body.earth.community
<p>Jeanell has been practicing yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2006. She completed her first teacher training in 2007 in the Hatha Yoga Therapy style, and soon incorporated Vinyasa yoga through partial teacher trainings at the studio where she worked. She continued to deepen her practice with master classes with leading Vinyasa teachers such as Seane Corn, David Swenson, Johnny Kest, and Edward Clark. She enjoyed teaching yoga to groups as diverse as engineers, school teachers, farmers, Americorps volunteers, and adults with developmental disabilities. In 2011, Jeanell was inexplicably drawn to a style called Embodyoga(R) and signed up for a nine month teacher training at Yoga Center Amherst without ever having been to a class there. It was here that she found her yoga home. In 2012, Jeanell completed continuing education in Embodyoga(R) with Suzanne Manafort and Dr. Daniel Libby, specializing in yoga for PTSD. These days, among many other somatic and environmental pursuits, Jeanell relishes teaching yoga for farmers every week!</p> <p>Jeanell founded SomaGaia, LLC in 2012 in order to blend her somatic background (nearly a decade of improvisational dance, a year of Feldenkrais Practitioner training, many years of Tai Chi and Kung Fu training and student-teaching), her environmental background (a BA in Environmental Studies from New College of Florida, a Permaculture and Ecovillage Design Certificate from Lost Valley Education Center, multiple courses in Wilderness Skills, and years of living in ecovillages and intentional communities and work-trading on farms), and her bodywork background (a 200hr certification in Foot Reflexology, a Massage and Bodywork Certification with specialization in Maya Abdominal Therapy, and multiple massage and bodywork courses prior to her certifications). SomaGaia's emphasis is on somatic environmental education.</p>