Blue Sky Yoga & Healing Arts

After dabbling in college and then taking class once a week for many years, Claudia’s yoga practice (including meditation) blossomed into a robust self-care plan. And later, after a workaholic career in the education field for over forty years, retirement loomed. She knew she would need a “second act” to keep busy and a course of study to satisfy her lifelong learning habit. Yoga self-guided study slid naturally into the pending void. Then, with the encouragement and support of Paula and the Blue Sky sangha (community of practitioners), Claudia completed her 200 RYT course of study at the Cleveland Clinic School of Yoga in February 2021. She then promptly began teaching a chair class at BSY later that month. Somehow, Claudia knew in preschool that teaching was her dharma (life purpose), and while it’s taken many different forms over the years, teaching remains her path – along with continuous study. She is honored to lead classes among friends and new students joining us at Blue Sky Yoga and Healing Arts and invites you to practice with her.

I fell in love with practicing yoga while in college, not just as a de stressor but also as a college course. I graduated with a degree in public health from Kent State in 2015. After a long time debating whether or not to get my certification, my aunt and I decided to just go for it! In January 2020, I received my 200 YTT at Yogi Hari’s Ashram in Miramar, Florida. This experience opened my eyes to all of the different kinds of yoga. It gave me a greater awareness of the mind, body, and spirit connection. It taught me to be more mindful of everything around me and to take notice. My favorite kinds of yoga to practice are vinyasa, yin and kundalini.

Yoga found Nicole as a method of physical rehabilitation in the early 2000s after a shoulder and lower back injury. Since then, she has integrated her practice into her daily lifestyle, finding strength in her mind and body and overall balance in life. She has learned, through yoga, how to overcome obstacles and cultivate mindfulness.

Nicole comes from an athletic background, having played college volleyball, now enjoying fitness in many modalities including running half marathons, CrossFit, Pilates/Lagree, and her yoga practice. As a former group fitness instructor, Nicole found her passion in instruction and having fun while exercising. Nicole's classes are structured to help others find his/her personal strength, offering modifications and encouraging challenges. You'll never take the same class twice as her flows are created intuitively using music, poetry, books, curiosity, and each student as inspiration. As a self-proclaimed music enthusiast, she uses her playlists to help guide her class sequences.

She strives to live a life of wellness and holds her 200 hr certification in vinyasa yoga, is an AFAA certified Group Fitness Instructor, a NASM personal trainer, a NASM certified nutrition coach, and is currently certified in Buti Yoga, Yoga Shred, Warrior Rhythm, Warrior Strength, and her personal favorite, Yoga Sculpt. She loves learning and feels that education is best derived from personal experience working directly with her students and taking classes from other instructors. Nicole has been teaching for over five years and has enjoyed working with both children and adults. As a mother of two, she is particularly enthusiastic about the bond that families can create through physical activity and healthy habits.

Nicole's positive energy and bubbly personality allow students to feel at home on their mats and safe in their space. “Yoga isn't about mastering a pose. Much like life, it's about having fun on the journey and learning throughout the process. I embrace the growth mindset of allowing freedom to fail, it provides feedback on how to succeed.”

She cannot wait to connect with you!

Lisa began her yoga practice in 2008, looking for peace during her divorce, and healing for a Lupus flare. Within months of having a regular, gentle yoga practice, she went into remission. She decided then that it was her joy and responsibility to share this healing with others, and started teacher training in 2009. One year later Lisa bought OneTree Yoga in Euclid, and in 2012 she opened her second studio.
In 2015 Lisa sold both yoga studios to travel and experience freedom, backpacking and exploring for a year, teaching yoga in several different countries, and learning through experiences.
> In 2016, after 8 years in remission, Lisa entered another serious Lupus flare. This time she was prepared. Using what she learned on her yogic journey, she's recovering with more knowledge and peace than she's ever had before. Yoga, meditation, and other forms of energy work are the most incredible, and natural “symptom management tools” she has found.
Lisa feels that she's been blessed with this ancient practice so that she can share it with others. Knowing that there is no “cure all”, she approaches her classes and students with empathy and compassion, and offers modifications for all. Lisa is also Reiki Master and offers Reiki during her classes to those who would like it. Having taught at Blue Sky before, she is more than excited to return, and so grateful to be here!

