Hemalayaa teaches a unique combination of yoga and Indian dance in Los Angeles and travels the globe transforming lives through these practices. As a yogini, dancer and fitness educator, Hemalayaa has a natural gift for bringing out the joy and the dancer in everyone. The daughter of Indian parents, Hema’s upbringing taught her that dance was important to health and well-being, and her yoga training began at home at an early age. Her first teacher was her father. She went on to study yoga, philosophy, and meditation. A life devoted to yoga and dance animates Hemalayaa’s playful spirit. Laughter, her own and that of her students, is the trademark sound of her classes. Hema loves turning her students on to the vibrant styles of Indian dance, which is revolutionizing conscious movement. She is the creator and author of numerous health and fitness DVDs and has been featured in publications such as Yoga Journal, Body & Soul, Fit Yoga, The New York Times and LA Yoga Magazine among others. When she’s not shimmying with Ellen Degeneres on her talk show, strutting her stuff with the ladies of the Today show or leading workshops and retreats around the world, Hemalayaa is most likely to be found in her kitchen whipping up some healthy, organic food, riding her bike around Los Angeles, spending time with friends and just generally enjoying life.

Adri is a leading Vinyasa /Prana Flow® Yoga and Pilates Teacher with over 6 years of experience and 1600 hrs of combined training. Adri has been blessed with the opportunity to studied with many Yoga and Pilates teachers in hopes of sharing, teaching, and transmitting the knowledge and benefits these two great disciplines have to offer with others. Her main style of yoga is based and inspired by the teachings of her mentor and teacher Shiva Rea, who she credits for re-awakening the natural flow and spontaneous movements in her body, practice and life. Adri is one of the few fully certified Prana Flow® teachers in the State of Texas and the only teacher leading Prana Flow®Teacher Training Modules in this area. Currently, Adri serves as mentor to Shiva Rea’s Global School of Living Yoga and continues to assist, study and travel with Shiva to cultivate knowledge and growth in all levels in her life. In addition to Yoga, Adri also teaches several Pilates classes on the mat and reformer and is a Reiki II practitioner. You can find Adri sharing her passion for yoga by leading master classes, workshops, teacher trainings and retreats in the Dallas area and abroad.

Andrea Beaman is a Natural Foods Chef, author, and television host dedicated to alternative healing and green, sustainable living. Successfully healing her own “incurable” thyroid disease with health-promoting foods, exercise and other natural therapies was the catalyst that transformed Andrea’s life, health and profession, and she is passionate about sharing this information with others.

Jessica Wilson has been practicing yoga for over 11 years since her first class in college. After graduation, she traveled for over 4 years throughout South America and Greece, often teaching and using yoga as a means of balancing her nomadic lifestyle. She recently accomplished a long standing goal of receiving her yoga teaching certification in July 2011 at Wilmington Yoga Center, in North Carolina. Her classes are suitable for all levels, and have a primary focus on basic Hatha and Vinyasa flow.

Silica is an ex-elite runner/triathlete/martial artist (and Cirque duSoleil wanna-be)who loves that yoga has been her primary practice for the past three years. Although she enjoys challenging experienced yogis, her greatest joy is in introducing beginners and ‘non-yogis’ to the internal, healing side of yoga and encouraging them to discover a practice that is not so much about whether your foot ends up behind your head as it is about how much joy, peace, and vitality your practice brings you. Silica is the frequently bemused mother of two delightful daughters, and enjoys writing, painting, and singing.

Kelly Wood's background includes dance, art, music and business. As she practices and teaches both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga, Kelly's classes effectively spark the life force energy to sharpen focus, to ground the body/mind and to cultivate a relationship with one's own heart - self-nurturing. Kelly's specialty Karuna Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training course is a comprehensive study of Kundalini and Hatha Yoga with an emphasis on the effects of the practice for the brain and heart. Discovering one's authentic voice is also a major focus during this training. Kelly also teaches children in pubic and private schools and greatly enjoys planting the seeds of yoga and meditation in the hearts and minds of kids for life long skills of self-direction and self-soothing.

Leanne has been following her passion for health, wellness, nutrition, yoga, meditation, and spirituality since taking her first yoga class in 2001. Leanne is the owner of True Yoga and since 2002 has taught True Yoga Classes and workshops to thousands of people helping them to realize greater health, peace, happiness and well-being. Her journeys have taken her to study with some of the most gifted Yoga Masters worldwide including her teacher Shiva Rea, and many others along the way. In 2005 Leanne developed the True Yoga Blog: www.trueyogainc.com/blog where she shares information and inspiration related to living a healthy, peaceful and inspired life. Leanne has also explored the world of nutrition, studying about many nutritional lifestyles, including cleansing, superfoods, vegetarianism, veganism, and the raw foods diet. Her experiences have led her to her practice and passion for healthy food and nutrition. In 2011, she wrote the Fresh Fruit Cleanse book filled with information about health, wellness, nutrition and lots of great recipes, as well as, inspiration to uplift and strengthen you. With True Yoga and the Fresh Fruit Cleanse, you will be inspired to grow healthy and well and awaken to your true potential with every breath you breathe. Leanne continues to be inspired to learn and study about the vast knowledge of nutritional wellbeing and its incredible power to promote healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and looks forward to continuing to share her love for health and wellness with you here and on the True Yoga and Fresh Fruit Cleanse blogs: www.freshfruitcleanse.com/freshfruit To learn more about True Yoga classes, workshops and the True Yoga DVD available for purchase online, please visit www.trueyogainc.com. To purchase the Fresh Fruit Cleanse book, visit amazon.com.

