their own creativity and innate wisdom of their bodies.
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Kristin (Rajroop Kaur) Brockett (413-475-3278 or kristin@unityhealing.com) is a KRI-certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, having studied under lead teacher Hari Kaur Khalsa in the nine-month program at Baba Siri Chand Ashram in Millis, MA. She is a certified Sound Healer, a Licensed Massage Therapist, and she received her Associate Degree in Polarity Therapy, and Energy Balancing Specialist, from Palmer Institute of Massage & Bodywork in Salem, MA. Her continued and varied education includes Level I Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Reiki, Shamballa, Hospice training, and Women's empowerment. Kristin has passion for life, love, learning, and sharing with people, especially our youth. She currently volunteers at DIAL/SELF Youth & Community Services Program in Greenfield, MA, and she is in the process of developing a Youth Rites of Passage empowerment and mentoring program for Teens. Most importantly of all, she is a Mother of two deep and beautiful children, a son and daughter. For additional information, visit her website www.unityhealing.com.
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Donna Edgarton (413-320-1651 or DonnaEd@gmail.com) has practiced and taught a variety of yoga styles for over 30 years, and she recently received a 200-hour certification in Kripalu yoga. She also has a degree in occupational therapy assistance and has worked extensively with elderly, disabled and behaviorally-disturbed populations in a variety of facilities. She is currently engaged in teaching chair yoga for the older population in local senior centers and the YMCA, and also acts as a substitute yoga instructor at the Hampshire Regional YMCA and the Northampton Athletic Club.
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Jeanie Erlbaum, M.S. (413-773-9744 or jean.erlbaum@verizon.net) Co-Founder of Green River Yoga with Marilyn Hart, Jeanie served as co-director from 1997 - 2011. A 500-hour Yoga Alliance registered master instructor teaching in the Pioneer Valley since 1972, Jeanie has an M.S. in Education and holds certificates in Integral and Atma Hatha Yoga, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, and Psychosynthesis Counseling. In addition, she was trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the UMass Medical School, Worcester. Jeanie's yoga classes, which she offers as a meditation through movement, invite deep relaxation through gentle stretches and yogic breathing. Jeanie also has practiced meditation for over thirty years. A long-time zen practitioner, Jeanie has recently been designated as a dharma teacher under the auspices of Boundless Way Zen.

Jeanie Erlbaum has released two audio CDs: one is a yoga CD called Yoga For Relaxation offering two 35 minute gentle yoga classes including yogic breathing and deep relaxation; the other is titled Womancraft, a 40 minute deep relaxation and self healing meditation. Both make a wonderful gifts!  Contact Jeanie for more info.
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Marsia Harris aka Mother Turtle (978-544-2083 or healingthestories@gmail.com)
        “Time spent with Marsia and her big heart and voice and wisdom, is by far blessed time!” - Alisa Starkweather
Marsia is a singer, songwriter and musician who has been performing her original compositions for over 20 years. Her voice is distinctive, and her music is rooted in personal growth, love, social consciousness and a greater vision for the world as a whole. In 2009 she designed and began facilitating “Healing the Stories We Tell Ourselves,” where she helps women and men uncover and discard the unhealthy stories that they are carrying. As a facilitator, she is grounded, compassionate, intuitive and gifted with the ability to get you out of your head and into your heart. Using her voice as a tool for healing, she can lift you to great heights through her song, as well as take you to those deep places within that are seeking illumination. Marsia's classes are unique and take on a deeply spiritual nature as she guides participants toward self empowerment and conscious healing.
        "It is my goal to address the unrest within us all, and offer a means by which to free ourselves." - MSH
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Diane Hicks (Amarpreet Kaur) (512-217-2419 or diane@pranavidahealing.com) Diane has been teaching since 1993, and has been Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) certified to teach Kundalini yoga since 2009. She is also a licensed massage therapist and has undertaken advanced studies in the areas of health, lifestyle and life cycles. A western Massachusetts native, Diane has recently returned from Austin, TX, where she taught Kundalini classes and worked with small groups and individuals. She is currently teaching classes and offering intensive individualized sessions for those looking to shift stuck patterns and seeking more balance and harmony in their lives. For more info, visit Diane's website, www.pranavidahealing.com.
