Our Instructors

Ellen Brodsky is a lifelong lover of dance. She has studied Jazz, Modern, Belly Dance, Flamenco and Pilates and began with Ballroom for a family wedding. Starting in 1986, Mary French taught Ellen and her husband in Mary’s studio in Cataumet, and when the Arthur Murray Studio opened in Centerville in 1990, Ellen began training as a dance teacher. In 1992 Ellen began teaching at Falmouth Night School, soon expanding to two nights a week. At the Mary French Studio, she continued her apprenticeship and managed the studio for the winter months from 1997 until Mary’s death in 2008. In...

Ms. Mello belongs to numerous estate planning organizations including the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Probate Law Division.  She is also an active member of the National Academy of Elder Attorneys.  The Academy is a professional association of lawyers who are dedicated to improving the quality of legal services provided to the elderly.  Ms. Mello applies these goals in her everyday practice.  Ms. Mello’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Science degree, a Masters of Business Administration, and a Juris Doctorate.

Margaret has taught Decorative Acrylic Painting in the Falmouth Community School for many years. She is a certified Decorative Painting instructor and loves teaching.

Sujata Ringawa taught in yoga classes, retreats, and health spas throughout the United States and Europe before moving to Cape Cod in 2004. She trained extensively in the Anusara yoga system, and received teacher certification in that style. In addition, she trained in the Iyengar yoga system, and was a previous a dancer-choreographer. Her love of movement is woven into her teaching. From 1999-2004, she was a yoga instructor in an international meditation ashram and retreat site, where she taught classes, workshops and teacher trainings. Sujata’s dynamic teaching style playfully blends her spontaneous sense of joy and delight and her love of exploration with a...