Sasha Gray is a Wellness Coach, Raw Food Chef, Permaculture Consultant, Thai Masseuse and Yogi incorporating the Living Food Lifestyle. She is also the Co-Founder of BALANCED WELLNESS RETREATS. Her journey began through her need to eat more consciously and ethically, for the sake of her body and our planet. Growing up on a farmstead in rural Saskatchewan, Sasha has been exposed to the very large business of farming while still being taught the importance of self sufficiency in gardening, hunting, trapping and fishing. Sasha's Russian & Metis roots have afforded her the luxury of learning self sufficiency, medicinal and nutritional methodologies from all over the world. As a former dancer working with such world famous artists as Gregory Hines, she has extensive experience in nutrition related to sports, sports injuries and eating for optimal health and performance. She has studied nutrition with the likes of David Wolfe, Daniel Vitalis, Victoria Boutenko, Gabrielle Brick, Alissa Cohen and Tim Van Orden. Using her skills as a certified Wellness Coach in combination with her practical training received abroad, Sasha is currently incorporating her knowledge in Herbalism and Raw Foods to aid stage two diabetics in reversing their diagnosis. Her latest achievement has been creating a fully functional Organic NON-GMO garden to build on self sufficiency in her community.

Sonali Sadequee CHHC, AADP, is certified Integrative Nutrition Coach and Food Educator specializing in diabetes and cancer prevention, weight loss and digestive wellness. Sonali is passionate about helping busy people enjoy and upgrade their health and lifestyle through a gradual and transformative journey while building community sustainability. She is the founder of Sustainable Wellness, a wholistic health & lifestyle coaching practice that supports busy individuals in their journey towards achieving and sustaining wellness. She offers practical nutrition education, healing foods, stress-reduction, and lifestyle coaching services to clients in Atlanta and abroad. Her deep understanding of the healing powers of food and body shine through her fun teaching style. In her cooking classes, you will learn how to use the right foods to powerfully prevent diabetes, heart disease, and cancer while balancing your weight naturally, with quality, nutrient dense and yummy foods. Sonali is also a certified yoga teacher, teaching in Atlanta for ten years. She brings clarity, calmness, and playfulness to each student she teaches. Sonali loves to invite you to discover the source of your limitations while reconnecting you to your greatest aspirations for what truly nourishes you and feeds your heart. Sonali is also a co-founder of Kindred Healing Justice Collective, a non-profit group which seeks to build practices towards collective resiliency, safety, and liberation as responses to community trauma, burnout, depression, and isolation.

Through energy, intuition, art & art making, expand the presence of your well-being, inner Light & possibilities. Open the pathways of flow & your own rhythm. Access greater peace, clarity, creativity & inspiration. Beth has inspired many with her art and assisted others throughout the world to connect more consciously with their inner light, authentic being, creative expression and possibilities. She offers personal one on one intuitive readings & healing sessions, intuitive painting commissions and is the creator of Art Rituals®. Art Rituals® and other gatherings here provide the opportunity for some self care, nurturing, support, deepening of your connection to yourSelf, your inner wisdom, your path, your possibilities and authentic uniqueness. "When we devote some calm time to the heart and come off the treadmill of stress and distraction, we can enter into the beauty within." To do so "...heals you and calls you out beyond the smallness of your own self-limitation, to experience new horizons. To experience beauty is to have your life enlarged." ~ John O'Donohue The Art Rituals® are like a massage for the Soul. They are very supportive, fun, creative, healing & soulful. You'll reconnect with yourSelf, access inner wisdom, get your creative juices flowing, clear & align your energy and destress, so you can be your radiant self. You may attend a live session, or register and watch the recording at your leisure. In each session, you will connect with clarity, creativity, self healing potential, meaningful insights, inner resources, and healing around a certain theme. Then you will bring what you've accessed into form, presence & embodiment, through an intentionally designed Art Ritual®. This is energy shifting & art as medicine. If you like inner journeys, healing experiences, energy, and making art ( or want a supportive safe space to explore making art) then you will love Art Rituals®. You will leave feeling more radiant, inspired, empowered and connected to your well being. Some sessions include a personal reading from me! You will be creating your art, but artistic experience is not required. You can do this!