Pachamama- The great Earth Mother (aka. Gaia, Sophia, Maya, Mama Aya)

 

The spirit of the Great Earth Mother guides all of her children along the pathways of health, wellness, and abundance. She is the living embodiment of the Divine Feminine energies. Her book of Nature points our attention toward God, toward service to others, toward healing the planet and healing ourselves. She teaches us to become free from our ego-based delusions and limiting beliefs. As the Nurturer and Sustainer of all forms of life on this planet, and as the supreme wisdom goddess, she invites each of us to sit with her in Nature, in quiet meditation in order to receive her rich blessings and her divine guidance. 

 

 

 Acharya Girish Jha

 

Born on 29th December, 1958 in Delhi, India, Acharya Girish Jha is the guiding spirit of more than 60,000 people worldwide. His father Late Dr.Krishna Chandra Jha was a renowned Sanskrit Scholar and was awarded by Ex-President of India Dr. Fakkrudddin Ali Ahmad for his works on Tripurarahsyam.

Acharya Girish Jha’s ardent love for ancient wisdoms and modern science brought together one message for modern man – live, move and act in SELF (Spiritual Excellence) and manifest personal, professional, social Excellence.

His simple, logical, intuitive interpretation of ancient wisdoms supported by fundamental understanding of modern science is aimed at Health, Harmony and Happiness; Peace, Prosperity and Success. The age old wisdoms find a New Paradigm of Living that discovers the Self for living a life beyond, stress, sufferings and problems.

He inspires every one who approach him with simple, logical and easy saying,” all human being are here on earth to become a better person. In order to become better person, you need to discover within that centre which will guide you, inspire you and work for you to excel in personal, professional, social and spiritual lives.” He further says,” It is possible by first awakening the centre within, allowing it to manifest outside in body, life and mind, work for your life at all time and bring Peace, prosperity and Success.”

 www.shreyasyoga.com

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Sue Ananian

 

Sue Ananian is a Celtic Shaman, Master Teacher and Guide within the Modern Mystery School.  She is President of the Ensofic Ray Institute of North America and Master Teacher of the Ensofic Ray Healing modality (the only person outside of Japan to attain this designation).  She travels the world offering healing work, advanced spiritual training and events dedicated to the rebuilding of Shamballah, or peace on Earth. Her private practice offers personalized healing sessions for individuals suffering from life-threatening illness, children with autism, and people who are ready to live their life purpose. 

http://theinnerpathonline.com/

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Alokananda

Alokananda discovered Qi Gong in 2000 to heal his injuries suffered from being an over active martial artist. In 2004 he met his Guru and fell in love with Yoga.  Alokananda has traveled in India where he was certified to teach Yoga and has lived, studied and taught at Ananda Ashram. In recent years he has dove deeper into the teachings and practices of Shamanism with both Indigenous Elders from different regions and renowned teachers in NY. He has been developing a deep practice drawing from a diversity of modalities including Tibetan, Kundalini, Hatha, Toaist and Qi Gong systems. Over the last 6 years he has studied extensively with various teachers developing the capacity to address all body types, ages, abilities and levels of practice. He continues to deepen his awareness and discovery of  the relationship between the esoteric, scientific, ancient and new; Integrating Yoga, Ayurveda, Shamanism, Bio-Energetics, Qi Gong and other modalities.

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 Robin Rose Bennett

 

 

Robin Rose Bennett, founder of Wisewoman Healing Ways: Herbal
Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings, is a gifted herbalist, writer,
and spiritual teacher. Since 1986 she has taught at schools, clinics,
hospitals, progressive organizations and most joyously, outside with
the plants. The focus of her healing work is to share the joy she
has found through the generosity of the earth and her plants, and
to awaken others to the daily magic, beauty, and mystery of the
web of life. She acts as a spiritual midwife helping people to birth
their true selves in this time of profound transformation. Robin is a
faculty member of the New York Open Center and the author of two
meditation CD’s. She has published a booklet, Wild Carrot: A Plant for
Natural, Conscious, Contraception, and her book, Healing Magic: A
Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living is available at the festival
and through www.WiseWomanHealingWays.com.

Herbal Medicine Walk– Practical, Spiritual, and Delicious Plants
Come explore the use of common, local plants and trees as
allies for physical and spiritual healing with renowned green witch/
herbalist, Robin Rose Bennett. Herbs can be used as teas, smokes,
oils, and baths to help us to deepen our intuitive wisdom and spiritual
awareness. They can also aid us when we get stung by bees or
mosquitoes or strain our muscles in yoga class. These plants are all
around us, in fields and woods, in our backyards, and even in the city.
As we walk around the farm we’ll see, smell, touch, and taste a variety
of herbs and do a plant meditation, too.

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Christina Berkley

 

As founder of A Beautiful Place for Beautiful Women and co-founder of The Lighthouse,
Christina offers personal and couples coaching, workshops and one-of-a-kind designed day-long

transformative experiences for her clients. She helps her clients create the change they want to
have in their lives. Using sexuality as an important lens in her work, she believes that it is the fuel
that once lit, is a strong and magnetic force as one’s power emerges.

