Charles Terhune

Owner, General Manager, Associate Baptiste Power Vinyasa Teacher

 

Charles Terhune is an Associate Baptiste Power Vinyasa Teacher, with both Level I and Level II Teacher Training with Baron Baptiste under his belt. He has also done a month long yoga teacher training with Ana Forrest. He completed the Assisting program in 2005 at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute (BPYI) in Cambridge, MA. Before moving to Portland, Charles was assisting classes at the Cambridge studio. Charles had been part of the Volunteer Program at the Cambridge studio since September of 2001, when he was asked to interview for the position of manager. He was hired as the facilities manager in February of 2002. He spoke at a panel discussion entitled "The Business of Yoga" at the 2004 Yoga Journal Conference in Boston.

 

 

 

Alice Riccardi

Owner, Director of Teachers

Certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa Teacher

 

Alice Riccardi is a Certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa yoga teacher, a 200 hour Certified Yoga Alliance teacher, and also a Certified Alexander Technique teacher as recognized by the American Society of Alexander Teachers. Alice was certified as an Alexander Teacher in 1998. She taught privately from her home when living in Mass. and also at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She graduated from Hampshire College with a Bachelor of Arts

in Dance. After college, Alice performed modern dance professionally first in New York City, then in Boston. She has performed with the Japanese Butoh dance company Sankai Juku at Jacob's Pillow in Mass. This performance was a premiere work and for the first time in the company's history included women.

 

In 2001, Alice began practicing yoga at the Baptiste Studio in Cambridge, Ma. Within a year she became a class and workshop assistant, traveling with the Baptiste Institute both in the United States and in Mexico. She became a teacher at the Cambridge Studio in 2003. She has assisted workshops under the tutelage of Master Baptiste teachers Coeli Marsh and Gregor Singleton. She successfully completed the first-ever assistants' training held at the Baptiste Studio in Cambridge directed by Master Baptiste teacher Elizabeth Huntsman.

 

Alice has also participated in programs designed by the Concord Institute in London. Concord Institute is a organization dedicated to the transformation and elevation of thinking and action.

 

Alice has been a yoga teacher since 2003. In regard to her yoga training, she acknowledges Baron Baptiste for giving her the opportunity to teach at the Baptiste studio in Cambridge and for the skills acquired while working as an assistant for bootcamps and teacher trainings. Alice acknowledges Coeli Marsh, who has been her teacher and guide in relation to the necessary skills and attention it takes to be a effective and successful classroom teacher. She gives thanks to Gregor Singleton for introducing her to the Concorde Institute and for his support through out her assisting and teaching experience.

 

She also would like to acknowledge her Alexander Teacher, Dr. Theadore Dimon. Her knowledge of functional anatomy and the skill of her hands on Alexander training is in direct relationship to his teaching.

 

Alice has been married since 1996 to Charles Terhune who is also a yoga teacher, writer and musician. They have a daughter, Sophia, who is never wrong.

 

 

Darcy Prock

 

Darcy began teaching at Portland Power Yoga in January, 2009. She has practiced regularly here since October, 2007. Her love of the practice and her desire to share what she had found with others led her to attend Level 1 Teacher Training with Baron Baptiste in Tulum, Mexico in 2008. While there, she also participated in the GREAT program, an intensive assistant training program held during a Personal Revolution Boot Camp week following the Teacher Training. During that Boot Camp, she was able to work directly with Baron while assisting one of his classes.

 

She continues her teacher training at Portland Power Yoga under the tutelage of Alice Riccardi. Darcy has also studied with Roberto Lim and Elizabeth Huntsman during their visits to Maine. She has attended Personal Revolution Immersion Days with Baron Baptiste in both New York City and Boston.

 

A fixture in the fitness industry in Portland for over sixteen years, Darcy has worked as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer. While she has taught most exercise formats, including Kickboxing, Boot Camp and Weight Training, she is perhaps most widely known as Maine's premier Step Aerobics instructor and, more recently, a pioneer in introducing Zumba to the Portland area gym circuit. She currently teaches at Lifestyle Fitness, World Gym and Bay Club along with the fitness facilities at Unum, Anthem and Hannaford. Her love of dance and movement along with her unique sense of humor, make her a much sought after teacher.

