Maura Hintlian

Maura’s passion for yoga has only deepened since she first stepped onto her mat in 1999, opening her eyes to a path of holistic health. She found the movements and breath natural, and began to find that embracing the present moment encouraged healing, growth, and peace. Yoga has a healing effect, nurturing one’s innate sense of well-being. By 2003 Maura felt a strong pull towards teaching what she loves & spreading the benefits of yoga and wellness. She graduated from Saint Michael’s College with a B.A. in Psychology. She studied with Jacqueline Heisel, through Frog Lotus Yoga for her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher certification, and studied with Dave Emerson through The Trauma Center at JRI to teach Trauma-Sensitive yoga. Her style of teaching is compassionate, authentic, light hearted, and intuitive. She encourages students to draw their awareness inward and listen to the messages of the body. Maura is Level 1 Reiki attuned through Marybeth McKinnon (a Traditional Reiki Master), and studied Thai Massage in Thailand. Maura has been instructing weekly Hatha, Vinyasa, and gentle classes to students of all ability levels, and also enjoys teaching Partner yoga. The collective energy of her students connecting to their breath and bodies is a constant source of inspiration, which keeps each class infused with a fresh energy.

Prana (Regina Barrett)

B.S., M.I A., E.R.Y.T, specializes in Life Coaching, Spiritual Counseling and Therapeutic Yoga, offering private sessions, business consulting services, workshops and retreats in Portland, Maine and world-wide.

Prana has been facilitating engaging workshops for over 25 years and has been working as a holistic health practitioner for 12 years, during which time she developed her own unique approach to healing.

Prana has owned her own yoga and retreat center and spent her earlier years moving up in the environmental field from educator to consultant. At the peak of her career, she was assisting 100s of cities, towns & business in implementing environmental practices. Maintaining basic Spanish fluency & holding a graduate degree in International Administration, Prana has lived in and shared her holistic health & consultant services in the U.S. and Central America.

Prana gathered her holistic health skills by studying with the Masters of yoga, spiritual counseling, therapeutic movement, women's empowerment, yoga therapy, meditation, tantra, shamanism, energetic healing, raw food and nutrition, qi gong & conscious communication. As a result of her own long term spiritual practice, she has been gifted clairvoyance and energetic healing techniques. With such a diverse repertoire, she is able to assist a wide range of clients in clearing away anything that is masking their true calling and ability to access their Highest potential.

Her own journey with healing fibromyalgia and breast cancer has informed her work to be able to assist many to live healthful, joyful & energized lives.

This wealth of rich life experience and training allows her to easefully assists her clients in a variety of ways.

She is an expert marketer, manager and communicator and has helped many establish successful small businesses, such as artists, retail store owners, yoga studio owners and wellness providers. She has also assisted those working in corporate fields & management to advance, while maintaining a balanced life.

As a yoga therapist, Prana has created a unique style of Therapeutic Yoga, which she shares in workshops for yoga instructors world-wide. She is the creator of Self Love: Gentle & Restorative Yoga Audio Pod Casts with Photos of Poses.

Prana is deeply committed to transmitting her wisdom about Law of Attraction principles & emotional healing, so that all live joyfully, prosperous and free lives.

"May we all shine our light upon others and heal, one authentic, truly joyful, smile at a time." ~Prana

Websites

Prana (Regina Barrett), BS, MIA, ERYT
http://www.pranaheals.com
www.pranaheals.amazonherb.net
www.facebook.com/pranareginabarrett
www.pranaheals.blogspot.com
207) 632-6698 cell

You exude the joy and wonder of children who trust that they are taken care of. And when you are joyful, your Divine light inspires everyone who sees you :) -Doreen Virtue

Kiaran McCormack

Kiaran is a former professional and division one soccer player. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Kinesiology and is an ACE certified personal trainer as well as an Apex Certified nutrition counselor and is currently participating in an internship program to become an exercise specialist through ACSM.

Kiaran specializes in weight loss management ansd will tailor a program that will motivate you to attain your fitness & weight loss goals.

