Our Teachers

Angelica Palmer founded The Telegraph School in 2021 and teaches The Non-Linear Movement Method®, Ecstatic Dance, The WillowGrove Coming of Age Summer Program and leads the monthly Red Tent gatherings.

Angelica is a Teacher, Performance Artist and Community Builder with decades of experience performing and teaching creative expression for personal and collective growth. She has a BA in Statistics and International Sustainable Development from Cornell University and an MA in Experimental Performance and Social Activism from the New College of California. She is a certified teacher of the Non-Linear Movement Method.

She also runs Green Circle, an accounting consulting practice and lives in Cherry Valley, raising two wonderful children, 8 chickens, 2 dogs and a rabbit.

Angelica’s artist website: dzeli.com

Linda Costello-Roth teaches Moon Flow.

She studied under Dr Dean Telano. RYT- 1100 hours. (Rahini Yoga). Certified in Yin yoga; Children's yoga;  Karuna(R) Holy Fire II Reiki; Animal Reiki, Crystal Grid Reiki, Kind Karma Grand Master Reiki, Level 20, Gong and sound baths; Meditation certification, QiQong

Dale Latella, teacher of Hagg Dancing and Hagg Dancer since 2017, is a member of The Happy Haggs Dance Troupe of Central NY.

This dance troupe is a theatrical group of amateur volunteer women, maidens, mothers and crones who model their dances after Wolfshäger Hexenbrut. Their mission is to bring happiness and joy through the majick of dance.

Veronica Pokorny, teacher of Latin Dancing, a native of Lima, Peru, has a passion for teaching Latin dances and has been sharing her expertise for the past decade. Her teaching venues include private lessons, the Cooperstown Junior Ballroom and Origins Cafe, where she instructs in popular styles such as Salsa, Merengue, and Bachata.

With her years of experience and dedication to the art of dance, Veronica is an exceptional instructor who inspires and empowers her students to move with grace and confidence.

Ganeshani (Wanda Hunt), teacher of Traditional Yoga. A practicing yogini for 35 years and a certified instructor since 2001, she was trained at Ashrams in the Traditional form of Sivananda Yoga.

Over the years she has been privileged to learn a variety of yoga styles from many renounce teachers such as ; Baron Baptiste, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Patricia Walden, Alan Finger.

As the owner of The Well Awareness Center , she has offered classes in Sivananda , Hatha, Vinyasa Flow, Kids Yoga, Mommy and Me, Restorative, Chair Yoga, Pranayama , Meditation and Family Yoga .

A grandmother and world traveler she has had the pleasure of practicing yoga in many exotic places like Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa , The Great Wall of China and Richfield Springs, New York!

Bonnie Fiore, teacher of Yin Gentle Yoga, Ashtanga Flow Yoga & Sunrise Thai Massage and owner of Fit to be Tied Yoga, has been teaching yoga since 1993. She has studied with David Swenson, Beryl Bender Birch, Tom Birch and Manju Jois (all Ashtanga teachers). She has taken workshops annually with interdisciplinary teachers such as David Williams (Ashtanga), John Friend (Ashura yoga), Lilias Folan (Hatha yoga) & Glen Black & Judy Brick-Freedman (Iyengar yoga). Bonnie continues to study independently with various teachers through books and media, such as Paul Grilley (Yin yoga), Rodney Yee & Patricia Walden.

Karrie Larson, Teacher of Outdoor Open Level Vinyasa Flow Yoga, has been a practicing yogi for over 10 years and a teacher for the past 5. She completed her 200 hr Yoga Alliance training with Daya Yoga Studio in Brooklyn and has since taken additional trainings in Acupressure Yoga Meridian Therapy with Rose Erin Vaughn and Yin Yoga with Corina Benner. Drawing from her studies in vinyasa, hatha, yin, and Chinese Medicine, her classes are challenging yet accessible, offering space for self-observation and discovery. For more on her background and practice visit her website.

Maria Llanos Kaltenbach, Lead Facilitator of The WillowGrove Coming of Age Summer Program, mother of 2, has been a community activist and volunteer for over 18 years. Her adventures include going abroad to El Salvador on a medical and dental mission, helping in Honduras with a water purification system for a village of 42 families, and traveling to Texas to help refugees seeking asylum.

In her community of Cooperstown, she volunteers with the League of Women Voters, the Glimmerglass Festival Guild, the SSPCA, and the Cooperstown PTA among others. Her goal in life is to raise strong women.

Melanie Pandit teaches Sahaja Meditation for Youth
and the Sahaja Meditation Community Class.

Melanie’s 25+ year meditation practice and teaching brings a fresh approach to reach the state of thoughtless awareness, despite our busy lifestyles. Melanie is an avid traveler, and has studied or worked in the fields of Asian Studies, Dance, Refugee Resettlement, Arts & Education, and Pregnancy & Birth Support. A mother of two, Melanie spends her free time gardening, practicing international dance, and enjoying the beauty of nature easily found in the countryside of upstate New York. She can also be found teaching meditation classes online at Meditate Upstate and Sahaja Online.

Charle-Pan Dawson, teacher of Shiatsu Massage for Couples, is a Licensed Massage Therapist, in the State of New York, with more than ten years experience focused in Ohashi style Shiatsu. License #026349