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Instructors and Facilitators
Michele Mangione, PhD, Somatics, E-RYT 500
WiseWays Director
(click here to go to the director's page)
Jackie Batts
RYT 200
Jackie Batts has been teaching yoga at WiseWays since 2001.
She is also an occupational therapist working with children
who have special needs. In her free time she enjoys hiking,
road biking, and bird watching.
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Sue Coffman
RYT 200
Sue began at WiseWays as a student in 2003 and
an
instructor in 2009. She is currently enrolled in the RYT 500 program.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin--
Oshkosh and
The Ohio State University, she recently retired after
teaching English at Grandview Heights for 34 years.
She lives in Grandview with her husband, Ron.
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Michelle Gabor
RTY 200
Michelle began studies in WiseWays Yoga in 1998 in
Columbus, OH and began teaching in 2000.Discovering
an intense love of the way the body moves and lives,
she also began
studying the Trager Approach to
Bodymind Integration in 2005.
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Julie Horger
RYT 200
Julie Horger lives in Grandview Heights with her husband, Marc,
and teaches English at Bexley High School.
She is a graduate of Bowling Green State University
and Ohio State University.
Julie is originally from the Toledo area.
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Joyce Rinehart
RYT 200
Joyce is retired from South-Western City Schools,
where she spent her teaching career a a primary classroom
teacher, a reading sepecialist, and a literacy trainer. She worked
to train classroom teachers to be literacy coaches, who could implementbest practices in teaching children how to read.
In retirement, Joyce enjoys teaching and learning more about yoga,
and she volunteers at the James Cancer Hospitial.
Joyce and her husband, Bob, live in Grove City.
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Michelle Renee Tavenner
RYT 200
Has been teaching gentle Hatha yoga including the
Yoga for Beginners and Meditation courses, since 2007
at WiseWays Yoga Studio in Grandview, Ohio. She has a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Education, and currently teaches sixth grade
in Gahanna. Her other interests include Ballroom and Latin dancing, fitness, and learning as much as possible about mind/body/spirit practices. Her teaching style is reflective of her personality:
easy-going, soft-spoken, and caring. Michelle Renee’s philosophy
of the yoga practice is to become ever more aware about
one’s own body, movement of the body, and the connection
between one’s breath and the inner stillness and peace within.
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Susan L. Snyder
RYT 200
Susan has been practicing yoga at WiseWays since 1999 and became a Certified WiseWays Yoga Teacher in 2001. She became a national Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200 level with the Yoga Alliance in 2005.
Susan continues her yoga studies at WiseWays through regular monthly teacher training meetings and personal mentoring sessions with Michele Mangione PhD, RYT 500, founder and director of WiseWays. She has also attended additional workshops: Angela Farmer and Victor Kooten’s workshop on “Teacher Untraining”, Paul Grilley’s “Yoga Anatomy: A Weekend of Anatomy and Taoist Yoga Practice with Paul Grilley”. Angela Nicolosi’s workshop “Gentle Yoga for People with Special Bodies”, along with many workshops hosted by WiseWays. Susan also is a member of Namasta (an organization for the body-mind community and its professionals) and International Association of
Yoga Therapists.
Additionally, Susan brings to her yoga practice her training in classical ballet as a young woman, her attunement to Level II Reiki, and her ability to blend aromatherapy. She blends most of the aromatherapy lotions that WiseWays uses for their yoga classes.
Susan teaches beginning to advanced level classes for all yoga students and specializes in Yoga Therapy for students with special bodies. She has experience teaching people with Parkinson’s, Anorexia, Osteoporosis, and various other conditions of the human body. Susan is available for private individual yoga sessions for any student who has a special need or area of interest.
What had Susan been doing prior to her yoga studies
and teaching? She received her BA in Fashion Merchandising from the Department of Human Ecology at Bowling Green State University. Her previous work of 20 years was in business management, sales and marketing and collegiate education in fashion related industries.
On a personal note: She is married to Brian Hina since 1980, resides in Madison County, Ohio where she gardens, takes care of her dog “My Buddy Blue”
(a special needs dog), her cat “Doo-da” and her home. She is also a nature enthusiast, birdwatcher, and
studies nutrition, cooking and healthy living.
Susan invites you to join her for a yoga class or a private session. Her goal for you is to leave class feeling
more positively energized, de-stressed and uplifted.
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Lucy Bartimole
Tai Chi
614-442-5832
Lucy Bartimole has a lifetime teaching certification from
the Guang Ping Yang T'ai Ch'i Association. She is
also certified to teach Dr. Lam's T'ai Ch'i for Arthritis.
She was the gold medalist at the 2005 San Diego Grand
National Championship for Guang Ping Taijiquan and teaches
classes and workshops in tai chi, qigong, meditation, fan
boxing, knife and sword forms in Columbus, Ohio.
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Lisa M. Price
RTY 200
Over twenty-five years of experience in movement arts.
A founding member of Moving Arts Company and
Alliance for Dance and Movement Arts in Columbus, OH. Lisa’s formal training is in ballet, modern and improvisational dance, mixed-media performance, vocalization, contact improvisation, yoga and many fitness disciplines. She holistically focuses on the body as an instrument in space, with emphasis on the unique expression we each possess.
She has been studying and teaching movement at the WiseWays studios since 2000.
Lisa is also a certified instructor of numerous leadership development tools; Franklin-Covey, Seven Habits for
Highly Effective People, InsideOut Advantage Coaching, Lominger, Inc. Leadership Architect© Suite of Tools and 360-Degree Feedback.
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Caren Truske
Brain Gym®
CTSynergy@aol.com
614-775-0403
Caren Truske is a Brain Gym® Vision Circles and
Optimal Brain Organizations (OBO) instructor certified through the Educational Kinesiology Foundation and a Brain-Based Learning Specialist certified by Eric Jensen. Combining 10 years of NCAA Division I College Basketball Coaching, 14 years of public school teaching and experience as Co-founder of Brain Gym® Learning and Performance Center in DeLand, Florida, Caren has extensive teaching, coaching, presentation, workshop, and training experience with children and adults of all ages.
Caren is available for key-note addresses, in-service training, staff development, corporate training, coaching, tutoring, study skilldevelopment, test taking preparation, small group, and private sessions.
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