Current Resume-(Kalavati) Vivinne Williams LMT, MFA

Pioneer Valley/Greenfield/Shelburne Falls, MA

E-mail(best contact): viviwill@hotmail.com
(c)413.824.2674

EMPLOYMENT

2008-2009 Massage Therapist/Yoga Teacher. Self-Employed & Hart Yoga, Shelburne Falls, MA.

• Teaching vinyasa/hatha yoga classes at Shelburne Falls Yoga & now at Hart Yoga.
• LMT specializing in Shiatsu massage. A type of bodywork that inhances the bodys energy and promotes health & wellbeing naturally.

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2007-2008 Wellness Coordinator, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY.

• Designed and taught 2 different workshops and yoga classes to faculty, staff & students. Workshops were "Mindfulness for Stress Reduction" open to entire college community & "Desk-side Stretch" aimed at faculty/staff. 
• Scheduling workshop times, booking rooms, confirming participation, creating marketing materials.
• Liaison between departments such as Human resources, Events office, Campus Web etc. to organize and promote programs, involved getting activity listed on Web site, and campus televisions, regular mass emails and followup.
• Also supporting promotion of programs by brainstorming ways to increase attendance such as using yoga and stress management programs as part of the mandatory sanctions for students found to be abusing alcohol or drugs. 

In first semester of new program implementation: presented to approximately 150 students, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from both classroom teachers and students.

2003-2007 Assistant Professor of Art, Tenured. Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY. 

 

• Teaching -planning semester course flow, research new courses and create syllabus.
• Committees: Teaching Center & search committees.
  
• Restarted defunct student Art club. Plan and implement trips: annual NYC, Italy, student recruitment, book transportation & lodging, tracking payments and meet payment deadlines, organizing club meetings, keeping club officers engaged and active. 
  

2006 CNY Yoga Center. Syracuse, NY. Taught Ashtanga yoga class.

1999-02 Sattva Yoga & Wellness, NY, NY. Owner.

• Owned & operated yoga studio, taught classes and workshops.
• Hired teaching staff
• Successfully promoted the studio which was featured in several national publications including Yoga Journal, Self & Essence magazines. 
• Designed new workshops/meditation sessions/kirtans
  

1994-2003 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. Adjunct Associate Professor of Art 

• Taught Painting I & Drawing I

1995-1999 Museum of Modern Art, NY. Lecturer, Education department.

• Developed & delivered in school lectures and art activities related to upcoming museum visit for grades 3-12.
• Conducted in museum lectures using MOMA's, discussion format that encourages open ended questions and discussion.

EDUCATION

ART

1994 Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ. M.F.A Painting.
1992 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. Cum laude. B.A. Studio Art
1991 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan ME. Juried summer arts program.
Also attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Visual art program, foundation year. Graduate Music & Art High School, NYC.

WELLNESS-

2009

• 4 weeks Mindfulness/Vipassana meditation, Tatagatha Meditation Center, San Jose, CA. Sayadaw U Pandita.  The meditation trainings are silent, intensive programs. Sayadaw means respected teacher (a monk) in Burmese. Sayadaw U Pandita is the author of "In This Very Life, the Liberation Teachings of the Buddha."
• '07-09 Gradutate of 18 Month Mindfulness Meditation & Yoga Training Program. Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA.

2007

• Onondaga School of Therapeutic Massage, Syracuse, NY. 1,000 hour Massage Therapy Program. 2007. Current NYS & MASS licensed.
• 20 day Retreat Mindfulness/Vipassana meditation, Mountain Hermitage, New Mexico. Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose. Held at Vallecitos Center.

2006

• 4 weeks Mindfulness/Jhana meditation, Forest Refuge @Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA. Venerable Pau Auk

2005  

• 6 weeks Mindfulness/Vipassana meditation, Forest Refuge @IMS. Ven. Sayadaw U Pandita

2004

• 4 weeksMindfulness/Vipassana meditation, Forest Refuge @IMS. Sayadaw U Janaka

1994

• Kripalu Yoga Center, 200 Hr. Yoga Teacher certification; also completed 40 hr. teacher training in Ashtanga with David Swenson at Yoga Vermont.

'94-Ongoing

• Numerous workshops on yoga, health and wellness at Kripalu Yoga Center. Several weeklong and 9 day Vipassana/Mindfulness retreats @ IMS.