Instructors
Jeanie Erlbaum M.S., Director Studio B
(413-773-9744 or
je88@comcast.net)
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, Jeanie has recently completed the teacher training in
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the
UMass Medical School. 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 and feminist writer,
she has enjoyed teaching yoga and leading women’s groups in the Pioneer
Valley since 1972.
Jean Erlbaum has realeased a yoga CD called Yoga For Relaxation. It offers two 35 minute gentle yoga classes including yogic breathing and deep relaxation. It can be used for at-home practice and can make a wonderful gift! Contact Jeanie for more info.
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
and a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, Libby has been leading
group exercise classes since 1988 and also holds certifications from the
American Council on Exercise
and YogaFit®. In addition to PreNatal Yoga on Wednesday evenings, Libby
teaches Vinyasa
Flow
Yoga
on Saturday mornings, an athletic, breath-centered style of Hatha yoga in
which flowing sequences of postures are woven into a balanced, whole body
workout.
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Marilyn
Hart M.A., Founder (413-367-0054 or
mhart@crocker.com)
A 500-hour
Yoga Alliance master yoga teacher, first certified to teach at
Kripalu
Center for Yoga & Health
in 1985. She has extensively studied many yoga traditions and methods in
the U.S. and India, and founded Green River Yoga in 1996.
From 2000-2007, she assisted Patty Townsend in her
embodyoga™
Teacher Training at
YogaCenterAmherst.
Marilyn began training
in Thai Yoga bodywork
in 1999, traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand to study with Pichet Boonthamme
and others, and is certified by the
Thai Healing Alliance International. A
practitioner of
Vipassana
meditation
since 1985, Marilyn is most drawn to the Advaita Vedanta tradition and
aspires to pass on the heart-centered skills and gifts of these various
schools and traditions with respect and encouragement, poetry and precision.
When she is not practicing Japanese Taiko drumming, Marilyn teaches the classical yoga poses
with a focus on healthy alignment, free breathing, deep relaxation, and
balancing flexibility with strength.
She is available for private yoga instruction and
Thai Massage sessions.
Charlene Barnett (dancqwn@netzero.net) lives her life as a dance, flowing from one moment to the next.
Co-founder and co-facilitator of Natural Rhythms- a unique group for
women, Charlene brings a life-long love of dance and nearly twenty years
of healing and recovery to her practice, guiding her students through
movement and creative expression. Charlene is a Dance Movement Therapy
major through the University Without
Walls (UWW) program at the University of Massachusetts.
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Jenny
Chapin (413-522-3816 or
jgchapin@crocker.com)
is a certified yoga teacher, having completed a 200-hour yoga teacher
training in 2004 with Deb Neubauer in the
Anusara Yoga
system at the
Anahata Yoga
Center, Northampton. Jenny has practiced different styles
of yoga for fifteen years. With Anusara she has found the balance of
spirit, heart, mind, and body that is such a crucial part of her own
approach to life and healing, and her yoga classes reflect this
orientation. Jenny is a licensed acupuncturist and certified
Zero Balancer
with a private practice in Greenfield. For more information visit
www.JennyChapin.com.
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Jan
Frazier
(jan@whenfearfallsaway.com) Until the summer of her fiftieth year, Jan Frazier lived a life typical for
a well-educated, middle-class American woman. A divorced mother of two
teenagers, she was making a modest living writing and teaching
writing. Following a Catholic childhood in Miami in the 1960s, she had
studied English in college and graduate school. In her late twenties,
longing for hills and snow, she moved to New England, where she was active
in the peace movement. But the inner peace she sought always eluded
her. Then, in August 2003, she experienced a radical transformation of
consciousness. Fear fell away from her, and she was immersed in a state of
causeless joy that has never left her. While she has continued her life as
writer, teacher, and mother, she has discovered it is possible to live a
richly human life free of suffering. Her wish now is to communicate
the truth that within every person is a pool of calm well-being that waits
patiently to be stirred to life. When Fear Falls Away: The Story of
a Sudden Awakening (Weiser Books, 2007) is Jan's day-by-day account of
the shift in consciousness and its alteration of her life. Her poetry and
prose have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. Her poetry
collection, Greatest Hits, was published by Pudding House, and she
has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has been inspired by Gurumayi,
Krishnamurti, and Eckhart Tolle, but the joy she lives in belongs to no
particular tradition, and is available to all.
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Lindel
Hart (413-768-9291 or
info@hartyoga.com)
is a certified yoga
teacher working in the Iyengar style. He infuses his teaching with
knowledge, compassion, joy, enthusiasm, and humor, emphasizing anatomical
integrity and a constant dialogue between mind and body to instill
confidence, trust, and self-respect. He encourages students through
the practice of yoga to explore and deepen their connection to themselves
and whatever they regard as divine. His primary teachers include
Marilyn Hart of
Green River Yoga & Movement Arts, Carrie Owerko of the
Iyengar Institute of New York, and Eileen Muir of
Karuna Center for Yoga & Healing Arts, Northampton, MA.
For more information about Lindel, visit
www.hartyoga.com or
www.myspace.com/hartyoga
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Annie Hassett
(413-774-5622)
has been practicing T'ai
Chi Ch'uan for 23 years and teaching for 10 years in the Pioneer Valley.
She has taught classes at the YMCA in Greenfield and at many local senior
centers. She enjoys working with students of all ages and abilities and
hopes to share the benefits of this practice as widely as she can.