Rob Smith

Multisport Coach and Athlete

- Indoor Cycling Instructor since 2003
- Multisport Athlete and Coach for over 30 years
- Coached over 30 Athletes including 25 Ironman Finishers
- Competed in 11 Ironman Competitions, including 3 Ironman World Championship Races
- Competed in over 200 Triathlons and Bike races
- Saris Power Tap Qualified Instructor

Chess McGee

Multisport Coach and Athlete

- USAT Level 1 certified coach
- Certified Spin Instructor – has taught spinning and indoor cycling to a multitude of athletes since 2002
- Coached over 30 women for the last 2 years for the Tri for a Cure
- Coached individual athletes including half Ironman finishers
- Competed in 3 Ironman Races
- Took 12 athletes to Ironman Western Australia with Rob in 2009
- Facilitated Ironman and other triathlon training clinics
- Competed in over 50 multisport events

Karen Fisher

Karen earned a B.A. from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a Masters in Social Work from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She has worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over twelve years providing clinical counseling services to individuals, families and groups. After spending time working in this capacity her philosophy regarding wellness began shifting from working within a medical model of diagnosing “problems” and treating “conditions” to becoming increasingly interested in focusing on clients existing strengths and co-creating solutions to the daily challenges people face. Her own journey with grief, weight loss and establishing healthier lifestyle practices became a personal career shift into the wellness industry.

Karen went on to earn a Fitness Instruction Certification through the University of Southern Maine to practice as a Personal Trainer, certified through the American College of Sports Medicine. She also completed a comprehensive certification program through Wellcoaches in Wellesley, MA., enabling her to practice as a Wellness and Life Coach. Karen has woven her educational background together to focus on the client as a whole, believing that wellness reflects the mind, body and spirit of every client she works with. Running , yoga and dancing are ways that Karen enjoys coming into her physical, emotional and spiritual center.

Whether working with Karen individually or in small groups on fitness goals, nutrition counseling, sharing dialogue around some of the emotional obstacles that are getting in the way of you moving forward and having success in other areas of your life, or setting weekly achievable goals that propel you towards behavior change, Karen can assist you on your path towards living to your highest potential.

Credentials

Karen Fisher, MSW, L.C.S.W.
Certified Wellness Coach
Licensed “Am I Hungry?®” Weight Loss Facilitator
Certified Kripalu YogaDance Instructor

Website

Wellspring Fitness, LLC
http://wellspringportland.com

Karen Fagan

Karen specializes in Weight Loss, Awakening Your Life’s Purpose, Career, Relationship and Money Coaching.

Credentials

Master Life Coach

Website

Awaken Your Purpose
http://www.awakenyourpurpose.com

Portland, ME
Phone: 207-518-0348
karen@awakenyourpurpose.com

Dawn Ellen Kirkland

Since 1995 when Dawn Ellen was first introduced to yoga while living in New York City, she has been joyfully exploring the vast array of yoga traditions through studying and practicing the hatha styles of Bikram, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Power Yoga and Anusara, as well as the tradition of Kundalini. Her positive and warm teaching style naturally blends these beautiful traditions with a focus on a vinyasa that draws deep inspiration from the Anusara tradition. Anusara (which is Sanskrit for “to flow with grace”, “to go with the flow”, or “to follow your heart”) is a hatha yoga based on the Tantric philosophy which recognizes the inherent goodness and abundance in all and taps into this goodness with positive intention both on and off the yoga mat.

Before teaching yoga, Dawn Ellen was an Outward Bound instructor for ten years and led thousands of students on expeditions around the world. She also holds a Masters degree in Experiential Education and thrives on creating and leading students through experiences that are life-affirming and life-changing. Artfully blending her yogic background with her experiential education background, Dawn Ellen’s yoga classes energetically invite students to challenge themselves during their experience on the yoga mat in ways that can open them to their highest potential and encourage them to follow their bliss.

Ann Walker

Ann is an LCSW social worker and has been using EFT in her work with people for several years. She can offer help with weight loss and smoking issues as well as general life issues, using the gentle and effective method of EFT.

Laura Patterson

Laura K. Patterson earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. She is a graduate of the Integrative Healing Arts Program through the BirchTree Center for Healthcare Transformation and is certified in Clinical Aromatherapy through the Jane Buckle Clinical Aromatherapy for Health Professionals program. She attained Reiki Level II in 1998 and has incorporated that into her nursing practice as well. Specializing in obstetric and prenatal nursing much of her career, she currently works at Colby College in the Garrison Foster Health Center and teaches nursing at the University of Maine at Augusta. In each setting, Laura has maintained a focus on health and wellness with particular attention to nutrition and environment. Through developing healthy diets and lifestyles,the body is better able to resist disease and dysfunction. This allows us to more fully enjoy the present and in many instances, to avoid the cycle of chronic health issues and medications with their costs and side effects. Reiki and aromatherapy both provide subtle and enjoyable means to support the body’s own physiologic systems to achieve optimal wellness. Laura is delighted to assist individuals in setting their own health and lifestyle goals and in developing the means to attain them.

