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Practitioner Biographies
Christy Chase, MAT, is the mother of two young sons, and feels the presence of yoga as a welcome oasis in a busy life. As a middle school teacher at Sophia Academy, she works hard to meet the individual needs of her students, and carries that intention in her yoga classes. Christy has been practicing Iyengar yoga since 1993. In 2011, Christy completed the second round of rigourous assessments to become an officially certified Iyengar teacher. Christy is grateful for the inspiration given by Suzanne Newton, whom she credits with starting her yogic journey; Linda DiCarlo at our local Iyengar Yoga Source; the beloved Patricia Walder, her mentor teacher who leads Teacher Training at BKS Iyengar Yogamala in Cambridge; and her fabulous students. Sara Davidson, ERYT-500 has been a yoga teacher for over twelve years and is an Certified Anusara™ teacher. As a dedicated and inspired student of John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga®, her teaching invitingly offers the student to participate in the creative and heart-opening opportunities and experiences of yoga, while deeply honoring the science of alignment to serve that higher aim. Studying with John throughout the years has been a continual source of support, inspiration, and vision. Practicing meditation since 1992, she is presently studying and practicing various meditation techniques that explore the tantric vision, practice, and lineage of yoga under the guidance of Paul Muller Ortega. Visit www.fullradiance.com. Back to Top | Back to Schedule Naama Gidron, RYT, is the Co-director of Motion Center and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher with over 15 years of yoga practice and 10 years of teaching experience. Naama first discovered Iyengar yoga in 1987 while at Columbia University. She has studied extensively with senior teachers, most recently with the Iyengars in Pune, India. Naama’s teaching style emphasizes alignment and awareness. It is clear and concise, energetic, and engaging. She enjoys working with a wide range of students, including athletes and seniors. Naama teaches classes, private instruction, specialty workshops, as well as retreats. Simone Lukas-Jogl discovered Rolfing Structural Integration after almost twenty years of struggling to accommodate a recalcitrant body with a passion for dance. After two surgeries, she had found “her” form of dance (Latin ballroom) and she developed a keen interest in learning how to reconcile competitive ballroom dance with the biomechanical limits of her body. Of course, this quickly developed into a search for ways to change her body's limits. Receiving Rolfing bodywork turned out to be an amazingly effective way to push the envelope - so much so, that she decided to become a Rolfer herself.
She has worked as a Rolfer on three continents and is fascinated by the ways our body's physical structure responds to culture, trauma, and emotional states. She continues to be amazed at the wide variety of effects people experience when she helps them free their body structure from no-longer-useful patterns of holding: relief from pain, ease in movement, deep relaxation, or emotional break-throughs. At Motion Center, Simone offers not only hands-on bodywork, but also one-on-one movement sessions which are an opportunity to deepen structural changes, build somatic awareness, and find ways to evoke one's most structurally sound movement patterns. Theresa Murphy is a senior Prajna Yoga instructor under Tias Little. Her style and approach to teaching is unique, blending classical alignment in poses, Taoist yoga, Chinese and Ayurvedic medicinal applications, martial arts, shadow yoga, and yin yoga. She actively studies under Sarah Powers, Erich Schiffmann, Tias Little and others. With over 12 years teaching experience, 20 years of practice, 6 years running two yoga studios and 4 years running a teacher training program in Omaha, Nebraska, she lives the yoga! Her classes are fun, challenging and uplifting, and can take you places you never thought you'd go. Visit www.theresamurphy.net Candor Plaza finds it an honor to support new Mothers and Fathers as they prepare for their unique journey of giving birth and becoming parents! Her involvement with childbirth has taken several twists and turns, beginning with her first Doula certification in 1995, and including foundational Midwifery training and apprenticeship, Childbirth Education training, and the births of her two daughters. She has had the privilege of attending many births in a variety of settings: at home, in the hospital, at birth centers and, once, in a Tipi! In 2009, Candor fell in love with the Birthing From Within approach to childbirth, and has been blessed to train directly with it's visionary creator, Pam England. As a Birthing From Within Mentor, it is Candor's mission to not only impart useful information in her classes, but additionally to acknowledge, facilitate and celebrate the profound and sacred shift into Motherhood and Fatherhood that is happening throughout pregnancy, and especially in preparation for labor. Michael Rich is an artist, professor and yogi. He has been a dedicated yoga practitioner since 1999, studying many forms of yoga, from Iyengar to Ashtanga. He completed his Yoga Teacher Training with Tom Gillette at Eyes of the World, Providence 2002. With a primary practice in Ashtanga, Michael has gone on to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and several senior teachers such as David Swenson, Nancy Gilgoff, David Williams and Danny Paradise. Michael has taught regular Asthanga classes at the Yoga Room on Nantucket, a studio run by his wife, Shannah Green. An abstract painter, Michael is influenced greatly by Eastern philosophy and art in an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation. He has been a Professor of Aat at Roger Williams University since 2000. Michelle Struckholz has been studying dance since the age of 4. With extensive ballet and modern dance training, she received her B.S. in Kaeli Abrahams Sutton, NCLMT, is the founder and Co-Director of Motion Center. Deeply intrigued by the way the physical form embodies and informs our “self”, she has spent the last 19 years investigating the interweaving of body, heart and mind. Her study of modern, classical and ethnic dance has included specialized training the Alvin Ailey School, Dancespace, and Djoniba Dance and Drum in New York; and Ballet Foret Sacre in Senegal, West Africa. From 1999-2001, Kaeli attended the Muscular Therapy Institute in Cambridge, MA. She has been a Rhode Island Licensed and nationally certified Massage Therapist for the past eight years and holds advanced training from Kam Thye Chow in Thai Yoga Massage and Carol Osbourne-Sheets in Prenatal, Labor and Postnatal massage. Kaeli specializes in Therapeutic and Relaxation Massage, Thai Yoga Massage and Pre and Postnatal Massage. Kaeli brings to her work a deep understanding of the body's capacity for movement, and its primary importance in finding an authentic connection to self, and a compassionate connection to others. Peter Wührl works as a holistic bodywork therapist in Providence, RI and in Hamburg, Germany. He teaches treatment of the inner body (viscera) both in Europe and North America, and is the co-author of a textbook on visceral osteopathy (published in English 1/2010 by Eastland Press). Additionally, he serves as co-editor of the German Journal of Osteopathy.***
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Simone took her Rolfing training with the European Rolfing Association in Germany and the Rolf Institute in Boulder, CO and was certified in 1998. Since then, she has studied extensively with Hubert Godard to understand Structural Integration from a movement perspective, taken classes in Rolfing technique and visceral manipulation, and started a personal practice of Continuum movement in order to delve more deeply into the world of somatic movement. 
Dance from James Madison University in 1997. Michelle then ventured to New York City where she studied ballet with Jackie Villamil, modern with David Dorfman, Kevin Wynn and many others, and performed with CORA. Two years later, Michelle landed and stayed in San Francisco for 10 years and had the pleasure of working with Kathleen Hermesdorf and Albert Mathias of Motion Lab, Company Mecanique Dance Theater, Annie Rosenthal and Company, David Dorfman Dance, and EmSpace Dance. Michelle has a strong passion for the human form and it’s physical motion. In addition to teaching at Motion Center, she is a certified personal fitness trainer and is pursuing RI therapeutic massage licensure. Michelle hopes to get many more people moving and dancing in Providence.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Culture and Dance from Long Island University. |
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