The Soul Center Resident Faculty

Robyn Evans – Director

Robyn Evans - The Soul Center

Robyn is a modern day Western Yogi. Her classes capture the true essence of love and compassion and package it with a spirit that is both entertaining and inspiring.

Robyn’s journey began 14 years ago when she stumbled into a class being taught by Baron Baptiste. That was her awakening. She immersed herself in studies of Hatha Yoga traditions receiving certifications from Baron Baptiste and Beryl Bender Birch as well as in Pranakriya, studying with founder Yoganand Michael Carroll. She has learned and drawn inspiration from many gifted teachers – she would be remiss if she didn’t send extra special salutations out to Dana Flynn and Jasmine Tarkeshi of Laughing Lotus Yoga.

Through this all, her greatest teachings come down to this – “Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.” – Mary Oliver Contact Robyn: Email: Robyn@TheSoulCenter.com Phone: 610-935-2214

Yoga Faculty:

Maria Garcia

Maria is a Transformational Coach, workshop leader, and yoga teacher. She is founder/director of Sacred Centers East, a creative partnership with Sacred Centers, CA, and co-founder of The Way of the Butterfly – Sacred Passage From Girlhood to Young Adulthood.

For 5 years she lived and worked at “Kripalu at Sumneytown”, a residential yoga and holistic health center serving a worldwide community. Here she played many roles, including executive director. Maria specializes in using the Chakra/Energy System as a map to wholeness. She is committed to bringing the healing and empowerment available through the Chakras, as well as the benefits of yoga, to all people, not just yoga enthusiasts.

For more information about Maria and a full schedule of offerings from Sacred Centers East, go to www.sacredcenterseast.com . Email office@sacredcenterseast.com or call 610-933-3435

Mary Kate Farley

Mary Kate Farley, RYT, NCTMB, Reiki Master Teacher, began teaching yoga in a medical environment, and as a result, her Kripalu teaching style has evolved to cater to new students as well as to those struggling with physical and/or mental limitations. In addition to her experience working with students recovering from a variety of disfunction, she has also completed continuing education with a physical therapist on how to help students safely modify asana while recovering from specific injuries.

She is especially interested in the mind-body connection and has also completed continuing education and followed the work on this subject by such teachers as Anodea Judith, Amrit Desai, and Yogi Bhajan.

Mary Kate has a unique talent for channeling healing guided meditations which she shares at the end of each of her yoga classes. Copies of her guided meditation CD, “Sunrise of the Spirit”, as well as more information about Mary Kate can be found on her website: www.areturn2eden.com

For more information about Mary Kate’s classes, you can contact her directly via Email or reach her by telephone at 215-490-3440

Dave Odorisio

Dave Odorision teaching Kripalyu Yoga at The Soul Center in Phoenoxville, PA

Dave practices and teaches an integrative approach to yoga, which aims to heal on the physical, emotional and energetic levels. He first began his exploration of yoga in 2007 as part of his own quest for healing and transformation. Dave found through yoga a powerful tool to integrate the body-mind as well as quiet and release deep-seated tension and anxiety. His classes are known for their sincerity, compassion, humor and depth. Dave is a 200-hr. Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher, and also spent a year in seva (service) at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (Lenox, MA) living in community as a volunteer-in-residence. In addition to his yoga practice and training, Dave also brings to the mat 10 years of experience in pastoral counseling and retreat facilitation and planning.

Visit him on the web at: www.alignyogapa.com

Dance and Movement Faculty:

Laura and Micah Bertin

Group Motion at The Soul Center in Phoenixville PA

Micah and Laura Bertin, together since 1976, have been attending Group Motion workshops since the early 70s, shortly after Manfred Fischbeck and Brigitta Herrmann came to Philadelphia from Germany over 4 decades ago. The weekly “Friday Night Workshop”, now located in University City, has been a local legend since the late 60s.