Katie West

Katie West is The Levity Coach whose mission is to increase the levels of joy, possibility, and health in her client's personal and professional lives. She works with individuals to connect them with both their intuition and core desire in regards to what they need to be living their most abundant, fulfilling, and fabulous life. Katie empowers her clients to develop the skills necessary so that they can take specific action steps towards their vision.

Katie is also founder of New England Laughter, whose mission is to bring laughter and joy into businesses, non-profit organizations, camps and schools through Laughter Ice Breakers & Warm-Ups, Workshops, and Presentations. She works with the concept that PLAY leads to greater life and work PERFORMANCE. Katie is a dynamic, passionate, and engaging speaker and coach.

Katie is a Certified Life Coach (C.E.C) and a member of ICF (International Coaching Federation). She also holds her Certification as a Laughter Yoga Leader.

Websites

www.levitycoaching.com
www.newenglandlaughter.com

Jennifer Micoleau

Jennifer, a Portland native, began a dedicated Yoga practice while living in Arizona in 2002. In 2004, she earned her 200hr teaching certification in North Carolina with a focus on Hatha Yoga and the principles of alignment. Prior to this she studied Polarity Therapy (energy bodywork), Pilates and nutrition. She is an experienced artist using her knowledge of anatomy and movement to incorporate Yoga postures and organic feeling into ceramic sculptures and hand-built pottery. Jennifer has a passion for health and a fascination with the human body, which has led her to studies in human development, anatomy, sociology, Buddhism, meditation and their interplay. Yoga is the web that weaves together the threads of her passions and her desire to help empower others to make positive, healthy and successful changes in their lives. Jennifer is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and a certified Power Pilates instructor. She is also a full-time graphic design student at Maine College of Art.

Website

www.wellbeingbasics.com

Elizabeth Burd

Elizabeth received her Certificate in Fitness Instruction from USM Lifeline in 2003 and her Kripalu yoga certification in 2004.She works with personal training clients at Natural Fitness in Falmouth She aslo teaches yoga in Falmouth and Cumberland. Elizabeth decided to become a yoga teacher and personal trainer to help people enjoy a higher quality of life. She specializes in injury prevention and recovery. Also, she grew up in Maine dancing and singing and is currently in a local band.

Alexis Wright

I am currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Natural & Applied Science along with a minor in Holistic Health at the University of Southern Maine. I am interested in applying to medical school within the next couple of years in pursuit of Family Practice. I am a single mother of a three and a half year old little boy and he is the joy of my life! One of the main reasons I became a Zumba instructor was to have a fun employment opportunity while still having time to be a mother. I achieved Level I Zumba certification in April of 2008 and most recently became Level II certified in October of 2008. I have not only a passion for Zumba and the music that accompanies it, but I also have a large appreciation for the wide variety of cultures that it engulfs! Vamos a bailar!!

Sergei Slussky & Polina Kirillova

Sergei Slussky & Polina Kirillova currently compete professionally in International Standard & Latin. Together they successfully operate the American Ballroom Dance Academy which is a chain of ballroom dance studios in the State of Maine, where they present the complete range of ballroom & Latin dances of both styles. Members of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance.

Polina Kirillova

Polina Kirillova was born in Ukraine where she studied Ballroom & Latin dancing from the age of 6. She competed successfully throughout Ukraine & Russia before moving to the USA in 1998. In 1999 she opened the American Ballroom Dance Academy in Portland, Maine, together with her dance partner Sergei Slussky. Since then they opened several locations in Maine and continuously compete professionally in International style, both Standard and Latin.

Sergei Slussky

Sergei Slussky had studied ballroom & Latin dances and competed successfully in his native Russia from the age of 17. In 1991 he moved to the USA, where he continued his dance training at Brigham Young University, and later taught for Arthur Murray Dance Studios and other dance schools, before opening in 1999 the American Ballroom Dance Academy together with his dance partner Polina Kirillova. They compete professionally in International Style, Standard and Latin.

Randy Matthews

Randy Matthews has been involved in the fitness industry for more than twenty years. He graduated from University of Maine at Orono with a degree in physical education and health. Being certified in many fitness disciplines, Randy has worked as a high school football coach, physical education teacher, rehabilitation coordinator, and as a fitness specialist for the US Navy. Randy is a personal Trainer, and a certified Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor.

Randy has helped people of all ages- from children to the elderly- rehabilitate from injuries, strengthen sports performance, lose weight, and improve overall quality of life. He is realistic about the demands of everyday life and works with each client to make the best use of their time. With passion and humor, he advocates, motivates and encourages!

