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.


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Nicole Rutsch

Background:

Nicole works with individuals who want to take their lives in a new direction, alleviate anxiety and become clear with what they want from life. She grew up in a farm town in Germany called Stadecken, where she loved to spend time in nature, and developed a deep connection to Mother Earth. From this developed a passion for healthy, natural food, which led her to found a successful catering business in NYC. Initially, the majority of clients came from the fashion industry, including Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang and Michael Kors. Shortly after, Nicole expanded into the wellness world, partnering with clients like Alo Yoga, Athleta, and Bandier. Nicole saw a deep need to help people understand the healing powers of natural food and herbs, which led her to herbalism and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).


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Tiffany Leonardo

Background:

Community is in Tiffany's blood and is what sparked her wellness journey! From NYC to the South Bay of LA, there’s a trail of inspired, empowered, and energized individuals she's been blessed to touch.

She spreads mindfulness like confetti through Yin Yoga and Crystal Sound Healing!

As a former Educator in Healthcare, she closely understands the challenges of remaining present in a demanding environment; she shares the teachings that have guided her journey including Yin's slow, intentional movement; Oracle Cards that have strengthened her intuitive connection and Sound Healing Meditation which has made stress release accessible. She enjoys guiding students on their own journey, by connecting them with their intuition using oracle cards. Her journey started with a Yoga community and has expanded into the podcasting world, where she hosts the “Be You Too Full” podcast. 

Regardless of the environment, her dream life is to support others in exploring their fullest selves through a relationship with their mind, body and soul.


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Seth Monk

Background:

Seth Monk is a meditation teacher, retreat leader, energy healer, and transformational guide now transplanted to Los Angeles. Seth is a former Buddhist monk of 8 years who spent his time living in a monastery and practicing with various teachers including Thich Nhat Hanh, Ajahn Brahm, and His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama. During his time as a monk, Seth practiced with teachers from various traditions, went on multiple retreats, and worked at his center’s Chinese Medicine clinic where he received his understanding of the mind/body connection. The monastery also had weekly weekend retreats where Seth was able to deepen his understanding of the art of transformational processing. After he left the monastery, Seth spent two years traveling through India meeting various spiritual teachers, spending time at sacred sites, and also undertook a solo-retreat in a holy cave in the Himalayan mountains. 

After disrobing and returning to his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, Seth began working in schools to bring mindfulness, meditation, and social emotional learning to students and teachers during the height of the opioid crisis. He then transitioned into leading professional development seminars and weekend retreats for school faculties to help transform the educational paradigm from within. Seth was then asked to be a part of the Wellness Team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a meditation coach at Blue Cross Blue Shield’s corporate office. He also began leading Siddha Energy Healing events connected to a lineage he was initiated into during his time in India.

After leaving Boston, Seth spent time living in northern California, Tulum, and Las Vegas, before settling in Los Angeles where he currently leads weekly meditations at various centers, holds monthly Men’s Circles, and facilitates Group Siddha Healing events.


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