About Stacee Hill, Registered Yoga Instructor
Stacee graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in exercise science. As health and wellness had always been a big part of her life, she played soccer during college and began her journey of coaching others through personal training. After graduating in 2007, Stacee fell in love with the rehabilitative benefits of STOTT PILATES and has b
een an Instructor Trainer since 2009, teaching students on all pieces of equipment. She graduated from Massage Therapy School in 2011 and has since gone on to study Neuromuscular Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release, Lymphatic Drainage and Reiki. Teacher Training program in 2013 and during her 9-month training also studied iRest Yoga Nidra. Stacee has worked with students ranging from beginners to professional athletes. She has extensive experience working with injuries and special populations, including joint replacements, shoulder impingement/rotator cuff injuries, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, various spine disorders and injuries as well as Parkinson’s disease, the geriatric population and most recently amputees and trauma-sensitive populations. The principles of iRest Yoga Nidra and teachings of Non-Violent Communication most influence Stacee’s teaching. She invites students to become aware of their bodies and encourages them to know that they have all they truly need at any given moment. Stacee believes that her role as a teacher is to empower her students to uncover their living potential by encouraging playfulness and curiosity through movement without force. She encourages her students to become aware of the power of the breath in supporting all the possibilities of a pose and to know that being present to our thoughts and emotions helps us better able to find our limit—our edge. She hopes to continue to offer her services, spread peace, offer hope and share love to those unable to financially contribute by taking her work to the streets, in prisons and to third-world countries. About Jenny Patton, OSU Senior Lecturer
Jenny holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Tulane University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Ohio State University, where she teaches writing and incorporates wellness prompts in her classrooms. Since age seven, she has been an avid journal writer—turning to writing to plan, solve problems and better understand herself. Forster’s question resonates with her: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” She encourages her students to take it further: “How do I know who I am until I see what I think?”
After her mom passed away from cancer in 2005, Jenny’s Crohn’s disease flared up. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and stay in bed. But each winter morning, she lit a candle, opened a daily meditation book, practiced yoga and wrote in her journal. This blend of journal writing and yoga boosted her spirit and energy, enabling her to move forward. Though she didn’t know it then, journal writing (also known as scriptotherapy) has been proven to benefit the immune system. Scientific research confirms that writing to make sense of chaos and challenging times is an effective way to combat stress. In fact, scriptotherapy has been used in treatment for eating disorders, depression, addiction and prison rehabilitation as well. Jenny’s stories, essays and articles have been published in Brevity, Prism Review, Kaleidoscope, River Teeth online, Natural Awakenings, 751 Magazine and Ohio Writer, for which her entry earned first place in the Best of Ohio Writers Contest sponsored by Poets’ & Writers’ League. She was a 2011 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellow at Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and a 2012 scholarship winner at New York Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College. She was recently presented with the President’s and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer at OSU by students who submitted nominations that cited her commitment to “the whole person.”
