Jordana Reim has dedicated her life to expanding consciousness - her own, her community’s, and humanity’s.
Her teaching journey began in 2008 after her first Yoga Teacher Training with YogaWorks. She has spent the last decade refining her personal practice through travels and residencies at some of the most sacred and beautiful places on Earth including the islands of Thailand, ashrams of India and the Himalayas of Nepal.
On a continual search for higher ground, the New Jersey-native shares her considerable learnings as she coaches others in corporate, group and private meditation, breathing, and other wellness modalities.
Trained in the Himalayas of Nepal, Jordana is a facilitator and teacher’s trainer for Vedic Sound Healing, a practice of energy healing through sound & vibration.
Jordana’s classes are a retreat for mind. Students call her both calming and enlightening and “a recipe for blissful days and sleep!” Her original meditations have been streamed over 1 million times worldwide.
Our Facilitators
Natalie Conneely, founder and healer of AVNI Healing was born in the Amazon jungle of Eastern Bolivia and has always been inspired by nature and its magical abilities. As a third-generation healer, Natalie is certified in all eight limbs of Yoga including Chakra Yoga. In 2013 she was initiated as a Field of Love Meditation guide by Siberian Shamans.
Natalie began offering healing practices and rituals in 2015 in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Clients have ranged from Start-Up Founders, CEO's to Healthcare professionals and individuals from all sectors. Through custom healing sessions, Natalie guided clients dealing with insomnia, fatigue, depression and stressful and increasingly demanding lives to find inner peace and a sense of calm. For seven years, Natalie worked for the Dalai Lama building a global network of mindful, compassionate and ethical leaders. She has trained more than 175 next-generation leaders in holistic practices for self-awareness and community work in more than 40 countries.
Natalie works with clients on a one on one basis and loves hosting community gatherings and healing rituals to maximize our collective consciousness! AVNI is doing its part to help all human beings reclaim their spirit and awaken to the infinite possibilities within themselves, in this day and age when it is needed most.
GINEVRA ARE
Ginevra Are is a Holistic Counselor with an MA in Guidance and Counseling, as well as a Certified Integrative Wellness Life Coach, a Social-Emotional Expressive Arts Facilitator, and a Yoga Teacher.
She offers 1-1 coaching and counseling sessions, group sessions, workshops, and yoga classes online and in-person in the LA area.
Her ever-curious mind motivates her to keep learning and her open heart keeps her sharing from a place of deep understanding and love in her classes.
Some of the topics she is passionate about teaching are Somatic embodiment practices, Mindfulness-Based meditations, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Breathwork, Kundalini, and Tantric practices, along with elements of Herbalism and Ayurveda.
Rooted in the belief that we all need a strong foundation of self-compassion, awareness, and love in order to walk on Earth with fulfillment and grace. She will be your biggest supporter on your unique journey as you develop a connection with your own heart, your body, higher purpose, and the Universe.
NATHALIE SHAPIRO CALLAHAN
Nathalie Shapiro Callahan has been an educator for 10 years. She received her BA in Philosophy and went on to study Vedic Philosophy, Ayurveda and Yoga in India for four years. She is currently an Acupuncturist, Herbalist, and Nutritionist based in Santa Monica.
NIKKI BRAVATA
Nikki Bravata is a registered nurse from the United States with more than 17 years of nursing experience in intensive care, integrative oncology and lifestyle medicine. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Michigan in 2003.
After graduating from Michigan, she set out as a travel nurse to Arizona where she had extensive training and experience in intensive care. After, she spent 8 years training and practicing in alternative therapies for healing from chronic diseases at an integrative oncology center in Arizona.
She is certified and experienced in therapies such as ozone and oxidative therapies, IPT, intravenous antioxidants including vitamin C, chelation, colon hydrotherapy, PEMF, and more.
Her love for Thailand began in 2011 when she started traveling to Chiang Mai and Bangkok to train medical staff for alternative and natural therapies for healing and detoxification. She has managed clinics in the US and Thailand and serves as an educator for integrative medical therapies, as well as raw and plant based nutrition for healing. Nikki's experience working with patients healing from cancer has fueled her passion for preventative lifestyle modification. She now is the Program Director for Thanyapura Integrative Health Center, nurse educator and international consultant for integrative medical centers.
