Celeste has been living in the Hudson Valley, upstate NY, since 1985. She has raised her children here and has taught many others early ballet and creative dance. Primarily based at The Saugerties Ballet Center,  www.saugertiesballet.com she has also taught dance and yoga at The Arts and Sports Center, Saugerties Continuing Education and after school programs, and at Vatra Health Spa in Hunter NY, where she was Fitness Director for several years. Currently she is using both yoga and dance therapeutically at Always There Adult Day Care in Kingston, NY. The participants have a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's, stroke, and arthritis. Adapting movement, playing music from the 30s and 40s, and using chairs in lieu of yoga mats contribute greatly to the success of these groups. Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Celeste continues to teach a weekly class at SBC and has a private practice in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, a one on one modality of body-mind therapy, using assisted classical yoga along with contemporary psychotherapeutic techniques. Results can vary from release of tension and chronic pain to insight into long standing unresolved issues, to a new sense of purpose and well being.  For more details, visit www.pryt.com/CelesteGraves-Hoyal Couples Work Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is also available for couples. It can be extremely effective for exploring and enhancing relationships of all kinds. Turning Stress to Bliss This is an 8 week workshop using the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy approach and other "Mindfulness" techniques. It is offered  several times throughout the year. The next one is scheduled for the Spring of 2011, and will take place in Celeste's soon to open new studio, Esopus Bend Yoga.  Be sure to check in about that and get yourself registered in advance.  Space is limited. Celeste has a masters degree from New York University in Dance Therapy, and has worked on and off in that field since the 1970s. In those years she also danced professionally with Omega Liturgical Dance Company under the direction of Carla De Sola, and with Robert Yohn and Dancers.  2011 will mark her forth season as guest artist with A Perfect Gift, All That is Jazz, an affiliation of Artists Alliance Against Violence, based in New Paltz, NY, www.aaavinc.org Combining yoga and dance has been a driving force in Celeste's work, both teaching and performing, for decades. Exploring the natural connection between the two has led to the dance/fitness classes, The Joy of Movement for Fitness and Fun, she has been conducting for several years at The Woodbine Inn, in Palenville, NY. There has been a distinct evolution of this work, connected with Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and with her personal yoga and dance practice, and which is tending more and more to emphasize self-awareness, honoring the body, honoring the Earth, and acknowledging the spiritual reality of the life force that is flowing, sustaining, and carrying us all through our lives, whether it be in our daily tasks, stage performances, fitness classes, or personal yoga practice.