Her studies and her own personal exploration took her from a BSc in microbiology and
immunology at McGill University to post-graduate interests in psychology, sexuality, trance,
hypnosis and shamanic practices.

Her exploration led her to OneTaste where she studied the connection between a healthy, genuine
sexuality and the unlocking of personal potential. After 4 years of study with them and the
Coaches Training Institute, she found her voice and became the director of OneTaste's New
York branch, coaching and leading workshops specializing in sexuality as it relates to intimacy,
communication and relationships. During her time there she realized her natural proclivity to
working with women and founded A Beautiful Place for Beautiful Women (youarebeautiful.us).

Her interests continue to expand as she is now exploring the incredible human phenomena of
hypnosis and naturally occurring trance states and the transformative powers these experiences
have in our lives.

 

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COLLEEN BREECKNER

 

 

COLLEEN BREECKNER has been a student of Yoga for more than 18 years. She received her 200 hour Teacher Training Certification in 2005 from Lotus Gardens in Sherman, CT www.lotusgardensyoga.com, she is now on the teacher training faculty for Lotus Gardens. Since having received her RYT certification she has continued her exploration of Yoga in the Anusara tradition. She is currently pursuing Anusara certification and has over 2000 hours of advanced teacher training and therapeutics. She has studied under such amazing teachers as:  Amy Ippoliti, Bernadette Birney, Ross Rayburn, Jenny Otto, Naime Jezzamy, Noah Maze, Todd Norian, and with Lara Azzarito-Ward, Colleen Saidman, Rodney Yee, Pattabai Jois, Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga in Bedford Hills, NY.

Her practice and teachings align with her highest intention; to serve all beings on their path toward their own awakening. Her fluid, yet focused style of conducting her classes seems to evoke the ideal atmosphere for insight and evolution. They are freeing, but at the same time disciplined in traditions of alignment.  She continues to pursue learning in all areas of the practice including: meditation, pranayama, philosophy, Thai Yoga massage and other forms of movement. It is evident she deeply enjoys the art of yoga, and is a passionate and caring instructor.

 

Colleen is proficient at teaching all age levels.  She leads workshops and classes for adults, teens and children throughout Connecticut and in New York. Visit her website at: www.colleenlilayoga.com

 

Colleen extends  heartfelt appreciation to all her teachers past and present. She feels her work is intended to help others find their own personal path and invites you to experience the inward and outward transformations that Yoga can offer.

 

 

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 Deva Bryson

Deva Bryson is a Yogic Agent Provocateur who has been instrumental in raising Yoga awareness in the NY/NJ/PA region for over 7 years. He is the Creator and Producer  of the Evolve Music and Yoga Festival (evolvefest.com) which has been featured in Yoga Journal.

Evolution Flow Yoga is a Vinyasa power series of 64 asanas.  All major muscle groups of the body are lengthened, strengthened, flexed and toned throughout the rhythmic sequence. There is also emphasis on meditation, bhakti and connection with primal source energy. Yoga is designed to help you become the happy and healthy person that you are destined to be! The Evolution Flow will elevate your joy, heighten your sensual pleasure, relieve your stress and establish peace and tranquility at the center of your being.

Deva is also a Kirtan Chant Singer and Songwriter, a proud father of 5 sons, an Ordained Minister and Pastor of Yoga Church. (www.yogachurch.org) Deva is a lifelong student of Yoga's primary wisdom text, The Bhagavad-Gita, and will often share it's timeless teachings throughout his classes.

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 Gabriel Bertolo

 

  Gabriel started playing music at a very young age, and has always been a spirit seeking the deeper mystical truths. Combining these two, he has been blending his love of playing music with the spiritual power of sound and vibration. Understanding how the frequency of sound can unlock and create very deep journeys, spontaneous release of emotional wounds and facilitate the opening of our energy centers. Sound is what calls things into being, as all is vibration, and every sound has a direct effect on every cell in our body, and the entire universe.

  He works with a unique mix of sound, breathing, mantras, Rieki, chanting, Taoist color healing, and his personal shamanic practices. He has spent many years working with various instruments such as; tibetan singing bowls, native american flute, hand drums, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, guzheng, and voice. Whether he is toning to animals, intuitively taking someone on a spiritual journey through the bouzouki, or playing drums in a psychedelic funk band, Wakah Chan, the elements of sound healing and shamanic practice are always at work. Gabriel can be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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AJ Block

 AJ BLOCK is a didgeridoo player whose mindful sounds take listeners on a deep spiritual journey. Active in the New York community of consciousness, AJ can be found playing at meditative gatherings, yoga classes and in collaboration with a variety of musicians, healers and alternative medicine practitioners. Originally from Los Angeles, CA, AJ started his musical career as a jazz and orchestral trombonist. When he discovered the didgeridoo and the healing power of sound in 2008, a new world of possibilities opened up for him. Soon after moving to New York, AJ began performing and teaching regularly at yoga studios, notably at Integral Yoga Institute and Vira Yoga. In early 2010, AJ recorded music in India, where he delved deeper into the practices of spiritual sound. These recordings can be heard at myspace.com/ajblock7. AJ is the founder of Didge Project, a didgeridoo awareness movement that aims to elevate human consciousness through vibration. For more information about AJ and his work, visit didgeproject.com.

