Guest Teachers
First Annual Dreaming Mountain Summer Festival
Love & Breath, Kirtan Workshops:
Lori Flammer-Mortimer & Nicholas Mortimer
Lori Flammer-Mortimer:
Lori began chanting Kirtan and teaching Interdisciplinary Yoga in 2000 after training at the Omega Institute. She founded Sattva Yoga, which guides students through the deeper practices of Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda and Sound Healing. Lori has studied herbology with Rosemary Gladstar and teaches yoga at the Ayurvedic Center in Williston, as well as at Champlain College and UVM in Burlington, VT.
Nicholas Mortimer:
Nicholas began practicing yoga in 1988, devotional chanting at Karme Chöling in 1990, and certified to teach yoga in 1997 through the Integral Yoga Institute, NYC. Nicholas' focus of the last three years centers on David Deida's relationship practices. He recently led a Men's Group in New York City that studied David Deida's book The Way of the Superior Man.
Survival Skills: The Roots School
The Roots School was founded to bring traditional survival skills, tracking and awareness and indigenous philosophy to our students and community. The school is run and instructed by Brad Salon and Sarah Corrigan who bring a combined fifteen years of experience in these ancient ways of living.
Cobb Oven Workshop: Mark Krawczyk
Mark Krawczyk has been building ovens and houses out of earth since 2001 and lives in Burlington, Vermont. His interests, skills and livelihoods are varied and include traditional woodworking, edible forest gardens, stonemasonry and coppice woodland management; all unified by the concept of permaculture – the conscious design and cultivation of ‘sustainable’ human communities. Mark operates his small craft business, RivenWoodCrafts, from his workshop along the Lake Champlain waterfront. To find out more about him and his work, visit www.rivenwoodcrafts.com.
Nervous Systems Health: Guid
o Mase
Guido Masé, RH(AHG), is a clinical herbalist, herbal educator, and garden steward specializing in holistic Western herbalism, though his approach is eclectic and draws upon many influences. He spent his childhood in Italy, in the central Alps and in a Renaissance town called Ferrara. After traveling the United States, he settled into central Vermont where he has been living since 1996. He works clinically and teaches as a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, and is a part of United Plant Savers and the American Botanical Council.
Baby Buddhas: Meditation for Children with Lisa Desmond
Lisa Desmond author of 'Baby Buddhas-A guide for teaching meditation to children.' has spent years developing a method for teaching meditation to children. Learn more at: www.babybuddhas.com
Wild Herb Walk and Herbal First Aid Kit with Larken Bunce
Larken Bunce is a clinical herbalist in private practice and an educator in community and academic settings. Her work weaves traditional views of health and nature with scientific understandings of plants and people,
exploring our innate tendency towards health and the profound impact of synchronizing our lives with the rhythms of the natural world. She holds a Master of Science in Herbal Medicine and has been studying and playing with the plants since 1994. Her practice and teaching draw on various aspects of body, mind and spirit-centered healing, including Western herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, aromatherapy, mind-body techniques, and whole foods nutrition. Ultimately, Larken's idea of "good medicine" is an afternoon spent in a field with a harvest basket, a blue sky, and the sun on her face.
African Dance with Alexis Kamitses
Alexis Kamitses has been dancing for over ten years. She received a degree in contemporary dance from Oberlin College, where she also began studying West African Dance, Improvisation and Hip Hop. Since moving to Vermont in 2002, she joined Jeh Kulu Drum and Dance Theatre and has been performing and teaching West African dance to children and adults around the state. She expanded her studies in 2006, traveling to Senegal, West Africa to dance. Alexis enjoys West African Dance as it is an energetic, joyful, dance form that is accessible to people of all ages and abilities. You can't help but want to get up and move your body when you hear the live drumming!
