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Joanna
Colwell | Russell Comstock
Mary Claire DeHaven | Sansea Sparling
Galen Miller | Karen Winston

To
be truly healthy, we must take care of our body, mind, and heart.
A great yoga class should leave you feeling cleansed and energized,
clear-headed, warm-hearted, and deliciously relaxed. Joanna
Colwell has a gift for helping students of every age
and ability to grow stronger and calmer, relax the body and mind,
and have fun. With warmth, humor, and deep compassion, Joanna
rejoices in sharing the treasures she has received from her practice.
A
yoga instructor since 1996, Joanna completed teacher training
with some of North America's finest teachers, including Rodney
Yee, Judith Lasater, Tony Briggs, and Gayna Uransky. She is the
founder and director of Otter Creek Yoga.
joanna@ottercreekyoga.com |

Russell
Comstock, Co-Director of Metta Earth Institute, has given
his life to living, learning, and loving. As a stepfather for
over twenty years to three sons, ages 23, 26, and 30, Russell
is dedicated to fathering, family, and community life. Always
moved by the soul of earth, he holds an MA in Contemplative and
Ecological Leadership and a BA in Human Ecology. A practitioner
of yoga for more than twenty years, he is certified in both Interdisciplinary
and Jivamukti Yoga, and brings to all his teaching a spirit of
embodied devotion. With extensive experience directing programs
in wilderness, adventure, and experiential education, Russell
integrates a steady intention to help humans connect more compassionately
with earth and with each other. He has trained as a quest and
wilderness guide with Earth Rise Foundation, School of Lost Borders,
and Outdoor Leadership Training Seminars. He is a licensed New
York State Guide and is a nationally certified Wilderness Emergency
Medical Technician (WEMT). Currently Russell is authoring a book
called Metta Earth Yoga - Contemplative Ecological Practices
for a Sustainable Future.
russell@mettaearth.org

Mary
Claire DeHaven has been a Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor
since 1996. Respect and compassion are key elements of her
yoga teaching, She invites her students to find the tension
in their bodies and minds. Then, through movement and holding
postures for sustained periods, her students naturally move through
this tension, gaining flexibility and strength along the way.
"Some students appreciate a challenge; others need a gentle
practice." Students are free to work at their own pace in
her classes.
Mary
Claire draws from both her background as a meditator and her practice
as a psychotherapist to make yoga a meditation in motion in which
students are encouraged to be centered and relaxed in their bodies.
Mary
Claire has taught yoga classes in Huntington, Vermont for the
last 10 years. In addition to her teacher training in 1996 at
Kripalu, she has been influenced by the renowned yoga teacher
Donna Fahri who focuses on the experience of breath throughout
the body, Rudy Pierce from Kripalu and Martha Whitney from Burlington,
VT. Mary Claire has also studied Thai Yoga Massage at the Lotus
Palm school in Montreal. She is a licensed Psychotherapist currently
practicing in Middlebury, where she has practiced for 13 years.
mcdehaven@gmail.com


Sansea
Sparling loves yoga. She delights in helping students
of all ages to gently open their bodies with yoga postures, breathing
exercises, and generous amounts of humor and compassion. A long-time
student of Deborah Felmeth, and registered Yoga Alliance teacher,
Sansea is certified by Don and Amba Stapleton at Nosara in hatha
yoga instruction and Pranassage©. Her influences include
Anusara yoga, Donna Farhi, and the study of dance and anatomy.
ssparling@gmavt.net

Galen Miller has been a student of yoga for more than eleven years and would be honored to continue her studentship for another seventy or eighty. She has completed a teacher training program with Anusara teachers Todd Norian and Ann Green and offers a heart centered practice that highlights alignment and therapeutics. Galen is devoted to honoring the earth and all the earth's beings through the practice of yoga on and off the mat. Currently a resident at Metta Earth Institute, A Center for Contemplative Ecology, she is exploring the beauty of working and living in community, living a life of service, and the yoga of the daily round. As a mother, wife, yogi, teacher, gardener, and passenger on planet earth, Galen strives to see the divinity in all and live a life that benefits the whole.
earthgarden1306@yahoo.com


A
psychotherapist for 25 years, Karen Winston has
been practicing meditation for several decades. She delights in
helping people to rest in the present moment, in order to experience
the peace and calm within. "When we are no longer at war
with ourselves, we are no longer at war with others. Our yoga
and meditation practice ripples out and becomes a benefit to all
beings"
karenwinston24@gmail.com |