 CHA Personnel
Weekly Class Instructors
Daksha Baumann, Yoga
Sally Clinton, Yoga
Silvana Cuello, Salsa
Rebecca Rose Tousignant, Yoga
Gabrielle Wellman, Feldenkrais
Practitioners at CHA Center
Sally Clinton: Yoga, Ayurveda & Breathwork
Connie Curtin: Midwife & Maya Abdominal Massage
Betsy Duncombe: Counseling, Psychotherapy, Yoga
Anna Fernandez: Midwife & Herbalist
Robyn Lorio: Plant Spirit Medicine
Bios
Daksha Baumann
“I look past the mid-century of my life over years filled with an aggregate of educational trainings, jobs, passionate interests, physical breakdowns and healings; the usual mix of a woman’s life. In 1974 I stepped through the door of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Salt Lake City curious to find out what yoga was all about. After that introduction I continued to make yoga part of my life as I completed college studies, traveled about the west, adventured in a variety of jobs including cook, wild seed gatherer, river runner, tree planter, teacher, census worker, house painter, gardener and married and grew a family. I completed two teacher trainings, the first at Kripalu where I also trained in the Polarity Process, and more recently in 2005 at the Nosara Yoga Institute. The Self-Awakening approach taught at Nosara was a wonderful match for me and I wanted to offer the same benefits to others to I began to teach.
For me yoga is an answer to the current discombobulating of our planet. The healing balance offered by the life practice of yoga, reflected in each individual, can be transmitted out into the world in innumerable ways.
My sessions: a mix of classic asanas, pranayam, meditation, vinyasa flow, and restorative poses, can help lead one deep into the home of the body.”
Sally Clinton
Sally Clinton began her journey with yoga and the yogic lifestyle as a teenager over 25 years ago as she began to explore metaphysics, spirituality, and conscious living that grew out of a deep reverence for Life. Her classes provide a fluid, meditative, heart-centered practice that offers students an embodied experience of yoga, balanced with detailed alignment principles, spiritual teachings, and the practical application of yoga to everyday life. Having worked with people of all ages and various physical abilities for over a decade, Sally provides a safe environment in which to meet both total beginners and experienced students. Sally completed the Basic and Professional trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and has studied with many internationally recognized teachers from the Iyengar, Anusara, Ashtanga & Kripalu traditions. Sally is also a Certified Breathwork Facilitator as well as an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant and Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist with certification through the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She has spent 5 months studying in India, which includes studies of the Ashtanga Primary Series with Sri Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, and classes at the Ramamani Memorial Iyengar Institute in Pune, India. In 2006 she completed a Clinical Ayurvedic Studies program in Pune, India with world-renowned Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Vasant Lad through the wonderful support of her friends and local community. Through this support and through a commitment to Karma Yoga (selfless service) throughout her life, she has created The Community Scholarship Program to help make Yoga & Ayurveda available to all people regardless of financial means.
Sally has shared her love of yoga with others through teaching on the Blue Hill peninsula and surrounding communities since 1997. She works with individuals through her practice, Living Well, using Yoga therapy, Ayurveda, Breathwork, Ayurvedic Yoga Bodywork, EFT, and other tools to support each individual in their unique journey of self-awareness, health, and healing. Sally happily lives with her husband, Gene, their new dog, Moses and sweet spirit-dog, Paix in Brooksville, Maine. www.yogawithsally.com or www.artoflivingwell.info
Silvana Cuello
Connie Curtin
Connie is a certified nurse midwife and a certified ATMAN (The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage) Practitioner. She has lived and worked integrating knowledge of plants, western medicine, and alternative modalities since the early 1980’s. Connie’s work in women’s health began in 1988, shortly after the homebirth of her second child in rural New Hampshire. She has found common ground working with women and their families in hospital, home, and clinic settings around New England. That common ground, that women’s stories from Maidenhood, through Motherhood, to Crone Wisdom hold the key to who they are, led Connie to midwifery, graduating from The Frontier School in 1999.
The desire for personal growth, as well as, seeking more ways to encourage women to speak from their hearts, minds, souls, and bodies led Connie to study yoga, body work, and Maya Abdominal Massage. The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage are founded on the ancient Maya technique of abdominal massage, which is an external, non-invasive technique that guides the internal organs that have shifted. Maya massage improves organ function by releasing physical and emotional congestion from the abdomen improving the flow of chi and fluids of the circulatory, lymphatic, and nervous systems.
When working with Connie, you receive the benefits of her training as a Maya Abdominal Massage Practitioner combined with experience as a women’s health specialist and the nurturing of a seasoned Mother.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Duncombe
"I am both a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), and a yoga teacher. The focus of my practice is body-mind-spirit integration in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, depression, addictions, or any other of our so-called mental health disorders. While trained in and drawing from a range of traditional psychotherapies, my leaning is toward "mindfulness" based work (Masters in Social Work & Mental Health, Universities of Hawaii and Maine; clinical licensure State of Maine). When appropriate, I weave in breath and yoga-based healing techniques which I have studied for twenty-five years as a yoga teacher (Intensive/Teacher Training Programs with Donald Moyer, Manouso Manos and others around San Francisco and Maui). I bring to my current therapy practice many years experience counseling and teaching yoga/meditation to adults and adolescents in prisons and in communities in Hawaii, California, Costa Rica and in Maine (where I developed, researched and published a 'Free Inside' program for inmates in many prisons). Finally, I am proud mama of artistic twenty-two- and fourteen-year-old girls, happy wife of a free spirited guy, and honored friend of two dogs, two horses and a cat. Sliding scale fees and a number of insurances, including Mainecare and Medicare, are welcomed."
