MODALITIES : Yoga Instruction | Integrative Massage | Craniosacral Therapy

Jennifer is the dedicated owner and founder of Blackbird Wellness VT, and she has played an instrumental role in the wellness community for many years, dating back to her teenage years. As a former competitive and collegiate athlete, she quickly developed a deep intrigue for alternative wellness practices, particularly as she sought effective methods of healing that would help her recover from various injuries sustained during her athletic career. Her ongoing journey of recovery and exploration led her to discover a diverse combination of treatments designed to enhance well-being, including proper nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic care, yoga, fitness, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and many more holistic approaches. Although there was not one singular treatment that facilitated her recovery and self-discovery, craniosacral therapy emerged as the most profound, gentle, and inspiring of all her experiences. Her personal injuries, especially those involving head trauma and episodes of depression, prompted Jennifer to focus her attention on craniosacral therapy as her preferred modality for both giving and receiving healing. Since becoming a practitioner in 2012, she has engaged in extensive self-study and professional development, which has included completing numerous courses and trainings, leading and guiding various yoga and fitness classes and workshops, as well as offering bodywork therapies such as massage and craniosacral therapies, among other beneficial practices.

Her intention as a practitioner is to hold space for clients to rest, recover, and renew their connection with self. As a high school teacher in the wellness department specializing in Yoga and Mindfulness, she taught over 100 students a semester, instilling in them the values of self-awareness and inner healing, through intentional action. She extends this empowering approach to adults as well, encouraging all beings to witness the journey - recognizing their unique challenges and experiences, and taking intentional action towards different results.

She believes that true healing happens within; the body is very intelligent and knows what it needs. With time and space, the body discovers the truth and settles in, feeling deeply connected, calm, and peaceful. This state of being becomes a gateway for expression. Healing —whether it is physical, mental, or emotional—requires time, dedication, and compassion towards oneself.

This process is recognized as the ‘journey’ towards understanding. Jennifer is here to support clients of all ages along this journey, honored to be an active participant in their exploration of self in an ever-changing and evolving world.

MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction

Alyx Sellars is a local Northern Vermont Yoga teacher who teaches in the classical Hatha Raja style of yoga as taught by Sri Dharma Mittra.  Alyx is trained to teach all levels of yoga students from beginner to advanced, offering variations throughout asanas (physical postures) to make the yoga practice accessible to all different levels of practitioners.   Alyx is a dedicated student of Sri Dharma Mittra, whose teachings are rooted in the eight limb path of yoga derived from the Shiva Lineage and the teachings of Swami Kailashananda.  She committed to doing her best to live established in Ahimsa (non violence, compassion).  Alyx also has a background in teaching Kids Yoga, and it is possibly her favorite age to teach.  Alyx studied both Creative Writing and Consciousness Studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. There, she personalized her studies to focus on a fusion of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and spiritual practices.  Her research specialized in the comparison of the history of mental health and the medical systems of eastern and western cultures and how this has led to the rising stress and mental health epidemics in modern western culture today.  This led Alyx to complete her Life of a Yogi 200hr Teacher Training in 2016, and then subsequently open and co-run Dharma Yoga Vermont (a small classical yoga studio 2016-2021) with her mother, Lyn Sellars. At Dharma Yoga Vermont, Alyx taught public and private classes (to both adults and children), as well as heading the Little Yogis Program at the studio, which offered monthly yoga, mindfulness, and art workshops to children, as well as children’s summer camps.  Alyx spends a large amount of her time working to fuse together her passions of yoga, herbalism, art, and teaching kids to provide children with mindful, positive, and educational skills and tools to help benefit their growth and lives. Alyx is also a devoted mother, and in her free time she enjoys drinking tea, dancing, live music, painting and spending time with her dog and loved ones. 

MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction

My life would not be the same if I couldn’t share yoga with others. My students are my greatest teachers and while I have studied under many amazing teachers, my students continue to be the inspiration and reward for my practice. I have been teaching since 2008 and have taught Vinyasa, Hatha, Pre-natal, Mommy and Me, Kid’s and Restorative Yoga. Each type of yoga I have experienced opens more eyes for me to see with. May yoga fill your life with love and light as it has mine.

MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction

Like most folks, I wear a lot of hats. Some more often than others and some maybe not as much as I would wish, but I am always looking for the way that each part connects and integrates and informs the whole. 

I have been interested in the exploration of yoga for almost 30 years; it has been a central guide in informing the adult that I have grown into. I love learning from any gifted teacher, across any method, but have also found myself dedicated to two in particular for the past 2+ decades. 

I have been mothering for over 20 years and that has been the other biggest source of my own personal becoming over time as well. In many ways, linked arm in arm with the study and practice of hatha yoga. 

I am a lousy meditator, but I do it anyway. I think maybe it is a great practice to simply keep on doing something that is hard, that never gets easy, and that maybe never will.  At least, I am choosing to think so. 

I am a Sagitarrius sun with a Capricorn rising which I think sums up many things about my internal struggle quite nicely. I like to think that I am pretty fluent with the dynamic play of opposites and the nature of holding two opposing perspectives as simultaneously real, and true, and valid. 

I love to work with people as they explore their own personal life of practice and the particular way in which their practices spill over into all corners of their daily lives. I try to be in service to what is true and authentic and real and just above all else. I stumble a lot, but endeavoring to work consciously with my mistakes is one of the bigger parts of my practice. 

My husband says that I do not need to say much in a bio as there is not much that has been left unsaid in my writing. So, I do encourage you to take a gander over there if you like. I continue to pull on the thread of mostly the same themes of love and family and loss and nostalgia and time and practice in that space. Writing has been a definite conduit of connection for me  over the years and I hope that it may land that way for others as well.