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Mary Bartel, B.S., ERYT-500
Structural Yoga™ Therapist and Teacher
Certified Professional Kripalu Hatha Yoga
Instructor
Mindfulness Meditation Instructor
Owner/Director Inner Quest Yoga & Wellness Center
 Mary is a certified Structural Yoga™ Therapist and Instructor by Mukunda Stiles,
Yoga Therapy Center (750 hrs.) and a registered and certified professional level Kripalu Yoga teacher (500 hours) by the Kripalu Center. Mary holds
additional certificates in Chakra Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Pregnancy Yoga.
She has advanced training in Integrative Restorative (iRest) Yoga Nidra
(Mindfulness Meditation),
currently studying under Richard Miller, PhD.
As a Structural
Yoga™ Therapist Mary works 1:1 to help client's alleviate symptoms of imbalance
and manage pain from chronic conditions and structural concerns via individually
prescribed yoga practice and life style and diet
recommendations.
Mary has a passion for helping people with special needs. Her personal
history of chronic back and neck pain led her to yoga and then Structural
Yoga™
Therapy. With the knowledge gained and persistent yoga therapy practices
and meditation she has found balance and relief. Mary has since developed
therapeutics yoga programs for back care. Mary also works with cancer
patients through the local hospital and residents at St.
Joseph's Addiction Treatment & Recovery Center in Saranac Lake.
If you are
ready to devote yourself to practices that will deepen your spiritual growth,
enhance your vitality, and improve your health and well being, Mary wishes to
help you on an inner quest to find what is innately yours: strength, peace,
wisdom and much joy.
Jackie Foster, RYT
Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor
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negative self image and persistent joint and back pain brought me to yoga. I
have since discovered Yoga is much more than the physical postures.
Kripalu yoga is about creating non-judgmental awareness and exploring physical,
mental and emotional edges. The practices leads me to inner stillness on and
off the mat, and in meditation. I wish to share this practice with others and
help them accept where they are, embrace their true nature, and be open to
growth through experience.
Jackie has a
200-hour teacher certification from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She
previously taught mat Pilates here at Inner Quest Yoga & Wellness Center. She
taught Pilates and Spinning at Four Seasons Fitness Studio in Owego NY prior to
moving to Saranac Lake.
Jackie and
her husband enjoy hiking and cross country skiing in the beautiful Adirondacks.
She looks forward to continuing her inquiry into yoga with more Kripalu
trainings.
Leigh Ann Tahash, B.A.
Dance of Light
Leigh Ann studied ballet while earning her Bachelors of Arts degree from Virginia Intermont College
in Bristol, Virginia in 1984. In addition to her extensive dance training in college, she has studied
and taught children and adults at many prominent schools in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
Leigh Ann is popular and well respected for her teaching philosophy which encourages a deep understanding
of the body, and movement, through proper placement, alignment and technique.
Leigh Ann credits Lucy Bowen McCauley, a former faculty member at the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet, with the
method of stretch technique which is a strong part of her background. She also credits much of her success to
teachers Maureen Basta Miller, Eric Hampton, and Michelle Lees.
Leigh Ann has taught for the Georgetown School of Ballet, the Wyngate Elementary PTA Ballet Program in Bethesda, MD.,
and the Arlington County Department of Parks and Recreation. Most recently
Leigh Ann was on faculty at the Arlington Center
for Dance from 1990-2004, and the Academy of the Maryland Youth Ballet from 1996-2004,
in addition to her work at Joy of Motion Dance Center from
1992-2004.
Jim Hoit, LMT
Certified Tai Chi Easy®
Qi Gong Facilitator
Jim has been studying and practicing Tai Chi and Qi Gong for a number of years. If you live in
or around Saranac Lake you might have seen him in one of the parks practicing
this meditation in motion. Jim has wanted to share this healing modality with
others for quite some time as he has witnessed its many benefits. In June,
2006 he committed to this calling, trained and became certified as a facilitator
of Tai Chi Easy®
Qi Gong at the Omega Institute.
Jim is a 1999
graduate of Finger Lakes School of Massage in Ithaca, NY. Since graduation he
has completed a 110 hr. reflexology certification program at the Omega Institute
and a 200 hr. essential oil certification at Finger Lakes. He has also studied
Chi Nei Tsang with the Healing Tao Institute & Chinese medical theory with
Michael & Lesley Tierra. Currently he is a student of the Ohashi Institute.
Stuart Harmer
Personal Trainer
Stuart Harmer is the newest
instructor to join Inner Quest Wellness Center. A transplant from Nashville,
where he graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Education. After
too much stress in corporate sales and real estate development, he committed
himself to health and wellness over materialism, not only for himself but also
for others.
He is certified as a Personal Trainer through NFPT. (National Federation of
Personal Trainers). He was trained by, and worked for, celebrity trainers in
Nashville for 5 years. Upon the birth of his first child, he and his wife
decided that Saranac Lake was the best place to raise a family and practice.
Mary Bartel and her
Inner Quest Yoga & Wellness Center represent to him many shared philosophies
regarding health and wellness. Therefore, his alignment with Mary was
inevitable. He offers to Inner Quest a cutting edge fitness philosophy that
will synergize well with the current instructors and classes.
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