Teaching Our AM Yoga Class
Jaqueline Pfeffer ("Jax"), RYT
Jacqueline Pfeffer is a (500 RYT) Yoga Instructor with 4 years of teaching experience and over 10 years of practice. Jacqueline is certain that yoga can transform lives one breath at a time. Her enthusiasm for life and passion for yoga is infectious and invites her students to smile and laugh, allowing them to take themselves lightly. You will experience a deep gratitude for your body, your practice and your breath after Yoga with Jax!
Vinyasa yoga has been the foundation of her teaching; however, her love of dance along with the exploration of Kundalini and Iyengar yoga have added to her ability to create a dynamic flow. Her classes offer a strong balance of effort with ease, strength with flexibility and grace with humility. She allows the individuals to find their own voice and determine what their true needs are. Through personal experience she firmly believes that the overall benefits of yoga have less to do with the physical postures and more about connection of mind, body and breath.
She completed her first yoga teacher training in Delray Beach in 2008 and is currently working towards her certification for the 500 RYT. Jacqueline also is certified with Indigo Yoga for Children (from CA), Yoga for the Higher Powered (a 12-Step base yoga) and Yoga Gangsters (305 Yoga in Miami). Several local and renowned teachers, such as Shiva Rea and Seane Corn have heavily influenced her personal practice and teaching methodologies.
She received her bachelor’s degree in Travel and Tourism, a minor in Business from the University of Florida, where she attended her first yoga class. Since graduating she has worked in various capacities within the Hospitality Industry, most recently at The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach in Public Relations and Guest Services, prior to transitioning to yoga full time in April 2011.
Jacqueline teaches at Hot Yoga of Delray, at the Buddha Lounge in Delray Beach, Fitness Now gym (Boca Raton) and Space of Mind (Delray Beach). Her classes vary for all levels and are unique to each location. Jacqueline also volunteers monthly with the Yoga School of Deerfield in bringing yoga to a correction facility.
You can join Jax from 8:00-9:00am on the lawn to start your day at our VOICES EVENT for an awakening yet gentle yoga practice entering us into this day of healing, community, and life storytelling.
Teaching Our PM Yoga Class
Lisa Kelly, LMT, RYT
Lisa is the the Owner and founder of The Red Tent and Amazing Births.
“ABOUT ME, from the heart: I am still seeking- just like you might be right now. But I'm blessed to be able to say that if I knew I only had 3 months to live, I wouldn't change a thing about my life.”
She is a licensed Massage Therapist, Yoga Instructor and Birth Doula. She graduated from The Florida College of Natural Health in 1988, and has been licensed in Florida as a massage therapist ever since. She is one of our areas most respected and experienced certified pre & perinatal massage therapists. Lisa has studied and apprenticed with Dr. Rosita Arvigo and is one of only 2 certified Arvigo techniques of Mayan Abdominal massage practitioners (ATMAM) in South Florida. She was trained in Breast Massage techniques through Debra Curties RMT, author of Breast Massage and director of the Sutherland Chan - School in Toronto, Canada. Lisa has also trained and studied with Neonatologist Fred Wirth of the Perinatal Institute and Marie Mongan of the HypnoBirthing Institute, she is certified to teach both Prenatal Parenting & HypnoBirthing childbirth education and attends births regularly as a birth doula.
Lisa’s practice is focused soley on women’s reproductive health, fertility, prenatal postpartum manual therapies and has a special interest and training in the mind/body connection and care and treatment of women victims of sexual and domestic violence and the effect of emotional and sexual abuse on the childbearing year & women’s health.
Lisa is an active member of the American Massage Therapy association (AMTA), Mayan Abdominal massage Association( MAMA), HypnoBirthing Institute, Pregnancy Massage Association, The National Vulvodynia Association (NVA), and KRI (Kundalini Yoga Research Institiute) and teaches prenatal yoga and yoga for women’s health and is a ceritifed Kundalini Yoga & Meditation teacher.
