Marigold Yoga: About

Jenny Tumas

Since her first yoga class as a high school student in California, Jenny has had a strong interest in yoga. After college and work as an editor, years spent raising three children while living in rural northern California, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado left little opportunity for the practice of yoga. But a move with her family in 1996 to Wisconsin brought yoga back into her life when she took a yoga class in Ripon with David Brittain. She began a committed study of yoga with Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman of Bay Area Yoga in Green Bay, and since then has done extensive teacher trainings with some of today's leading yoga teachers, including Tracey Rich, Ganga White, Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, Judith Lasater, and Jill Satterfield.

Jenny is a certified yoga teacher and a 200 hour e-RYT with the Yoga Alliance, which means she has taught over 1000 hours of yoga. She is also a certified Relax & Renew trainer, specializing in Restorative Yoga, and in 2007 completed Cyndi Lee's OM Yoga teacher training. She believes that the many benefits of yoga should be made available to people of all ages and physical conditions. Her classes integrate breath and movement with attention to form and alignment. Her teaching style draws from the various yoga traditions of her training, including Ashtanga-based Vinyasa, Iyengar, Yin, and also the practice of Chi Gung. Her experience as a Reiki master informs her teaching as well. She has been teaching yoga since 2001. In addition to her passion for yoga, Jenny enjoys writing poetry, which she has found to be similar to sequencing the yoga poses which make up a yoga class.

Guest Instructors:

Angie Buchholz

Angela was working as a fitness instructor in 1991 when she encountered the inventor of the original Veggie Burger, whom also happened to be a yoga instructor. The woman sparked her interest in yoga and Angela began her own practice of yoga while incorporating some poses into her group exercise classes. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Angela moved back to the Baraboo area where she began studying to be a yoga instructor. In October of 2004 and in May of 2006 she traveled to Costa Rica to study with Darren John Main, Michael Watson and Sanjay Kumar. Angela received additional anatomy and manual adjustment training from Tom Myers at the Breathing Project in New York. She is currently on staff at the Fond du Lac Center for Spirituality and Healing and at Inner Sun Yoga Studio in Oshkosh.

Michael Fricke

Michael Fricke has studied Martial Arts for over 38 years. In 1975, he met Yin-Chian Ho, acupuncturist and Martial Arts master from China, and spent thirteen years studying with him. Michael became one of his first American students, learning T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Ba Qua, Hsing Yi, Shaolin, Chin Na, and Acupressure Massage. He also taught under Yin-Chian Ho for many years, leading classes in T'ai Chi, Chi Gong, Shaolin and other forms. Michael is also a state-licensed massage therapist and has lectured on the holistic and therapeutic heritage of the Chinese systems of health. He has taught all over Southeastern Wisconsin and also studied in China.

Michael currently teaches at Jing Hun T'ai Chi Center and St. Joseph Convent in Campbellsport, and the Fond du Lac Center for Spirituality and Healing and the Nazareth Center in Fond du Lac. He has also held classes at the UW Fond du Lac campus, Marian College, and Blue Sky School of Professional Massage and Bodywork.

Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman

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Kathleen Kelly-Hoffman is a Nationally Certified Astanga Yoga Instructor with over 14 years of teaching experience. Kathleen has owned and operated the Bay Area Yoga Center in Green Bay for the past 13 years. She teachesYoga, Breath and Meditation Workshops around the state and nationally.

Marcia Pockat

Marcia Pockat has been hula hooping for fun since she was five years old and hooping for a core and aerobic workout since she was 32. That adds up to 45 years of hula hooping fun and exercise! She is an active person who is happiest doing an exercise program or activity that makes her feel happy as she optimizes her body condition. Her hooping sessions integrate stretching movements using the hula hoop, as well as using the hula hoop in the traditional method for aerobic benefit. She believes that anyone can have fun hula hooping for exercise whether you can use the hoop in the traditional style or not. But she also believes with a properly sized and weighted hula hoop, anyone of any age or body type can learn to hoop. Or have fun trying! Marcia and her husband have three sons. They live on a farm outside of Ripon, Wisconsin where they have goats, chickens, dogs, cats, one llama and a produce business.

Marci Tousey

Marci Tousey owns, manages, and teaches classes at YogaLoft in Sheboygan. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She began her formal study of yoga in 1992 and her study of the somatic arts in 1998. “However, I have enjoyed stretching, exercising, relaxing, breathing, and creative movement since the day I was born.” In 1994, Marci quit her job as a Software Support Manager, sold all of her belongings, and bought a one-way ticket to Asia to learn more about her new-found passion, yoga. For two years she backpacked, absorbing the Asian way of life. She became certified to teach yoga at Sivananda Yoga Centre in India, received a Thai Yoga certification in Chiang Mai, Thailand, listened to a 10-day discourse by the Dalai Llama on “The Path to Happiness,” did one-month of intensive study in Iyengar yoga, attended a 10-day silent meditation retreat, and rode a 55-hour “standing room only,” 3rd-class train across China.

In 1996, Marci returned to Vail, Colorado and began teaching yoga. “Because of yoga, I became more comfortable in my body and realized that my spirit and emotions were also moving and changing. I also began to see this same change in others who practiced yoga regularly.” This led Marci to the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she earned a Masters degree in Somatic Psychology. Somatic Psychology teaches that the body must be included for emotional healing and transformation to occur. It is the study of how moving the body freely and authentically allows emotions and thoughts to change and evolve. “We are like water in a river. Water that doesn’t move stagnates. Water that tumbles over rocks and continues to flow around each unknown bend is continually purified.” In 2002, Marci moved with her husband and two children to Sheboygan to live a life surrounded by family. In April, 2004, Marci completed a Teacher Training program with Richard Freeman in the Internal Form of Ashtanga Yoga. “My study of movement will never be complete. My life has changed dramatically because I no longer “stuff” what I feel, and instead “move” what I feel. I hope everyone has the freedom to constantly move their whole selves toward joy, peace, and happiness.”

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