Blackbird Wellness VT
“A sanctuary for your wellbeing.”
Welcome
Welcome to Blackbird Wellness VT!
Our Mission: where we strive to create sanctuary for your wellbeing. Our focus is on developing a space that fosters healing and rejuvenation, allowing you to embark on your wellness journey in a supportive environment.
Bodywork treatments, practice opportunities and wellness workshops provide individuals with the valuable opportunity to learn about self-care practices and mindfulness techniques that can be applied in daily life. By integrating both knowledge and practical skills, participants can empower themselves to maintain a balanced lifestyle and make informed choices that actively support their long-term health goals. Together, these opportunities create a holistic approach to wellness that wonderfully nurtures the body, mind, and spirit.
Thank you for being here!
services and offerings
Bodywork treatments, practice opportunities, and educational wellness classes play a crucial role in effectively promoting overall health and well-being. Bodywork treatments, such as Massage Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy, particularly focus on releasing tension and stress within the body, often alleviating pain and enhancing mobility for those who experience discomfort. These hands-on modalities not only address physical issues but also foster a sense of relaxation and mental clarity, contributing to emotional equilibrium.
Our Team
Here at Blackbird Wellness VT, we are dedicated to creating sanctuary for the other through intentional action. Our mission is a collective effort to maintain a safe space that encourages healing and rejuvenation. We want our students and clients to feel their purest potential and feel supported along their wellness journey. We lead with care, concern, and professionalism, recognizing that each of us is the face of this mission. We appreciate YOU just as you are, all are welcome here!
Heidi Dwyer
MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction
Heidi is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) whose intention is to “honor the truth in your body.” This phrase guides Heidi’s approach to teaching yoga. She believes that every body should be celebrated and that yoga is accessible to everyone. Heidi also holds a 30-hour Restorative Yoga Teacher Training certificate, deepening her ability to support students in rest, recovery, and mindful self-care.
Heidi’s love of yoga continues to evolve and grow. What started as an exercise supplement quickly became a passion. For Heidi, yoga is something that truly brings joy, balance, and connection into her life. As she grows older and faces physical challenges herself, Heidi has become increasingly interested in exploring yoga for chronic pain and yoga for seniors, with a focus on helping people move with greater comfort, strength, and confidence throughout every stage of life.
Teaching and human service have always been Heidi's passions. She is a former gymnastics studio owner, para-educator, swim instructor, and women’s shelter volunteer. Outside the studio, she enjoys staying active and connecting with the outdoors through kayaking, hiking, snowshoeing, golfing, CrossFit, and gardening, as well as building meaningful connections with other women.
As a yoga instructor, Heidi’s goal is to meet students “where they are” physically and to share the self-care and healing that yoga has brought into her own life. She creates space for each student to acknowledge their truth within their practice. Heidi encourages students to reflect on questions such as, “How does my body feel?” and “What does my body need today?”
Meghan Ksiazek
MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction
My life would not be the same if I couldn’t share yoga with others. My students are my greatest teachers and while I have studied under many amazing teachers, my students continue to be the inspiration and reward for my practice. I have been teaching since 2008 and have taught Vinyasa, Hatha, Pre-natal, Mommy and Me, Kid’s and Restorative Yoga. Each type of yoga I have experienced opens more eyes for me to see with. May yoga fill your life with love and light as it has mine.
Jennifer Marriott
MODALITIES : Yoga Instruction | Integrative Massage | Craniosacral Therapy
Jennifer is the dedicated owner and founder of Blackbird Wellness VT, and she has played an instrumental role in the wellness community for many years, dating back to her teenage years. As a former competitive and collegiate athlete, she quickly developed a deep intrigue for alternative wellness practices, particularly as she sought effective methods of healing that would help her recover from various injuries sustained during her athletic career. Her ongoing journey of recovery and exploration led her to discover a diverse combination of treatments designed to enhance well-being, including proper nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic care, yoga, fitness, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, and many more holistic approaches. Although there was not one singular treatment that facilitated her recovery and self-discovery, craniosacral therapy emerged as the most profound, gentle, and inspiring of all her experiences. Her personal injuries, especially those involving head trauma and episodes of depression, prompted Jennifer to focus her attention on craniosacral therapy as her preferred modality for both giving and receiving healing. Since becoming a practitioner in 2012, she has engaged in extensive self-study and professional development, which has included completing numerous courses and trainings, leading and guiding various yoga and fitness classes and workshops, as well as offering bodywork therapies such as massage and craniosacral therapies, among other beneficial practices.
Her intention as a practitioner is to hold space for clients to rest, recover, and renew their connection with self. As a high school teacher in the wellness department specializing in Yoga and Mindfulness, she taught over 100 students a semester, instilling in them the values of self-awareness and inner healing, through intentional action. She extends this empowering approach to adults as well, encouraging all beings to witness the journey - recognizing their unique challenges and experiences, and taking intentional action towards different results.
