Body/Mind Work Seminars and Training
Kali Ray Yoga with Danial Orlanski M.A. – Yoga Spirit Studio, Beverly, MA – 30 hours -- Weekly Classes January – May, 2000
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Intensive, Level One Program Assistant – The Phoenix Rising Center, West Stockbridge, MA – June 10th – June 13th, 2000 – Todd Norian (director)
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Intensive, Level Two Program Assistant – The Phoenix Rising Center, West Stockbridge, Ma – June 15th – June 20th , 2000 – Todd Norian (director)
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Intensive, Level Three Program Assistant – The Phoenix Rising Center, West Stockbridge, MA – June 26th – July 21st, 2000 – Karen Hasskarl (director)
Yoga Intensive: Chakra Yoga Teacher Training with Todd Norian (director) – The Phoenix Rising Center, West Stockbridge, MA – 20 Hours -- July 16th – July 21st, 2000
Yogassage Practitioner Training Certification Program with Don Stapleton Phd., and Amba Stapleton (directors) Nosara, Costa Rica – 100 hours - August 6th – August 20th, 2000
Kali Ray Triyoga Basics Training with Beth Gold-Bernstein (director) -- Kali Ray Triyoga Center, Waltham, MA – 24 Hours -- September 15 – September 17, 2000
Kali Ray Triyoga Training Intensive with Kali Ray (director) – Kali Ray Triyoga Center, Waltham, MA – 24 Hours -- October 10th – October 12th, 2000
Phoenix Rising Training, Level One Program Assistant – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – October 14th – October 17th, 2000 – Karen Hasskarl (director)
Kripalu Methodology Teacher Training with Melanie Armstrong-King (director) – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox MA – 36 Hours -- October 22nd – October 27th, 2000
Traditional Thai Massage Certification Training with Jonas Westring (director) – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 72 Hours -- October 27th – November 7th, 2000
Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training Certification with Amba and Don Stapleton, Ph.D -- Nosara Institute, Nosara, Costa Rica -- January-February 2001
Connective Tissue: Web of Structure, Web of Chi with Deane Juhan – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 24 Hours -- 3 Day Workshop – Spring 2002
Teaching the Deeper Practices with Yoganand – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 40 Hours -- 5 Day Workshop – Spring 2002
Teaching Meditation Techniques with Sudhir Jonathan Foust – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 40 Hours – 5 Day Workshop – Spring 2002
Kripalu Body Work Training Certification with Peggy Scheldahl and Ken Nelson – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 200 Hours – 1 Month Course – Spring 2002
Thai Yoga Massage Intensive with Kam Thye Chow and Chris Holmes – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 48 Hours -- June 28th – July 4th, 2003
Shiatsu Intensive with Greg Dilisio M.A. – Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA – 32 Hours -- July 4th – July 7th, 2003
Psychotherapy and Study in Early Trauma Resolution Including Specifically “Inner Child” and “Inner Adult” Communication with Pam Steiner, EdD – Weekly Meetings, 2002 - 2003
Art
I began painting while quite young in order to express the fear and confusion I felt growing up in an abusive and dysfunctional family.
My beginnings were organic and from my emotional being. Since then I have studied at The Boston Museum School, Rhode Island School of Design and Massachusetts College of Art.
My paintings also depict my deep connection with nature and my larger view of the world outside of the human ego: the earth, the moon, the universe and the macrocosm of life reflected through the microcosm of man’s journey toward wholeness. From the single cell to the sun itself, we live interdependent within the Unified Field.
Toward Unity Consciousness: Painting My Way Through Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; twenty year study in painting sponsored by Massachusetts Centers, Bedford, Massachusetts. Presented in segments:
1999- Present Inner World/Outer World
1994-1999
Inner Progressions: How I View My World
1994 Landscape As Metaphor - Works on paper, Brittany, France
1993 Pilgrim, Goddess, Earth Series
1992 Homage to Mother Earth - handmade paper and found objects.
Part of the permanent collection of Bentley College, Waltham, Mass.
1991 Year-Long Study in handmade papermaking: The Hidden Way.
1989 Caribbean Series: Moving Into Light.
1985-2005 Finding My Way Through Paint, One Artists Journey. Integrating trauma through painting using diverse mediums. During this time I worked simultaneously for Mass. Centers Inc. as a landscape architect creating gardens and maintaining three
acres of planted grounds surrounding nine apartment buildings in Lincoln, Mass. There I created three dimensionally the paintings I envisioned in my mind. My assistant and partner had twenty years experience in landscaping.
This period lead me to my graduate work and culminated in a show at Bentley College, Waltham, Mass. They now own more than twenty of my paintings, most of which hang in their new library.
From there I gathered a following of clients and now continue to paint with a greater sense of self and external ackknowledgement.
June 1994 Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Painting Intensive, Brittany, France
Pieces from this series are part of the permanent collection at Bentley, College.
June 1995 Summer Intensive at Rhode Island School of Design in Watercolor Painting
Exhibitions
Vitale, Caturano & Company Art Gallery, Bentley College, Waltham, MA – October 2nd – October 26th, 2006
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bennington, Bennington, Vermont -- Spring 2010
Publications
Poetry published in The Café Review Portland ME – Summer 2007 Edition
Calling It Off -- Book of Poetry, Published by Xlibris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – January 2008 Book two in progress.
Independent Practice
Volunteer Work: I offered yoga class instruction, massage and Reiki sessions, taught English and helped at housing reconstruction in Central America -- January – April, 2007 & 2008
AcidPlanet.com, Participation in Music and Spoken Word Interactive Web-Based Community – 2005 to 2010.
I recently earned a Masters Degree in Mind/Body Psycotherapy through the Independent Studies Program at Leslie University in Cambridge, Massachusetts culminating with a research paper on Alternative Healing Modalities for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
The studies chosen throughout my life have all been directed toward exploring creative ways of working with and understanding the several bodies of man: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. With this intent I began with literature and languages at Bennington College, in Bennington, Vermont. The school’s philosophy allows each student to shape her own educational direction and career goals. This has always been my philosophy as well. Thus, I spent time away from Bennington in order to study the literature, culture, and languages of France, Spain, and Italy. At Middlebury College Summer School I studied Advanced French and Spanish. I attended American Institute for Foreign Studies in France, Spain, and Italy. I took Spanish Literature in Madrid with the Vassar Wesleyan Program and at Wellesley College. I am fluent in four languages and continue to use them to communicate and learn from other cultures. I recently returned from a three month trip to Central America, volunteering my skills in language teaching, working with children, healing and offering yoga for all levels of health.
For my BA thesis at Bennington, I wrote a chapbook of poems including a section translating some of the work of Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni. My mentor, Mary Reufle, was and continues to be a great poetic inspiration.
Shortly after the death of my mother, I went to Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. I rented a room nearby and studied there intensively for a year, healing my own wounds and learning how to work with the trauma and suffering of others. I completed my yoga teacher certification with Don and Amba Stapleton in Interdisciplinary and Kripalu Yoga at their retreat, The Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Don is a CEO at Kripalu and developed much of their original yoga teacher training program. I also became a Reiki Master and a Certified Kripalu Massage Practitioner. I have been practicing yogic philosophy and Transcendental Meditation since the age of fourteen.