Link: www.didgeproject.com

 

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 Jeanelle Boyer

 

 

For much of my life, I’ve lived by two mottos: “Do the thing you fear most” ~ Mark Twain
and “Love more”. I truly believe that within every person is an overflowing well of love and bliss,
and it has been through my relationship with fear that I tapped into that love within me.

In 7th grade, I had my first panic attack, and for many years after, my life was limited by anxiety
and fear. I clearly remember one evening in 1997 when the fear was particularly intense. Just
when I felt like I was really losing it, I shifted into what I now call “witness consciousness” and
became aware of fear as sensation in my body. I realized that I didn’t need give in to fear; I
could engage in life fully, and fear was just sensation. I wasn’t fear. For a moment, I felt an
intense feeling of freedom and liberation! No need to run away any more.

A year later, I discovered yoga. Not only did I love the physical aspects of yoga, as the postures
began to melt away years of tension in my body, but I fell in love with the cue to “just allow
yourself to BE with whatever might be present, allow sensation to pass through your body”. I
knew this is just what I needed. In so many ways, my yoga practice saved my life. It gave me
all of the tools that I needed to truly begin moving through fear….and into love.

It was around this time that I began to live by the motto “Do the thing you fear most”. After a
lifetime of airplane phobia, I started flying. I started running marathons, and eventually I took up
adventure racing …. I was rappelling off cliffs, getting lost deep in the woods, mountain biking
twisty, rocky singletrack trails in the middle of the night, and running races that lasted 24 hrs.
As I moved into and through fear, I found two things on the other side: FREEDOM and LOVE.
As fear subsides, I was gifted with strong feelings of connection with all life everywhere. Intense
fear would open space for even more intense feelings of love and bliss. Soon I would be sitting
in tears, touched by the beauty of all life, my heart bursting with love and gratitude. Fear still
comes forward, but way less than it used to. Love is very present in my life. Love IS my life. I
AM love.

Now, with my heart full, my desire is to share yoga and guide people through experiences
that help them connect back to that love and joy that is found within so that compassion for all
beings and this planet naturally arises. I began my yoga practice in 1998 with Steven Valloney
at Sunrise Yoga in Ithaca, NY and completed my 200 hour teaching training at Kripalu in 2007.
Throughout the years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to study with many amazing
teachers, such as Shiva Rea, Desiree Rumbaugh, Seane Corn, Max Strom, Dharma Mittra,
Yoganand Michael Carroll, Saul David Raye, and many others. These days, I’m also enjoying
an exploration into the world of shamanic and energetic healing with a gifted teacher in Iowa.
My yoga classes range from vigorous alignment –based vinyasa flow classes to very mindful,
meditative practices. I strive to create a safe, loving and playful environment where everyone
feels safe to explore. In addition to yoga, I am completely in love with this beautiful earth and
spend as much time as possible outdoors-adventure racing, hiking, trail running, mountain
biking, paddling, exploring, and just BEING.

 

www.jeanelleyoga.com

 

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 Sandee Conroy

 

 

'Singing' Bowls entered Sandee's life about 10 years ago.  Through personal study and Time,

she has developed a powerful method of sound meditation. Sandee has studied T'ai-chi

Ch'uan, Acupressure, and is honored to have had two personal teachers of 'the Work' in her life.

She brings a unique blend of wit and wisdom to every session.

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Dalien aka 13 HANDS

 

Grammy nominated artist, Yoga Professor and sound therapist from Montclair, NJ,  13 HANDS, aka DALIEN will offer three short
World chant offerings on the HANG DRUM in between the main stage sets on Saturday, September 3rd from 4 pm on at this years
Evolvefest.  The pieces will be in honor of Dave Bryson, Evolvefest and everyone who has been involved in
the creation and production of this communal event.  These musical pieces will be shared in the spirit of Shamanic
“soul singing”... An “in the moment” improvisational musical technique where intention, ones’ heart and spirit converge
in unity to bring a powerful and healing message through the music, rhythm and melody.  Learn more at http://13hands.com

 

Andrea Gianchiglia

Andrea Gianchiglia, local artist of Bedminster, graduated from

the Hartford Art School receiving her BFA in illustration with a minor

in art history. Working as a full time artist with private commissions and

freelance illustration, Andrea also teaches at various art centers such as the

Visual Art Center of NJ, Somerset Art Association, Hunterdon Museum

of Art, and conducts private lessons out of her studio in Bedminster.

She teaches all ages and all levels. Some of her adult classes featured

include oil painting, drawing, color theory, mixed media techniques, and of

course her favorite, animal portraiture. A list of her classes for each season

can be found on her website.

