Registered yoga teacher, Registered and Licensed Dietitian

Phone: (617) 678-0607
www.NamasteNutrition.net
Email: Dianacullumdugan@gmail.com

Registered yoga teacher, Registered and Licensed Dietitian.

Yoga discovered me nearly 15 years ago. I knew it would be the perfect adjunct to the group exercise teaching and weight lifting that was a huge part of my life. Little did I know that it would one day be my full-time careerand my personal life philosophy.

Yoga turned my world upside down. Teacher training began in 2002 in the Anusara style and as I studied, experienced and incorporated yoga asana and philosophy into my life, I became more in touch with my authentic voice. I became a kinder person. I left my job as a registered dietitian to teach yoga.

And many of those are Yoga for Mindful Eating students. It’s an influential 7-week series I developed that closes the disconnect students feel between mind and body and fills in the gap between our dysfunctional relationship with food and self-acceptance. Through this series you’ll experience freedom from emotional eating, awareness of when you’re really hungry and full or satisfied, and coping mechanisms for stress eating. As you experience a mindfulness-based approach to eating, you can let go of perfection and instead, move toward a healthy relationship with food, your body and your self-image.

In 14 years, I’ve helped hundreds improve diabetes, GI conditions, heart disease, disordered eating, compulsive overeating, and achieve weight loss. Administrating a weight management clinic nestled within an academic research medical center for nearly 9 years afforded me extensive experience in nutrition counseling.

As dietitian for 10 years for the web-based nutrition program www.DASHforHealth.com, I focus on nutrition and behavioral recommendations in twice-weekly messages for readers seeking guidance in their nutritional health. As faculty for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ (formerly the American Dietetic Association) Adolescent/Pediatric Weight Management Program as an expert in Client-Based Counseling, I witness empowerment in my clients to be in charge of their health.

As a co-investigator of an NIH-funded study for Yoga for Low Back Pain, I authored subject study materials (yoga sequence, CD, and take-home instruction manual) as well as taught the yoga sessions.

I am expert in vegetarian nutrition and serve as such with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

And currently, I’m enrolled in an intensive training program for the Internal Family Systems method of counseling. This system aligns so closely with the yoga philosophy from which I teachthat being to look for the auspicious beauty in everyone and everything.

Weekly Classes

Yoga for Mindful Eating

April 15 – June 3. Sundays 5:30-7:30pm in the Skylight Yoga Room. Cost: $225 for the series.

Pre-registration and payment required due to limited group size

Call (617) 393-2200 or email to register or with questions about the series.

All cancellations prior to start of series will incur a $30 administrative fee. A one-week notice is required to cancel for a refund. Cancellations after that cannot be refunded. Thank you for honoring this policy.

Walking Well-for Your Life! Maasai Secrets and Somatics

With Josef DellaGrotte

Wednesdays 6:30 – 7:45pm, April 11 – July

5 Classes/$95

One-Day Workshop:

June 17 9:30am – 5pm, $140

LOCATION

BodyMind Integration Center

Online registration & more info:

www.core-integration.com, 978-461-0221

with Diana Cullum-Dugan

April 15 – June 3 (No class 5/27)

Sundays 5:30-7:30pm in the Skylight Yoga Room. Cost: $225 for the series.

www.NamasteNutrition.net

Yoga for Mindful Eating (a 7-week series): We’ll explore our impulses, emotional eating, and relationship with food as it parallels all other relationships in our life. Using a clearer understanding of our emotional and physical bodies through a deeper journey into the balancing of our energy centers (chakra balancing),we’ll begin to clear out old habits & behaviors in our relationship with food.

Each week, we’ll examine:

• A mindfulness-based approach to eating
• Using yoga postures to bring healing and connection to our body, heart and mind
• Our true sense of worth
• Reconnecting to wellbeing in our body
• Basking in delight in our relationship with food

Weekly yoga, meditation, journaling, and group support with mindful eating home practices.

Pre-registration and payment required due to limited group size.

Call (617) 393-2200 or email dianacullumdugan@gmail.com to register or with questions about the series.

All cancellations prior to start of series will incur a $30 administrative fee. A one-week notice is required to cancel for a refund. Cancellations after that cannot be refunded. Thank you for honoring this policy.

Maintaining Your Vocal Health

A new workshop with Wren Ross !

Visit Wren’s Web Site: www.wrenross.com

Reduce Your Pain,

and Lower Stress:

A Program to Empower Yourself!

