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Faculty
Patrick Creelman
Patrick Creelman teaches in the tradition of Anusara Yoga. Patrick is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT 200) with Yoga Alliance. His classes are known to be playful, challenging and steeped in progress with a smile. A Pisces, a skier, and a music lover among other things, he has found yoga to be the most profound gift to nurture our hearts' deepest desires and is passionately committed to cultivating all aspects of yoga for a fruitful life. Blessed to have been introduced to the teachings of Ram Dass early in his life, he has been curiously exploring the spirit of yoga for over 10 years. Patrick met his teacher John Friend in a chance encounter in 2002 and has since studied with him throughout the world: Costa Rica, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, U.S.A. and Hong Kong. It is with 1,000 lotus petals of gratitude that Patrick bows to his teacher, and his teachers' teachers
Read more about Patrick at www.pure-yoga.com
Special Guest teacher – Philosophy
Frank Jude Boccio
Rev. Frank Jude Boccio was first introduced to Yoga and the Buddha Dharma in 1975. In 1990, his formal study of Ayurveda began under the instruction of Swami Sada Shiva Tirtha at The Ayurvedic Holistic Center where he healed himself from seasonal allergies and depression. After becoming certified by Swamiji, he attended The New England Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine where he studied under David Frawley, Subhash Ranade and others, receiving his diploma in Ayurveda through The International Open University of Complementary Medicine in Sri Lanka. The American Association of Ayurveda has since awarded him Diplomat status.
While Frank Jude has studied with many yoga teachers in a variety of styles and approaches, including Anusara, Astanga, Integral and Kundalini, his formal certification is as a Preventive and Rehabilitative Yoga Teacher/Therapist through The Bateman Institute. In 2003 he completed the 750-hour Yoga Research and Education Center certification programme in Traditional Yoga, under the tutelage of Georg Feuerstein, and is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour professional level.
Other certifications include Holistic Health Counseling through The American Society of Alternative Therapists, which granted him a Diploma in Transformational Counseling; Hypnotherapy through The National Guild of Hypnotists, as well as The International Association of Counselors and Therapists; and Aromatherapy through The American Institute for Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies.
In 1995 he took Precepts and the Triple Refuge from Thay Thich Nhat Hanh, and was ordained two years later as a Lay Brother into The Tiep Hien Order (The Order of Interbeing), a Buddhist contemplative order founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1966. Also in 1997, Frank Jude became a fully ordained Interfaith Minister through The New Seminary in New York City. He has also taken Precepts in 1999 from The Ven. Samu Sunim with whom he is in Dharma Training through The Maitreya Seminary programme.
Frank Jude currently maintains a private practice in Eugene, Oregon. In addition to his private counselling practice, he travels wherever he is asked, teaching workshops and leading retreats throughout the world, For further information he can be contacted through www.mindfulnessyoga.net.
Rev. Boccio has served as lecturer on Buddhism for both The New Seminary and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, and has established a thriving sangha in Brooklyn. Wisdom Publications released his first book, Mindfulness Yoga, to critical and popular acclaim. The book is the first to integrate the Buddha's meditation instruction on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with yoga-asana practice, and is used in Yoga Teacher Trainings throughout North America and Asia.
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