She believes that true healing happens within; the body is very intelligent and knows what it needs. With time and space, the body discovers the truth and settles in, feeling deeply connected, calm, and peaceful. This state of being becomes a gateway for expression. Healing —whether it is physical, mental, or emotional—requires time, dedication, and compassion towards oneself.
This process is recognized as the ‘journey’ towards understanding. Jennifer is here to support clients of all ages along this journey, honored to be an active participant in their exploration of self in an ever-changing and evolving world.
Meg Newlin
MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction
Like most folks, I wear a lot of hats. Some more often than others and some maybe not as much as I would wish, but I am always looking for the way that each part connects and integrates and informs the whole.
I have been interested in the exploration of yoga for almost 30 years; it has been a central guide in informing the adult that I have grown into. I love learning from any gifted teacher, across any method, but have also found myself dedicated to two in particular for the past 2+ decades.
I have been mothering for over 20 years and that has been the other biggest source of my own personal becoming over time as well. In many ways, linked arm in arm with the study and practice of hatha yoga.
I am a lousy meditator, but I do it anyway. I think maybe it is a great practice to simply keep on doing something that is hard, that never gets easy, and that maybe never will. At least, I am choosing to think so.
I am a Sagitarrius sun with a Capricorn rising which I think sums up many things about my internal struggle quite nicely. I like to think that I am pretty fluent with the dynamic play of opposites and the nature of holding two opposing perspectives as simultaneously real, and true, and valid.
I love to work with people as they explore their own personal life of practice and the particular way in which their practices spill over into all corners of their daily lives. I try to be in service to what is true and authentic and real and just above all else. I stumble a lot, but endeavoring to work consciously with my mistakes is one of the bigger parts of my practice.
My husband says that I do not need to say much in a bio as there is not much that has been left unsaid in my writing. So, I do encourage you to take a gander over there if you like. I continue to pull on the thread of mostly the same themes of love and family and loss and nostalgia and time and practice in that space. Writing has been a definite conduit of connection for me over the years and I hope that it may land that way for others as well.
Sadie Rock
MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction
Sadie teaches from a place of deep appreciation for traditional yoga practices and a heart-centered, accessible approach. After being diagnosed with a health condition in her teens, she was led to seek out a healthier lifestyle and began her yoga journey. She did not find yoga, like a magnet, it pulled her in, and quickly discovered it was the path her soul had been searching for all along, as if it had already been laid out before her. Since then, yoga has inspired a deep commitment to sharing its teachings and creating an inclusive space for growth, connection, and inner peace.
Scripture study, continued practice with Sri Dharma Mittra and his senior teachers, and personal practice are lifelong practices that continue to support both personal life and teaching. Silent practice, time in nature, and connection with loved ones help support balance, presence, and joy in daily life.
She completed a 200-hour Jaya Vita training at Jaya Yoga Studio in 2020, earned a 500-hour Dharma Yoga Life of a Yogi certification in 2024 at the Dharma Yoga Center, and completed an additional 200 hours of advanced training in February 2026 under the guidance of Sri Dharma Mittra and his senior teachers.
Her classes blend mindful movement, breathwork, and meditative awareness, supporting students of all levels in cultivating strength, flexibility, and inner stillness.
"True success lies in the commitment to constant practice and the embrace of compassion." - Sri Dharma Mittra
Alyx Sellars
MODALITIES: Yoga Instruction & Children’s Programs
Alyx Sellars is a local Northern Vermont Yoga teacher who teaches in the classical Hatha Raja style of yoga as taught by Sri Dharma Mittra. Alyx is trained to teach all levels of yoga students from beginner to advanced, offering variations throughout asanas (physical postures) to make the yoga practice accessible to all different levels of practitioners. Alyx is a dedicated student of Sri Dharma Mittra, whose teachings are rooted in the eight limb path of yoga derived from the Shiva Lineage and the teachings of Swami Kailashananda. She committed to doing her best to live established in Ahimsa (non violence, compassion). Alyx also has a background in teaching Kids Yoga, and it is possibly her favorite age to teach. Alyx studied both Creative Writing and Consciousness Studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. There, she personalized her studies to focus on a fusion of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and spiritual practices. Her research specialized in the comparison of the history of mental health and the medical systems of eastern and western cultures and how this has led to the rising stress and mental health epidemics in modern western culture today. This led Alyx to complete her Life of a Yogi 200hr Teacher Training in 2016, and then subsequently open and co-run Dharma Yoga Vermont (a small classical yoga studio 2016-2021) with her mother, Lyn Sellars. At Dharma Yoga Vermont, Alyx taught public and private classes (to both adults and children), as well as heading the Little Yogis Program at the studio, which offered monthly yoga, mindfulness, and art workshops to children, as well as children’s summer camps. Alyx spends a large amount of her time working to fuse together her passions of yoga, herbalism, art, and teaching kids to provide children with mindful, positive, and educational skills and tools to help benefit their growth and lives. Alyx is also a devoted mother, and in her free time she enjoys drinking tea, dancing, live music, painting and spending time with her dog and loved ones.