BlueSky Yoga Center
Instructors
Janie Owens, RYT, became
the new director of BlueSky Yoga Center in July of 2006. She
has training in Reiki and laying-on-of-hands healing, as well
as mediumistic and psychic training. Janie was ordained as
a Spiritualist Minister in 1985 and, in this capacity, especially
enjoys performing wedding ceremonies. Since 1986, she has
been drawing spirit guides in pastels and creating spirit
inspired oil paintings.
Under the penname of Elizabeth Owens, Janie is an accomplished
author of four new age books. Llewellyn Worldwide is the publisher
of her books: Women Celebrating Life; How To
Communicate With Spirits; Discover Your Spiritual
Life and Spiritualism and Clairvoyance for Beginners.
From 2004 to 2006, she wrote a column titled Neighbor To Neighbor
for the Daytona Beach News Journal and, prior to that, a pet
column for the DeLand Beacon.
Janie is certified through the Visuddha Yoga Teacher Training
Association and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Contact Janie Owens through BlueSky Yoga Center, (386) 785-1419,
janie@blueskyyogacenter.com
or info@blueskyyogacenter.com
Janie teaches yoga and is available for past life regressions,
spiritual healing.
Ava Zamora' has been a professional dancer and instructor
for 20 years. Ava owned a Belly Dance school in Indianapolis
for 5 years. She has performed from coast to coast in the
U.S. and Canada. She appeared in the films Beau Geste, Follow
Me and Somewhere in Italy, as well as various television series.
Ava was a former star of the Cleopatra Review in Las Vegas.
Ava teaches Belly Dance.
Faatimah has been a performing artist for
more than two decades, working onstage as dancer and actor
since childhood. She has appeared in dozens of stage productions
in Boston, Lawrence, and Haverhill, Massachusetts and in Brevard
and Seminole Counties, Florida. She has studied many dance
genres, including ballet, tap, modern/jazz, lyrical/theatrical,
east and west coast swing, salsa, cha-cha, and of course Middle
Eastern dance.
As an artist and student of dance, Faatimah has always been
fascinated by the deep emotion and eloquence that movement
can convey. Middle Eastern dance is full of passion, grace
and joy -- it can be a dance of celebration or a dance of
sorrow.
Faatimah comes to BlueSky Yoga Center hoping to share her
love of dance with students and to help them express themselves
through this ancient dance while staying fit and having fun.
Faatimah teaches Belly Dance
Nalani Valentine has more that 20 years of dance
experience. She teaches and promotes feminine physical and
mental well-being through the sensual and elegant art form
of belly dance. She has taught classes and workshops in Oakland,
CA,, New York City and Westchester County, NY. BlueSky Yoga
Center welcomes Nalani to our studio! With her expertise as
a choreographer, dancer and Belly Dance instructor, we know
she will attract many to her fold.
Nalani teaches belly dance.
Ilia Morales is a certified ZUMBA Instructor who
has loved to dance since she was a little girl. Born in Puerto
Rico, a small island in the Caribbean full of Latin music
and folklore, is what has inspired Ilia to become a ZUMBA
Instructor. ZUMBA not only keeps you in good shape, she says,
but also lets you have a good time while dancing to Cumbia,
Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Regaeton, and Samba. The only thing
that Ilia expects of her students is to enjoy the rhythms
of the Caribbean while exercising their body, mind and spirit.
Elizabeth Ashcraft, RYT, has been doing yoga and
walking for 15 years. In 1999 I was facing yet another surgery
and started taking Hatha Yoga with Diane Hill. In 2003, again
facing surgery, I started taking Tai Chi with Saundra Emerson.
I fell in love with Tai Chi and my health improved so much
that I progressed to Saber (Broadsword) and Gim (Straight
Sword). I've also studied Kung Fu and in 2004, won a Gold
Medal in Tai Chi at the Wah Lum State Competition. In 2005
I won a Gold Medal for Saber at the International Competition.
My health has improved so much that I wanted to learn Reiki
healing and have reached Level 2 in Reiki. I enjoy Tai Chi,
Yoga, Reiki and the improved health benefits that all of these
have brought into my life. I am a graduate of Visuddha Yoga
Teacher Training Association and a Registered Yoga Teacher
with Yoga Alliance.
Elizabeth teaches Yoga and Tai Chi
Morris Sullivan first began meditating as a teenager
studying yoga at the end of the 1960s. He has since practiced
many styles of meditation, meditative arts and mind/body practices,
including Zen, vipassana, hatha yoga, Chito-Ryu karate, tai
chi, and qigong.
Morris is a certified tai chi teacher under Plum Blossom
International, Doc-Fai Wong, grandmaster, and is a member
of the International Tai Chi Federation. He studies under
Sifu David Carr, sixth generation Yang style tai chi master.
Tai chi is many things, Morris says. Of course, it is a martial
art. More important, however, tai chi offers a means to coordinate
internal and external movement -- the motions generated by
mind, breath and body -- to help the practitioner reach higher
states of mental and physical fitness.
Along with teaching tai chi and meditation at BlueSky Yoga
Center, Morris has co-coordinated two very successful Change
Your Mind Day events in DeLand co-leads meetings and guides
meditations at Sangha West Volusia, the DeLand-based ecumenical
Buddhist fellowship and leads a weekly Buddhist meditation
group with inmates at Tomoka Correctional Institution.
