INSTRUCTORS:
Teta Barry
Melissa Rock
Ellen V. Secci
Gaby Winqvist

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Teta Barry, E-RYT 200, Ph.D.:  With a deep focus on connecting with the inner self through yoga, Teta's classes offer students the opportunity to learn how to become aware of their innate goodness and wisdom through the practice of postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and relaxation. Teta believes in the power of witness consciousness and its ability to heal the mind, body, and spirit. 

Trained in the Kripalu tradition, Teta has received advanced certification in restorative yoga, chakra yoga, and yoga nidra. She is a member of KYTA and Yoga Alliance and has been teaching yoga for over 10 years. Her classes are designed to improve strength and flexibility, decrease stress, and to allow students to incorporate lessons learned on the yoga mat into their daily lives. Teta’s students have experienced the benefits of yoga through lower blood pressure, fewer back problems, and increased body awareness. She has taught a diverse group of individuals and deeply enjoys making yoga an accessible, compassionate, and meditative experience for people to use both on and off the mat.

In addition to teaching yoga, Teta holds a doctorate in Health Policy and Administration and serves on the faculty at Penn State . She is a Certified Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher through the American Institute of Vedic Studies and is in the process of becoming an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist. Teta offers private consultation using the healing tools of Ayurveda and yoga. Additionally, Teta teaches yoga classes at the Mount Nittany Institute of Natural Health and serves as a faculty member in the Institute’s Yoga Teacher Training program.

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Melissa Rock, Founder & RYT:  In teaching yoga, Melissa offers a safe and sacred space for self inquiry and exploration.  She provides her students with the tools to skillfully cultivate tone, strength and flexibility of both body and mind.

Melissa, a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) certified in the Kripalu tradition, has been a student of yoga for nearly a decade.  Her classes blend a combination of Hatha Vinyasa and Kripalu yoga styles. Melissa's personal practice and teaching style are influenced strongly by her time studying with Robyn Wexler (Yoga Yard, Beijing), Mimi Kuo (Yoga Yard, Beijing), Donna Farhi (author of Bringing Yoga to Life; Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit; The Breathing Book, and Teaching Yoga), and with the knowledgeable teachers at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (www.kripalu.org), where she completed her yoga teacher certification.  Melissa is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher's Association (KYTA) and is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance (www.yogaalliance.org).

In addition to being a committed yoga student and teacher, Melissa is also a full-time dual degree doctoral student at Penn State University's Departments of Geography and Women's Studies.

For more information on Melissa's class offerings, please contact her at myrockyoga@gmail.com or info@yogavillagepa.com or 814-321-3309. 

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Ellen V. Secci, RYT:  Ellen has studied and practiced yoga and meditation since the 1960's.  She has been a certified Kripalu yoga teacher since 2002.  Formerly from Albany, NY she taught and was a board member of the former Albany Kripalu Yoga Center.  She invites yoga students to breathe consciously, engendering the trust between teacher and student that empowers students to come to know the unity of body, mind and spirit.

Ellen has taken master classes with many teachers in the Kripalu, Anusara and Iyengar traditions including Lilias Folan, John Friend, Todd Norian, Suzi Hurley, and Judith Lasater.  As a life long meditator she has studied meditation in the Buddhist and Hindu tradition with Gurumayi Chidvilsananda, Sally Kempton, and Sharon Salzburg.

A certified Spiritual Director, Reiki Master, Professional Storyteller, writer and teacher Ellen has offered retreats and workshops across the United States.  As a former Roman Catholic nun for 20 years Ellen continues to embrace all spiritual traditions as ways to find inner divinity.

For more information on Ellen’s class offering please click here or you may contact her at EllenOM@aol.com.  

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Ellen echoes the invitation of Rumi 
in her teaching:
“Come, come whoever you are
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving,
Ours is not a caravan of despair,
Ours is a caravan of endless joy.
Come, even if you’ve broken your vows a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come.  "

Gaby Winqvist, RYT:  A yoga practitioner for over ten years, Gaby brings to her teaching a passion for the profound and ancient teachings of yoga and Ayurveda.

Gaby’s studies of Iyengar yoga, Anusara yoga and Viniyoga, as well as the tantric and Buddhist traditions of hatha yoga, jnana yoga, kriya yoga, karma yoga and bhakti yoga all influence her personal practice and her teaching.

In 2003, Gaby completed a 2-year 700-hour teacher-training program at Mount Madonna Center under the guidance of renowned yoga expert Georg Feuerstein.  Her training included study with yoga teachers John Friend, Patricia Walden, Judith Lasater, and Janice Gates.  Gaby has also studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a certified Reiki practitioner, and worked as a committed environmentalist and urban planner for many years before committing her life fully to the practice and teaching of yoga.

Contact Gaby at gew10@psu.edu or 814-234-1167 to register or if you have any questions regarding her course offerings!

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