Cyndy Phillips (MA, RYT, CYT) has practiced Hatha Yoga for 13 years; however, her recent studies with Senior Iyengar teachers in India, Mexico and the United States have influenced her the most. Cyndy is certified to teach yoga though the Yoga Alliance (RYT) and is also certified as a yoga therapist (CYT) through the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She currently teaches classes in Iyengar-based yoga locally and is accepting clients for private yoga therapy sessions.

Humphry Ricon
I grew up in southern California and moved to Humboldt County in 2006 to attend HSU.  I graduated in December with a BA in Art (studio emphasis) and a certificate in Museum and Gallery Practices.  I typically work with variations of landscape painting and whimsical sculptural forms.   Currently I am working on developing my portfolio and exploring options in the area of education.  In my leisure time I enjoy surfing, camping and hiking to remote backcountry destinations.  I am awed by the grandeur and raw power of the north coast and draw heavily from its breathtaking scenery and emotional intensity as part of my creative process.

Merit Cape
Inspired by Native American bead styles and weaving patterns, Merit has been doing bead work for 20 years. she enjoys working with a needle and thread because of the freedom it affords and designs projects without conventional rules or patterns. Her favorite materials are from Nature....gemstones, shells, seeds, and pearls. Merit makes jewelry, fashion and home decor. She will also do custom work for weddings or stage performers costumes.

Monica Jurkovich
Hi, I'm Monica Jurkovich and I just recently became a certified Zumba instructor! :)  I attended Shasta College where I completed all my prereq's to apply to the dental hygiene program.  As a stress reliever from all the studying I started taking Zumba at a local gym with a girlfriend of mine.  We instantly fell in love with the music and movements.  I now crave Zumba.

Adam Wolter
Adam Wolter is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Holistic Health Practitioner in
Arcata. He graduated from Heartwood Institute in 2004, completing over 1300
hours of instruction in seven modalities. His approach focuses on specific deep
muscle work, alleviating chronic pain patterns, and helping the body integrate
lasting changes.
Massage prices are $40/hour (or $20/hr if you are a Humboldt Patient Resource Center patient)

Lori Cortez-Regan
Lori first discovered the joys and benefits of movement when she took her first dance class at the age of two.  While pursuing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Dance Studies (awarded in 2005) at Humboldt State University, she began to explore both Pilates and Middle eastern Dance.  Lori has been a principle dancer with the Lailaa Chandani Dance Ensemble and with Tribalesque Dance company.  She has also studied Middle Eastern Dance with Shoshanna, Rachel Brice, Elizabeth Strong, Zoe Jakes, Suzan Tekbilek, Delia Carella, and teachers from both Ultra Gypsy and Fat Chance Belly Dance.

Cheryl Johnson, MA
Bio – As a Career/Life Coach and Educator, Cheryl helps people achieve a healthy, well balanced lifestyle. Group and individual sessions offer opportunities to enhance your work life, explore personal growth and change, and define a creative retirement. It’s all about Living, Loving, Laughing and Learning!

Kathy Hinz
Kathy Hinz is a local health advocate and entrepreneur who works in
the wellness industry, specializing in helping others to enrich their
lives through better nutrition.

Brandi Rock
Brandi Rock’s eclectic yoga teaching style is influenced by her studies in Ashtanga and Hatha yoga. A former pharmaceutical Virology Scientist from the Midwest, Brandi comes to Northern California with a Biology degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Currently a full time yogi, Brandi lives the yoga lifestyle as a Vegan, practicing yoga daily and spending her time researching Ayurveda, the science of yoga.

Chelsey Brown, Registered Dietitian
Chelsey Brown graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelors degree in Nutritional Science-Dietetics. She completed a dietetic internship at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center in La Jolla and obtained her license as a Registered Dietitian in 2006. She worked as a Health Educator and Wellness Coach for American Specialty Health and as a clinical dietitian for United Indian Health Services. She is currently employed as a dietitian for Humboldt Patient Resource Center. She is passionate about preparing healthy meals from whole, fresh ingredients and sharing her enthusiasm for culinary arts and nutrition with others.

Glenda Hesseltine, M.A.
Instructor in the “art of effortless effort”, has taught Tai Chi and Qigong for the past 23 years.   Using gentle movement, guided meditation, sound therapy, and breathwork, she has worked with clients of all ages and with a variety of conditions and health challenges.   As a core teacher for 7 years with Kaiser’s Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia classes, she helped hundreds of people reduce stress and restore joy through movement.   Her passion continues to be working with people to help them awaken  “the healer within” and discover their own natural resources to reduce pain, feel good,  and stay healthy.

Trained originally by Dr. Sau-Wa Chan from China, she is certified in Tai Chi for Arthritis by Dr. Paul Lam of Australia, and endorsed by the American Arthritis Foundation.   She is also certified in Tai Chi for Diabetes, and proficient in Yang Style and Swimming Dragon.

For a full description of Glenda’s history, as well as a definition of  Tai Chi and the results and benefits it provides, please see  www.taichiforeveyone.net, or call Glenda at 268-3936.

Danielle Donaldson
Danielle shares what she loves the most by facilitating yoga in her community. In her perspective, the aim of the physical practice of yoga, the postures and breath awareness, serve to open us, not only in the physical body, but within all the layers and levels of ourselves. Deeply held tensions, tightness, stress and general dis-ease in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies are encountered with feeling awareness and able to be released through the awareness on the breath in poses that support this exploration. Consciously moving your body and breathing real big are base level operation, basic everyday maintenance allowing us to thrive in our everyday life situations and ultimately in our lives. When we take the opportunity we have in every moment to treat ourselves well we invite more compassion in so that we can go out into the world and treat each other well. Yoga is a way to embrace a compassionate shift in developing a greater intimacy with our own lives and in our relationships to everyone around us.