Andrea has had both individual and group shows throughout New

Jersey and the tri state area, along with various juried shows where she

has won several awards for her specialty, animal portraiture. Andrea is a

member of the Society of Animal Artists, the Salmagundi Club, and has

exhibited in national Juried shows, one of which being the ‘Annual National

Juried Exhibition of N.J.E.A.A “Art of the Horse,” and the ‘Catherine

Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.’ Andrea is also represented by “Natures Walk”

Wildlife gallery in Bernardsville, NJ.

She is available for both personal and commercial commissions. If you are

interested in commissioning a portrait of your own special animal in your

life, pricing and other information are located on her website. Visit her

website at www.AGillustration.com .

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Brooke Gillespie

 

Genetrix Peace is a crystal bowl ensemble created by Brooke Hamre Gillespie.

Genetrix is comprised of an revolving number of voices, seven quartz crystal bowls, heartbeat, percussion, and prayer.

We come together in a timeless healing language of vibration, the song of light.  We come together in sacred ceremony to pray, to heal, to sing, to create sacred space, and to remember who we truly are. 

We come together in a circle and explore the sacred space that is created through our gathering.  From this wide open space, this circle womb, a genetrix language is created through our voices, and through the vibration of the crystal bowls.   In circles goes our sound, moving beyond ourselves, we become from many, one. 

We ask the audience to participate with their hearts, spirits, and minds.  Within this participatory arising, a feedback loop of reciprocity occurs, at once organic and yet with enough form to explore the subtleties of energies that arise through the sound prayer.  Each bowl is a guide and transmitter, a drone and intention amplifier, creating a harmonic landscape through which our voices weave a web of light.  We journey through the void and back again, moving in resonance through the breath, the body, and the voice, generating peace, love, awareness, and compassion. 

We are giving homage to the Perfection of the Wisdom.

She is sunya.  She is yab-yum.  She is prajna paramita.

We are available for ceremonies and events; please inquire by email through the contact page at http://www.genetrixpeace.com/index.html

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Mathew "Huck" Ingles

 

Mathew, "Huck" to his friends, is a full-time, professional, certified and registered yoga teacher from Ithaca, NY. He has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 13 years. Currently, Mathew teaches yoga classes at several locations in Central New York. He's provided workshops for many events throughout the North East, and was recently featured in an article for The Examiner. In 2009 Mathew was Registered by the Yoga Alliance as a RYT-200,  after completing a ten month study of classical yoga, under Lauren Toolin at Heart Space Holistic, in Albany, NY. He has also had the honor to participate in workshops with great teachers like Rod Stryker, Ed Dailey, and Edwin Bryant. Recently, Mathew was also certified level one by the SomaVeda Institute for Thai Yoga Therapy, and is a registered practitioner with the International Thai Therapists Association (ITTA). Mathew's teachings follow the guidance given by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and the Bhagavad Gita. His classes are further influenced by Ashtanga, Iyengar, Viniyoga, Parayoga, and Power yoga.

 

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Jenevi

Jenevi guides a conscious  yoga asana class which unifies, heals and feeds the mind, body and soul.  Her lessons aim to inspire joy into the hearts of the practitioner.   With her training in Sivananda Hatha Yoga and roots in Ashtanga Series and Kundalini, Jenevi offers a journey on the mat into an awakened state of well being.

Jennifer 'Jenevi' Varriano is the founder of New Faith Yoga and creator of Inspiring Om.com. Her programs fuse yoga, dance and nutrition to create a sacred path of wholeness.  Her degree in chemistry and experience in the health industry led her to now coach on the Yoga of Conscious Nutrition and Spiritual Cleansing.  She also supports the community, both youth and adults, as a Dance of Liberation practitioner; bringing natural teaching into urban spaces.  

 

Jennifer Varriano, CYT

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www.InspiringOm.com

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell

 

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Jesse Johnson

 

 

Jesse Johnson is delighted to have the opportunity to share the practice of contact improvisation at this awesome conscious gathering.  Jesse has been practicing contact improvisation for 13 years, and her teaching is directly influenced and inspired by her work with Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simson, Chris Aiken and Hana van der Kolk.  Jesse teaches and practices CI in NYC where she facilitates a monthly practice of the Underscore, a CI structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith.  Jesse recently organized a global practice of the Underscore which had over 35 participating sites in 14 countries all over the world simultaneously practicing the Underscore.
Jesse is a public high school math teacher in NYC and teaches meditation to her students and colleagues throughout the city. Her contact classes are deeply informed by her spiritual practice of bhakti and meditation and the exploration of the soul through the body.
Prepare for diving into sensation, pushing your boundaries and enjoying your own body's glorious sensations. 