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Robin
Jameson (413-768-9586 or
robina@crocker.com) initially embarked on
her path of self study and
apprenticeship in response to chronic pain and illness resulting from a
major auto accident. Over the last thirteen years she has gathered many
tools for maintaining harmony of body, mind and spirit. Robin's background includes: two years with a swami delving deeply into yoga,
meditation and macrobiotics; an apprenticeship with
Eliot Cowan in Plant Spirit Medicine; and her ongoing study of Tibetan Buddhism, monastic lineages of Chinese Medicine, and Qigong.
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Aleda Jonquil (413-774-4602 or aleda@weirdsville.com) trained in Indonesian Kung-Fu for six years, earning a green sash and a teaching certification. She continues to train independently and strives to share her love of the art that has been so positive, powerful, and meaningful in her life.
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Chayah Lichtig (413-320-8982
or
chayahpower@peacemail.com)
has trained extensively in yoga and other forms of creative movement. She is a graduate of the 200-hour embodyoga™ Teacher Training at YogaCenterAmherst, where she continues to study, and she is also working towards her certification in Embodied Developmental Movement at
the
School for Body Mind Centering. Chayahis a nationally certified
Yoga Ed. children's yoga teacher, an experienced classroom teacher, and has taught yoga to children ages 4-15.
Her extensive background in movement, music and yoga makes her classes a
fun, challenging exploration of ourselves, and the world around us.
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Linda Magee
(dreamone@mtdata.com)
& Cal Morris (enlightenment2007@yahoo.com)
have
been deeply spiritual seekers
most of their lives but never joined
organizations or movements, recognizing that organized wisdom becomes
compromised by ego. They were so dedicated from an early age to their
individual quests that no traditional profession satisfied, although they
have both had rather responsible ‘straight’ jobs and careers throughout
their lives. They were both independently investigating the fascinating
research and study of the universal laws of man and nature—through
anthropology, Rosecrucians, metaphysics, Religious Science and others.
In June of 2000, an enlightened yogi from the Oneness Movement showed them this
path to love, wholeness, inner guidance, and personal revelations.
They immediately recognized it as their life's work. They individually attended a total of six retreats, taught the
wisdoms and practices, and are now initiated and have partnered to give
spiritual guidance and Oneness Blessings to all.
For more information about their work visit
www.happiness.us.com.
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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.htm.
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Kaiilama Morris (413-512-0470 or lovingspirit1@excite.com) will be offering a Breathwork workshop on Sunday Sept. 28 12:30 - 3:30 pm.
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Beth Paulson (413-585-0402) has been training in Martial Arts for fifteen years. She holds a black belt in Indonesian Kung-Fu and a yellow belt in Shuri-ru Karate and is becoming certified as a National Women’s Martial Arts Federation Self-Defense Instructor. She has been teaching kung-fu and self-defense to kids, teens, and adults in various settings for ten years. She loves sharing this fluid, fun art and watching students evolve into their unique, powerful selves.
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Kaiilama Morris (413-512-0470 or lovingspirit1@excite.com) will be offering a Breathwork workshop on Sunday Sept. 28 12:30 - 3:30 pm.
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Rain (413-774-5977) received an Advanced Ashtanga Yoga Teacher certificate from the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, where she studied for two years and began the Fifth Series. She became an internationally recognized yoga teacher and taught in India where she lived for three more years. She appeared with five other select teachers/ practitioners in videos entitled "Ashtanga Yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois First Series", and "...Second Series." After taking a hiatus to heal back pain, Rain returns to teaching with a deeper appreciation for and understanding of integrated body mechanics. She has maintained a daily yoga and meditation practice since 1989.
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Rick
Roberts
(413-367-9777 or
Rick@PioneerValleyYoga.com)
started meditating and chanting in 1979 while in residence at Muktananda's Ashram in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rick is an RYT-500 certified Yoga teacher, student of Sanskrit and leads monthly kirtans at Green River Yoga. “It’s so easy to open your heart when you repeat the name. When you chant to yourself, you purify yourself. When you chant out loud, you purify the world.” - Muktananda
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Kelly Savitri (413-695-0191 or
kelly@katalystkombucha.com)
began practicing yoga in the Pioneer Valley six years ago. After traveling
to
India where she studied intensively with an Iyengar style instructor,
she returned to the valley and obtained her 200- and 500-hour certifications through
YogaCenterAmherst's
embodyoga™
Teacher Training programs. Kelly's style incorporates light-hearted joyful movement
with a reverent and consistent focus on breath and deepening individual
awareness. All students are encouraged to practice at a pace that
suits their own bodies in the present moment. Multiple variations of
poses are presented to encourage individual choices.
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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
challenging, gentle and spiritual. In all of her classes, including
her
Monday
Iyengar Yoga
class, 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 great, relaxing and
invigorating experience.
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Patty Smythe (413-774-0517 or
pattysmythe@hotmail.com) Patty has been teaching yoga for 14 years. She began practicing yoga to help face and deal with grief. It worked. Her background in kinesiology and massage therapy focuses and grounds her yoga practice and teaching in slow, safe stretching that allows muscle spindles, nerves and tendons to release slowly and safely. She has developed an eclectic style which combines different modalities of yoga and well as massage stretching techniques. In both her massage practice and her yoga classes, she specializes in myofascial release and mind/body integration.
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Heidi von Weiss (413-772-2244 or avonweiss@gmail.com) has trained with dancer/performer and SafeArt Director Tracy Penfield for six years, and she currently facilitates the movements groups at the Women's Resource Center in Greenfield, MA. Heidi finds joy in helping others find their own body-guided movement, and in her classes playfully incorporates stress relief through making sounds, which often cause laughter and bring more ease to movement. Her greatest aspiration is to help her students find movements that are yummy, and thus to be inspired to move around at home, outdoors - anywhere!
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