Yoga became a central part of Cricket’s life sometime around 2004 while she was getting her Bachelor of Fine Art at Kent State. In 2009, after traveling and living out of country, she realized how important it was to have something of high emotional, physical, and spiritual value to offer to those she would encounter. Knowing what a difference the consistent practice of yoga, pranayama, and meditation had made in her personal life, she decided to go through a 2oo hour teacher training with Awaken Yoga. Soon she moved on to become a Reiki Master, a Reflexologist, and a Nature Mystic, or Paqo Kuna, following the indigenous traditions of the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. She has also spent time experimenting in other alternative healing modalities such as sound healing, herbalism, and aroma therapy. Before moving west, she owned a small business in Lakewood where she offered Reiki, Yoga, and meditation sessions. While living in San Diego she worked with The Breath Center of Ojai, California to become a Kriya Pranayama facilitator.
Cricket loves to help others find their own internal rhythm and to support them as they begin to trust that rhythm. She dedicates her life to the joy in seeing others become enabled and engaged in their own life purpose. Her goal is to offer any assistance that she can to help others to bare the fruit that they were meant to.

Mary recently received her 200 YTT certification in December 2019 from Full Circle Yoga School in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She will continue to explore new aspects of yoga and broaden her practice.

Mary has always been one to maintain physical activity, primarily cycling and running. As part of a New Years resolution three years ago, she decided to give yoga a try as she was looking for “something to do” a couple of nights each week. Mary came upon Blue Sky and was immediately drawn in and desired to explore and continue a personal yoga practice. She had initially felt yoga would not provide her with a “true” workout and it would be too “easy” . . . suffice to say, her initial theories quickly proved inaccurate. Mary is a firm believer yoga should be a part of everyone's life. There are many different options to explore and provide physical challenges and/or relish in restorative/meditative bliss.

Being a more active individual, Mary enjoys teaching Vinyasa flow classes, strength training and would like to also branch out to offer restorative and gentle classes.
Mary@BlueSkyYogaOhio.com

Paula has been teaching yoga since 2007 and is a graduate of TRY4LIFE Teacher Training at the E-500 RYT level of Yoga Teacher Certification; she is also a Certified Yoga Therapist, a Registered Prenatal Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, RYPT, specializing in Prenatal yoga, and is also a Level 1 iRest Practitioner. Paula received her prenatal yoga training and education at Kripalu in 2008. Paula continues her education by studying with Erich Schiffmann, Judith Lasater, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, Doug Keller, Max Strom, Donna Farhi, Armrit Desi, Gary Kaftsow, and Richard Miller. Paula's style of yoga is greatly influenced by yoga master Erich Schiffmann, believing that “yoga is a practice of inner listening, in the poses, in the meditations, and throughout your entire day…listening and trusting your body's wisdom.” “Our body always tells us the truth. Once we begin to listen, we will begin to heal.” Paula teaches an assortment of public and private yoga, which include Gentle, Beginners, Prenatal, Therapeutic, Chair, Special Needs, and she is also a Karuna Reiki Master.

Kathleen is a former nurse with 10 years of experience in the healing arts. She is trained in Elemental Reflexology, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and Polarity. Having a profound love of nature, she has recently completed a course in Ecopsychology to further her relationship with the natural world.

I am 75 yrs. old and except for my Navy years, I have always lived in the area. I have been blessed to be able to help loosen people's tight neck and back muscles for a very long time. After I retired, I took the Medical Massage course and was licensed by the State of OH. in 2011. I have helped many loosen their tight neck, shoulder and back muscles. I specialize in Therapeutic Bodywork, which is more pressure than a Swedish massage but not as heavy as deep tissue.
I love helping people feel better and relax. You may even fall asleep on the table!
My mission is to help people learn how to stay limber and have full range of motion.

Tammie Scheider is a Certified Crystal Healer, Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Angel Card Reader and Integrated Energy Therapy Master Instructor. Tammie’s own healing journey began in 2008 when the Alzheimers Association offered a no cost Reiki 1 class for caregivers of Alzheimers patients. Her father in law had been diagnosed with Alzheimers that year and Reiki training proved to be an invaluable tool. She went on to become a Certified Reiki Master Teacher through Reiki Rays of Hope for Caregivers, Inc. Mentor, Ohio and started teaching Reiki in 2011.Tammie’s Healing Arts practice includes teaching all levels of Reiki training and Crystal Healing workshops, as well as offering Reiki, Crystal Healing, Integrated Energy Therapy sessions and Angel Card Readings. Her many years of experience with these valuable alternative healing therapies have helped clients to receive personalized sessions that support healing of mind, body and spirit. Self-care is an important component to overall health and wellness. Tammie welcomes new and returning clients to Blue Sky Yoga!