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John Charlebois
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Nancy Charlebois
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Lauren Lauzier
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LECTURE: Yoga in Treating The Whole Person-A Panel Discussion by Jade Integrated Health Yoga takes many forms and purposes. In this panel discussion, we will discuss how yoga is used as an effective modality for healing from different perspectives. Please join Dr. Nancy Ball, a neurologist at Neurosurgery and Spine Associates, Nancy Charlebois, a licensed physical therapist from Jade Integrated Health, John Charlebois, licensed acupuncturist from Jade Integrated Health and Lauren Lauzier, RYT. Dr. Ball is also a registered yoga instructor! Yoga has brought this panel together to discuss how it is an effective tool to build core strength, improve flexibility, manage hypermobility, address stress, bring balance to life and much more! Questions are welcome as we present on the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that a yoga practice has to offer.
Tom Shepard (Founder & CEO) - Shepard Financial
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LECTURE - Alternative Health; Alternative Wealth
Like life, money evolves – how you look at it, what it is, how you use it, understand the complexities of your relationship with it – all change over time. As does your reliance on it for leading the life you’ve always imagined. As we see it, money is a living thing: it is varied and complex. Tom of shepard FINANCIAL will help you understand how your financial life can be better integrated into the way you live. He'll help you see the alternatives so you can feel more connected and in control of your financial well-being. Find out why our approach to financial management can help you live a happier, less stressful and more fulfilled lef. He'll help you evolve with your money. |
As an owner and doctor at Lifeworks Chiropractic Center, Dr. Abby Power has been facilitating healing, growth and change for over 20 years.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State University and received her Doctorate degree from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Power is a member of the Maine Chiropractic Association. She specializes in holistic, gentle spinal care. She is trained in traditional chiropractic techniques and has advanced training in both Network Spinal Analysis and Bio-Geometric Integration. Dr. Power is a practice consultant to chiropractors nationwide and a frequent speaker to local businesses and organizations. She has additional training in a wide variety of complementary healing techniques including Matrix Re-patterning, Somato-Respiratory Integration, Wave Work, Hawaiian Bodywork and Stillpoint Energy Medicine. Dr. Power’s personal care uses a unique blend of scientific and intuitive insight to access the body and facilitate physical, mental and emotional health and well-being. She resides in Falmouth, Maine with her husband, Mike, and their daughter, Anna. |
Lecture: Healthy Spine. Happy Life. Cultivating a healthy spine enables us to use the wisdom and energy within each of us to heal, strengthen and balance ourselves. We can evolve and transform into powerful and aware beings, fully alive as active participants in shaping our daily lives.
Join Dr. Abby Power as we explore the relationship between spinal health and a relaxed, full, and happy life.
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LECTURE: Yoga as Connection to Self and Others
For all those curious about how our connections to others dictate our journey through life and how yoga is a tool to understanding this essential human experience. Join Erin Oldham (founder) and Susy Hawes (matchmaker) of Local Flames, Portland’s newest, unique experience in events-based and personalized matchmaking in a journey with our bodies, minds and community. In our 50 minutes together we will experience, explore and integrate the way we know ourselves and how that speaks to and dictates how we know, relate and connect with others. Yin yoga will bring us in, mind/body experiences, journaling and energy work will bring us out. You will walk away with useable ways to build connection and space in yoga classes and personal relationships. |
Amanda began practicing yoga as an art student to help relieve the stress of college demands. While continuing to strengthen her personal yoga practice she went on to complete a post-graduate certificate in Design from the Sotheby’s Institute in London, England. Wanting to share the gifts of healing and joy yoga had given her, she went on to complete the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification at Kripalu in 2009. Amanda has been teaching in the Southern Maine area for the past five years and presently teaches a Flow & Restore practice at Yarmouth Yoga Studio in Yarmouth.
At Asia West, Amanda has been able to find a place to connect her main passions of yoga and design. She focuses on helping clients to bring serenity into their own homes through interior design. Amanda’s own sacred space is a walk-in closet she transformed into a cozy meditation room. |
Lecture: Creating A Sacred Space in your Home. Carving out a special place in your home to connect to mindfulness can bring more abundance, peace and joy into your life. A sanctuary may be a personal yoga space, meditation altar or simply a place for reflection. This discussion will help you to create harmony in your home design by weaving together the principles of Fen-Shui, Wabi-Sabi, symbolism and color meaning. Amanda & Jill will also discuss the design process in creating the altars for this and last year’s Maine YogaFest. The discussion will also be valuable to yoga studio owners or holistic practitioners looking to create a harmonious environment for their clients. Questions encouraged and welcomed.
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Jacqui Bonwell is an ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher,) Reiki Master, Yoga Life Coach, Director of the Sacred Seeds Yoga School (RYS) in the Boston/New England area, Lululemon Ambassador and Owner of the Canton Yoga Shala in Canton, MA. She works primarily with Yoga Teachers through her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training programs and Advanced Teacher Training.
Prior to over a decade in the Yoga world Jacqui was a state Social Worker with specialty in Family Violence. After over a decade in the field of Social Services the path of Yoga called her. She is eternally grateful to her teaching influences-Johnny Gillespie, Rolf Gates, David Vendetti, Sharon Gannon & Mother Teresa. Her primary teachers are her 1 year old son, Wyatt and 6 year old, Lola. They make sure each day she practices what she preaches : ) Jacqui also has two children in spirit that have been the greatest source of her daily meditation and daily connection with the Divine. |
LECTURE: Life Your Yoga. Learn how to apply the teachings of this practice to every day scenarios. Master the yoga poses off your mat - in the studio of your life. Learn to be your own life coach and how to incorporate the teachings of patience, love, compassion and perseverance into your journey.
