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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2024
(21 Day) Outdoor Educator / Trip Leader India Course Backpacking / Treking / Camping / Backgrountry living skills, includuing: Leave No Trace Ethics, Map-Compass-GPS Navigation, Risk Management, Teaching Methodologies. via NOLS - National Outdoor Leadership School / Nanda Devi Outdoor Leadership School (Uttarakhand, India)
 
(3 Day) Wilderness First Aid with via NOLS - National Outdoor Leadership School / Nanda Devi Outdoor Leadership School (Uttarakhand, India)
2023
(9hr) The Alchemy of Facilitation with Michelle C. Johnson, Tristan Katz, Stephanie Ghoston Paul, Rebby Kern and May Nicholson via Skill in Action (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Creating Safer Spaces: Trans Inclusion in Yoga and Beyond, with Tristan Katz via Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (Online - USA)
 
(10 Day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Saranath, India) - SERVED
 
(75hr / Sept. 2022 - April 2023) Skill in Action Continuing Education Program radicalizing wellness spaces through the intersection of yoga and social justice, with Michelle C. Johnson Skill in Action (Online - USA)
2022
(10 Day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Surkhet, Nepal) - SAT
2021
(15hr) Digital Allyship Intensive with Monica Cadena, the people's digital strategist (Online - USA)
2020
(5hr) Pathways to Sustainable Course Production with Monica Cadena and Sarah Lipsett via Off the Mat and into the World (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Expand & Affirm: Creating Space for Trans Wellness with Marc Settembrino, M Camellia, Daniel Sannito, Rebby Kern, and Puja Titchkosky (Prince Puja) via Trans yoga Project (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Skill in Action Workshop for Studio Staff with Michelle C. Johnson, Skill in Action (Online - USA)
 
(8hr) Dismantling Racism Training with Michelle C. Johnson, Skill in Action (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Your Movement Science is Racist Panel Discussion hosted by Jesal Parikh (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Elemental Actions Against Appropriaion with Susanna Barkataki via Off the Mat and into the World (Online - USA)
 
(2hr) Decentering Whiteness from Wellness Panel Discussion hosted by Dianne Bondy (Online - USA)
 
(6hr) The Yoga of Anti- Racism with Alicia Carlson & Verushka Gray via United We Om (Online - USA)
 
(20hr) Race, Cultural Appropriation & Integrity with Kallie Schut, Rebel YogaTribe (Online - London, UK)
 
(6hr) The Proven Framework for Teaching Yoga Online, with Kelly McHugh, Digital Yoga Academy (Online - London, UK)
 
(200hr) Classical Ayurveda, Teacher Assistant with Dr. Alaknanda Puri, YogAnga Retreat at Santosh Puri Ashram (Haridwar, India)
2018
(2 day) Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training, with Anneke Lucas, founder of Liberation Prision Yoga, (New York City, USA)
 
(100hr) Classical Kundalini Teacher Training with Yogrishi Visvketu via Akhanda Yoga, (Rishikesh, India)
 
(200hr) Classical Ayurveda, with Dr. Alaknanda Puri, YogAnga Retreat at Santosh Puri Ashram (Haridwar, India)
2017
(10 day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Hiroshpur, India) - SAT
 
(3 day) Waking Up Weekend – Graduate Intensive Training, via Institute of Self Actualization (Denver, USA)
 
(100hr) Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, & Craniosacral Therapy Teacher Training with Cat Kabira (Costa Rica)
 
(16 week) Elephant Academy: Mindful Social Media and Journalism Apprenticeship, via elephantJournal (Boulder, USA)
 
(3 day) Waking Up Weekend, via Institute of Self Actualization (Denver, USA)
2015
(200hour Yoga Alliance Accredited, 1 month) Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training with Mandakini Puri via YogAnga Retreat at Santosh Puri Ashram (Haridwar, India)
 
(8 day) Satipathana Vipassana (2nd level) Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Dehradun, India) – SAT
2014
(500hour 3 months) Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Ganga Puri via YogAnga Retreat at Santosh Puri Ashram (Haridwar, India)
2013
(10 day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Dehradun, India) - SERVED (the entire month of October: two 10 day courses and one 3 day course)
 