Keeping Children Healthy in a Toxic World with Mary Niles, MS
An herbal practitioner and educator for over ten years, Mary specializes in nutritional and herbal medicine for the whole family. A lifelong gardener, she is passionate about introducing people to the medicine which grows in the gardens, fields and forests around us. Together with her husband Jacob, she consults on ecological, natural building and healthy homes. She lives in Montgomery, VT with her husband and three children.
ImproviZENsation with Majalehn
Majalehn is originally an Uta Hagan trained professional actor who has performed extensively off-broadway and with Equity Repertory Companies. Since NYC, she has focused on developing Theatre Nouveau, an innovative interweaving of theatre and danse performance. She teaches The New Danse of Theatre: "Peace in Progress", workshops and residencies as contemplative practice and profound performance art. She has been core faculty at Omega for many years, also sharing her unique artistry with the HSP program and the Dance New England conferences.
Jivamukti Yoga with Sofi Dillof
Sofi graduated from the University of Vermont in 1994 with a major in philosophy. She later moved to New York City where she met her beloved teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life, Co-founders of Jivamukti Yoga. Sofi has been teaching Yoga for over a decade. She brings elements of devotion, philosophical insight and meaningful living into each Jivamukti Yoga asana class.
Ray of Light Reiki with Sukhada Repass
Sukhada Repass (Ray of Light Reiki) has been involved in the Healing Arts for eight years. She lives in Johnson, VT with her family. Sukhada is a Certified Reiki Master/Teacher & Lightwork Practitoner. She teaches Reiki Classes. Reiki is a Japanese light hands-on Healing Art which reduces stress and encourages relaxation. www.rayoflight108.com
Environmental Dance with Kristin Borquist
Kristin, a Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner and teacher, has had a private bodywork practice for over 15 years. Dance, meditation, yoga, pilates, tai chi and love of nature have all deeply informed her life and work.
Environmental Dance is a simple way to celebrate our belonging to our planet, to feel, embody and explore forms of nature we share with other beings, to be in the Mystery. Environmental Dance gives a way to access, rekindle, strengthen and expand our connection to nature, learning we are part of a community, we are loved, and we are connected to source.
"In a very busy and sometimes confusing world Environmental Dance is a way for adults and children to connect when feeling disconnected, celebrate when encountering beauty, to root and ground, to soar, sway and a take time to rest and be fully present." –Kristin
Soul Spa with Sharon Snow and Lisa Buell
Sharon Snow and Lisa Buell are professional coaches whose calling is to awaken others to their own creative power. In 2006 they began to talk about their mutual desire to use the power of coaching to make an even bigger impact.
Their joint coaching venture, Go Ahead! Do Something Worthy, is the result of that conversation, and what they hope is the beginning of a world-wide movement of individuals standing up and embracing the power they have to change the world, one initiative, one project at a time.
“We believe that each of us has the power to create whatever we want in our lives and in the world. Science is now confirming what the spiritual community has known throughout the ages – we are powerful energetic beings who have the capacity to create through focusing the energy of our thoughts, invoking the universal principal of attraction, and then responding with action, to the people, opportunities and events that come our way, to bring our thoughts into form, our visions into reality.”
In addition to their collaborative work, Sharon is the owner of Vantage Point Coaching and Lisa is the owner of Create Joy Coaching. Collectively they have almost 10 years experience coaching others to fulfilling, successful lives.
Kids Open Studio Crafts with Denise Schomody
Denise has a post-baccalaureate certification in art education and masters of education in curriculum and instruction. She spent the last two summers directing an art camp for kids.
Events At A Glance
Sat., July 14, 2007
-Yoga for all ages
-Meditation for children and adults
-Chanting
-Herbal Classes
-Build a Cob Oven
-African Dance
-Wilderness Survival Skills
-Pottery Workshop
-Kirtan
-Wild Herb Walk
About Dreaming Mountain
Dreaming Mountain is a private 372-acre hideaway with fantastic views of the Green Mountains, swimming ponds and hiking trails. Visit their website for more information.