You can join Lisa from 3:00-4:00pm on the lawn at the end of the VOICES EVENT for a healing + restorative Kundalini-based yoga practice which invites us into a wonderful way to close out our time together.
Mid-Day Mindfulness Practice Facilitator:
Kimberly LaRue, LMT
Kimberly LaRue, Mindfulness Coach, is a compassionate multi-faceted healer, teacher and speaker who applies the skills acquired over 30 years to facilitate personal healing and wholeness. Her passion is to introduce others to the innate wisdom of the body by fostering awareness; clearing embedded physical, energetic and mental patterns and imparting techniques and practices that expand mind/body integration. Her ability to coach is effective and successful by facilitating and encouraging clients to have compassionate insight into life’s challenges. The primary modalities of Kimberly’s work are CranioSacral (CST) and massage therapy, yoga and mindfulness meditation in conjunction with with hypnotherapy and guided visualization.
Kimberly is a graduate of the Upledger Institute from which she has received advanced CST training credentials and works as a teacher’s assistant. Her expertise enables her to assist everyone from children to older adults as well as women during pregnancy. This gentle, hands-on method is especially effective for those dealing with cancer, nervous system and immune disorders.
As a natural progression from teaching aerobics and exercise for 18 years, Kimberly became a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) and worked for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios in Chicago. During this time she also studied Structural Integration (Rolfing) and plunged into her passion for yoga.
Over her career as both a yoga student and instructor, she has received training from many yoga notables including David Swenson, Seane Corne, Erich Schiffman, Gary Kraftsow, Shiva Rea, Paul Grilley and Sara Powers. Kimberly leads inspirational and gently-challenging classes in area venues including the Breakers Hotel, Hotel Biba and the Palm Beach Dharma Center. She also teaches “Beach Baby Yoga” for pregnant women and conducts an annual Exotic Yoga Retreat in Bali with her husband Eric, who is also a yoga instructor.
For Kimberly, the source that nourishes her, her practice and clients is meditation. She is a long-time student of the highly regarded Tibetan meditation masters, the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches. Under their tutelage she facilitates calm abiding meditation and yoga classes at the Palm Beach Dharma Center, where she also maintains her main office. She also incorporated other meditation and visualization techniques to facilitate healing, and has given numerous talks in the area on this subject, including the 15th District Courthouse.
She is also trained in herbalism and aromatherapy, certified in Tibetan Sound Healing and has trained with Donna Eden in Energy Medicine for Women and Advanced Energy Medicine.
Mindfulness training is designed to teach participants how to integrate and apply mindfulness in their everyday lives and to the range of challenges arising from medical and psychological conditions and life stresses. She has participated in the 7-day MBSR professional training program, under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santorelli. She teaches day-long meditation retreats and 8-week in-depth intensive training in mindfulness meditation and mindful hatha yoga.
Kimberly is available for consultations as a healing and mindfulness coach. Coaching deals with present time and forward-moving possibilities, creating seeds for transformation for what you have been longing for. Don’t hesitate, contact me today for a consultation. 561-714-6131
You can join Kim during the LUNCH HOUR at the VOICES EVENT (from 12:10-12:30pm) for an introduction to mindfulness practices.
Mid-Day Meditation Facilitator:
Teresa B. Pasquale, LCSW, RYT
Teresa leads contemplative prayer groups and facilitates contemplation workshops on the history and various practices of contemplative prayer. She also teaches yoga + meditation for issues of trauma, mental health/wellness, and general emotional + spiritual well-being. She calls the mental health model "Embody Mental Health", applying techniques of mind/body connection into addressing issues of mental health (in tandem with other, traditional approaches to healing).
As a trauma survivor, Teresa's own journey of healing was greatly impacted by the practice of yoga--through which she was able to take the embodied pain of trauma and build an embodied health--and meditative prayer, she hopes to continue to shared these gifts, given to her on her path of trauma and PTSD recovery, to others on similar journeys.
You can join Teresa during the LUNCH HOUR at the VOICES EVENT (from 12:30-12:50pm) for a guided relaxation + meditation practice.
