About Us

Sharon McIlwaine opened Breathing Light in the summer of 2007 on the 3rd floor of the "old depot building" in Montpelier. Looking for a space to house her Chinese Medical practice, the space also offered a room large enough to hold classes as well as the needed waiting area and treatment rooms. As a pilates/yoga/movement instructor this seemed like the perfect opportunity to offer movement classes and therapies as well as Chinese Medicine and other deep healing arts under one roof.

As the clientele grew, Sharon invited other deeply informed and talented instructors and practitioners to join her. Breathing Light now offers a full pilates program in our open airy studio and therapeutic acupuncture and massage in our health clinic with two acupuncturists available to help you. Chinese medicinal herbs are also prescribed when recommended by your acupuncturist from the Breathing Light herbal pharmacy.

photo by Faye Murphy

In fall 2011, we moved to our new location at 1 Blanchard Court in Montpelier. We are now located behind the Montpelier City Hall, tucked into a quiet recess beside Saint Augustineʼs church in the First in Fitness building. We hold all of our pilates classes in the large, open studio on the 2nd floor directly beside our newly remodeled health clinic.

We provide a nurturing setting in which to optimize health through the modalities of movement (classes and private sessions) and therapeutic treatment (acupuncture and massage).

Welcome to Breathing Light...