In 1988, I cofounded the Catalyst Group, a nationally based financial services firm that specializes in financing for sustainable economy. I provided strategic planning for the company and consulting for our business, banking, municipal, and private clients.
In 1997, I co-founded Spirit of Health, a community-based wellness center where I ran the movement studio, maintained a private practice, and served as interim director.
I have been a movement educator for over twenty years. I am trained in meditative/ecstatic and healing traditions, as well as somatic/therapeutic movement practices. I am fascinated by the depth and accuracy of our organic intelligence. My current interest is to help people feel better no matter what else is happening.
I have spent extensive time in group and am a student of synergy. How do we create together?
Since 1987 I have guided groups ranging from three to 300 in ceremony, play, healing and practical action.
I have also served on the board or management team of numerous nonprofit organizations and public/private community ventures.
Currently, I work with individuals and families as well as private groups, businesses, organizations, and learning communities. I coach and teach in my home studio, lead on-site trainings/retreats, and do guest teaching and presentations.
I live in a hand-built strawbale cottage outside a village in the hills of central Vermont. I love to dance and garden and rest, to be in wilderness and weather and water.
Both quietude and connection are precious for me.
Portals of Perception I and II, 2008, Susan Harper and Hubert Goddard
Perceptual Depths Retreats, 2006, 2007, Harper, Kevin Frank, Caryn McHose
Emotions & Sensations I, II, and III, Body-Centered Gestalt training, Susan Harper, 2003-06
Continuum Movement studies, Emilie Conrad, 1999-2002
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Donna Farhi, 2001
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Assistant Teacher, 2002
5 Rhythms, Gabrielle Roth and Moving Center faculty, 1996-2001
Sound Healing Training, Brattleboro, VT, 1997
Reiki I and II, 1996, 1997
Waldorf Teacher Training, Antioch Graduate School of N.E., 1989-91
Yoga Instructor Certification, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. 1987
Sunray Meditation Society, School of Sacred Studies. 1985-92
National Outdoor Leadership School Semester in Kenya. Recommended for Leader's Course. 1982
I began practicing yoga in 1980, at the age of 18. I lived at Kripalu and, in 1987, was certified there to teach. I have taught for yoga for over twenty years in community, business, and private settings, as well as in my own studio. I have studied in the Iyengar tradition and, since 1997, with Donna Farhi, with whom I trained and assisted in teacher training.
Beginning in 1985, I trained for seven years in the traditional moving meditation and health practices of the Tslagi (Eastern Cherokee). I continue this practice and am empowered to teach some of those forms by Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, director of Sunray Meditation Society.
Since 1996, I have honed my lifelong love of ecstatic movement through studies in various traditions. I offer this work privately and in community forums.
In 1999, I began studying Continuum, the evolutionary movement work of Emilie Conrad and in 2002, the body-centered Gestalt, sensory and perceptual work of Susan Harper, founder of ContinuumMontage.
With individuals, I address pain and stress as well as the release of long-held traumas and movement/postural patterns in the body.
Clients also use breath, movement, and perceptual experiences to relax, center, enliven, and gain strength.
I design home movement programs for athletes, the injured, and the rusty, too!
Community building has always been a soul expression. I've lived in several intentional communities. I initiated a co-housing group and organized the first annual east coast co-housing conference. I served as regional coordinator for a spiritual community. I've facilitated countless meetings and retreats and I continue to initiate adventures, and collaborations as inspired.
Orange County Court Diversion
Gaia's Web--Center for Education and Celebration
Northeast Cohousing Quarterly
Brattleboro Area Cohousing Group
BCD Day Camps
The Wise Ones (conferences and publications for women)
Brattleboro Food Coop
Spirit of Health Cooperative
Sky Meadow Retreat Center
Ocho Publishing
Fringes, Boundaries, & Transitions: Potent Points in Time & Space
Crest of the Wave: Direction & Presence in a Fluid World
Tracking Sensate Intelligence: Accessing the wisdom of your interior terrain
Presenter, NACUBO National Annual Conference: Changing Perspectives, Chicago, IL. 2008
Panel speaker and closing ceremonies, Integrative Medicine Conference, Boston, MA. 2002
Speaker, Economics as if the Earth Mattered Conference, Montpelier, VT. 1990
Presenter, Women, Money and Power Conference, Landmark College, Putney, VT. 1992
In 1987, I co-founded Catalyst Group (now Catalyst Financial Group). The company acts as financial alchemist connecting people, projects and money; and has coordinated over half a billion to date in financing to fuel green economy (conservation, prevention and restoration). Catalyst is a founding member of Social Venture Network and the socially responsible investment movement.
In seven years there I provided vision, strategic thinking and program design. I also consulted with clients—entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, non-profits, business and government entities—in the design of social programs, business start-ups and innovative community development programs.
In 1998, I co-founded Spirit of Health, a cooperatively run, community-based integrative health care center. Over the next six years I worked within a team of seven to ten practitioners. I developed the movement studio at the center and maintained a private coaching and consulting practice. As interim director, I created the tax-exempt 501(c)(3), raised initial funding, and created the first board of directors.
