Background:
Why do you meditate?
Helping you find worthiness and fulfilment through the use of mindfulness, meditation and neuroscience.
Tess Palma-Martinez
Background:
After graduating with a BFA in Large-Scale Installation Art in 2009, Tess went on to work for Anthropologie as a Display Coordinator in NYC. To make ends meet, she worked at renowned vegan restaurant, Peacefood Cafe, for 5 years, adopting a vegan lifestyle, herself. The connection between food and spirituality began to spark a hunger for more. Tess went on to complete a 6 month intensive Yoga Anatomy Teacher Training, and catered the program with vegan and gluten-free meals.
Tess is an Intuition and Authenticity Mentor, speaker/panelist, meditation and sound healing facilitator, and workshop teacher. She offers a path to reaching your authentic self and activating your intuition.
She encapsulates her belief that you can become more aligned with your highest self by prioritizing your body, mind, and spirit.
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Jesslyn Hoeft Shani
Background:
Born and raised on Cape Cod, Jesslyn moved to Los Angeles after earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Simmons College in Boston, MA.
Jesslyn has always been intrigued with the mind and its power to accomplish great things, be it physical or in achieving amazing life goals; which lead her to study the art of Hypnosis.
Jesslyn earned her certification in Hypnotherapy through an intense and rigorous training program lead by Teresa Van Zeller, a prominent and leading Hypnotherapist and creator and author of "BANI: Birthing As Nature Intended."
As an active member of two large nation-wide and International Hypnosis groups, Jesslyn is always learning new techniques and strategies to help her clients. Whether you are struggling with anxiety or frustrated with not losing weight or looking to improve in your career, you’ll benefit from a visit with Jesslyn. Hypnotherapy can affect a positive change in any area of your life.
As of August 2019, Jesslyn is honored to be a staff-member of The Missing Peace - Center for Anxiety intensive out-patient program located in Agoura Hills, CA. Jesslyn teaches breath, movement and offers hypnosis and energy healing.
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Angel Rodriguez
Why do you meditate?
I am a certified Usui Reiki Master and
Sound Healer and have been facilitating
transcendental meditation circles in Los
Angeles and Michigan over the past 6
years.
Why do you teach meditation?
Within this time, I have been blessed with
the opportunity to create a space for
others. regardless of age, gender, creed,
or other status, to explore and
experience moments of deep peace
expansive reflection
and profound clarity.
It is my purpose to reconnect and
integrate humanity with ancient tools of
holistic healing, so that they can be an
empowered creator of their own
personal growth and create lasting
change
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Chase Compton
Background:
Why do you meditate?
I meditate because I love finding balance in my wildly varied and oftentimes busy modern lifestyle.
Why do you teach meditation?
I teach pranayama because I aim to be inspire everyone to be their own guru. Connecting to the breath is all one needs to help them explore their own potential to the fullest.
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Michelle Chua
Background:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This quote by Viktor Frankl sums up the insightful benefits that daily meditation has gifted me throughout the years.
Each morning it grounds me and aligns my inner and outer being with my life purpose.
I’ve been facilitating meditation through yoga classes and wellness retreats since 2010 for a diverse array of people, and I’m inspired by witnessing different human mindsets open up and their loving connection to life and themselves deepen.
I love making the practices accessible, inviting anyone who wants to live mindfully and wholeheartedly to give meditation a try.
A former school teacher and always a dancer and nature-loving trail-runner, I’m a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher trained in Yoga Psychology and founder of Root 2 Rise Yoga in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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Alex Nashton
Background:
Alex Nashton is endlessly inspired by the human brains ability to change itself. Her love affair with the human brain began when she realized she could use both an understanding of neuroscience and the tools of mindfulness to pull herself out of a long-time battle with anxiety and depression. Years later, she is still meditating every day to cultivate greater mastery over her mind and nervous system. Now, she is a coach, teacher and teacher trainer who specializes in using neuroscience and mindfulness to help her students unplug from patterns of the past, rewire themselves for less anxiety and create more joy. Alex does this through facilitating practices of guided movement, breath work, meditation and subconscious reprogramming. She currently lives in Santa Monica, CA where she studies Neuroscience full-time at UCLA.
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Grace Whitlock
Background:
Grace is a wellbeing coach, breathwork guide, and tarot reader who believes in helping others find their personal shine and supporting them as they step into. We all have our own shine. Shine are those qualities that remind us how vital and vibrant we are. Grace’s mission is to guide you through experiences that invite you to deeply reflect, radically celebrate, and tenderly embrace all the parts of yourself. She believes that through these experiences you will walk away full of yourself (in the best way possible) Grace first found her personal shine as a theater major when she attended Boston Arts Academy. She then moved from center stage to the podium at SoulCycle where she realized it was a lot more fulfilling to watch other people step into their own spotlight, seeing her riders drop into their bodies, get untangled, and express themselves fully became the ignition for her bigger mission. After experiencing Breathwork first hand, she was blown away to discover a more profound way to tap into an undefended level of self awareness. This led her to train with David Elliot and to become a Breathwork Facilitator. She is currently in the process of getting her certification to become a Somatic Trauma Informed Coach through Pause Coaching.