 

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 Jessica Lawlor

 

Jessica Lawlor, CPM is a midwife in Sussex County, NJ. She has been practicing the art of homebirth for nearly a decade and feels it is her calling to guide families into a place where they can be present and confident for the moving experience of birth. In addition to attending births, Jessica teaches midwives through the apprenticeship model and lectures on homebirth. She leads the herbal walks (with a focus on women's medicine) for The Wallkill River Wildlife Refuge and has served as guest speaker to The Omega Institute's teen camp and Montclair University's women's studies program.

link to my website: www.newjerseyhomebirth.com

 

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John Levis

John Levis is a Certified Anusara® Yoga Instructor and began teaching in 2003.  He grew up playing ice-hockey and later found an interest in weight training.  After discovering Anusara Yoga in 2000, he left the gym for good.  Anusara Yoga has proven to be a much better method of exercise beyond the physical postures, but one that engages his mind and awakens his heart.  Discovering The Universal Principles of Alignment™, he no longer suffers from chronic back pain and has actually grown over one inch since the age of 30. Sharing this practice, encouraging others to tap into their intrinsic greatness and their body’s ardent desire to be healthy has been the greatest gift for him to share.  John also offers Thai Yoga Bodywork and teaches privately and publicly throughout northern NJ. www.injoyyoga.com

 

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Maria Matveyeva

 

 Maria has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga for the past 5 years. She graduated from the Kripalu School of Yoga in 2007. Since that time she has been teaching at different studios throughout New York City as well maintaining her private practice of personal instruction to her numerous clients. Originally from the Republic of Belarus, Maria speaks 3 languages fluently, she is also a professional dancer and Reiki practitioner.

Learning to listen to one’s heart and let it shine is a beautiful lifelong journey. And yoga is a valuable tool for anyone traveling this way... As Yoga means balance, balance of the healthy Body, clear Mind and free Soul.

 

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Wendy Messano

Certified Childrens Yoga Instructor

Ages 2 to 14

 

Teaching for me, comes easy. When you truly believe in something, I think that you can use that energy and pass it on to others. Whether it’s teaching three year olds about being nice to each other, or practicing yoga to improve relaxation in kids busy lives, or hoping children care about the environment and appreciate the earth as much as you do, it all takes a special quality.

After transfering three times, I ended up with a degree in Recreation, Leisure, and tourism. Instead of trying to figure out what to do with that degree, I decided to do it all. I manage a farmers’ market as well as teach kids some of the most important things they’ll ever learn, patience, confidence, sustainability, and health. I am so lucky to be able to share my knowledge with them at such a young age. I can only hope they are able to absorb it all and take it with them through out their lives.

 

The Little Shanti Yoga Studio…on the go

201-625-2528

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http://littleshantiyoga.vpweb.com/default.html

 

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 Kristin Mirabelle

 

 Kristin humbly shares the gift of yoga with all who are ready to make a transformation in their life.
BIG or small. This inspiration to practice yoga arose 6 years ago, when she realized she couldn't continue living a life of imbalance- mentally, physically, and emotionally. Utilizing yoga and meditation as a means of physical health, but also in a psychotherapeutic manner, helped her reach great heights of sustainable bliss. She has a genuine sense of empathy as well as healthy encouragement for people to transcend the ego and find their inner strength, balanced with peace and softness. Kristin hopes to open people up to living harmoniously with themselves and the world around them, carrying awareness and love with every foot step.

In Light,

Kristin Mirabelle
http://YogaEchoes.com/
http://BoutiqueYogaNY.com/
(917)651-7717

Ari Moshe

 

 

Ari Moshe, CEO (Candid Evolutionary Oracle), is a certified Soulsign astrologer and student of Jeffrey Wolf Green’s School of Evolutionary Astrology. Since 2007, he has been assisting other souls in understanding and cooperating with their evolutionary purpose through the practice of astrology from an evolutionary, soul-focused point of view. For more information about his services please visit:

www.arimoshe.com

 

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David Nebiolo

 

 

 

Joint Therapy
With David Nebiolo, DPT
This workshop will present practical, basic methods to assess and self-treat common
postural dysfunction in the hips, pelvis, and low back. Asymmetrical lumbosacral
posture is often acquired, affecting joint and soft-tissue function throughout the foot-
knee-trunk kinematic chain. This can lead to further problems of recurrent pain,
loss of motion, joint and muscle hyper/hypomobilty, intervertebral disc stress, nerve
impingement, etc.
Topics will cover basic review of anatomy, joint mechanics, segmental mobility, gentle
self-mobilization, SNAG technique, counter-strain relaxation, repetitive range-of-motion,
McKenzie theory, self-traction, therapeutic exercises, and more.
Common postural and chronic problems involving the lower cervical spine will also be
covered with therapeutic exercise and hands-on treatment techniques presented. Based
on time and needs we may also cover areas of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee,
ankle, and foot.
Participants will be encouraged to work in small groups with exercises and hands-on
modalities to try. Printed notes will be given to promote learning and integration of these
ideas in yogic practice over time. Included will be safety guidelines for self-treatment,
red flags, and indications for consultation with a physician.

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 Beth Nolan

 

Beth Nolan has been in the holistic health field for over 20 years. Starting at a young age, she was trained in applied kinesiology to assist a chiropractor. This experience led to knowledge about nutrition, as well as the body, mind and spirit connection.

