Session #1 Workshops
 Michael Chaney: FIMO, Fun, and Friends
Join local artist Michael Chaney to learn about colorful, versatile FIMO clay. It's fun, it's easy, and it bakes hard in your oven! Participants will learn several clay techniques and make art pens and light switch plate covers. Everyone leaves with a personal masterpiece.
Michael enjoys creating murals, masks, drawings, and performance art. He has taught his FIMO art class for five years through the Center for Participant Education. His art has been displayed in local coffee shops and the 621 Gallery.
Dr. John Ness: Cultivating a Healthy Immune System
Dr. John Ness is a Family doctor who has been practicing in Tallahassee for the past 20 years. Join him in exploring ideas about cultivating a healthy immune system. Dr. Ness will discuss in depth his point of view about four crucial practices for health and well-being. His goal is preventing illness and improving the health of our community.
Ellen Shapiro: Gentle Yoga for Everyone
This yoga workshop will incorporate focused awareness and breathing with gentle stretching and traditional yoga postures. Practicing yoga increases strength, muscle tone, and flexibility, and creates feelings of balance, calm, and general well-being. Students will learn to use self-awareness to work within their individual levels of flexibility and strength, resulting in a sense of personal empowerment and joyfulness.
Ellen Shapiro, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Yoga Instructor, is a psychotherapist who has been a dedicated yoga student since 1990. She completed certification as a yoga teacher in Spring 2000 with Loretta Armer, and is currently taking Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training.
Kathryn Hansman-Spice: The Trager Approach
In this workshop you will be introduced to the principles of the Trager Approach focusing on self-care and effortless movement. You will learn about the power of gentle touch and movement to communicate a shift in attitude from effort to ease as an approach to life.
A massage therapist since 1980, Kathryn Hansman-Spice has specialized as a certified Trager practitioner for fifteen years. She is also an introductory workshop leader, tutor, and instructor trainer. She specializes in work with the frail elderly through Westminster Oaks and Big Bend Hospice and works with physical therapist Sherry Simpson to integrate Trager as an adjunct to rehabilitation.
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Session #2 Workshops
Mary Jane Ryals: Capturing Your Spirit on the Page
This two-hour session will encourage you to tap into your spirit, your fire, your passion through the craft of writing. Using Natalie Goldberg's techniques in Writing Down the Bones, participants will write several short pieces in brief increments of time using prompts such as lists, descriptions, personal narratives, and others; then spend time on editing skills, working in groups, and honing one of the writing pieces.
Mary Jane Ryals has written a short fiction collection, "A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Do," has published poetry, short stories, and essays in many literary journals, is finishing a novel, and writes book reviews for the Tallahassee Democrat. She has won a Florida Arts Council Grant and university fellowships. Her collection was nominated for Pushcart awards, the GLCA award, and the LSU Short Fiction award. She has a Ph.D. in creative writing, and has taught classes in short fiction, poetry, the essay, and memoir writing.
Sean Dennison: Taoist Tai Chi
Taoist Tai Chi is a sequence of soft, flowing movements that is at once a moving meditation and a way of restoring health naturally. Improve strength, balance, and flexibility while exploring ancient Chinese internal alchemy and the circulation of internal energy or chi.
Sean Dennison is the Executive Director of the Tallahassee Taoist Tai Chi Society, with over 20 years experience under Master Moy Lin-shin, founder of the Taoist Tai Chi Society.
Wendy Wasik Creel: The Power of Herbs
In this two-hour workshop, Master Herbalist Wendy Wasik will discuss how we can help combat "dis-eases" of the body through digestive health and right thinking patterns. Wendy has been using herbs for fifteen years to help regenerate the body's natural healing process. Participants will learn how the intelligent application of herbs, combined with meditation, creates a clean body and enhances clear thinking. The workshop will emphasize participation in your own healing process.
Leslie Hanks: Ayurveda, the Science of Life
Ayurveda is the healing art and science of yoga. Two of Deepak Chopra's best sellers, Quantum Healing and Perfect Health, are founded in Ayurveda. In this workshop you will learn your body type or prakruti-vata, pitta, or kapha-along with the basic yoga postures and foods to balance your physiology.
Leslie Hanks is the founder/director of Yoga Unlimited, a multidimensional yoga center and school.
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Session #3 Workshops
Georjean Machulis: In the Heart of Creativity - Living an Inspired Life
Share your beauty with the rest of the world. Discover and express your unique creativity through the exploration of inspiration and imagination. We will practice writing and other techniques that will give voice to your higher consciousness, and we will create a heart wreath as a symbol of your divine inspiration.
Georjean Machulis, founder of the Inspired Women's Retreat, is an inspired artist-writing, creating, and performing ritual and ceremony. She has directed workshops for the International Women's Guild at Skidmore College. "My life's purpose is to see the beauty in our world. I believe my gift is to help inspire people to express their unique creativity."
Anne Clothiaux: Continuum Movement
Continuum movement is a self-directed process of discovery using breath, sound, and movement. By shifting our awareness to the perspective that we are mostly water, movement can be awakened to its nature of wave motion. This class will include an oral introduction, demonstration of breath, sound, and movement ideas, with time to explore and experience for oneself. Music will be used to assist in sustaining the movement environment. Anne Clothiaux is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher. She has worked for over a decade with neurologically impaired young people as a physical therapist and has a great interest in alternative approaches to health, healing, and self-awareness.
Obayanna Olumide: African Drumming
This workshop will cover rhythms, chants, and songs of the African Diaspora (Central, West Africa, South America, and The Caribbean). It will enlighten many on the spiritual healing and therapeutic experience of drumming. All levels are welcome; fundamentals will be stressed. Participants will learn timing, hand and stick techniques, and simple to complex poly-rhythms. Obayanna Olumide has been performing and teaching African Folkloric Arts for the past 25 years. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts and was a recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship. He has performed and taught internationally, and nationally at numerous universities and colleges. He is presently Musical Director for African Caribbean Dance Theatre and "Akebulan," a percussion ensemble. He has produced a record album, Drum Spirits, and a CD, Music of The Djimbe.
Dr. Linda Miles and Dr. Robert Miles: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After Myth
The purpose of this workshop is to inform individuals about scientific findings and clinical experience regarding married couples. The emphasis of this practical, entertaining, and informative talk will be on what makes a long-term marriage or relationship work. It is based on theories from their book, The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After-Myth. The effects of marriage on mental and physical well-being will be summarized.
Dr. Linda Miles, Ph.D., LMFT, has twenty-five years experience in the field of marriage and family therapy. Dr. Robert Miles, MD, is Senior Psychiatrist for the Mental Health Program Office, Florida Department of' Children and Families, and has over twenty-five years experience in the field of psychiatry. They have been married for eleven years and are co-therapists in working with couples.
If you would like to participate in our benefit workshops, please send in your registration with a check and workshop choices, or call 850-878-8643. Some of the workshops have limited space, so register early.
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