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Roshi Eve Myonen Marko (413-413-256-1594 or eve@zenpeacemakers.com) is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and currently the resident teacher at the Green River Zen Center in Greenfield, formerly known as the Montague Farm Zendo. She co-founded Peacemaker Circle International with her husband, Bernie Glassman, which linked and trained spiritually-based social activists and peacemakers in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Her own work focused on the building of coalitions of Civil Society activists in Jordan, Israel and Palestine. Eve has led plunges, including street retreats, in which participants live on the streets with no money and wearing just the clothes on their backs, as well as Zen Peacemakers’ bearing witness retreats at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. During the 1980s and the 1990s she worked with the Greyston Mandala, a Buddhist-inspired network of for-profits and not-for-profits working together in Yonkers, New York, and providing housing, child care, jobs, training, and AIDS-related medical services. During the 1990s she wrote children’s books. In addition to teaching, she continues to work on her adult trilogy, The Dogs of the Kiskadee Hills.
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Zayne Marston (413-624-9605 or zayne@transformationaltimes.com) has taught Qigong classes sponsored by Green Fields Market for many years.  He is a seeker of vibrant health and vitality who knows that we each have the power to transform our mind-bodies if only we only commit ourselves.  "It is never too late."  Inspired by the transformative results he has received from practicing qigong since 1991, Zayne has studied with a variety of Qigong masters, teachers and instructors and delights in sharing his discoveries with fellow seekers, offering individual and group instruction. Since 1999 he has directed the Energy Cultivation Program for the School of the Golden Discs in Shelburne Falls.  For more information, visit Zayne's website at www.transformationaltimes.com/qigong.html.
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Tracy Penfield (802-685-3138 or tpenfield@safeart.org) Founder and Director of SafeArt based in Chelsea, Vermont, Tracy has been coming monthly to GRY&MA to lead the free SafeArt Movement Program which is offered in individual and group sessions to women survivors of traumatic abuse.  Tracy has been dancing all her life, though she did not know it until she was 20. Ever since then (over 30 years now!), she been sharing dance with people of all ages, with a focus on personal empowerment through expressive motion. For more information, visit Tracy's website, www.SafeArt.org.
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Nancy Rothenberg (413-585-1661 or nohokungfu@gmail.com) has been the director and head instructor of Spirit of the Heart in Northampton since 1993. In addition to teaching at her own studio, Nancy also instructs classes at Smith College and Holyoke Community College, as well as for the Hilltown Charter School and Bridge Street School. Nancy is thrilled to be offering her YES! Youth Empowerment & Safety Kung-Fu Program in Greenfield. She hopes to inspire self-esteem in every child through the practices of meditation, movement, self-defense, assertiveness training and martial arts.
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Kelly Savitri (kelly@injoywellness.net) creates her life, her practice, and her teaching as a synthesis of science and spirit. Her classes combine breath-centered joyful movement with an invitation for deepening individual awareness. Often conveying anatomical knowledge as well yogic philosophy, she teaches precise alignment principles from a whole-body perspective to help students find a deeper sense of integration, connection, and personal strength. Kelly’s yogic path led her all the way to India, and then brought her back again to the Pioneer Valley, where she has studied with Patty Townsend of Yoga Center Amherst since 2005. She obtained her 200- and 500-hour certifications through YogaCenterAmherst's embodyoga™ Teacher Training programs, and continues to assist Patty in those trainings. Her fascination with health and her thirst for knowledge led her to the COMTA-accredited Stillpoint Massage Therapy Program at Greenfield Community College, after which she obtained her license as a massage therapist and went on to earn an additional certification in Pre- and Perinatal massage. The joy of supporting mothers and their babies through pregnancy and childbirth inspired Kelly to also become a birth doula, where all of her skills combine to support new life entering the world as peacefully as possible. In addition to her group yoga classes, massage therapy practice, and doula services, Kelly also offers private yoga instruction. For more information, visit her website www.injoywellness.net.
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Jo Schneiderman E-RYT (802-258-2093 or jolovesyoga@comcast.net) Jo has studied the Iyengar method with Patricia Walden, Geeta Iyengar, and Felicity Green. Building on over 30 years of teaching experience, Jo offers classes that are spiritual and gentle, yet challenging. In all of her classes, including her Monday night class Wise Yoga for Every Body!, she incorporates knowledge of yoga therapeutics to assist students with physical challenges and those recovering from injuries by offering modifications of poses to ensure all students have a joyful, relaxing and invigorating experience.
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Moti Zemelman, MFA (413-203-4468 or moti@contactimprov.com) Moti began practicing Contact Improv 24 years ago. Over the past 17 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-9 he taught as Dance Professor at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA, and he was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Company (Holyoke, MA, USA). As a musician, Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams, and in 2007 he released his debut CD, Doorwaves. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com. In addition, Moti is a professional photographer. His latest project "The Dancer's Tarot" is a photographic tarot deck, using dancers as models to embody the traditional Tarot archetypes.
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