Classes in the Feldenkrais Method®, *Bones for Life®, and Conscious Embodiment

8 Wednesday evenings April 25 – June 13 (Intro class April 25)

5:45 – 7:15pm in the Charles River Room

Cost: $200/8 Weeks or $35/Session

Please wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothes suitable to move around in.

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This program promises you a way to:

• Identify your pain, stress, anxiety patterns
• Listen deeply to yourself and others
• Be present to trusting your intuition
• Practice Mindful Movement and Concentration Practices
• Live a life sourced from resources drawing from the
Feldenkrais Method®, Bones for Life®, and Conscious
Embodiment (based on Aikido– a Japanese martial art & Mindfulness)
• Train as a Certified Bones for Life® Teacher

PDF Flyer: change-your-brain-spring-2012

Instructor

Olivia Cheever, M.A., Ed.D.

Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
Bones for Life® Trainer
Teacher/Trainee in Conscious Embodiment
Adjunct Faculty, Self Designed Masters Program, Lesley University
Faculty, Mind/Body Program, Longy School of Music

For more information visit

www.oliviacheever.com

or call Olivia at 781-449-1410 or c: 617-413-5680

Office Hours at WCHA on Wednesdays and in Needham Hgts by appointment

*This class also provides an opportunity for students who wish to train or be mentored as certified Bones for Life Teachers.

Bones for Life because there’s no pill for posture!

The Procrastination Solution

with Barry Kesselman, M.Ed., LMHC

Dates: 3 Mondays, May 7,14 & 21, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Location: Suite 2

Cost: $90

www.theprocrastinationsolution.com

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Discover Your Procrastination Solution

• Explore the roots of your procrastination
• Identify underlying purposes
• Develop practical alternatives suited to you
• Try out your new alternatives — in the workshop and in the time between meetings

In this unique workshop you’ll learn simple strategies to enable you to apply proven, pragmatic methods drawn from the instructor’s experience helping hundreds of people free themselves from procrastination.

You’ve done the time-management and the motivational classes, bought the self-help books, and gleaned the general-wisdom advice from friends, family, and others about setting goals and fighting procrastination. You still haven’t been able to change the frustrating habit of procrastination.

How Procrastination Works

People procrastinate over simple, mundane activities as well as activities that are challenging and deeply important. Procrastination is a worn-out habit that attempts to reduce some level of discomfort. This habit is partially successful — which accounts for its enduring yet frustrating nature. Procrastination is difficult to change on your own or even in the setting of time management classes, which usually fail to address the underlying meaning and purpose of procrastination.

About the Workshop

This unique workshop guides you in changing your procrastination habits while addressing their underlying purposes.

Using the insights and information gained through these techniques, you will develop an individualized set of steps that you can follow during the week. What you do with these steps (whether you follow some, all, or even none of these steps) will form a valuable foundation for the next meeting.

With the instructor’s experienced assistance, you will be guided in designing for yourself a new and more effective way of accomplishing what you need and want, allowing more enjoyment and satisfaction in your life.

The Procrastination Solution picks you up where your time management classes drop you off.

Find out more about the workshop.

“Voice Over: The Basics” workshop with Wren Ross

Monday May 7th from 6:30-8:30pm

Summer Arts Program  July 9- August 17 Monday-Friday

PATHWAYS To ENRICHMENT and FUN (R)

With Margaux Skalecki

Yoga, Drama & Dance for Kids ^™

9:00am – 11:00am

Ages 5 – 6

$155

Pathways to Enrichment and Fun provides children with pathways to self-esteem, freedom, creativity and self expression.

Come explore: yoga postures, pre-ballet, jazz dance, song, spatial awareness, observation, listening, leadership skills, story-telling through dance, and drama.

Margaux Skalecki’s programs for children were created from 25 years of teaching experience. Margaux is called the piped piper by many a parent because of  her  pure joy of guiding and helping children to find their expressive brillance and place in the world through the arts.

Margaux holds a BFA in Dance from the Boston Conservatory, an MA from Lesley University and is a 500 hour E. Registered yoga teacher of adults and children.  She has been on faculty within many schools and studios including,  182 Grand Street, NYC, The Internazionale Scuola di Danza in Cosenza, The Center for Dance in Florence, The Movement School in Germany, The Brookline Music School, Jose Matteo’s Dance Theater Company, The New School in Cambridge, the Dance Complex, Kripalu, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and many, many, many In-school and after school programs.