Christine Kee, RYT, came to Deland from
suburban Philadelphia where she worked for Univ. of Pennsylvania
in dentistry, and was owner and operator of her nutritional
company, Peak Physique. She has practiced yoga for 25 yrs,
including Kripalu, Iyengar, & Ashtanga. Currently certified
by the Visuddha Yoga Teacher Training Association and a Registered
Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, Christine teaches gentle,
beginner, mixed and intermediate yoga, complete with breathing,
restorative yoga and a beginner series workshop. Her philosophy
combines a passion for yoga, education, and breath control,
plus a zest for teaching the health benefits of yoga and fitness
as a way of life.
Leigh Outlaw, RYT, has been practicing yoga
for ten years, six of which have been Bikram (Hot Yoga). Leigh
has completed intensive workshops in Pranayama & Meditation,
Healing with Intent and Mediation, Yoga for Weight Management
and Laughter Yoga. She is a graduate of Visuddha Yoga Teacher
Training and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance
besides being certified as a 1st Degree Reiki. Her dedication
to the healing aspects of yoga is evident in all of the classes
she teaches.
Eneida Likes, R.Y.T., is a Certified
Discovery Yoga Teacher. She is a seasoned fitness professional
who has passionately instructed group exercise classes for
the past 13 years in a variety of modalities. Eneida holds
a Personal Trainer Certification with the National Academy
of Sports Medicine in addition to a number of certifications
through national organizations such as AFAA, AAAI and the
YMCA.
Eneida's intention as a yoga teacher is to provide an environment
where participants feel comfortable opening their sense of
self awareness and to explore ways of integrating body, mind
& spirit.
Eneida teaches Basic Yoga and Moderate Yoga.
Buffy Williams, RYT, CH, is a Certified
Instructor of Hatha Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy and Pre-Natal
Yoga and is a Registered Yoga Teacher through the national
Yoga Alliance. She offers instruction in Yoga and meditation
at BlueSky Yoga Center and Stetson University. She studied
various aspects of Yoga and meditation with luminaries Rodney
Yee, Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Eric Schiffmann,
Jai Uttal, WAH!, Patrick Bernard and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Buffy is a Usui Reiki Master Practitioner and a Seichem Reiki
Master. She has been an avid student of energetic healing
and alternative healing modalities for many years. In addition
to her ongoing Yoga trainings, her studies have included healing
with sound, color, crystals, laying-on of hands, herbs and
aromatherapy. She is a Board Certified Hypnotist and Certified
Past Life Regressionist
and is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Buffy
maintains her Hypnosis practice at BlueSky Yoga Center.
Buffy teaches ongoing classes in Yoga and meditation, leads
a variety of workshops and offers private sessions in Energy
Healing, Hypnosis, Yoga and meditation. She is a graduate
of Cornell University and has been a community activist and
entrepreneur in the DeLand area for over twelve years.
Buffy teaches Extra Gentle Yoga, Basic Yoga and Moving Meditation.
Deborah W. Staley, PT, RYT, YKA, is a Physical
Therapist, Registered Yoga Instructor with the Yoga Alliance,
and YogaKids Associate with an extensive and varied background
in the healing arts. She has been trained in CranioSacral
Therapy, Reflexology, Aromatherapy, and is also a Second Degree
Reiki Healer.
Deborah’s mission is to empower children and families
to achieve their highest level of physical, mental, and spiritual
growth. .
Deborah began her practice of yoga while in high school. Deborah
draws from many different styles of yoga in her practice and
teaching. With her Physical Therapist background she is able
to bring an extensive knowledge of anatomy and alignment to
her classes. She enjoys sharing yoga with people of all ages,
from babies to the seasoned adult.
Deborah counts as her primary “guru” her son,
Gavin, as he has taught her how to be present in the moment
– any moment! She has trained with Sonia Sumar (Yoga
for the Special Child(TM) ) and is on her way to becoming
a YogaKids Certified Facilitator.
Debbie teachers Post-Natal Yoga and Basic Yoga.
Mandy Barnes, RYT, enjoys the more active
and vigorous teaching forms of YOGA. She blends her humorous
personality into a fun, intermediate yoga class at a fast
paced flow. Expect to move! Mandy has a great love for Bikram
and Ashtanga yoga classes, which she enjoys participating
in regularly. She has attended numerous and varied yoga workshops
in the past, lifted weights, done Tae Bo and other vigorous
activities. Mandy is a graduate from the Visuddha Yoga Teacher
Training Association and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with
Yoga Alliance.
Annie Albala, RYT, started her yoga practice by watching
video tapes and attending Bikram Yoga classes about 10 years
ago. She then found regular yoga classes at BlueSky helped
her deal with the change of life. Annie's specialty is teaching
students to incorporate mindful breathing as they practice
yoga along with integrating their spiritual being. Basic yang
yoga is used to strengthen the body from within the core and
yin yoga to relax the mind and muscles. Her goal is to create
an atmosphere where everyone can let go of their fears and
worries. Annie is a graduate of Visuddha Yoga Teacher Training
and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
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