(10 day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Dehradun, India) - SAT
2012
(10 day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org (Dharamshala, India) - SAT
2011
(3 day) Need for Social Transformation, a Practical Approach, via Gandhi Smriti (Jammu & Kashmir, India)
2010
(10 day) Practical Math Teaching Methodologies, Ashram Paryavaran Vidyalaya (Devprayag, India)
 
(10 day) Vipassana Meditation Course as taught by S.N. Goenka www.dhamma.org(Dehradun, India) - SAT
2009
Proposal Budgeting Workshop, Foundation Center (New York City, USA)
 
New Museum Development Workshop for Teachers, New Museum (New York City, USA)
2008
Web 2.0 Activist Case Studies, Not An Alternative (New York City)
 
Youth Views Teacher Training, Media Rights Watch, Paley Center for Media & POV (New York City, USA)
 
New Museum Development Workshop for Teachers, New Museum (New York City, USA)

NOTED EXPERIENCE IN NORTH INDIA

Over 150 months in seven trips: 2000-2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-and counting

• Several years Sanskrit grammar study with 85+ year old Sanyasi Sanskrit scholar, Narayan Giri Ji Maharaj & Ayurveda from original scriptures with Alaknanda Puri.

• Established and maintained a yogic lifestyle since January 2010: living in ashrams with sanyasis, staying in caves at pilgrimage places, living in a collaborative mindful community with over 25 people (ages 5-41), living with sadhana-partners as well as solo in a jungle hermitage, all within the foothills and high Indian Himalayas in both Garhwal and Kumaon regions, of rural Uttarakhand.

• Led group treks to pilgrimage sites, temples, caves and Himalayan glaciers.

• Attended; hosted camps; distributed cameras, photos and videos; as well as documented women’s initiation rites into Juna Akhara (sanyasi order of Hindu monks and nuns) at the Kumbh Mela (largest gathering in the world) in Allahabad (2001, 2007, 2013, 2019), Ujjain (2004, 2016), and Haridwar (2010)

PUBLIC DISCOURSES

2023 – Skill in Action 75 hour online course, guest presenterArdhanārishwar, Swara Yoga & Queering Yoga

2019 – Shakti Panel at the Rishikesh International Film Festival (Rishikesh, India)
Shakti, Feminism Rising and Gender Identity with in the context of Ardhanārīśvar

2018 – Goddess Panel at the Rishikesh International Film Festival (Rishikesh, India)
Ardhanārīśvar & Queering Yoga: Stories of Gender Equality and Feminism within Ashram Life

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SPECIALTIES

Sādhāna:

Traditional seven limbed Hatha Yoga system: Śatkarma (seasonal and daily cleansing and detoxes), āsana (postures), mudrā (gestures for connecting one’s individual prāṇic flow with the universal or cosmic force), pratyāhār (concentration towards removal of disturbance from sensory input), prāṇāyāma (expansion of the breath and prāṇa / vital energy), meditation (uninterrupted blissful flow of prāṇic energy), and ultimate samādhi (complete balance of the mind in all situations); Sūkṣma Vyāyām (subtle pranic exercises); Vipassana Meditation (as taught by S.N. Goenka); Yogic / Sanātan Dharmic / Buddhist Philosophy; Karma Yoga (seva – selfless service towards others, without concern or attachment to the fruits of one’s labor); Svadhāya (independent study and introspective study of the self).

Pedagogy:

Holistic Curriculum Development for co-learners of all ages, including Mindful Media Literacy. Authored Yoga Teacher Training Manuals (Hatha Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Sūkṣma Vyāyām, Ayurveda, Marmas, and Beginner’s Sanskrit).

Creative Multimedia:

Camera (video and still photography); Sound Recording / Mixing, Music Production & Sound Design (Ableton Live); Video Editing (Final Cut Pro Studio & Adobe Premiere); Web & Social Media (CSS, HTML, XML, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, WordPress set up and Theme Tweaks, SEO); Photo Retouching / Brochure, Book and Magazine Layout / Graphic & Print Design (Adobe CC Photoshop & InDesign)

– consulting, guiding and teaching all of the above

LANGUAGES:

• simultaneous translation in the field • subtitling for video • typing Hindi, Sanskrit and IAST English Transliteration • creating bi-lingual content for education materials

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EXPERIENCE

Media Production

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