Deborah Fenton

Debbie Fenton is a registered yoga teacher and a 2006 graduate of Francois Raoult’s ETT (Essential Teacher Training) program at Open Sky in Rochester, New York. Debbie has been a licensed massage therapist since 1998 and is co-owner of CanalSide Therapeutic Massage in Pittsford, New York. In 2004, she completed an eight-week MBSR (Meditation Based Stress Reduction) course with Dr. Michael Krasner, which focuses on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn to use meditation as a tool to reduce stress and pain. Previously, Debbie was a certified aerobics instructor, teaching classes at Kodak, many local clubs and various YMCA facilities (1989-1997). Debbie combines all these learnings and experiences to provide an introspective, nurturing, challenging and safe yoga class that is most beneficial to the beginning to intermediate yoga student. As a massage therapist, Debbie is certified in Orthopedic Massage, Trigger Point Therapy, Active Isolated Stretching (through Aaron Mattes) and Myofascial Release therapy (through George Kosaleous, CORE Institiute, Florida.) She utilizes components of these techniques to provide a customized, therapeutic massage treatment specific to each client's needs.