ASH KUMRA
Ash is a national FM radio host, international career coach and co-founder of mindfulness platform Peak Mindful. Prior to working with Peak Meditation, he built a national movement for millennial entrepreneurs and created programs impacting thousands of businesses with White House’s Startup America initiative. Kumra was listed as one of the top 100 impact entrepreneurs by the Obama administration.
ANDREW SEALY
Andrew Sealy is a connection catalyst, a yoga artist, and a movement creator. His days are spent traveling to find adventure, practicing to cultivate growth, and constantly absorbing wisdom to creating new experiences that he shares with love, to friends around the world. Through the unique practice of Yoga and mindful living, Andrew embodies progressive knowledge while positively influencing and empowering students. Andrew’s teachings aim to answer the question: How can we adapt to create and evolve to sustain? Follow him on Instagram and Facebook.
MEGAN JOY
Megan Joy is your personal guide into expanded self-love and self-mastery! Coming from a Behavioral Therapy background, Megan transitioned into training with the top leaders in the transformational & mindfulness fields. Neurology and psychology come together to create the science of positivity she now teaches. After learning and experimenting with hundreds of practices and systems, she now helps men + women of all ages optimize their time, energy and love to makeover their mindset! With endless possibilities and an expanded awareness, you can have the life of your dreams too.
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Megan has personally struggled with anxiety, escapism and most importantly, a lack of self-worth. The crazy part was that she wasn't even fully aware of it! What are you pretending not to know? Coming into her awareness and back into my body blew her mind! In the best possible way. Her journey into Somatic experiencing colors her class with mindful movement and listening to your body's inner wisdom. This inner attunement created her outer attainment as everything I she had ever ask for started coming her way. She went from hiding to thriving and she knows you can too.
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BRUNO PRAGER
In 2009, Bruno experienced an intense, drawn-out mental/spiritual crisis. After exhausting all resources, internal and external, and with great fortune, he found Francisco who invited him to Brazil. Under Francisco’s care and guidance, he was immersed in the healing space of Francisco’s studio and community of practitioners. After six months of intensive practice of the Kaiut Method, Bruno returned to the US in a robust state of wellbeing that he has enjoyed since. Continuing his studies with Francisco, he met Alessandra Grando on a return trip to Brazil in 2014. They moved to New Orleans, married and opened SATI Yoga Studio where they have been teaching the Kaiut Method and training assistants.
ALESSANDRA GRANDO
A yoga teacher of 14 years, Alessandra Grando maintains her long-held commitment to facilitating a yoga practice for “every body” and to improving people’s lives.
Born in Curitiba, Brazil in the hometown of Francisco Kaiut, she found the method after in-depth training of hatha yoga. Since 2011, she has been practicing and specializing in the Kaiut Yoga Method while continuing her studies with Francisco globally.
Alessandra’s classes allow any person, at any age and with any body type, to practice and experience benefits such as pain relief and the revitalized energy that naturally awakens within the healing process.
Sarah Bell is a Yogaworks instructor living in Grand Juction, Colorado. She has been teaching both in Los Angeles and New York City for Yogaworks since 1994. Sarah has been a core member of the Yogaworks faculty since 2005, where she brings her wisdom to a new generation of yoga instructors as a teacher trainer.
Sarah has studied extensively several hatha yoga traditions and credits her long periods of apprenticeship with pedagogical icons Erich Schiffmann and the late Maty Ezraty as the cornerstone of her approach. She more recently graduated from a two year Iyengar teacher training at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York with James Murphy.
Sarah is the creator of a program called Speaking of Yoga, a voice and speech course for new and seasoned yoga teachers around the country. Her focus on ahimsa, awareness, dexterity, flexibility, support, and intention in the context of yoga instruction helps illuminate for asana teachers how essential an instrument their voice is in any kind of yoga class. Click here to learn more about Sarah Bell.
Alexandra Michelle is a teacher whose work is based on the values of awakening and liberation. She is a mentor, healer; published author, Reiki Master, and accredited KAP Facilitator. Her approach is direct yet compassionate; practical yet joyful. Alexandra trained with Venant Wong, founder of KAP, to become one of the first facilitators in the US. Her training to facilitate direct mystical awareness translates through her unique KAP frequency, sometimes activating a genuine awakening, and/or a lasting ability to see and perceive energy. Alexandra is uniquely qualified to assist those navigating the path of spiritual awakening and transformation; she offers her signature mentorship programs to those individuals ready to reach a space of stable emotional well being and expanded mystical awareness.
