Instructors
The Little Compton Wellness Center is proud to offer a wide variety of health and wellness services to our community through our partnerships with highly trained professionals. In particular, our programs are led by the following skilled leaders:
Nicole Lebreux, Gentle Yoga
Nicole Lebreux has been practicing yoga for over a decade and became a teacher in 2014 to share her passion with others. Nicole’s classes are mindful, intuitive, and meditative. She loves introducing beginners to the many benefits of yoga in the body, mind, and spirit. She has used her personal yoga practice to cope with seasonal depression, ease lower back and knee pain and infuse her life with more joy and less stress.
Physical, emotional, and spiritual strength, flexibility, and balance are also attained in her classes. Nicole provides a welcoming space where you are free to practice your yoga without expectations or judgement. She has trained with Cathy Cesario of Spirit Tree Yoga and Alison Bologna of Shri Urban Revitalization Yoga and is a registered RYT - 200 teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Nicole looks forward to learning with you on the yogic path!
Mary Derbyshire, Ex Tension Exercise
Mary Derbyshire has taught aerobics and fitness for thirty years and is certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique since 1995 and has taught everywhere from Dublin, Ireland, to Chicago, Illinois. Mary has recently authored Agility at Any Age: Discover the secret to Balance, Mobility, and Confidence. Keeping her students moving with ease and joy are her goals.
Colleen Shea, Tai Chi
Colleen is a certified Tai Chi instructor, and has actively practiced this art for seventeen years. Tai Chi is a gentle, low impact, mind-body exercise that improves coordination, balance, agility, health and well-being. Many more benefits are documented by available evidence based published studies. The basic "Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention" program is a short Sun Style Tai Chi form with high stances and agile stepping for gentle joint movement. This is excellent starting place for beginners and may be practiced by anyone and everyone who wants a gentle, low impact exercise for better health.
FATIMA dEVINE
Zumba
Zumba is a form of Latin Dance fitness which combines
easy to follow dance steps with upbeat international rhythms to create a great cardio workout. This class is great for beginners - no experience is necessary, and all fitness levels are welcome! You'll have so much fun, you'll forget you're exercising!
katherine Brown
Meditation
Katherine has been studying Kadampa Buddhism since 2002 and meditation for over 40 years.
Atisha Kadampa Buddhist Center
In 2000, inspired by the benefits of urban agriculture, she retired from an academic career in health policy and ethics to help people grow their local food system. She is a former Director of Southside Community Land Trust in Providence and lives in Little Compton on Quicksand Pond.
Monica Kaufman
Balance Class
Grace Manchester
Chair Assisted Yoga
Grace Manchester is certified in kundalini yoga, traditional flow yoga
(vinyasa) and Reiki. She will be teaching our Chair Yoga class on Wednesdays at 10:20
starting September 27.
Grace has learned to utilize many energetic healing methods in her
personal healing journey so she has become certified in them as she
feels called to share these modalities with other people embarking on
their own journey of healing.
Each class is individually customized to the needs of the student with a
heavy emphasis of pairing breath with movement with Grace providing
consistent guidance. Classes may end in meditative daily reading with essential oil light
Thai touch.
Angela Denham
Yin Restorative Yoga