Because of his wide experience and in-depth training, Randy can offer each of his clients a perfect-fit exercise program.

Maggie Bokor

Maggie is a Certified Nia Instructor who is committed to helping people find joy in their bodies. Nia empowers students to make their own choices and celebrate their divine uniqueness. Dancing through life since 2004, Maggie brings wisdom, humor and passion into every Nia experience. Come join her in celebrating your body, mind and spirit!

Website

www.dancenia.com

Jessie Chalmers

Jessie’s first yoga class began in an apartment at the end of an impossibly winding street in Spain. Thus began her journey and passion for yoga. She has spent time with yoga in many places since and her practice has supported her in times of transition, injury, and stress. Jessie’s yoga practice has helped her to develop strength, balance, compassion, and a deeper connection to herself and the world around her. She delights in sharing the many benefits and joyful spirit of yoga with her students. Jessie is a 200-hour certified Kripalu instructor with experience in Anusara, Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative styles.

John Emond

Body by John began while John Emond was overcoming a severe lower back injury. The intense rehabilitation process required inspired him to pursue a healthier and more active lifestyle which he soon found he wanted to share with others through education and training. John now trains a wide range of clients of all ages and fitness levels. Central to the Body by John training model, active listening to clients and their goals and concerns has become crucial to a successful training plan. As a result, John offers experienced opinions and practical solutions on living more actively in spite of busy schedules and commitments.

John is extremely committed to his clients’ success and has proven himself as an active and creative motivator, even going so far as to give wake-up calls or to cook meals for clients to overcome excuses and eliminate the barriers to a new healthy lifestyle. John feels there is nothing more rewarding than seeing a client change, both physically and in adapting to a healthier, happier way of life.

John enjoys working with kettlebells, a resistance training technique becoming more popular with trainers across the country. He also teaches spinning classes and runs a grueling but intensely rewarding boot camp and has developed a loyal following for his classes.

He has competed in several local bodybuilding competitions, placing 1st overall at the Vermont Supernatural 2004. Outside of the gym, John enjoys riding his Harley and performing magic tricks for his friends and family. Certifications:

C.A.P. Certified | Kettlebell Certified | CrossFit Certified | Spinning Certified Expert Nutrition Certified (APEX)

Kettlebell Boot Camps
Spinning Boot Camps
Private Training
Certified Expert Nutritionist (Apex)
Core Fitness Tone Building Training

Website

www.BodyByJohn.com

Tracy Liberty

Tracy Liberty creates a sacred healing space for women to access their innate wisdom and intuition. Using bodywork as a guide, Tracy encourages her clients to let go of physical tension to free the spirit. Both polarity and massage create a magical process of getting in touch with the “signals of the soul”. By reminding yourself of your own vibrant energy, you’ll be able to manifest changes that honor who you are at the core.

Tracy received a B.A. in Creative Arts/Dance from Bradford College. She also is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Polarity Therapist. She currently teaches both Massage & Polarity at Spa Tech Institute in Westbrook, Maine.

Website

www.tracyliberty.abmp.com

Brett Russman

Brett teaches yoga classes with an uplifting sense of humor and energetic passion. Offering clear and precise instruction of Anusara Yoga's principles of alignment, he inspires practitioners with a deeply transformative experience of the heart. For more information, please visit his website: www.brettrussman.com

Website

www.brettrussman.com

Jeanette Schmid Lakari

Jeanette began her Yoga education in Daramsala, India in 1986 and continued at the Yoga Center in Portland, Maine with nationally recognized Iyengar Yoga teachers Patricia Walden, Gabriel Halpern, Arthur Kilmury and others. Since 1988 she has been studying and practicing Kundalini Maha Yoga while assisting advanced teachers Shri Anandi Ma and Dileepji. In 1990, Jeanette launched her teaching career in southern Maine and in 1997 founded the “Studio for Transformation”. In her Yoga classes, Jeanette loves teaching a large variety of poses, while working closely with each individual on their alignment. Her teaching includes “flows” or vinyasans, in which the student moves through poses in a flowing motion designed to build strength and energy.

Tunde Schwartz

Tunde has been teaching Pilates for 8 years. She is certified in the Authentic Pilates MethodTM through Power PilatesTM of New York City, the gold standard in Pilates education. Tunde’s interest in Pilates is a natural extension of her lifelong passion for health and exercise. She began her career in group exercise instruction and private training in 1994. She created new classes for New York City’s elite health clubs, including Equinox and Reebok/Sports Club LA. Her work has appeared in magazines and on television.