HEATHER LOUKS
Heather is a certified Sound Healer, Reiki Master, and yoga teacher. She is passionate about using the healing power of sound to restore energetic harmony and emotional balance. Before becoming a sound healer she studied psychology and worked as a behavioral therapist, until she decided to fully dive into holistic modalities, nutrition, sound frequencies and vibration for physical and emotional healing. To further her holistic medicinal knowledge, she is currently studying Traditional Chinese medicine. She believes in nurturing the gifts in all beings, and additionally loves working with astrology as a cosmic tool to navigate life. She believes that there is unlimited potential in what we can achieve when we connect to the healing power of the universe and the light within ourselves.
ARIANA BATES
Ariana shares Yoga Trance Dance® at Yoga Teacher Trainings and at Festivals, like the Oregon Eclipse Fest, Sedona Yoga Festival, Desert Daze, San Fran Green Fest, Mantra Mela, Love Long Beach Fest and more! A California native with a global vision, Ariana is a resident teacher at Ecstatic Dance LA, Electric Lodge, Bhakti Yoga Shala and at Yogalution. You can also join Ariana for Yoga Trance Dance Teacher Training in London and California. In 2012, Ariana co-created Free Yoga On The Beach in Long Beach. Education includes: MA in Counseling, 500 RYT, Shiva Rea Samudra Global Yoga School and Cloud 9 Yoga. Ariana is living life full on through service, adventure, community, and movement.
GLEN CALLAHAN
Glen, originally from New Zealand, studied Vedanta Philosophy and Yoga in India for 8 years and now runs Vedanta Institute Los Angeles, a non-profit dedicated to providing self-development education to the community at large. Glen is an excellent yoga teacher and has been a teacher and practitioner of yoga for over 20 years!
CAMILLE LOFTIN
After working throughout the United States and abroad as a yoga, Pilates and meditation teacher, Camille Loftin now resides in Los Angeles, California where she teaches multiple modalities of health and wellness to studios in the area. Camille also brings movement therapy, yoga, and meditation to marginalized and unhoused communities as well as to those suffering from PTSD, and those recovering from physical injury.
Camille found her way to yoga and Pilates through injury as a professional dancer and fell in love with both practices. She has three certifications in the Pilates mat technique and completed her Yoga Alliance certification in 2012. She has also recently completed her Reiki 1 certification, deepening her understanding of the chakra system and how it impacts our developmental growth, which she incorporates into many of her teachings. Camille has taught for nearly 20 years and has a deep understanding, passion, and love for movement, breath-work and meditation. Her classes, whether it's a vinyasa flow or guided meditation, encourage playful exploration and thoughtful curiosity from her students, while always guiding them to embody safe movement and proper alignment.
Camille has also spent the last decade on a deeply introspective spiritual journey, which she brings into her everyday life as well as the classroom. During this time, Camille has worked with Mayan healers and Peruvian shamans to gain a deeper understanding of her purpose in life, which she brings to each class for a richer, more fulfilling experience. She is also pursuing her Masters in Women's Studies and Spirituality with a focus in de-colonization at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Believing in the transformative power of movement and intention, she combines her dance and Pilates training with her yoga and meditation practice to design thoughtful and dynamic classes. It is through these multiple lenses that Camille seeks to offer a sanctuary of deep healing for each and every person who steps into her class, online or in a studio.
JENNIFER ALEMAN
Jennifer Aleman has spent the last 12 years motivating and inspiring audiences by sharing her life experience. She delivers a strong message about empowerment, the impacts of abuse and healing. Jennifer is a survivor of childhood abuse. She struggled with drug addiction, an eating disorder and almost dropped out of high school. Now, she holds two Master’s degrees from Fordham University. Jennifer is a Licensed Social Worker and has another Master’s degree in nonprofit leadership. Jennifer is an amazing public speaker that inspires people to be authentic and true to themselves. With over 7 years of sobriety she carries a message of self-love and self-empowerment. She is a meditation instructor and a certified Reiki Practitioner. Jennifer provides Reiki to clients all over the country for donations to her nonprofit.
