Instructors

Sansea Sparling's 200-Hour and 500-Hour teaching certifications are from Nosara Yoga Institute, after many years of practice with Deborah Felmeth. Using breath awareness and profound respect for the wonders of human anatomy, Sansea's classes allow each participant to choose modifications and vary the degree of intensity. Sansea employs poetry, color and nature images, especially as they relate to the Chakras. Sansea also was certified in Pranassage by Don and Amba at Nosara. In a Pranassage, the client lies relaxed, passive, while the limbs are arranged into simple yoga postures; applied pressure, as one prefers, allows joints to become more flexible with greater mobility.
Contact Sansea at 453-3894 or ssparling@gmavt.net for more information

Brenda Myrick is a local portrait artist and long time educator from Lincoln with many years of experience teaching the arts to people of all ages and abilities.
 
Brenda holds a B.S. in Studio and Art Education from the University of Vermont. She is a certified Orton-Gillingham Language Therapist and has enjoyed using this mult-sensory method to help students be sucessful in reading, writing, and spelling.
 
You can visit my web-site to see my portrait work at www.myrickgalleries.com

Call Brenda at 453-6323 or e-mail wonder@gmavt.net for more information about Expressive Arts Offerings at Open Sky Studio, Custom Portraiture, watercolor lessons, or Educational Tutoring.

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Hi! I am a yoga enthusiast and practitioner since 2002, choosing Kundalini yoga as a method of mental/emotional and physical empowerment in the face of ongoing health issues. Through my years of practice I’ve been able to cultivate a positive space to work toward personal healing and emotional clarity. My motivation is to share the ancient science and the practice with anyone who is also interested ~ to this end I offer all my classes, donations are accepted.

I am also an avid natural healer:
 I’ve practiced Reiki since 2003, and currently offer both Reiki treatments and practitioner classes/attunements from 1st degree to Master/Teacher level and have written my own master/teacher training manual.
 I work with the principal that the Earth provides the tools needed to cultivate personal health and balance.
 I believe that since mind decides matter, that creating our own bliss requires us to strive to be present and open in this moment, regardless of physical circumstance or mental perspective.
 I utilize yoga, meditation, Reiki, minerals and gemstone energy, as well as chakra (energy) and polarity balancing in my healing techniques. I am available for healing or 1-on-1 yoga sessions on request:
 email me at calliepegues@yahoo.com
 call 453-8504
 visit www.healingspacevt.org for more information

Barb Torian is an iPEC certified empowerment coach with a Master’s degree in education. She has studied with Penelope Smith, Donna Eden, Jim Self, Michael Tamura and numerous others. She has been channeling and doing healing work for more than 10 years.

BARS facilitator, animal communicator, intuitive sound and energy healer.

She works with people who are:
Ready to move forward
Tired of holding themselves back
Searching for more authenticity
Learning to listen to their inner voice
Looking for a deeper connection

Using a unique combination of skills she will help you unlock the places where you have been holding yourself back, as you learn to find the answers that work for you. www.barbtorian.com

Are you ready to develop your authentic voice and the ability to choose what works for you? What would you like to change in your life? How long have you been putting off starting?

802-377-5889

btorian@gmavt.net
 

Nancy McClaran has been teaching art in the Lincoln Community School for the past 9 years and has been practicing Tai Chi Chuan for about the same amount of time. She is continuously learning how to integrate these experiences into her relationships with children, adults and the health of our community. Her strong commitment to serve where needed is the driving force behind her work.

This year she has taken on teaching beginning tai chi classes in a more formal setting and has been reminded of the equal value that both teacher and student share as information travels on multiple levels. Tai Chi is a continuous and flowing channel toward centering, health and clarity. It allows you to find your pace, reach steps of awareness and center your body and mind in a thoughtful and progressive direction. Once practice has begun, the lessons will inevitably present themselves along your way.

At the Open Sky studio, she has a beginning Tai Chi Chuan class from 3:30 – 4:45 on Monday afternoons. This is ongoing and is open to new students at any time. Nancy has been studying Tai Chi Chuan and the Yang Style with Christopher Kiely and Master Tung Kaiying since 2002. Her Tai Chi classes at The Open Sky Studio directly reflect and are indebted to the intentions of Falling Waters Tai Chi School in Middlebury, run and created by Christopher Kiely.

Her fine art career goes back 30 years. She earned a BS in Fine Arts in intaglio printmaking from Frostburg University in 1984, completed masters’ courses at the Museum School in Boston and has a post-baccalaureate Education degree focused on the Arts from University of Vermont. This lifetime body of work continues to change and flourish as time allows.

Nancy will be holding adult art classes beginning in October and teen art classes beginning in September. (see Open Sky schedule for times)

Questions or interests, call Nancy at 802-343-0242 or email: elderhill@gmavt.net