WesWELL Non-Credit
Class
Instructor Biographies
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Yoga @ Wesleyan |
Small Forest Temple Training
Hung Ga Five Animal Kung Fu |
Off-Campus Classes |
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Yoga @ Wesleyan
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Toni Craige '09
Toni Craige is a Kripalu certified yoga teacher. She has
practiced in other disciplines, including Anusara, Ashtanga and
Bikram and is also influenced by her experiences as a dancer. Toni can be contacted by email at
acraige@wesleyan.edu. |
Shayna Keller '09
Shayna was certified through Yoga Works last summer, and has
taught private and group lessons at Wholisticenter in Los Angeles. Her
primary interest is the investigation of movement and its therapeutic
applications. She is very grateful for the opportunity to teach and
learn with her peers this semester. Shayna can be contacted by email at
sdkeller@wesleyan.edu. |
Jessica Posner '09
Jessica is an AFPA certified yoga instructor and offers an
invigorating and inspiring Vinyassa Power Yoga class. This is
Jessica’s second year teaching yoga for WesWELL. She has also
taught in Denver, Colorado. She looks forward to sharing the
strength and serenity that she has found through yoga with others.
Jessica can be reached by email at
jrposner@wesleyan.edu. |
Amy Tate
Amy Tate, M.Ed., RYT Yoga Alliance, PhD candidate, has fifteen years
experience of hatha-yoga practice and five plus years of teaching.
She has taught in various settings in the greater Boston community
including Lesley University, Franciscan Hospital for Children,
Cambridge Eating Disorder Center, the Brimmer and May School and Sol
y Luna Yoga Studio. She holds a Kripalu certification and is
currently interested in the various teaching methodologies of the
Krishnamacharya lineage, including the Iyengar method. Amy’s
teaching is informed by her ongoing explorations in Body-Mind
Centering, experiential anatomy, and improvisational dance.
Amy can be reached by email at
atate@lesley.edu |
Emma Teitel
'09
Emma Teitel is a certified Hatha Yoga insructor through
the International Sivananda Ashram Organization. She has lived at
the Sivananda Yoga Ashram and has studied closely with swamis of the
Sivananda lineage. The Hatha Yoga flow is designed to increase
flexibility, muscular strength, and concentration of the mind, while
simultaneously reducing stress and anxiety. Yoga classes will
involve breathing techniques, traditional Yoga postures, and
integrated meditations that will balance the body, calm the mind,
and invite overall well-being into daily life.
Emma can be reached by email at
eteitel@wesleyan.edu.
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Small Forest Temple
Training
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Sharisse Kanet '06
Sharisse Kanet is a resident Priest-in-Training, a graduate of
Wesleyan University (2006), who is a PhD student in philosophy at the
City University of New York. Sharisse was also a level 1 student at
Wesleyan for all four years and took priest’s vows in 2006 upon
graduation.
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Ji Myong
Ji Myong, the Temple
Master of the Small Forest Temple. Ji Myong is the name given by Grand
Master Seung Sahn in the traditional manner to his disciple (original
name Anthony Scionti) who began as a student of martial-arts since 1970
under the authority of Master Infererra and Grand Master Shimabuku, and
whose black belt standing is recognized by the All-Japan Empty-Handed
Way Association and registered with the Tokyo Police, as required by
Japanese law, and then (1975) by Grand Master Seung Sahn, transmitting
the Original Way of Shaolin, Anthony holds an M.S. in Counseling, is a
certified School Psychologist, therapist and private counselor. He has
led numerous workshops and conferences in both private and public
sectors in psychology, self-guidance, spiritual growth, meditation and
self-healing training. Ji Myong can be contacted by email at
smallforesttemple@sbcglobal.net. |
Stephanie Reedy
Stephanie Reedy
is a full time Priest-in-Training who is also a certified herbalist
and an art teacher. Her specific interest is Temple spiritual
training as the foundation for her spiritual-herbalist practice. |
Joshua Wilson '00
Joshua Wilson
is the Head Priest-in-Training, and Head Resident priest of the
temple. He has been training as a priest full-time in all aspects
of the Way of Shaolin for eight years and as a Level II student
during his senior year of college. Josh holds a B.A. in Religious
Studies from Wesleyan University ‘00, where he was awarded the
Trench Prize for Excellence in the Study of Religion. He is also a
special-education teacher who works with special needs children.
Joshua can be contacted by email
at
smallforesttemple@sbcglobal.net.
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Hung Ga Five
Animal Kung Fu
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David Wolovsky ’10
David has studied Yee’s Hung Ga for over five years in Brooklyn, NY
with his Sifu, or master, Peter Berman Yee. David is an instructor
at the school and has seen first-hand the benefits of this style. He
is fifth generation from Wong Fei Hung, a renowned Kung Fu hero of
China. David has earned gold medals in several Kung Fu tournaments
including the Northeastern Wong Fei Hung all Kung Fu Championship.
He recommends this class for any student with motivation. Be ready
to work, sweat, and enjoy.
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Off-Campus Class Instructors
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Sheila Bunnell (Yoga in Middletown)
Sheila Bunnell has been a student of Yoga since 1998, and is
currently studying to become an Iyengar Yoga Instructor with Joan
White in Philadelphia. Besides being on the Yoga in Middletown
faculty she has been teaching yoga to teenagers at the Educational
Center for the Arts in New Haven since 2004. She has also taught
yoga in the Middletown Public Schools and for Youth and Family
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Julie Deak (Nia Technique)
Julie has more than 15 years of experience in offering dynamic workshops and
education programs to adults and children. She blends her knowledge
of human development and life cycles, complimentary medicine, and
diverse spirituality to offer sessions that promote self healing,
awareness, health and well being. For the last 6 years she has
worked with movement as her primary modality and is certified in The
Nia Technique at the Black Belt level. Julie can be contacted by
email at juliedeak@comcast.net
or by calling 860.347.1825. |
Sandra Kopell (Yoga in Middletown)
Sandra Kopell, RYT Yoga Alliance, MALS, Studio Director, began the Yoga
in Middletown program in 1991. She is a graduate of the B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Center's Teacher Training Program in Somerville, MA where she
studied with Patricia Walden and Peentz Dubble. She is certified to
teach by the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. Her teachng is
informed by three decades immersion in movement and mind/body studies
that include the practice and teaching of yoga, modern dance,
choreography, dance improvisation, anatomy and kinesiology, and massage
therapy. She holds a post-graduate degree in Dance and Movement Studies
from Wesleyan University. Sandra can be contacted by email at
yogainmiddletown@snet.net
or 860.347.9642. |
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