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This year, Jennifer spoke about Mindfulness in Leadership at the Global Innovation and Youth Leaders’ Summit. She was also a Keynote Speaker on Mindfulness in Leadership and Nonprofit Development at Fordham University’s Entrepreneur Conference, TrepCon. Jennifer is a leading wellness advocate and has led guided meditations for Purchase College, The New York Academy of Medicine, Fordham University and Double Verify. She recently was a Panelist for Wellness Week organized by Become Today, Inc. She lead’s a weekly guided meditation for Pillars, a nonprofit that provided holistic support for substance abuse recovery.
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Born and raised in the Bronx, Jennifer has become a highly engaging presenter and public speaker with a solid track record of impact speaking at various events including educational lectures at Purchase College, the Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation, Edgemont High School, Dobbs Ferry High School, Girls Inc., Fordham University, Peace Outside Campus, The White Plains Court Office, Teen Vogue, The Educational Opportunity Program, Manhattanville College, Evolve, Lehman College and Victims Assistance Services.
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Jennifer has used her voice to talk about her life experience on Pix11 news and various other photojournalism projects. In 2018, she was the keynote speaker at Adelphi University for their “Take Back the Night” event and was featured in an article in the New York Times. Twice a year, she goes into the Valhalla County Jail to speak to inmates about the impact violence has had on her life with the hope of stopping violence.
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At the age of 30, she is the Founder & Executive Director of Peace Starts Now. Peace Starts Now’s mission is to promote mindfulness through yoga, meditation and creative arts workshops. Jennifer has significant experience as an Executive Assistant and Operations Manager. She currently works as the Executive Assistant to the President of The New York Academy of Medicine and was previously the Executive Assistant to the Founder and President of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in NYC. Prior to that, she was an Operations Specialist at the Corporate Source, a nonprofit that provides employment assistance for people with disabilities.
VALERIA MALDONADO
An hour class guided towards going inward and manifesting anything you want to be, or more like, already are. We will start with breath work to go deep within and release anything getting in our way and then transition to a channeled guided meditation to connect deeper within ourselves and our truth. We will share as a community before and after, so both the breath work and meditation are designed specifically for the needs of the group and move through it, together. We will connect to our love to see that love and abundance reflected back to us in our everyday lives.
RACHAEL NITYA LINDSAY
Rachael is a “Conscious Embodiment Practitioner”. She is an energy worker, yogi, musician, circus artist and sexuality coach. Her work centres on love for embodying, living and playing in the Divine Nature of who we really are, in the spontaneity and abundance of Life and aliveness within. This includes bringing love, acceptance and awareness to conditioning and lack mentality.
Her offerings merge in celebration and sacredness in arts, life and spirituality. She began practicing yoga as a teenager and became a teacher some years later. She studied Reike-Seichim, Innderdance & Kundalini Activation Process. She uses the awareness and heartcentred work of Byron Katie and NVC aswell as being deeply touched by the lives of Jesus and the Buddha. Much of her capacity for coaching embodiment and expression comes from her studies in Theatre (BAhon and MA), music (songwriting and performing – voice, guitar, piano) and circus (various). More recently she studied Tantra and also became a certified sexological bodyworker which focuses on coaching consent, freedom and self-love. This brought her so much deeper self love, acceptance and fulfilment in her own life, whereby she follows her heart's call more and more!
Rachael loves to work with groups and 1-1, where people are are ready to be coached to trust and free themselves, their (com)passion and live their purpose through offering their innate gifts in the world.
IAN DAVIS
Visionary, dreamer, creative, doer and entrepreneur constantly in pursuit to love, learn, grow and serve!
A Creative consultant, Ian serves emerging to Award-winning artists and creatives through his company Age of The Creative(AOTC) and is currently earning an accredited Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Certification to further his work with the creative community offering tools and resources to integrate or elevate consistent mindful practices into their daily lives, creative processes to tap into the highest version of themselves.
INDY RISHI
Indy Rishi is the quintessential lateral thinker. His curiosity & experience make him the ideal innovator for today's times. Rishi is deeply involved with several intervolutionary wellbeing projects in the fields of politics, education innovation, mental health, and technology.
Emmy-nominated leading voice around digital culture and emerging trends, Shira Lazar took the internet by storm with her web-first news brand 'What's Trending'. She's spoken at conferences including SXSW, VeeCon, NFTNYC, and NFTLA and was named Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology. Shira is also the Co-Founder of PeaceInside.Live
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