 

She has studied both Anatomy and Physiology along with Kinesiology at USM. She also graduated from the New Hampshire Institute of Therapeutic Arts and is a Licensed Massage Therapist in the State of Maine. Her specialty is a Hawaiian style of bodywork called LomiLomi. She is also a Level II Reiki practitioner.

 

Intent on continuing the transformation that began when she attended her first class at Portland Power Yoga, Darcy attended the Landmark Forum in September, 2009 and the Landmark Advanced Course in December, 2009. She credits the Landmark Education curriculum with unearthing many of the tools needed to live an extraordinary life.

 

Darcy brings her wealth of knowledge, her passion for yoga and her joy of life to her students during her classes at Portland Power Yoga. Having successfully maintained a 75 pound weight loss over the course of the last sixteen years, she understands the need for discipline, surrender and compassion. In her teaching, her hope is to encourage others to reach for their goals, whatever they may be.

 

Anna Allocco

 

When Anna was 20 years old, she participated in an ayahuaska healing ceremony in the rain forest of Ecuador. There, she experienced that anything is possible. That awareness has been her life compass over the last 15 years. Anna attracts experiences that train her spirit, her mind and her body to open to possibility and she feels joyful sharing those experiences with others!

 

Initially, Anna translated her passion for growth and transformation to school settings. After several years teaching in schools, Anna attended Portland Power Yoga’s opening class. She came out of that first class sweaty and exhilarated! At PPY, Anna found what she didn’t know she was missing: an embodied discipline that awakens the spirit. Anna’s commitment to a regular yoga practice prompted her requesting to volunteer at the studio, thus becoming PPY’s first sevateer and initiating the PPY sevateer tradition. After three years of steady yoga practice, Anna moved out of schools and into the teacher-training program at PPY. In the summer of 2009, she completed Teacher Training Level 1 with Baron Baptiste. Alongside ongoing teacher-training with Alice Riccardi, Anna began two years of training with Landmark Education, an international personal development organization. Anna completed Landmark’s Curriculum for Living, Communication Curriculum and eight ten-week seminars ranging in topic from Success to Money to Intimacy.

 

Anna complements her yoga teaching with a Reconnective Healing practice. She is a trained Reconnective Healing practitioner, having completed Level I, Level II and Level III training with Dr. Eric Pearl and the Reconnective Healing Team. Additionally, Anna is building a practice in Communication Consulting. It’s all well and good to experience peace and power in an isolated cave, however most of us are looking to generate power and magnificence in relationship with others.

 

Anna is just beginning a two-year term serving as the President of the Governing Board of First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Portland. This is a leap of faith; she has little experience in governance structures and trusts that her commitments to work with teams of people, communicate powerfully, and learn and grow in any situation, will light this path of leadership.

 

Anna is regularly inspired by the students at PPY, her clients, the people who attend First Parish, and indeed all people of the world, who show up for an experience that ignites their vitality. May we continue to inspire and support one another in the joyful expansion of this magnificent Universe!

 

Dearbhaile Herr

 

Dearbhaile Herr moved to America from Ireland in 1988 and now calls Portland, Maine home. She shares this home with her husband Bill, her daughter Tulliah, and their chocolate lab, Ella. Dearbhaile took her first yoga class shortly after this move, which proved to be the beginning of a long line of physical pursuits. From bodybuilding she moved on to running, completing several road races and a full marathon in Anchorage, Alaska with Teams in Training in the summer of 2003. Dearbhaile had been practicing pilates for about two years before taking her first Baptiste Power Yoga class at Portland Power Yoga in March of 2008, immediately she was hooked and has since maintained a firmly committed practice.

 

Dearbhaile graduated from the Down East School of Massage in 2000, after which she went into private practice as a massage therapist in Portland. Today she is the proud co-owner of a very successful massage therapy center called Hara Holistic Body Center in Falmouth where she specializes in deep tissue massage as well as Ohashiatsu, a specialized form of Shiatsu. As a result of this expertise, Dearbhaile’s teaching springs from a wealth of knowledge in the area of functional anatomy which also includes a deep understanding of the human energy and meridian system which in turn gives great insight into her role both as teacher and student!