Weekly Classes

Ants in the Pants Yoga and Dance for Kids (R)

If your child is on the quiet side or if your child is as fast as lighting, Ants in the Pant Yoga and Dance for Kidsis a right path. We will explore many creative ways of movement, yoga, games, songs, dance, leadership and listening, yoga, pre-ballet, spatial awareness, observation, and story-telling

Ants in the Pants Yoga and Dance for Kids (R)

Charles River Room
Thursdays 8 Week Session begins May 10-June 28

Older 3s and 4

Ants in the Pants Yoga and Dance for Kids (R)

Ants in the Pants Yoga and Dance for Kids

- complete course!

May 18-20, 2012

Location: BodyMind Integration
www.bostonbodymapping.com

Contact: Vanessa Breault Mulvey, 781-942-9641
vanessa@bodymap.org

The powerful workshop “What Every Musician Needs To Know About The Body” comes to WCHA May 18 – 20. Sought after by musicians and music teachers who wish to learn how to use their bodies more effectively in playing and teaching, this ten-hour workshop offers practical strategies to:
• reduce pain
• decrease tension
• prevent injury
• free breathing
• improve technique
• enhance musicianship

Taught by three professional musicians with a combined 25 years of experience helping musicians recover freedom and facility in playing.  Body Mapping specialists, they combine a wealth of movement knowledge with performing and teaching experience to offer practical anatomical solutions that help participants move beyond playing limitations, discomfort and injury.

Class Schedule

Friday, May 18 7-9pm
Saturday, May 19 10-5pm
Sunday, May 20 9-12pm

Cost: $275* for the full workshop with discounted rates for one- or two-day attendance.
*Register for the full workshop before May 5th and receive a $20 credit toward a private coaching or future workshop with one of the instructors.

To register, contact:

Vanessa Breault Mulvey vanessa@bodymap.org
781-942-9641
www.bostonbodymapping.com

Quotes from participants…
“It is great how much difference and improvement you find in your tone, body and awareness.”

“I have a clearer picture of my body that I will be able to access as I create greater ease in my playing.”

“…vital to music-making & injury prevention!”

Lynne Krayer-Luke, flute teacher and performer, completed her MMus with distinction at the Royal Northern College of Music, and is a Licensed Andover Educator (Body Mapping coach). She utilizes Body Mapping along with her knowledge from Alexander Technique, Rolfing, Gyrotonics and Bikram Yoga to help musicians increase artistic expression and avoid pain and injury at the instrument.

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Vanessa Breault Mulvey, Boston based flutist and Body Mapping specialist brings a decade of experience as a performer and movement coach to help musicians move with the fluidity and ease that is key to expressive freedom. She utilizes Body Mapping along with experience in Feldenkrais and physical fitness to assist musicians in moving beyond pain and limitation in their playing. Ms. Mulvey is a Licensed Andover Educator and a faculty member at the Longy School of Music. She is a frequent clinician at festivals and conferences.

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Lea Pearson holds a DMA in flute from Ohio State. A Fulbright Scholar and Licensed Andover Educator, Lea authored the acclaimed pedagogy tool “Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body.” With a background in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, OpenFocus© attention training and health coaching, she has been coaching musicians on body use in private lessons, workshops and master
classes worldwide for more than 12 years.

Tantra Community Gathering

Saturday May 19, 7pm

Cost: $20

Location: Charles River Room

To Register: http://www.meetup.com/new-england-tantric-meetup/events/52016642/

Connect deeply with yourSelf in a slow tantric practice, then come together with a partner for Tantric Partner Yoga poses and breathing. Access Kundalini energy for Self healing, deepening intimacy and expanding your connection with each other and The Divine.

All are welcome!  We will be in pairs throughout the workshop and engaging intimately. This workshop is typically taught for couples, but for our Meetup group, we are teaching it to support singles (or those who come w/out their partner.)  There will be opportunity to switch partners during the workshop so you will have a variety of experience, if you like.

Modifications for poses with be offered for all body types, abilities and for your own personal comfort!   Bring your own yoga mat, if desired (there are many in the space we are using.) Props are available for use as well.

About Robyn:

Robyn Vogel, MA, LMHC, of Tantric Healing Arts, is a Tantric Educator and Relationship Counselor. She loves love and has been helping others fall in love with themselves and others for twenty years! The butterflies at first attraction, the intense joy of mutual expression and the absolute bliss when obstacles are released and we feel more free!  Robyn’s workshops have been touted “healing, connecting, powerful and truly fantastic!”  She offers monthly Flirting with Heart workshops for women and Tantric Healing Arts gatherings for all to enjoy being in sacred ritual space together. Robyn is particularly skilled when it comes to matters of the heart. Most people that meet Robyn appreciate her deep compassion, open heart, and the way she holds sacred space for the depth of the human experience.

robyn@robynvogel.com

www.RobynVogel.com