Meet your 2021 meditation challenge teachers
Included in the 31 Day Challenge
Beckett Johnson is transgender TBI survivor and certified resilience life coach. He partners with clients to help them develop positive inner life practices. He helps his clients to live with lucidity and build resilience in their heart so they can trust themselves to thrive on their own terms. His TBI healing journey started as a LYB retreat participant and his passion for the organization has helped him move forward into a LYB Teacher/Ambassador role. He is also a certified mindfulness facilitator, meditation instructor and an explorer at heart. For more information you can check out his services at: www.ResilienceAlchemist.com
Beckett Johnson
Euda K. Best is a Spiritual Guide, Yoga/Meditation Instructor and Founder of Hella Random Radio, "Where positive energy LIVES." She fell in love with meditation in 2009 certain that the practice cured her of her tendency toward depression. She graduated from and is a member-owner of the nation's first POC owned and operated yoga co-op, The Satya Yoga Cooperative. She believes that we heal the world by healing ourselves. She's playing her part and she's here to help you do the same.
Euda K. Best
As a yoga instructor and holistic health coach, Turi helps individuals develop strength, flexibility and balance in body and mind. She is especially drawn to the quieting practices of gentle yoga and meditation to reduce stress and tension in the body, find the quiet place behind the busy thinking mind, and calm and soothe the nervous system. She enjoys integrating the ancient practices with modern-day science to help individuals on their healing journey connect with their essential nature of wholeness, peace and ease.
Turi is a LYB certified instructor and serves on the board of her local Concussion Resource Center. Her other trainings and certifications include E-RYT200, RYT500 and YACEP, Heart of Sound: Mantra and Nada Yoga certified, iRest® Yoga Nidra Level 2 Teacher, and Holistic Health Coach. In addition, she is currently pursuing iRest full certification and a 300-hr Meditation Teacher Training through Mind Oasis.
Turi Hetherington
Carolyn Anne Budgell (BA, ERYT since 2008) finally committed to meditation after years of teaching yoga because it changed her behaviour, her relationships and entire life above all other endeavours. In meditation, she couldn’t hide behind drugs, or being a know-it-all and she clarified the most honest and loving ways to show up in the world.
Carolyn has been leading meditation since 2010 in all types of settings: one-on-one, intimate groups, trainings, on international retreats, at the Wanderlust festivals and in the corporate world. She has studied with teachers from the schools of Engaged Buddhism, Insight meditation and Zen, notably Adyashanti, Tara Brach and Reggie Ray. You can find audio meditations with Carolyn on various websites: Mala Collective, lululemon, Insight Timer, MOMENT, LoveYourBrain and Tuja Wellness.
Carolyn guides her workshops and retreats in a simple and accessible language. She firmly believes that meditation is not just about being still and silent, but also about a willingness to look within, accept the situation and then work to create change. In this way, every aspect of life becomes a meditation.
Carolyn Anne Budgell
Megan Cauley is a certified yoga teacher based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 with a grounded enthusiasm for the healing properties of yoga and meditation. At the core of all her teachings is the belief that we are all connected to each other through and with nature. She is grateful for the Love Your Brain program, and is enthused to share this compassion centered practice since 2018. Her personal healing journey with mTBI anchors and ignites her teaching. She shares this enthusiasm and resilience with public classes, workshops and private classes.
Megan Cauley
Claudette is a long-time student of yoga, a yoga teacher, and a studio administrator. She is passionate about the study and practice of yoga, as well as the training and mentoring of its teachers. In her classes, she invites curious practitioners toward an experience of greater strength, sensitivity, freedom, skillfulness, and wisdom, so that they can cultivate greater connection in their lives. Claudette's classes create space for self-expression through body and voice, cultivate a clarity of focus, and foster a joy of movement. www.claudetteevansyoga.com
Claudette Evans
Michelle Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, she has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Her awareness of the world through her own experience as a black woman allows her to know, first-hand, how privilege and power operate.
She has worked with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide and is on the faculty of Off the Mat Into the World. Michelle new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. Finding Refuge is a book focused on collective grief and how we as a collective can respond to heartbreak. She has been interviewed on several podcasts, in which she’s explored the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.
Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.
Michelle Johnson
Damithia is a dedicated practitioner, educator and tenacious advocate of self-care, community care, and disrupting dominant narratives that derail our personal growth and healing. She is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher, certified children’s yoga teacher, and trauma informed restorative practice facilitator. She is the founder of Thrive Yoga, a yoga and mindfulness youth empowerment organization, offering trauma-informed, culturally responsive movement and mindfulness practices to youth in schools K-12. Damithia is passionate about facilitating the deep healing work around race and social justice, especially as it intersects with yoga and wellness.
Damithia Nieves
With a scratchy little voice and infectious giggle, Steph has a way of brightening any room. A personal love and professional commitment to supporting optimal health, healing, and spiritual opening has led her to infuse her style with material that is both light and of depth. Steph leads yoga, meditation, and educational courses that braid together traditional wisdom of the ancient East and evidence-based Western science. This is often done alongside her sense of humor and through metaphor. Steph recently obtained a Master's degree in Psychology and Spirituality from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2020. Her studies and research are rooted in the efficacy of integrative health interventions, Yoga, neurorehabilitation, and psychology. Ultimately, Steph believes play is the greatest form of research, and your life is your greatest experiment…Love is the only way you stay committed to that great work.
Steph Winsor
Included in the 10 day challenge
Claudette Evans
Megan Cauley is a certified yoga teacher based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 with a grounded enthusiasm for the healing properties of yoga and meditation. At the core of all her teachings is the belief that we are all connected to each other through and with nature. She is grateful for the Love Your Brain program, and is enthused to share this compassion centered practice since 2018. Her personal healing journey with mTBI anchors and ignites her teaching. She shares this enthusiasm and resilience with public classes, workshops and private classes.
Megan Cauley
Turi Hetherington