About Megha
 
   
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At Present: Working on a Master's graduate degree in Expressive Arts and Movement Therapy at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
At Present: Director of Kripalu DansKinetics® Teacher Training at Kripalu .
1996-Present: Co-Founder, Director, Manager of the Tour for Grace, a Moving Celebration of Spirit". Three nationwide tours leading yoga, meditation, dance, Breath, wellness retreats throughout the USA and Canada.
1984- Present resident Kripalu Yoga Teacher at Kripalu Center
1988-91 Co-Director: Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training
1985-1995 Resident faculty member
1987-1993 Head of the Kripalu DansKinetics® Team for five years, and Director of Mentoring and Training for the Kripalu faculty. During this era the administration wanted to kill DansKinetics. Our work kept it alive
1992-1994 Head of the Kripalu Wellness Dept - Designed and directed all the wellness programs at Kripalu, including 'Transform Stress', ""Art of Stress Free Living", "Wellness Week", and especially "Holistic Lifestyle Educator Training"
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health - 19 Year Senior Faculty Member at Kripalu, teaching Kripalu Yoga, Kripalu DansKinetics, Wellness and Meditation porgrams * Former Director of Mentoring and Training for Programs Faculty
Founding Director and Leader: The Tour for Grace, yoga, dance, meditation seminars throughout the USA and Canada
Theatre Directing
Founding Director Pondside Players Children's Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare plays performed by, on, and IN an outdoor pond, Lenox, MA
Director "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", Berkshires, Ma.
Director Summer Theatre Creative Arts Rendezvous: 1984/ 2000/ 2001/2003 Perserverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska: "Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Tempest", "The Merchant of Venice"
Resident Actor Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA, teacher in schools' program
Director The Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand, Creative Dramatics for children
Director Spence School, NYC, "Shakespeare's Greatest Hits"

Special Skills

  19 year Instructor in Kripalu Yoga and Kripalu DansKinetics® and trainings
  Five instructional yoga audio cassettes, one best selling yoga Video
  CD of my original music that I sing about animals called: "Animal Songs"
  Registered Expressive Movement Therapist
  Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy/ Kripalu Massage Therapist
  Hospice Volunteer

Training and Education
Graduate Work Completing my Master's in Expressive Arts and Movement Therapy, Lesley University
Yoga and Dance Kripalu Center - faculty member (and ongoing yoga student) for 19 years
BA in Dramatic Arts and Dance Mills College, Oakland, CA
Music and Voice Linklater Voice work
Theatre Shakespeare and Co: resident actor - trained by Tina Packer, Dennis Krausnick, Daniela Varon
Dance Pat Peterson, Jose Limon Studio, Olga Dunn Dance Co, Shakespeare and Co
 
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