Pilates was created over 100 years ago by Joseph Pilates as an exercise system designed to increase strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, and control. One doesn’t just simply move their body in a Pilates workout; there is a mindful emphasis on breath, flow, and precise form in every movement. This mental focus combined with the physical intensity of a Pilates workout will lead to an enhanced awareness of muscle function, improved aesthetics, increased athletic performance, injury prevention and stress reduction.

Ann Walker

Ann has studied with several Qigong teachers and has been practicing for five years and recently received facilitator training. She has been a psychotherapist in private practice for many years, is a long time practitioner of Vipassana Buddhism, and has taught meditation. Ann believes deeply in the power we all have to heal ourselves and to awaken to the divine spirit within.

Lauren Ostis

Lauren Ostis has spent the past several years traveling, volunteering, and learning from the communities she has found herself in, both in this country and abroad. She recently moved back to the coast of Maine where she was raised. She has been studying yoga and meditation for over ten years and certified as a Sivananda yoga teacher in the Bahamas in the spring of 2006. Her course took place in an ashram where she was fully immersed in the asanas, kirtan, Sanskrit, karma, philosophy and satsang of yoga. Lauren has taught yoga in Little Harbour in the Bahamas, in the mountain towns of Asheville, North Carolina and McCall, Idaho and will now be joining us at The Landing Center to teach morning yoga. As a self-employed fiber artist, a wilderness tripleader, an environmental educator, a dancer, and a student of Buddhism and of Capoeira Angola, Lauren enjoys integrating her passions into her yoga classes.

Zach Labbay

Zach is a friendly and enthusiastic college educated strength coach/personal trainer who believes that everyone is different phsyically, mentally, and emotionally when it comes to being fit and looking good. His approach emphasizes pushing his students hard towards their goals, and developing not only physical fitness, but emotional and psychological well being also. Zach will be able to create and teach you a program no matter what your goal; if it's to improve your athletic capability, your endurance, rehab old injuries, or just generally look good, he'll be there to help you make it happen. Zach is able to teach weight bearing and bodyweight exercise, and also teaches practical self defense based off Quest Center ToShinDo.

Jeannette Richelson

Jeanette Richelson is a Certified Yoga Instructor in O2 Yoga, which balances many principles of Astanga Yoga with a more creative and less predictable Vinyasa-flow format. She studied with Mimi Loureiro in Boston, Massachusetts. She is excited to share with her students the power and joy that emerges from intentional movement and conscious breath. She is also a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, raw food chef and enthusiast, and loves to make green smoothies with her bike blender! For more information email: jeanette@livityhealthcoaching.com.

Website

http://www.livityhealthcoaching.com

Tammelyn Frank

Tammelyn has been a group fitness instructor and personal trainer for over 15 yrs. Her current passion is Zumba but also teaches step, yoga, pilates, kickboxing, circuit training, boot camp and strength training of many different forms. Tammelyn has an Associates Degree in Nutrition and is certified in Sports Nutrition.

Lara Schneider

Lara took her first yoga class in 1997 in a barn in the backwoods of Maine (heated by a woodstove) and has been hooked ever since! She is a 2008 graduate of both the Kripalu teacher training program and the Integrative Restoration (iRest) Yoga Nidra training program. In addition to hatha yoga in the Kripalu lineage, she has been practicing kundalini, Anasura, and vinyasa yoga, and she has also attended numerous Vipassana Buddhist meditation retreats. In 2009 Lara greatly deepened her knowledge of yoga on a three month cultural tour through India and Thailand.

Besides her work in yoga, Lara has been an organic farmer, environmental educator, and community organizer for thirteen years. She believes in yoga as a means of strengthening oneself for a richer and more committed life off the mat, and as a trained permaculture designer one of her interests is exploring the relationship between ecological awareness and the inner landscape.

Randy Bourgoin

Randy has been in the Fitness Industry for over 8 years. He has held positions in Sales Manager, Assistant Manager, Manager, and as a Personal Trainer. These positions were held with some of the leaders in the industry. He also is currently working with a chiropractor performing dynamic functional assessments and educating and teaching clients exercises.

His goal is to educate and show people purposeful or “functional” training. The body uses groups of muscles. Isolating one muscle at a time is not natural and goes against what our bodies do everyday which may create muscle imbalances and can lead to injury. Randy teaches clients exercises that mimic motor patterns used each day which will improve the way the body moves in our hectic lives.