Bill Cottrell, RYT is a Detroit Native and new to Athens. He holds a B.A. in Public Policy and Film Studies from Michigan State University and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Bill teaches a gentle yoga class for all levels of practitioners. He has studied and attended workshops under prominent yoga teachers such as Sharon Gannon, David Life, Ana Forrest, Alan Finger, and Paul Grilley. He believes that anyone regardless of their background can find a place for yoga in their life and can develop a deeper connection between the mind and body. Currently Bill teaches yoga at UGA-Ramsey Student Center and Floorspace and enjoys spending time with his family, camping, and traveling.
Carl Lindberg (706)546-8422, has practiced taiji for eleven years and qigong for seven years and is a 20th generationdisciple of Chen Style Taijiquan and 3rd generation disciple of Hunyuan Qigong under Master Chen Zhonghua. He studied the Chinese Martial Arts Yang Style Tai Chi, Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Shaolinquan, and Chen Style Taijiquan before beginning his apprenticeship under Master Chen Zhonghua in 2002. Lindberg became a certified instructor of Master Chen?s international Hunyuan Taiji Academy upon completion of his Full-Time teacher training intensive in Edmonton Canada in 2003, became an official disciple of Chen in 2004, and traveled to China in 2005 for more intensive training under Master Chen and some of his fellow Masters and their students, in addition attending numerous other workshops and conferences in Canada, Arkansas, New York, and Georgia. Lindberg has taught taiji since 2000 privately and at UGA, Classic Martial Arts Club, Roots Farm, and Athens Montessori School, as well as teaching Chen Taijiquan Broadsword at the annual international taiji conference Hunyuan World in Calgary, Canada and Unicoi State Park, Georgia, in addition teaching a broadsword workshop at Hunyuan Taiji Academy, Milwaukee, WI branch.
Denise Posnak (760)415-6543, has performed, choreographed and taught throughout the United States and Hungary. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Chapman University with a degree in Education, she moved to Budapest, Hungary where she taught English and Dance in public high schools from 1998-2000. In 2006 she completed a MFA in dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where her research included somatic practices in the dance classroom, dance for the camera, and site-specific art. She believes strongly in collaboration of art forms and artists and has collaborated with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists since 2000. She is a certified Pilates instructor and continues her Pilates research through Janice Dulak and master teacher, Romana Krysanowska. She has served on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently on faculty at the University of Georgia at Athens.
Julie Rothschild (706) 372-4830, co-founder of Floorspace and Warehouse Collective, moved to Athens in 2000. Julie began her modern dance training at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, OH in 1983 and continued to pursue her interest in dance and performance at Colorado College and Ohio State University. She has worked with Prairie Wind Dancers (Lawrence, KS), Aha! Dance Theatre (Kansas City), Miki Liszt Dance Company (Charlottesville, VA), Live Arts Theatre (Charlottesville), Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (Takoma Park, MD), and Zen Monkey Project (Charlottesville), with whom she continues to collaborate. Julie teaches and performs locally and internationally and has recently become a certified Alexander Technique Teacher.
Lisa Yaconelli grew up in northern California, graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, and now resides in Athens, Georgia. Earning a BFA in Dance, her early dance education was Ballet while her college years were focused on modern technique and choreography, Her most influential professor, Eva Gholson, came from a Cunningham background but with a more emotional groove to her movement. As a cofounder of Warehouse Collective she now spends her time choreographing and performing in and around Athens.
