Instructors:

Wil Anderson

Wil Anderson – Owner of the Veranda Club Spa has been a professional body worker and teacher for over thirty years. As a certified Arica® instructor Anderson taught in Germany, Switzerland, and different parts of the USA. Anderson has also attended the University of Southern California, Samra Institute (Acupuncture School), IPSB (Massage School), and UCLA. His studies with the Arica® Institute have provided an overview of the essence of health. Anderson has owned the Veranda Club Spa since its beginning in 1987. Anderson was featured in the Master Level Exercise DVD an Arica® exercise program. He has been president of the Yountville chamber of commerce. In 1993, he received recognition as Yountville’s Citizen of the Year. He and his wife, Petra, were members of the Napa Valley Waldorf Education Foundation where he was president. Anderson was also a founder of the Stone Bridge Charter School (Waldorf). He was a member NADA (National Acupuncture Detox Association) and is a member of the AMTA (American Massage Therapy Association). Anderson was a founding member of the Yountville Kiwanis and is a member of the Napa Art’s and Cultural Alliance. Anderson is on the advisory board of the Napa Valley Museum and a member of the Napa Valley Leadership Council. He has also served on the Connolly Ranch board (Land Trust). Anderson and his wife Petra have a wonderful family of five children.

Martha Crawford

Martha Crawford has training and certification in a number of modalities focused on the well-being and integration of Body-Mind-Spirit. She is a licensed acupuncturist (CA) in private practice in Marin County, a certified Arica® trainer, and a certified yoga teacher.

She holds a Master of Acupuncture degree from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture(FL), as well as both licentiate and bachelor degrees in Acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in Leamington, England where she studied and trained directly with master practitioner J.R. Worsley. Prior to qualifying as an acupuncturist she maintained a therapeutic bodywork practice in Los Angeles. She trained at the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing, and was a partner in West Coast Exercise Company, a provider of CEU training for registered nurses in California. She also provided in-service training in meditation and exercise for teachers in the LA Unified School District. She received her yoga teacher certification from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center and taught private classes in NYC, as well as at the New York Health Club. Martha has been a member of Arica® Institute since 1974. She has received teachings directly from its founder, Oscar Ichazo, and has sponsored and taught Arica® trainings in Europe, South America, Canada, and many locations throughout the US including Esalen Institute. She appears as the lead instructor in the DVD of Master Level Exercise-Psychocalisthenics®, and has presented the Arica® exercise program at numerous professional conferences (AHP, Whole Life Expo, etc.). She has pending certification to provide a continuing education course for acupuncturists in the Arica® Kath State Exercises.

Peggy Hackney

Peggy Hackney is a Registered Massage Therapist, and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. She has been in the field of body-mind integration for over 40 years. Peggy is internationally recognized for her work in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals. Her book on Total Body Connectivity, entitled "Making Connections," is in its third printing. Peggy has taught dance and neuromuscular reeducation throughout the USA and Europe and was on the Faculty of the University of Washington for 11 years. She has also worked in physical therapy clinics helping people facilitate their own healing through individualized movement programs. Currently she is Director of the Berkeley graduate level Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program and teaches in the "Massage Therapist as Somatic Educator" program at Moving On Center in Oakland.

George Hall

George Hall graduated from CalTech with a degree in engineering, and served as an officer in the Strategic Air Command. After his military service, he designed hydraulic power systems and large centrifuges for testing rocket components, and worked in a San Francisco theater company. He taught in a Summerhill-style K-12 school in the Catskills and at Pacific High School, an experimental school in California. After studying Gestalt psychology with Fritz Perls at the Gestalt Institute of Canada, he was an assistant curator at the Vancouver Art Museum’s Racetrack Gallery, working with other graduates of the Institute to apply gestalt principles through art experiences with schoolchildren. The group also ran gestalt groups for Adults. He was on the staff at Esalen doing construction and leading groups. He is a certified Arica® Teacher. As a Partner in MTL Trainings, he taught or sponsored residential Arica® trainings in New York, Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Florida. In Los Angeles, he has been a partner and teacher in LA Team, which has presented the full range of Arica® group trainings. He has also taught T’ai Chi since 1981 as a certified teacher of the School of T’ai Chi Chuan.

Karimu Kudura

Karimu Kudura is an author and group facilitator in the areas of transpersonal psychology, race relations, teamwork and personal growth. He earned a Masters in Social Design from California Institute of the Arts and a Masters from Pacific Oaks College in Southern California. Kudura has facilitated groups for over 30 years and been an active member and teacher in the Arica® School founded by philosopher-scientist Oscar Ichazo. He has designed and conducted programs for youth and community groups, businesses, religious and professional organizations. Before moving to Oregon, Kudura founded and directed a successful personal growth center in central Los Angeles (Pyramid West) and published the quarterly journal, “From the Inside Out”. Currently he is founder/executive director of Syntony, a nonprofit educational corporation in Oregon. Kudura has also taught Tai Chi and the non-aggressive martial arts since the 1980s.

Alexandra ‘Sascha’ von Meier

Alexandra ‘Sascha’ von Meier has been an active member of the Arica® School since 1982. Sascha is a proficient practitioner of the Arica® Work with extensive teaching experience from numerous Arica® trainings. With an undergraduate degree in physics and a Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, she is currently associate professor of energy management and design in the Department of Environmental Studies and Planning at Sonoma State University (www.sonoma.edu/ensp/sascha). She has received several academic teaching awards and recently published a textbook, “Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction.” Sascha presently serves on the Board of Directors of Arica® Institute and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. She enjoys hiking, cycling, rock climbing, and spending time with her husband, Roger Zim, and her teenage son, Ishi.

Roger Zim

Roger Zim was part of the original group that worked with Oscar Ichazo in Arica®, Chile in 1970. Since then, he has continued to be an active member of the Arica® School as a teacher and member of the Board of Directors and the Ethics Council. Roger has completed all the training programs offered by Arica® and has taught all the group trainings. Currently he is an instructor in the Philosophy Department at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Veranda Club Spa
6795 Washington Street, Yountville, CA 94599
Phone: (707) 944-1906
Toll Free: (877) 912-5068
Email: plotinusw@aim.com

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