Pamela's yoga experience began in 1999 when she began taking classes with Sharon Carter and Stacey Reeves. With encouragement from Stacey, Pam began teaching kids yoga in 2001 and started the kids yoga program for Universal Spirit Yoga by contracting classes with the Naperville Park District.
She is a CYKF, graduate of the YogaKids® certification program with Marsha Wenig, The Radiant Child Yoga Certification with Shakta Kaur Kalsa, and the Indigo Yoga Teacher training with Pamela Holland.
In helping a friend to learn meditation, Pam found gifts in teaching another adult and was encouraged to teach an adult yoga class. In doing so, she decided it was time to continue her education in yoga. She received her adult yoga certification in 2004 from Dancing Feet Yoga with Don Wenig. She is a registered 200-hour yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She teaches hatha yoga classes at Universal Spirit Yoga/Fun Lovin' Yoga and SRI Physical Therapy in Naperville.
Pamela teaches yoga classes for all ages and specializes in privates for special needs children with hypotonia. Pamela travels to various schools in the area for special classes and health fairs. One of her favorite type of classes to teach is to girl scout troops. She often teaches troops for their fitness badges, Courageous and Bold badges, amongst others.
Outside of yoga, Pamela is a Religious Education Teacher as well as songleader/presider for Children's Liturgy of the Word (350 kids weekly) for Holy Spirit Catholic Community in Naperville. Pamela has a wonderfully supportive husband and two boys, Ben and Charlie who help her with yoga classes and enjoy the lifestyle with her. Pamela loves to give kids faith in their abilities and the awareness that breath is life.
In addition to yoga, Pamela is a distributor for Young Living Essential Oils, working on certification in Aromatherapy, a Certified Reflexologist, and a level 2 Reiki practitioner. Holistic healthcare has changed her life since the year 2000. She has a passion to share what she knows and help others to heal naturally.
Pam is so excited to finally have the confidence to create her own business and receive as she gives. To share her new location with Universal Spirit Yoga and be within the Naperville Cultural Center is such a special opportunity!!! Pam is so excited to be able to teach as many kids and adults as possible sharing the knowledge that her teachers gave her.
Check out the essential oil page and other therapies page to find out more information about Pam's other services.
Angie Wilson has been practicing yoga since 1997. Angie practiced yoga for her own personal well-being and spiritual growth with Stacey Reeves before joining Universal Spirit Yoga as an instructor for kids yoga in 2003. Angie currently teaches all ages of kids yoga from babies to teens for Fun Lovin' Yoga in Naperville , IL . Angie's most recent certification is with Helen Garabedian's program, Itsy Bitsy Yoga® completed March 2006. Angie attended the Teacher Training program for YogaKids® with Marsha Wenig in March of 2003. She has continued this education and completed YogaKids® Tools for Schools
6-hour training in August, 2006. She is a graduate of Radiant Child certification, level I and II with Shakta Kaur Kalsa and the Indigo Yoga Teacher training with Pamela Holland. She embraces new opportunities to learn, so she may keep her teachings and practice current and fresh. Angie has a strong background in dance which has prepared her with the discipline she feels has been helpful in her experiences with yoga. She hopes to share this spirit with the children who join her classes. Angie has a fantastic rapport with children, which she contributes to working as a nanny for three years. At this point in her life, she developed a keen understanding and love for the little angels. Her other experience with kids includes teaching yoga to girl scouts and special yoga classes at local schools. She has also participated in a health fair.
When Angie is not teaching yoga, she creates jewelry; she started her own business, Gemini Gems in 2002. You can see her work at the Naperville Cultural Center and at Artful Gatherings in Lemont.
On a personal note, Angie has been a resident of Naperville since 1988. She moved to Bolingbrook in 1999 and continues to live there with her husband, Andy. Together, they share a love for travel and have traveled all around the world. During their most recent trip, she explored Antarctica and South America . Angie is an outdoor enthusiast and loves to find herself surrounded by nature. Her love for nature, children, and yoga have inspired her to teach yoga; she has ambitions to nurture anyone interested in learning how to develop and maintain a strong and loving mind, body, and soul.
Denise Monnier first became interested in yoga through children. While developing a physical education program for Montessori students, she decided to include some yoga, and has been practicing as well as sharing with her students ever since. After seeing the positive response of her students and feeling the changes that yoga brought to her own life, she enrolled in the teacher training program at the Temple of Kriya Yoga in 2003. Through friends she met in the training program, she began to come to classes at Universal Spirit Yoga and eventually was given the opportunity to teach in the children's program. Denise has taught yoga classes for children, families and adults and now also teaches at several area Montessori schools. She has completed the "Teaching Yoga to Children of All Ages" training with Pamela Hollander's Indigo Yoga. Practicing and teaching yoga has enriched her teaching skills and greatly influenced the way she teaches any class. Denise also teaches art, dance and physical education to children and Drawing and Painting to college students.
Jill has been a Montessori Kindergarten teacher for two years and has incorporated yoga as a part of her curriculum. On a daily basis before work time Jill's class participates in Kundalini yoga postures. Jill has seen benefits in concentration, coordination and longer work cycles by the children.
One important aspect of the Montessori philosophy is movement in the classroom. Through yoga, the child is not only moving their bodies they are also exercising their left and right brain, building strength and flexibility in their bodies and self esteem.
Jill completed Level 1 certification for children's yoga through the Radiant Child Yoga program with Shakta Kaur Khalsa and has enjoyed seeing the positive effects that her students have gained from yoga.
Jill has been practicing yoga daily since 1998 and is grateful for the gift of yoga. She enjoys many sports such as snowboarding, surfing, running, biking, and tennis. Her yoga practice helps to keep her body flexible and strong, helps to heal minor injuries, and helps to keep her healthy and young.
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Yoga came into Ellen's life in 1999. Ellen was always involved in sports as a child and young adult. Discovering yoga was a natural fit because not only did it offer her the physical challenges of sports, but also the mental and spiritual awareness and enlightenment she has been searching for her whole life. While increasing her practice and individual growth with yoga, Ellen began teaching special education in Darien , Illinois after receiving her Masters in Special Education from National Louis University in 2001. During her time teaching primary students, Ellen immediately made the connection to bring yoga into her curriculum. Using yoga with special education students was like finding the missing piece of the puzzle. All the students loved getting out of their seats to stretch and move while learning. The results were amazing!
After having her own child, Abby, who was born January of 2003, Ellen decided to work part-time at her father's office. Since then, she has been continuing her journey with yoga and has decided to add teaching yoga to children with special needs back into her life. She feels that this is the most fulfilling work for her career and can't wait to rejoin her two passions back together again. After Ellen brought her daughter to Pamela Hunter's toddler yoga class she was so impressed and pleased to see that yoga for kids has evolved into such a sophisticated opportunity for kids of all ages. Ellen has just completed Tools For Schools Training under Pamela Hunter and is very excited to continue her education this November when she will be attending Yoga Kid's Foundations Certification Training with Marsha Wenig.
Ellen grew up in Naperville and is now currently residing in North Plainfield with her husband Mark, Abby and her two step-kids, Nikki and Brian. A great part about teaching kid's yoga is that Ellen has three wonderful practitioners at home who are constantly begging to do more yoga!
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