Faculty
Anne Bonney
I am one of the Co-founders of the Center for the Spiritual Journey, an Interspiritual Life Center of Cape Cod. I am a person who longs to deepen my connection with the Divine Presence and who values the companionship with others in a beloved community—a community who also yearns for a less violent, more loving, and compassionate world. I believe this is the urgent work of our times. Indeed, it is our mission.
I love to travel and helped to lead our Pilgrimages to Iona and Santa Fe. I find that the outward physical journey of a pilgrimage encourages the unfolding of our inner landscapes. I love to study and explore the larger questions that live inside of me—questions that have sent me to Seminary and a Master of Divinity Degree, on to Ordination and into Christian Ministry. I love the Labyrinth. In 2012, I partnered with Dawn Tolley and Kathe Rhinesmith and the local Clergy Association in building and gifting the town of Chatham with a labyrinth for its 300th Anniversary! I am an Advanced Veriditas Trained Labyrinth Facilitator and am currently serving as a Faculty member and a Board member of Veriditas, the non-profit spiritual and educational organization for the Labyrinth. Through the Center for the Spiritual Journey and Veriditas I am so grateful to have an opportunity to teach others, and to be able to express these passions that light up my life. I am blessed with glimpses of the deeper Divine connection my spirit seeks, that the world seeks, —a Love that we so desperately need, a Love that unifies all paths and affirms our essential oneness.
Anjali Budreski
Anjali Budreski is an Entrepreneur, Soul Coach, Yoga Teacher, Writer, and the co-founder of the Soul Journey Collective. She leads transformational retreats and training both nationally and internationally.
Anjali has deep ties to Cape Cod, but currently resides in the green mountains of Vermont where she enjoys simple living and a passionate connection to nature. When she’s not coaching or teaching, she can be found curled up with her journal, creating delicious treats in her tiny kitchen or hiking up a mountain.
Kathy Budreski
Kathy Budreski is a retired Registered Nurse who “refuses to retire”. She is certified in Educational and Pastoral Care Ministry and Substance Abuse Counseling. After many years of work in various nursing jobs, including Hospitals, VNAs, Hospice and as a Parish Nursing in Chatham, she now enjoys what she loves best, facilitating a variety of groups related to Conscious Aging, End of Life Planning and Memoir Writing Groups. She facilitates “What if…Workshops”, which help seniors and families prepare for unexpected life circumstances and explore their final wishes. She leads Death Café ‘s in the community. The purpose of the Death Café is to demystify death and increase one’s comfort level with it in a safe supportive environment.
Her spiritual path has led her to seek solitude, contemplation, and meditation in the company of other “soul friends”; wishing to share in this journey. Marriage, mothering, sistering and grandmothering have woven the brightest strands through the tapestry of her life.
Bonnie Fedge
Bonnie Fedge is certified as a Reiki Master, Certified Integrative Nutrition Coach, and Advanced Akashic Records Meditation. She works with Essential Oils, sound bowls and music, yoga, holistic health, as well as visualization and meditation, so they may all be incorporated to ensure positive and encouraging results. She has learned styles in many parts of the world and has formal education in teaching and coaching.
Michele Insley
Artist, non-profit professional and wellness advocate, Michele Insley has been teaching various forms of group exercise for over 30 years. Michele discovered yoga while in art school. For many years, Yoga was her personal practice but as she uncovered its many benefits, Michele decided to become a Yoga teacher to share the teachings with all.
Michele is certified at the 500-hour level from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Over the years, she has studied and practiced various systems of yoga – Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Yin – elements from which find their way onto her classes. In addition, Michele has taken multiple master classes and workshops with Tias Little, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rae and Dharma Mittra. Her teaching style is compassionate and grounded. Michele uses creative sequencing to weave together the philosophy of yoga, proper alignment in the poses, present moment awareness and joyful lightheartedness.
Rich Hunt
Rich Hunt has always been interested in the mind: how it works, how it shapes our experience, and how we can use it to diminish suffering. This led him to study psychology in school, and to read books about spirituality and metaphysics outside of school. Following these paths, Rich obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and practiced as a psychotherapist for 30+ years; he also moved from a rather intellectual interest in spirituality to practicing meditation and engaging in inquiry as a means to actualize some of the things that he had been reading about for many years. Rich retired from the practice of psychotherapy in 2011; he still aspires to help people find greater peace, greater contentment, and greater wisdom within themselves. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
Carol Marcy
I have grown up close to the Earth, gardening, camping, dancing, hiking, living close to the land, holding Her sacred. For years, I was part of a weekly seminar at the Washington Center for Consciousness Studies where we looked at the interface of Phenomenology and Dzogchen Buddhism through lecture, meditation and energy work. I had a holistic healing center in the woods of Southern Maryland where I practiced psychology, led retreats and ceremonies and taught meditation classes. I began writing journals that became of means of self-discovery and expression. Poems came. Several books were written. I started taking a poetry class and the world turned into delicious words. These experiences have shaped my life, so that now out of deep reverence, I come to the time of giving back.