Enjoying her work and personal growth, Beth continued training as a massage therapist mastering: Shiatsu and Deep Tissue massage techniques including Myopractic, Core Myofascial and Reflexology work. Massage training included yoga classes, as it became a way for Beth to repair and keep herself relaxed, strong and pain-free. Yoga became a way of life and a medium to teach people about their bodies and spiritual potential.

Today, Beth is an established massage therapist and yoga instructor. She offers group classes, as well as private yoga sessions in the Northern NJ area. Yoga unfolded the power of breath, breathing properly, breathing deeply and fully to bring the body and mind to their optimum function. The exploration of the science of breath is a spiritual experience achieved through yoga, tantric breathwork and meditation instruction.

 www.bnyoga.com

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Monica Nolan

 

Monica Nolan is the Director of “The Puja Eyes Medicine Show”:
(A lovingly Irreverent Look at healing ourselves and our planet),
a certified Yoga teacher, Permaculturalist and Herbalist living in
Asheville, NC. She lives and works in an intentional community “The
Urban Artists Intentional Community and Collective” as a voice over
recording talent, choreographer, director and mother. She is in
development of “The Puja Eyes medicine Show and is interested in
meeting and collaborating with Evolve Fest participants. Please see her
for private herbal consultations, opportunities to perform and study
improvisational acting, or an opportunity to promote your cause or
healing art form through an interview that may be included in her
upcoming podcasts and youtube links at www.pujaeyes.com.

 

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Bianca Passiglia

Bianca has been practicing yoga for four years.  She was recommended
to try yoga by her vocal coach, Pat Adkins. He advised her that yoga
would help her breath control and also help keep balance in her life. 
It has most certainly brought both of those benefits to her life plus
many, many more. About 6 months after she began her practice,
she wanted to learn more, so she enrolled in a Teacher Training Program with Yoga
Teachers Training Institute of Long Island. There she received her 200
hr certification.  Her intention was not to teach yoga, but to gain more
knowledge and personal growth.  After she graduated,
she took all the knowledge she obtained and applied it to her personal practice.
Six months later she felt it was time to put her knowledge to use by sharing it
with others and spreading the love of yoga.
Her mission is to help the world by bringing more awareness to the Self
through the body and with yoga.

 

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 Amy Jean Matre-Pastore

Amy Jean Pastore
amyjeansyoga.com

Anusara Inspired TM, 500 HR RYT
Lululemon Ambassador

Amy?s love of yoga evolved from her love of ?tness. For years she spent hours
at the gym running, cycling, kick boxing, and practicing karate. Eventually she began
mixing vinyasa yoga classes into her workout, thinking she was getting a good stretch.
Little did she know that these yoga classes would spark a new interest in her life.
Something about the practice kept bringing her back. It was a meditation in motion and
was so much more than just the physical. Yoga gave her the most amazing healthy
high and she was hooked. In time, her running shoes were replaced by her mat and her
boxing gloves, with blocks and straps. The gym membership was cancelled and
replaced it with a yoga studio membership. It didn?t take long before she realized that
she needed to share her love of yoga with others and began her ?rst teacher training
program.
Her formal training includes:
* Advanced Teacher Training with Amy Ippoliti and Ross Rayburn
* Anusara Teacher Training Certi?cation with Todd Norian and Ann
Green.
*Anusara immersions: 1 with Chaya Spencer
2 &3 with Todd Norian & Ann Green.
*Basic and Advanced Teacher Training certi?cations, White Lotus
Foundation in Santa Barbara with Ganga White and Tracy Rich.
*Yoga Synthesis Initial and Advanced Teacher Training with Raji Thron
*Teacher Training Boot camp with Baron Baptiste
*Restorative Teacher Training with Ellen Pfeffer
*Trance Dance Teacher Training with Shiva Rea.
*Thai Yoga Massage Fundamentals with Jonas Westring
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Amy continues learning and evolving, still very much in love with Yoga. Her
teaching style is a special blend of the best of her many in?uences. She believes that
what we learn about ourselves on our mats can be directly applied to our lives off the
mat. Her classes are challenging, creative and light hearted. She offers her students
many options to modify postures or to try out more advanced variations. She
encourages her students to trust themselves, listen to their own internal feedback, move
from their hearts and surf the waves of their breath!

www.amyjeansyoga.com

 

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Anne Paulson

 

 

Anne's classes are a laboratory for self-discovery, helping students to explore the power
of their bodies and dive deep into discovering the truths of who they are. She
encourages them to safely do things they never dreamed they could do, and is
continually inspired by their ability to breakdown self-imposed boundaries. Anne
previously had a competitive, stress-?lled life. She was sick frequently and in pain. With
Forrest Yoga, her ankles and wrists healed, daily headaches disappeared, and she felt parts of herself reawakening which had been numb for a long time.
Anne is a certi?ed Forrest Yoga teacher from Chicago, IL.  She has been practicing with
her mentor teachersSteve Emmerman & Talya Ring since 2008, took the Foundation
Teacher Training in Oct 2009, and the Advanced Teacher Training in April 2011. Anne
also completed the Forrest Yoga Mentorship Program, has apprenticed with Steve and
Talya, and assisted Ana Forrest.

