Our Team
Tilly LaRochelle
Our movement practitioner is a Certified Trauma Informed Youth Yoga Instructor and a Certified Preschool Teacher in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. The rewarding experience of teaching at Head-start in Northampton for the past two years lends a compassionate and healing approach to her yoga practice. Along with warmth and humor she engages both healing and resilience with a deep understanding of trauma-sensitive techniques.
She creates a safe and nurturing space for her students to explore movement, mindfulness, silence and sound. Her passion for yoga and wellness extends beyond the studio, as she advocates for holistic well-being and self-care strategies for all members of the family.
Also, Tilly enjoys immersing herself in nature, gardening, creating art, and fostering a sense of humor and community! Her dedication to personal growth and empowerment shines through in all aspects of her life.
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Alexandre Pazmandy
Our Sound therapist completed his training at Springfield Community College in Music & Sound Therapy in early 2024. Since then he has developed different programs that cover all domains of music therapy including social, emotional, cognitive, communication and physical. An extra topic was added: Spirituality: a way to listen to your inner wisdom and peace through meditation and movement.
Alexandre is also a level 2 Reiki practitioner (energy healing modality).
He has received training in Qigong ("Chi" gong is movement-breathing-meditation & energy work) and has been giving weekly classes for the past 2 years in his community. He is a former art teacher (6-12th G) and graphic designer. Alex loves going in nature, gather around a fire and play all sorts of percussion and sing!
As a national provider certified by the Massachusetts board of Massage Therapy for the past 15 years, he obtained the Comprehensive Pediatric Massage Certification, (CPMT) to provide massage therapy for children with special health care needs, who are hospitalized or have been diagnosed with a terminal illness in hospice care. He also received training with the Comprehensive Touch Therapy for children with Autism (CPMTA) along with a training in Oncology Massage Therapy (OMT) to provide light touch treatments to help fight cancer.
In hospital settings, in homes or in his office in Northampton, Alex has practiced with the trust, serenity and compassion so essential to his clients’ well-being. He adheres to the strictest ethical and confidentiality codes at all times. He has provided treatments to several pediatric and geriatric clients with varying degrees of illness, including end of life. He possesses both the practical and emotional qualities needed to support clients and families throughout their difficult journeys.
This to explain where Alex is coming from, but let's stay on topic here with Music & Sound Therapy, Rhythms and Songs paired with the beautiful flow of Yoga movements!
Our Programs
Learn more about our programs and how we support the community. From education to health care, we strive to make a positive difference in people's lives with those important topics of mental health, development, integration and happiness throughout music therapy and trauma informed youth yoga.
Our Impact
Find out how we've made a difference in the community and the lives of those we serve. We are committed to improving the lives of younger ones and adults with trauma informed youth yoga and music therapy.
We evaluate our impact on the community with forms that track paths taken by groups and/or individuals along the way. Session after session we track progress, retrogression, change, adaptation, digression, evolution, metamorphosis. We gather that simple data and analyze it to better and deeper understand and identify the root cause of a trauma and fine tune our approach, to make the focus on the extreme importance of mental health in under served communities.
We don't treat trauma, we are not doctors, we are just facilitators that favor an emergence of an issue, therefore identifiable and treatable by health care professionals when/if appropriate and with all parties' consent.
Our history
In 2024, when Tilly LaRochelle, a pre-school art teacher at Head Start and a trauma informed youth yoga instructor and Alexandre Pazmandy, a massage therapist and sound healer, met in Northampton, their approach to care marked a shifting. Their discussions on early childhood and education made them realize that children were the population that was struggling the most. In all aspects of their short life, healing was utterly needed.
What child is able to support themselves at 3, 4 or 5 years old when parents are financially struggling? What impact has a single parent family struggling emotionally on a child of 6? How can a child deal with neglect, abuse, trauma in absence of recognition or support? There was an emergency.
There is an emergency!
Our future lies in our children's hearts ans hands.
They deserve the best attention.
They deserve the best care.
Then Tilly and Alex decided to design and develop a sound and movement program for children (and for grown ups too:)
Their passions in Sound Therapy and movement quickly combined into a non-profit:
Vibes Of Change was born!
Our mission
What do we do?
We go into healthcare facilities, hospitals, classrooms, private homes to provide and develop our music therapy routine along with youth yoga:
We sing!
We play instruments!
We move the body for the mind to follow!
We jump to the stars!
We propose other languages of expression!
We dance together as a fierce attempt to open the door of the cage in which we are trapped and where words are not enough or don't exist!
We say hi to the sun because it counts too!
and
We listen to the moon!