Shawn Parell, LMHC, RYT-500, has served as a teacher of embodiment since 2002. Through this work, she has designed immersions worldwide — mentoring hundreds of yoga teachers and inviting thousands of students to the fundamental inquiry of what it means to awaken.

Shawn holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English and Religious Studies from Georgetown University and Oxford University, a Master of Arts (MA) in Eastern Classics and Sanskrit from St. John’s College, and a Master of Arts (MA) in Counseling Psychology from Southwestern College. For more than a decade, Shawn assisted her teacher, Shiva Rea, and mentored others in Prana Vinyasa, a therapeutic matrix of living yoga. She served as Program Director for Anahata International, a grassroots organization with the mission to bring mindfulness training to trauma-affected communities in Washington DC, Rwanda, and the West Bank. Her work has been featured in publications ranging from Yoga Journal and SHAPE Magazine to the Washington Post. She is currently completing a two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with renowned teachers Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.

Erin Sibley Doerwald, LCSW, CMT-P, RYT-200 is a psychotherapist, certified mindfulness and yoga teacher, and resiliency authority based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She leads classes, workshops, presentations, and retreats that cultivate wellbeing in support of individual and collective healing in the corporate, non-profit, healthcare, and educational worlds. During the height of the pandemic, she offered mindfulness and trauma-sensitive resiliency workshops to hundreds of educators, healthcare, and non-profit staff to embody a personal mission to be of compassionate service in the face of human hardship.

For over 25 years, Erin has been a student and committed practitioner of mind-body practices that fundamentally shifted her perspective on living a life in balance. She is a certified mindfulness teacher with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and an Affiliated Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) Teacher for UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). She teaches weekly classes for Working Wellness Yoga and offers group and 1:1 guided mindfulness sessions through her private practice. She also serves as a mentor for students receiving training in the Long Distance Intensive Practice Program at UCLA's MARC. Erin received her training in mindfulness facilitation from Diana Winston and Marvin Belzer at UCLA Semel Institute MARC. She completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Wendelin Scott and Amy Spurlock in May 2023.