Please note that Blossom Wellness Center is not a medical clinic and its practitioners are not medical care provider. We do not diagnose or treat disease or prescribe medicine. We encourage you to be under the care of a primary care physician, as the therapeutic services we offer are not substitutes for medical treatment.
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JOANIE
Joanie supports individuals and groups in living their fullest potential through heart-centered-living. Her approach reflects her way of life: intuitive, grounded, positive and full of JOY! She brings presence and deep listening to her work, creating a safe and nurturing environment where all are welcome. Her spiritual coaching, classes and retreats explore the themes of developing consciousness, building intuition & self-awareness, living from the heart and creating a fulfilling life.
As the curator of Blossom Wellness Center, she offers holistic coaching for individuals & groups, intuitive bodywork sessions and yoga & meditation classes in Montpelier, Vermont.
- Holistic spiritual coach
- Ayurvedic health counselor
- Massage therapist
- Yoga & ecstatic dance teacher
Carina
Carina is yoga teacher, massage therapist and body-based psychotherapist. She has been practicing yoga for over two decades and has taught since 2015. Her classes often incorporate meditative practices, breathwork, alignment awareness and slow, intentional movement. Her teachings are offered to support her students in their process of healing, transformation and returning to their true nature— physically, psychologically and spiritually.
Carina's classes are influenced by Ashtanga, Iyengar as well as tantric lineages of yoga. She further draws inspiration from her extensive background in Buddhist study and practice, Ayurvedic bodywork, trauma healing, indigenous healing methods as well as her love for the wilderness and natural world.
Amy
Amy weaves together different movement modalities, anatomical education and bodywork in her practice, Emerge with Amy LePage. Beginning as a therapeutic yoga practitioner, focusing on functional movement and mechanics of breathing, Amy deepened her skillset to become a somatic practitioner, offering movement classes that instill a practice of deeply tuning in and listening to ones own body in motion, rest and breath.
Her approach to movement is through educating students to better understand themselves: their nervous systems, how neuromuscular retraining works, how breathing is impacted by ones habits and patterns, and getting curious about slowing down and exploring how smaller movements have big rewards. Her background and years of dance and improvisational movement also informs her approach to teaching. You can see her skillset and trainings here.
In addition to Somatics, Amy also offers movement for pregnancy, childbirth education, pelvic floor education, Somatic Bodywork during pregnancy and postpartum & classes with baby.
Amy's somatic group classes, workshops and private client sessions are all about experiential learning – providing students and clients the foundational framework to help themselves move toward a softer, more easeful experience of living in their bodies.
Her work with individuals and families during pregnancy, birth and beyond is infused with a holistic, evidence based and highly individualized focus, supporting people to be seen, heard and empowered during this transitional time.
Devon
Devon Parish has always expressed herself through movement. She trained in classical ballet and modern dance for over twenty years, at times performing professionally, and she still loves it. It took a persistent injury and some persuasive friends to finally bring her to the yoga mat in 2011. There, she soon found not only healing but also a new passion. In 2014, she completed her 200-hour training through the Boston Yoga School under the guidance of Ame Wren. She has also completed additional training in Yin Yoga and Functional Anatomy.
Since becoming a mother, Devon has explored how to use yoga as a tool for guiding people through radical life transitions. She is a student of somatics and narrative healing. Over the years, Devon has taught in studios, gyms, community centers, churches, and parks across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont. Her teaching is rooted in the vinyasa style of linking breath and movement. Devon values intelligent sequencing that empowers students to challenge themselves while staying safe and not taking themselves too seriously. She strives to foster an atmosphere of belonging and growth, believing that embodiment in community is ultimately the key to transforming our world.
Emma
Fitness aficionado Emma Manion-Kohr is a dance educator, artist, and personal trainer from Vermont. She holds her B.A. in Dance and Humanities from Bennington College and is a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified trainer with specializations in Corrective Exercise and Behavioral Change. She's had a lifelong fascination with the human body's composition, capabilities, and direct link to quality of life. Her dance performance work is reflective of this curiosity, and she blends her understanding of movement mechanics with an explorative quality for her students and clients to get enchanted by their capabilities, too.
Johannah
Johannah is a dedicated Ashtanga Yoga practitioner, a teacher of yoga and movement, an Ayurvedic bodyworker, an artist, and a graduate student of counseling. She has been deeply immersed in the practice of Ashtanga since 2012 and has completed teacher trainings with renowned instructors such as Vijay Kumar, David Swenson, Kathy McNames, and Christine Hoar.
Her journey has taken her to Mysore, India, twice, where she studied with Vijay Kumar and connected with the roots of yoga. Johannah values the focus, discipline, and inward reflection of traditional yoga, while also embracing the joy of creative movement and the playful exploration of new skills and techniques.
Kristin
Kristin Henningsen MS, RH (AHG) E-RYT, IYT is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher in the Embodyoga™ style as well as a 200-hr certified integrated yoga therapist, exploring the body’s structures and consciousness through embodied asana, pranayama, and meditation.
With a background in the biological sciences as well as integrative healing therapies, her practice reflects her passion for the science, spirit, and therapeutic aspects of yoga. Learn more about Kristin at www.banyanmoonbotanicals.com.
Megan
Megan is an ICF-certified ADHD-friendly holistic productivity coach (www.meganpowcoaching.com) whose body of work centers delight, embodiment, connection, and meaning-making. Her offerings are joyful, inclusive, and trauma-informed. She is enormously grateful to be able to offer:
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inclusive, irreverent dance fitness,
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ADHD-friendly academic wellness coaching for college students,
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ADHD-friendly holistic productivity coaching for mid-career professionals,
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spacious, nourishing retreats,
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and seriously playful communities of practice.
If you're curious, there's more info at www.meganpowcoaching.com