Linda Blake (516-766-0008 or lindab333@gmail.com) has been circle dancing for over twenty years throughout New England. She discovered circle dancing at Touchstone Farm & Yoga Center in the '80s while a graduate student at UMass and has loved it ever since. Linda brought circle dancing to New York City and Long Island, and now that she has settled in Greenfield, wants to have a circle here to complement other dance circles in the Pioneer Valley. Linda is a certified Core Energetics practitioner and brings her work with energy and movement from Core Energetics as well as many years of meditation practice to the dance, creating a healing and enlivening experience.
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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.ValleyAHA.com.  
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Beth Fairservis (413-268-3588 or bethbirth@crocker.com) is an advanced Birthing From Within® mentor and doula, with over 100 hours of training with Pamela England, author and founder of the Birthing From Within® movement. She has also trained as a doula with Michelle L’Esperance, of Warm Welcome Doulas. For over 30 years she has been deeply fascinated by birth, children, creativity and the miracle of life. She studied Philosophy at Vassar College, film making at New York University, as well as improvisational dance, theater, meditation, art therapy, and spiritual psychology with many amazing teachers. The birth of her son, profoundly affected her, and she began to seek an understanding of how birth transforms us, and can be an opportunity for personal growth. This has led her to Pamela England, and she is deeply grateful to her for ‘bringing it all together’. For more information about Beth's work, visit her website www.mindfulbirthjourney.com. For more information about the Birthing from Within movement, visit www.birthingfromwithin.com.
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Jan Frazier (jan@janfrazierteachings.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. For more information, visit her website www.JanFrazierTeachings.com
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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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Lisa Y. Harvey (413-774-0662 or toalternatives@yahoo.com) is a graduate of the Alexander Technique School of New England, a Certified Alexander Teacher, as well as a Certified Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner.  Lisa holds a Second Degree Black Belt in Shorin Ryu Karate, and she currently instructs and practices at the Pine Forest Karate Dojo in Florence, MA.  She is also an avid horsewoman, having taught and trained professionally for twenty-five years.
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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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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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Deb Neubauer has been a long time student of John Friend, since 1993 and was one of the first teachers to be certified to teach and train other teachers in Anusara Yoga. She has studied yoga since 1985 and meditation since 1995 and has traveled to India 4 times for in-depth study. Her training includes 12 years of study in the Iyengar method and 12 years with her primary teacher, John Friend, the founder of Anusara. Deb is the Founder and Director of the Anahata Yoga Centers in Northampton and Easthampton, Massachusetts and was on teaching faculty at Smith College for 11 years. Since receiving her Anusara certificate in 2000, she has trained hundreds of students and prospective teachers in the Anusara method. Deb is known for her lively, dynamic and clear presentation of the principles of Anusara.
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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@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 challenging, gentle and spiritual. In all of her classes, including her Monday night class Iyengar 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 great, relaxing and invigorating experience.
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