 

 Anne Paulson, Chicago, IL
Certi?ed Forrest Yoga Instructor
http://yoganne.wordpress.com

 

 

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Cheryl Paulson

 

Cheryl is the Founder of Breathing Room Center, LLC ~ a unique space in Newton for wellness and community.  Cheryl was lucky to find yoga years ago in the midst of health struggles, such as asthma an thyroid disease.  She trained extensively under Paula (Padmasri) Tepedino and received her certification in Hatha Yoga.  Her style is eclectic, with influences in the Vinyasa and Iyengar traditions, and she is currently studying to achieve her Advanced Professional Level Teaching Certification.  Cheryl has taught both privately and professionally in studios, universities, corporate centers, senior homes, churches, schools and gyms and is thrilled to finally have Breathing Room!  She enjoys watching the many remarkable ways in which her students grow from the practice and feels honored and happy to guide them along the way.  For more information, visit:  www.BreathingRoomCenter.com.

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Peace Weaver

 

PEACE WEAVER BIO LONG:

   Peace Weaver spent her childhood in upstate New York singing to trees and making clothes for her dolls, while her family pressured her into strict academic achievement and professionalism.   She received a BA in philosophy from Stanford University, and went on to Study Clothing and Textiles at Cornell University.  While at Stanford – she was heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead – and the community surrounding the scene.

At the Age of 24, she left her successful corporate job, and embarked on her genuine bohemian life.  She bought a car, packed her guitar, changed her name to Peace, and traveled.  

Throughout her journeys – songwriting was her stability: A form of artistic centering that healed and supported her.  Her songs come from a place of deep inner truth – like a guiding light of universal wisdom – looking out through the circumstances of the individual.

Peace spent most of her time in San Francisco, CA and Woodstock NY.  In Eugene Oregon, she developed her own weaving technique – from ancient tablet, hand weaving tools – the Psychedelic Twill.  Peace has been producing and selling her weaving since 1994.  In San Francisco – she started one of the longest running – weekly all women’s production, dance parties – SISTER.  And began her lifelong devotion to yoga.

Peace did not go public with her songwriting until 1995 when she arrived in Woodstock New York.  With overwhelming encouragement, she forged an idealistic notion of success & traveling with a family.  In Woodstock, she led two national tours – under the banner of sustainable, nomadic, artistic intentional community – these tours later became known as the Peace Train.

During the last Peace Train tour, with 3 songbooks to her credit – and two more on the way.  Peace met producer and political leader – Mark Glick, in Austin Texas.  Mark produced Peace’s first studio album - WE ARE THEM, in Bastrop Texas, in a small cabin/recording studio - with a tin roof.

The projects release was postponed in 2000, when Peace became pregnant and moved to Asheville, NC to focus on family.   Although she still intended to continue traveling – now with her children – motherhood, brought some deep lessons in reality.

Peace calls herself a social philosopher and artistic entrepreneur, with many years of devotion to her spiritual practice & beliefs. Through experience, she knows that art is our creative power to heal.   A Weaver, Fiber Artist, Singer/Songwriter, Philosopher & Yogini:  she is solidly committed to wholistic life in balance.  Carrying the responsibility of her name, and striving continually to assist humanity on its conscious journey, Peace is also a human participating in the dance. She brings her music to the world as a witness, an offering and inspiration to others.

 

 

Lex Peters and Motion Design Acrobatic Yoga

 

Acrobatic Yoga focuses on partner acrobatics that mostly utilize the feet. Our style of Acrobatic Yoga blends gymnastics, various styles of dance, Acrobalance, Adagio Balance and Icarian Games. This contemporary sport is very accessible and accommodates many body types. Acrobatic Yoga highlights the strength, coordination, balance, flexibility, and range of motion that the human body can attain. Partnering can occur in same sex and/or coed base and flyer roles.

New participants are quickly inspired to create new sequences and moves. Beginners and experienced athletes alike observe positive results rapidly, making this sport very satisfying, and leaving participants hungry for more.

 http://mo-de.net/acrobaticyoga/

 

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Princess WOW!

 

Founder of The Smile Revolution in 2005, which raises conscious awareness to the healing power of a genuine smile, Mindy Fradkin-Mousaa aka Princess WOW!, has been studying JOY and smiling doing massive research with her blog since 2006. She has been a spiritual seeker since a teen when she went to Israel and had an awakening in the Dead Sea. Come and ask her questions and participate in thinking and learning about how peace begins with a sincere smile!

www.thesmilerevolution.com

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Carol Piro

 

Carol Piro is a Transformational Breath Facilitator and Law of Attraction Life Coach and has maintained a holistic healthcare practice since 1993 in Norwalk, CT.  Her passion for teaching the power that lies in the simplicity of full, open breathing is only surpassed by her excitement to inspire others to make magic happen by consciously and deliberately creating whatever it is that they are wanting in their lives.  Carol will lead "Breathing in the Vortex" at Evolve Fest this year on Friday night at sunset (7pm).  For a shot of inspiration and divine energy, bring your mats, pillows and eagerness to dive into Life!  For more information on Carol and her services, please visit www.lotuspod.org.  

