Angelena Craig's not-so-short bio....
When I was child my mother often said, "You never sit still, you are always moving around". And it has been consistently true… for I have lived in many places and worked at many jobs.
After college and when I was a young mother, I started a nursery school for my two pre-school sons. I learned how to teach by just doing it. Years later I finally went for my masters degree in Early Childhood Education, and then became a director of several day care centers in Greater Boston.
Next, moving to California for several years, my work evolved into parent educator working for Santa Barbara County schools. When I returned to Boston another mother and I opened The Parent Connection, a resource center for parents and their young children. I also worked briefly for the MA Department of Social Services, and soon was hired to be the Director of A Safe Place, in Nantucket MA, a center to prevent the abuse of women and children. I was responsible for fundraising, volunteer coordinating, marketing, public speaking, putting on large events and more. It was a high point in my human services career.
But eventually, deciding I needed to change my focus, at age fifty-seven I earned my yoga teaching certificate at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Soon after I opened Beacon Light Yoga Center of Boston. There the other teachers and i offered classes in Kripalu Yoga, prenatal yoga and partner yoga, but also I taught in colleges, corporations and on retreats to Negril, Jamaica.
Again my focus shifted to begin addressing Aging, and how to stay young while growing older. Writing my published columns, "Boomer Talk", and "We Boomers and Beyond", allows me a platform to look at all the complex aging issues we boomers, and those a bit younger or older, will face, but in a better way than past generations.
Some of my recent and favorite teaching venues, before the pandemic, was teaching at The Parkinson's Center, the Longboat Key Education Center, Bath and Raquet Club and for elder residential programs, and seeing first hand.... anyone of any size, age or fitness level can reap all the benefits of Yoga *********
As I reflect back, all my changes in my career path followed a natural progression, with each one shifting organically into the next, and always with the consistent theme of bringing people together for learning, and most often, for fun. My work is always my source of pleasure.
After college and when I was a young mother, I started a nursery school for my two pre-school sons. I learned how to teach by just doing it. Years later I finally went for my masters degree in Early Childhood Education, and then became a director of several day care centers in Greater Boston.
Next, moving to California for several years, my work evolved into parent educator working for Santa Barbara County schools. When I returned to Boston another mother and I opened The Parent Connection, a resource center for parents and their young children. I also worked briefly for the MA Department of Social Services, and soon was hired to be the Director of A Safe Place, in Nantucket MA, a center to prevent the abuse of women and children. I was responsible for fundraising, volunteer coordinating, marketing, public speaking, putting on large events and more. It was a high point in my human services career.
But eventually, deciding I needed to change my focus, at age fifty-seven I earned my yoga teaching certificate at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Soon after I opened Beacon Light Yoga Center of Boston. There the other teachers and i offered classes in Kripalu Yoga, prenatal yoga and partner yoga, but also I taught in colleges, corporations and on retreats to Negril, Jamaica.
Again my focus shifted to begin addressing Aging, and how to stay young while growing older. Writing my published columns, "Boomer Talk", and "We Boomers and Beyond", allows me a platform to look at all the complex aging issues we boomers, and those a bit younger or older, will face, but in a better way than past generations.
Some of my recent and favorite teaching venues, before the pandemic, was teaching at The Parkinson's Center, the Longboat Key Education Center, Bath and Raquet Club and for elder residential programs, and seeing first hand.... anyone of any size, age or fitness level can reap all the benefits of Yoga *********
As I reflect back, all my changes in my career path followed a natural progression, with each one shifting organically into the next, and always with the consistent theme of bringing people together for learning, and most often, for fun. My work is always my source of pleasure.
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