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Jeanie ErlbaumJeanie 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 breathingJeanie 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.

LibbyLibby 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 MarstonZayne 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 GreenBuilding 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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Green River Yoga & Movement Arts, 158 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Greenfield, MA 01301
 413-772-2050  or 
info@GreenRiverYoga.com

Last updated 6/21/2008