Micah was a member of the dance company throughout the 70′s, touring nationally & internationally. Laura took Group Motion improv dance classes from ’74-’78 at PCA (now known as the University of the Arts), while also studying the art of mime (along w/ Micah) and has gained much of her experience on the dance floor. She brings her 35 yrs. of knowledge participating in over a thousand workshops into her expertise as a sensitive, skillful and playful facilitator. Laura is the only person to have completed the training to become a Certified Group Motion Facilitator by Manfred & Brigitta. She is honored to play an integral part in bringing it to the suburbs, having started the monthly series on The Main Line over 10 years ago, where she has lead over 100 workshops. She and Micah are thrilled to now be part of the Soul Center community.

Live, improvised music is one of the key components of the Group Motion Workshop and helps make the workshops extraordinary! That’s where Micah comes in, having started by drumming for dance classes at the University of Pennsylvania, accompanying Manfred, while also being the main “Friday Night Workshop” drummer for decades. He and music director Bill DeHaven now coordinate a roster of top-notch local musicians, creating the unique synergy that happens between them and the dancers. They feel so blessed to be able to bring this magical experience to the community…it is truly a labor of love and gives the whole “group” a feeling of such gratitude that they are given this opportunity to share something so authentic and rare, w/ themselves and so many.

No dance experience needed…Group Motion’s philosophy: If you can Walk you can Dance!

p.s. The Bertins are the proud parents of a 12 yr old son, Jeremiah, a prodigy “Drummer Boy” ! No surprise there!

Energy and Body Work

Cherie Lyon

Cherie is a lightworker who specializes in serving the Akashic Realm. Her journey has taken her from the business world in which she was a consultant to several Fortune 100 companies to the somatic world in which she was a Certified Rolfer and Movement Practitioner to her calling from the spiritual world while on planet Earth! Along the way she has practiced many pathways including Continuum with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper and Soul Journey (Michael Harper’s method), vibrational medicine (Quantum Techniques, EFT and BodyTalk), energy (Reiki, Re-connective Therapy) and many other wonderful modalities, from some of which she earned her PhD through years of informal training as a client!

In her practice she assists as a consultant and liaison between her clients and the divine masters that serve the infinite dynamic web of energy that holds everything we have ever created. From her perspective, The Akashic Records are the ultimate source for life coaching and spiritual evolution as a conscious endeavor (which includes and honors all spiritual pathways).

Living life passionately and joyfully in gratitude is her daily mission. Mastering love, compassion and understanding is her life’s mission.

For more information about Cherie and her work, you can contact her directly via telephone at 610-458-9876 or visit her website: www.TheAkashicPath.com

Kathryn Bohn

Kathryn Bohn at The Soul Center in Phoenixville PA

Kathryn Bohn is a gifted healer, spiritual intuitive, teacher and artist. Her intuitive services are offered through a variety of group workshops and individual readings where guidance and direction from the soul is offered to eager seekers on the journey of self-mastery and illumination.

Kathryn’s mission is to assist you in your own personal awakening by connecting and teaching you via the realms of light and their Angelic, Ascended Master and Galactic servants. She offers a variety of Sacred Living workshops and classes where participants are invited to connect to the deeper spiritual nature of their beings. In addition to her background in movement and dance, Kathryn is an ordained minister in the order of Melchizedek and an Usui Reiki Master. She received her primary training through the Pennsylvania School of Spiritual Healing, Chambers of the Heart, and the Peabody Institute of Dance in Baltimore, Maryland.

Through her work with the Ascended Masters, Kathryn offers you an opportunity to remember your authentic self and your infinite connection to the Divine. She also offers an exploration of vital Ascended Master wisdom teachings and techniques, such as using spoken decree, the sacred silver-violet fire, self-mastery and a heart-centered connection to the very light essence of the Ascended Masters themselves.

Kathryn can help you understand yourself in a new way. Her unique background in Intuitive Energy Therapies allows her to assist you in becoming aware of the connection between your body and spirit and how to utilize them as powerful tools for discovery, healing, and growth. By creating a loving space of safety and encouragement, she assists her clients in effectively transforming their lives into ones of health, vitality, and joy.

You can learn more about Katherine and her work at www.bohnsoulwork.com or contact her directly:

610-235-9018 – phone

info@bohnsoulwork.com – email

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