 

Rama

 

 Rama is a raw foodist who has been focusing on healing his body and activating his spiritual potential since he was fifteen.

Rama has developed his own system for stimulating the human body by focusing on the various major physical organs. Each of the major organs can be related to the chakras and the various energy systems of other healing modalities.

Rama's goal is to help you empower yourself to become who you want to be by giving you easy techniques that you can practice daily to heal yourself and create the body and future that you want.

More info, videos, audios, and songs can be found at http://evernewjoy.com

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Alan Santiparro Scheurman

 

Alan Santiparro Scheurman is a musician, artist, writer, permaculturist, and healer/student of the medicine path.  Santiparro signifies “the lens that sees many things not usually seen” or "magnifying glass".  This was the name given to Scheurman by a Huichol ma’arakame while taking a pilgrimage to the sacred desert lands known as Wirikuta – the place where the very first peyote cactus appeared in the Earth. Like the name indicates, Santiparro’s songs are a delicate weaving of stardust and spirit, ether and earth, bringing to light the invisible through a magnification of the subtle space in between the breath and the beat of the heart. He readily taps into the eternal source to bring out the truth of his experience in a song that teaches while it plays with the listener.  If only one thing has been consistent in his musical career, it has been that place of truth as it has evolved from the expression of his own dark depression to the light of accumulated and integrated spiritual wisdom, clearly resulting from Scheurman’s affinity for and time spent with many elders and wisdom keepers of the Americas. His organization EcoZoic works to assist indigenous communities with permaculture education through fundraising efforts and sales of traditional ceremonial art.  At present, the campaign is focused on the Huichol villages of the Sierra Madre Occidental in order to provide resources to address their water needs due to rapid deforestation over the past few decades.  Scheurman lives in Brooklyn.  He is available for private and public healing sessions and specializes in vibratory channeling, chakra balancing with crystals, altar construction and activation, smudging and cleansing rituals, sound heaing meditations and musical events.

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Stephanie Sirico

After 10 years working in corporate finance, Stephanie always had a vision to be a part of the yoga community. In 2003, she had the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the Yoga Mountain orgainization in Rockland County, NY where she taught classes and co-directed the 200 hr and Yoga Therapy teacher training programs for over 5 years. In 2007, Stephanie decided to pursue the advancement of Yoga and its philosophies full time, and finally left the corporate world.

Most recently, Stephanie has created New Breathe Yoga, a project that she has been working on for over a year, that will aid in bringing yoga out of the studio and out into the community. The former managing Partner of Yoga Mountain Wellness Center in New City , NY and Cornwall, NY, Stephanie has been involved with yoga and teaching for over 13 years. During that time, she has earned her Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500 certification (E-RYT 500) and Professional Yoga Therapy certification, has maintained an active membership with the Yoga Teachers Alliance (YTA) and the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

Stephanie’s special interests focus on individuals with challenges of all types, demonstrated by programs taught at the Friendship Club in Valley Cottage, NY (Rockland Mental Health Association), teaching yoga in the classroom with BOCES in Rockland County and various other programs for adults and children alike. In addition to these ongoing programs, Stephanie had developed a summer Youth Yoga Program that has been running for 3 years in Yoga Mountain in New City, NY. Stephanie’s classes are rigorous as well as deep and grounded, focusing on breath, alignment detail and overall benefits of each posture.

 WWW.newbreatheyoga.com

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Michelle Risa

 

Risa’s mission is to help our country take a bite out of $76 Billion in health care costs
which are associated with physical inactivity. Her out-reach extends to the uninsured and
the unemployed, the overlooked middle class, those worrying about getting another year
older, those suffering from obesity and diabetes, seniors, and at home moms and dads.
She shows Americans how they can switch from fighting for health care to reducing their
need for health care and so reduce their cost of health care.
Michele offers a LIVE Streaming Online yoga meditation class, from anywhere via
computer or phone, accessible to any fitness level, size, or age; affordable at less than
$1 a day; sustainable with 365 days/year of on-going support. It includes Online Yoga
Videos, Audio files, PDF Exercise Guides, Interactive Workshops, Motivational Tips,
Easy-Healthy Recipes and more. It’s a formula that guarantees success.
 

www.BeyondBodyMindSpirit.com

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 CC Treadway

 

Born spiritually sensitive, CC has been practicing energy work for 15 years, teaching workshops on healing, sound healing, channeling, psychic development, aromatherapy and spiritual growth. Her work stretches globally through lightwork activations, channelings, writings, telecourses and healings. She is known for her compassionate presence, sense of humor, love of Nature and access to the spirit realms. A graduate of the four-year energy healing and personal transformation program, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and ongoing student of life, CC does not believe in one stop shop healings, but in the delicate unfolding of the soul’s desires with the development of consciousness.

(www.treadwayesoteric.com)