When I turned 75, I moved to Cape Cod where I could offer classes in things that I love and wanted to share with others. Early on, I discovered the Center for the Spiritual Journey in Chatham. Opportunities there have blossomed which allow me to teach guided Nature based meditation classes, to begin teaching a poetry class that has become such fun and when we have been able to be outside together, to lead Forest Bathing walks as a meditation practice. I am grateful for this weaving of life lived into wonderful things to share.
Lisa McNeill
Lisa McNeill is a Gestalt-trained leadership & transitions coach and an organizational development consultant living in Yarmouthport. During her 25+ year career in the nonprofit sector, Lisa frequently facilitated stakeholder planning meetings and community conversations. She is a life-long learner, and since traveling with the Center for the Spiritual Journey to the Isle of Iona in 2014, Lisa has been on her own spiritual and mindfulness journey. She served as an original member of the Center for the Spiritual Journey nonprofit Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020, including as Board Chair for three of those years. Lisa co-facilitates the Civil & Sacred Conversations program at the Center for the Spiritual Journey and co-chairs its Spirituality & Social Justice Committee.
Amy Middleton
Amy Middleton has worked as an educator to both children and adults for over thirty years. She
considers herself gifted at being a child at heart. For this reason her workshops are known to be
experiential and fun. She feels that it is in this way that we tap into our most authentic selves. Amy served the First Congregational Church in Chatham for over twenty years as the Director of Christian Education and Family Ministries. Currently she is their Youth Director. She has led worship, workshops and retreats. In addition to being a self-proclaimed “church lady”, she is a professional artist and art educator. Amy Middleton studied art at Southern Methodist University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Studio Art. She continued her studio art studies at Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is mother to three sons and one dog and resides in Chatham, Massachusetts.
Melanie Pieruccci
Melanie Pierucci, an angel mother herself, is a certified prenatal and postpartum yoga teacher, fitness instructor, and integrative health coach. In collaboration with the Center for the Spiritual Journey, she is here to provide a safe space to grieve and heal – emotionally and physically – for parents who have experienced chemical pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR (termination for medical reasons) or child loss within the first year of birth. This is a place where you and your child’s memory are always welcome.
Kristin Putney
For over 30 years, Kristin Putney has been engaging
her creative talent and playful imagination in a double career as a Mural Artist & Painter and also as the Director of Faith Formation for Youth and Families at the Seekonk Congregational Church, UCC (MA). Kristin is the Chair for the Planning Team of the New England Association of United Church Educators (NEAUCE) that offers an annual three day conference in NH with workshops, guest speakers, and unique worship. She often develops special worship for the seasons of the church that includes vibrant and symbolic altar spaces. Recently she incorporated all the senses in a workshop of 20 prayer stations. Kristin Putney earned a BFA in Graphic Design from UMASS,
Dartmouth. She also was awarded a Certificate in Faith Formation and Youth Ministry Leadership. Balancing work with play, Kristin spends time outside exploring the many changes of the seasons with her little dog, her family and her new grandson.
Sabrina Tavalone
is an innovative and passionate fitness trainer with over 25 years experience in the health and fitness industry. Sabrina has been teaching a wide variety of fitness classes since 1990 which include Mat Pilates, Barre Fitness, Total Body Shaping, Group Step, Group Kick, Group Groove, Slide, Kickboxing, Urban Rebounding, and Hip-Hop.
An AFAA certified personal trainer for over 25 years, Sabrina also holds a Pilates mat certification with the Physical Mind Institute of New York City as well as a certification in C.O.R.E Resist-a-Ball and a certification in Osteoball for Seniors. Sabrina is also a passionate Barre instructor, and inserts some barre method into her private trainings in her private studio equipped with a fitness ballet barre. Sabrina taught the Modern Barre method for a few years in Acton, MA before moving to Chatham. She also holds the Booty Barre Certification through Tracey Mallet which she enjoyed teaching at a dance studio in Clinton.
Dawn Tolley
Dawn Tolley is a co-founder of the Center for the Spiritual Journey, and currently serves on the Board of Directors as Clerk. She spent over 20 years as a leader of a local non-profit, community activist and volunteer. She is also a certified professional coach. Dawn’s passion is experiencing life as a spiritual journey – a sacred journey, and a sacred responsibility. All the great spiritual and wisdom traditions teach us, as well as science, that all of life is interconnected. To invite people into this space to explore their inner and outer world; to become more self-aware, to heal and to take that out into our community, is a sacred privilege and responsibility. It is said, ‘The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.’ Now more than ever, we are being called forth to do the work of transforming ourselves… transforming our world”. Please join us, we need you, the world needs you!
Jenny Wood
Jenny Wood is a longtime acupuncturist who teaches people how to awaken to the flow of energy within the body and in relationships with others, as well as how to live in harmony with the energy of each season. Jenny delights in helping people release limiting beliefs and energy blocks so that they can create the life and relationships they desire. Singing and plant medicine are her favorite modes of healing.