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Kendall Hinkley - Garbage to Garden
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Lecture: My Tomatoes Were Grown in What?! Gather with the Garbage to Garden Crew as we share how waste can save the world. We will discuss the benefits, uses, and functions of composting, as well as some interesting facts about the world's waste that may surprise you - in a good way! We will share how GtG began right here in the East End with a pick up truck and a short stack of buckets, and how in two short years, we are changing the face of waste (and growing tomatoes) in Maine!
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Allison has been working and training in the areas of yoga, leadership, and activism as a unified practice since 2011. However, it was a lifetime of learning about service and connection that inspired Allison to maintain her yoga practice and teaching “off the mat”. Allison is a leader
with Off the Mat, Into the World and locally offers programs as a facilitator with national organizations Yoga Gangsters and Embody Love Movement. In addition to continually learning from yoga-based organizations, Allison works with children with autism and is studying Leadership and Organizational Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Through her current project, Yoga Dirigo, Allison hopes to collectively build the yoga activism movement in Maine. |
LECTURE: Yoga Activism & What Does it Mean? As the practice of yoga grows there are many yogis volunteering or showing interest in using yoga as a public service. However, there is a huge mirror being flipped onto the practice of yoga right now as it has evolved in our western world. Is yoga, as we know it today, accessible and truly open to people of all walks of life? Has yoga become a practice for the "privileged"? As this mirror is turned onto the practice as a whole, it is also important to look into our own mirrors. How do we show up when we choose to use yoga as our route to activism? Too
often our own traumas, societal views, and limiting beliefs hinder our attempts at meaningful connection through yoga or can cause us to burn out.Through exploring concepts including shadows, personal gifts, and difficult conversations we will explore how yoga and activism can be about union rather than an "us and them" interaction. We will also discuss how to collaborate, ask for help, and connect to opportunities across the country and state as resources for learning and involvement. |
Melissa Boyd is a Yoga Teacher 200 RYT, International Intuitive Medium and Business Strategist. She has been providing readings and insights since the age of 13, she incorporates intuitive knowing with listening to the body and spirit. “At 315 lbs, I could not seem to release stuck patterns until I found yoga. This created a vibrational flow to my wellness and allowed me to release over 150lbs.” Her goal is to provide vibrational alignment for you, your soul and your business. She holds a Bachelors in Communications from the University of Southern Maine and a Masters in Public Policy and Management from the Muskie Institute. She been instrumental in helping people pave the way to their spiritual, personal and financial abundance. Trained at Nataraja School of Yoga in Kennebunk, Maine in 2012.
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Lecture: Where Yoga Meets Intuition Yoga has been practiced for over 5,000 years. The power of the poses and yogic chants open up the cells in the body to resonate at a higher frequency. Yoga means the union of the self with the self. Intuition is the process of going beyond the mind into an alternate state. In this interactive lecture, participants will explore how yoga helps open up intuition. Handouts and intuitive insights will be provided.
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Tania Neuschafer Zuckerman has been facilitating individuals in Breathwork empowerment for over 10 years. She received her training from the Power of Breath Institute’s two-year program in 2005 and was also a graduate of the Earth Circle School for Ministry in 2007. She has for over three years supported wilderness quests and ceremonies and has been an educator and facilitator of groups since 1994. As a long-time student of the breath and a compassionate and present teacher, Tania is exceptional in her ability to be able to provide a safe and nurturing environment for clients to explore this powerful work. Tania attended the Power of Breath Institute, owned by Jeremy Youst, which has its origins in several powerful tools and methods, most significantly, the B.R.E.T.H. process developed by Kamala Hope-Cambell and taught by Kim Rosen, and the Transformational Breath TM process as developed by Dr. Judith Kravitz. These methods began as an intensive study of conscious breathing as a way to create health and well-being. They also have roots in Leonard Orr’s Rebirthing Breathwork, yoga, metaphysics, and spiritual healing. Tania will also begin her 200-hour yoga certification training with the Breathing Room in South Portland in June 2014 and looks forward to offering indoor and outdoor group classes as well as private sessions of Vinyasa flow, Restorative, Gentle and Yang/Yin yoga infused with elements of breath inspiration in Southern Maine.
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Lecture: Breathwork: Breath & Beyond - An Immersion. What if we were able to integrate aspects of our life and become more fully our whole self with something as simple as our own breath? That is what Breathwork offers- a chance to return to the natural open healthy breath we were born with, an easy flowing breath that is responsive to what we are doing in each moment. Have you ever noticed you are holding your breath? Or that your breath is shallow? Or are you immersed in your own spiritual path and longing for integration and clarity on your next step? Experience the deep and powerful tool of Breathwork sometimes referred to as Therapeutic, Holotropic, Transformational Breathwork or Re-Birthing. This is a Breathwork Immersion lecture- bring your mat. We will spend 30 minutes lying down providing you with a chance to use the power of your own breath to gain clarity, let go of stress, integrate hidden aspects of our self, and feel more alive in your body than you ever imagined. Guided by music and facilitated by long-time Breathwork practioner, Tania Neuschafer Zuckerman, this is the perfect way to honor your own inner yogi in a deep and intimate way.
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