 

In April of 2008 Dearbhaile began seveteering at PPY in an effort to increase her practice time and to be more directly involved with the studio; this lead to her entrance into the teacher training program, in which she continues training today. As a result of her success int teacher training, Dearbhaile began teaching the community class in November 2009 until stepping into a confirmed teaching time slot in May of 2009. Dearbhaile’s growing passion then lead her to complete the level one Baptiste teacher-training program in June of 2009, after which she went on to complete the Landmark Forum that very Fall. Dearbhaile’s wealth of knowledge and her love and passion for yoga coupled with her depth of understanding of the human body and mind ignites her passion to teach and share generously every time she steps onto to her mat!

 

 

Jessica Curran

 

Jessica Curran has been a student of movement since she was 5 years old, beginning with ballet and jazz dance, and continuing on to study hip-hop and burlesque, which she continues with today.

 

Jessica began her practice of yoga as a support and compliment to her daily Buddhist meditation practice. She took her first yoga class at Portland Power Yoga in 2008 as a guest of good friend Darcy Prock, after she sustained a knee injury after completing a half marathon.

 

She fell in love with Bapriste Power Vinyasa Yoga after the first class and has maintained a consistent practice ever since. Within a few months, she was sevateering at Portland Power Yoga as a way to give back and honor the practice that had given her so much.

 

Jessica attended the Personal Power Revolution Workshop with Baron Baptiste in Boston in March, 2009 and attended Level 1 Teacher Training that August. From there, her passion for yoga and teaching springboarded into completing the Baptiste Assistant Training Program with Claire-Este McDonald and Gregor Singleton the very next month and Level 2 Teacher Training. She is committed to continuing her training, and has studied with Elizabeth Huntsman, Tom Myers, Doug Keller, Doug Swenson, and has completed the Landmark Forum and Advanced Course, as well as several seminars.

 

Jessica loves guiding others to the discovery of their own power, strength, potential and joy through yoga and her teaching style is reflective of her love of life, yoga, and connection with others.

 

Jessica lives with her 5 year old son, Raef, and their cat, Moxie. She believes Raef said it best when he said "The more love, the more life!"

 

 

Philip Payson

 

Phil credits yoga with saving his life. He no longer is laid up for days and weeks at a time with back problems, and as a cancer survivor, he is now disease free and enjoying the fruits of a regular practice. Phil has completed the Baptiste Level One teacher training and the Assistants Training Program. Phil is also trained in Integrated Breathwork and Therapeutic Breathwork, and includes vision fasts, time in nature, regular meditation, and silent meditation retreats in his spiritual practices. Phil’s teaching focuses on one’s own direct felt experience, noting that radical acceptance of what is true in this moment leads to limitless gratitude.

 

 

Rachel Smetana

 

Rachel found her dedicated yoga practice at a time of transition in her life. After her first Baptiste Power Vinyasa class in 2008, she knew immediately it was the right style for her. Each time she came to her mat she found it as an invitation to create space and find new places to explore from the inside out. Her love and devotion for yoga and the personal transformation that she experienced from practicing power vinyasa yoga inspired her to become a yoga teacher.

 

Coming from a background in gymnastics, dancing, personal training and group fitness instruction, teaching yoga has come very naturally to Rachel. She completed Baptiste Level 1 teacher training in Oct. 2010, assistant training with Elizabeth Huntsmen, Journey into Power with Baron in Boston, and Level 2 teacher training in May 2011 making her an Associate Baptiste yoga teacher. Rachel will continue her path to becoming a certified Baptiste Power vinyasa yoga teacher, a task requiring a lot of time and commitment.

 

Rachel attended UNH studying Exercise Science. She is a nationally certified personal trainer, group fitness coach, nutrition and wellness counselor. All of this makes Rachel a dynamic yet compassionate yoga teacher. She wants to help students achieve their intentions, whether the student is looking for a challenge, for strength, for balance or for rest, she wants you to find it.

 

When Rachel is not teaching or practicing yoga, she can be seen running the streets of Portland or on her Harley, both of which she will of course be wearing a bandana!