Anna Fernandez
"I am a Midwife and Herbalist. I have been studying midwifery and attending births since 1999 - since the birth of my son - where I realized I needed to be involved in birth for the long term. I have studied under some amazing midwives who work toward improving childcare services in our country. I will continue their work, speaking out for women, families and especially babies who I believe should be born in peace. I believe that "birth is as safe as life gets" and that women and families should have a choice of where and with whom they give birth. I provide complete homebirth care- from prenatals right through six weeks postpartum. My goal is to give individualized care that assists women in having safe, empowering and positive experiences. I also do fertility counseling for women trying to conceive as well as for women trying not to conceive.
I have been studying herbs since high school. I have a Chartered Herbalist certificate from the Dominion Herbal Collage in Vancouver, British Columbia and Master Herbalist certificate from the School of Natural Healing in Utah. I have a small herbal products business - Mother Bloom Botanicals in which I grow the majority of herbs that I use. I am dedicated to assisting my clients to restore, develop and maintain optimal health and well-being. My desire is to inspire people to take control of their health through diet, lifestyle changes and herbal education. I believe that everyone can boost their vitality, rely less on allopathic medicine and feel better on a daily basis!" www.motherbloom.com
Edee Howland
Edee Howland has been a practitioner in classical homeopathy for twelve years. She greatly values a holistic approach to health, for prevention, health maintenance, and for regaining health. She is a graduate of Stanford University and The Pacific Academy of Homeopathy and has completed extensive post-graduate courses from the world’s best teachers of homeopathy, including Rajan Sankaran, Divya Chhabra, Jayesh Shah, Nandita Shah, Jeremy Sherr, Misha Norland, Louis Klein, Sadhna Thakkar, Anne Schadde, and Massimo Mangialavori. She is a member of the Maine Association of Homeopaths and the North American Society of Homeopaths. She is a founding board member of the non-profit Community Health Alliance in Blue Hill.
Edee has a strong interest in working with animals and is a recognized specialist in interspecies communication. She worked as a volunteer once a week for nine years at the Marine Mammal Center in northern California, working with the rescue and rehabilitation of seals, small whales,and dolphins, and for four years at the San Francisco Zoo. Beginning in 1980, she has traveled throughout the world to have opportunities to swim with wild dolphins and whales. Since 1994 she has led annual tours to swim with and interact with dolphins in the wild. She applies her knowledge of homeopathy to treat animals as well as people. The basic homeopathic principles are equally effective.
She lives in Blue Hill and has an office there, and also practices homeopathy in Bangor one day a week. She has an interest in energy-conserving, non-toxic, sustainable "green" approaches to construction, and has created her office, as much as has been feasible, with these materials. She continues to learn about this, and is in the process of building a strawbale house on Little Deer Isle.
She has a particular interest in educating people about heavy metal toxicity and about the benefits of good nutrition. She's interested in making available to her clients any aspect of her background which may be useful. She has been practicing Da Yen Qi Gong for twelve years and has been working with energetic healing since 1980.
Along with her practice of homeopathy, Edee enjoys providing people with information on the whole food supplement Juice Plus, herbal products of the Amazon Herb Company (which helps to preserve the rain forest), and the products of the company Biopro, equipment to help individuals reduce exposure to ELF pollution from cell phones and other sources. Her website is www.garden-of-edee.com.
Robyn Lorio
Robyn Lorio has been a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner since 2004. She received her training in Western Massachusetts from Eliot Cowan. Eliot Cowan developed Plant Spirit Medicine by combining his acupuncture training and his work with indigenous healing methods.
Upon graduating from the training course, Robyn has knowledge and skill in the Five Element system including the ability to read the twelve pulses. She has formed life long relationships with local plants which have generously offered their assistance in healing.
Robyn's love of the plant world and desire to help people were brought together through her Plant Spirit Medicine training. It is her hope to bring this medicine to those seeking to restore balance and harmony in their body, mind and spirit. By working with the natural rhythms that occur both within ourselves and the world around us, we begin to realign ourselves with our natural state of being.
Rebecca Rose Tousignant
Gabrielle Wellman
Gabrielle Wellman has been studying holistic health since her young adulthood after repeated admonitions from her grandmother, Lola, that "Health is our only Wealth!" She received her certificate in Shiatsu (Acupressure Massage) in 1991 after offering 100 practice sessions to her restaurant customers while employed as a waitress during her peripatetic years. She finished her 4 year Feldenkrais® Training in 2001. These two modalities interest her for their effectiveness in teaching relaxation and self-awareness. She has been actively practicing bodywork for 17 years in the Penobscot Bay Area. She is also a student of Yoga (since 1988) and Vegetarian Cooking (since 1980). An avid outdoor enthusiast, she bikes, hikes, paddles, skis, gardens and swims whenever the weather agrees.
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