Danielle began teaching yoga in Humboldt county in July 2006. She facilitates with an emphasis on therapeutics and accessibility in the postures while working with healing. She currently teaches at HealthSport in Arcata, McKinleyville and Eureka (Old Town), Om Shala Yoga, Oshun Yoga in Trinidad and the Humboldt Wellness Center as well as offers private consultations and restorative sessions. Previously she's offered yoga through HSU Center Activities and College of the Redwoods, Eureka campus. Danielle has specialized training in Restorative yoga with Judith Hansen Lasater and completed her foundation training with Max Strom and Sherry Brourman as well as taken an advanced training including pre-natal with Max Strom working towards her 500 hour certification. Danielle has been practicing with and learning from Lori Snyder of Om Shala Yoga since she started physical practice in 2004. She started taking classes while healing from a series of injuries and surgeries that left her unable to walk for 6 months. She is so grateful for the amazing yoga community in Humboldt County and would like to thank all the teachers she's learned from and explored with, and a heartfelt thank you to all the people who have practiced with her, her students are always first and foremost her most important teachers. Namaste!

Joanne Fornes
Always a dancer & nature lover, Joanne’s careers have ranged from teacher (French, English, Older Adults) to mermaid (college job).  Inbetween she’s been a Peace Corps volunteer, a girl Friday to a horse trainer, publicist covering thoroughbred horses, body worker with horses,  catalog writer (for self-improvement tapes), and Pilates instructor.  She’s been a Laughter Yoga instructor for 2 years, finding nothing releases stress faster than a good laugh.  She’s inspired by Laughter Yoga leader Joy Harden who creates  a incredibly playful context for being our silliest selves.

Joy Hardin
You may know Joy from the Breast Health Project, or from Y.E.S. at H.S.U., or from the Arcata Gospel Choir. Her passion for Laughter Yoga stems from its power to connect people --- some of whom seem highly unlikely to joyfully laugh together. (e.g. people who see themselves as "type A," "old," "rowdy," "shy," "disabled," "penniless students," "non-English speaker")
"Two years of practicing-and leading-laughter yoga has made me healthier," Joy says. "I've eliminated or reduced my medications for depression, pain, and blood pressure. I used to run marathons. Now I can again experience that "runner's high" ---even though I use a walker. My abs are stronger and my relationships more playful. One of my wedding vows back in '94 was 'to be ridiculous and always remember to laugh.' Laughter Yoga helps me keep that vow---and have a lot less arguments with my spouse!

Jessica Callahan
I have 8 years of experience as a teacher and teacher/parent-trainer for early childhood through school-age levels. I have facilitated parent support and education groups. As well as hosted play groups for parents with children birth-5. I developed activities for a leading PreK-6 education magazine and for The Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots for Young Children.

In addition to by college background in early childhood and child development I have had specialized trainings in;

Family Preparation, Understanding the Child's Special Needs, Children of Substance Abuse Parents and Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), an evidence based program developed to teach families with children ages 2-8 that exhibit behavioral problems new an innovative ways to parent the high needs child.

I am also a mother to 4 year old and a one-year-old baby.

Sarai Lucarelli
Sarai Lucarelli is a Humboldt resident who received her BA in psychology from HSU and is a crisis counselor at Humboldt Domestic Violence Services where she also leads women support groups for survivors of violence. Extremely interested in reclaiming our ancient ways of community and passionate about all matters relating to healing and well-being, Sarai hopes to inspire others to see their own unique and innate powers and light while feeling a sense of belonging to something greater than oneself. Sarai looks forward to meeting all the wonderful women who feel similar and she desires to create a sacred space in which we can learn from ,and grow through, one another. NAMASTE!

Michele Dulas
Editor of Living Green Gazette, homesteader, publisher, gardener... Buddhist scholar... community organizer & sprout queen... offering classes that help build a healthy, self-reliant community.

Obadiah Switzer
Certified Master Practitioner of Nero-linguistic Programing 2009
On going researcher of hypnosis and related fields since 1998

Damion Sharpe
Damion Sharpe was teaching improv and acting for 5 years in sacramento. In sacramento he was involved as an actor in a 3 theatre performances, over 15 independent films, and performed with two Improv troupes. Damion is currently a member of, Random Acts of Comedy, a local Improv troupe performing every 3rd Thursday at Arcata Theatre Lounge. He holds a BA in theatre arts from UCD. He has a strong interest in making more films (Improv and scripted), creating 'The Art of presence' workshop (!coming soon!), and raw food preparation.

Valerie Vosburg
My name is Valerie Vosburg and I have been studying this gentle body therapy for almost 1 1/2 years.  I have 112 hours of education and have given and received several sessions as part of my educational process.  My first experience was one of complete healing.  As a lifelong waitress/bartender I had developed chronic shoulder pain in my right arm.  I had been suffering for nearly nine months and had minimal relief with chiropractic manipulation.  I was beginning to think that I would need surgery to alleviate my pain when I found a therapist who helped my body heal itself.  When I walked into her office, I could not even raise my hand up from my side because the pain was so excruciating,  Forty minutes into my first session, with gentle manipulation and overall relaxation, the pain was completely gone.  I was given very simple homework as to how to position myself if the pain persisted.  It has been a year and a half and I am still healed! (And yes, I do still waitress and tend bar.)  I am very excited about my own healing and am looking forward to helping others heal.