Kristen Shuman (she/they), LPC, RYT-500, is a non-binary, queer, Autistic, trauma-informed and accessible yoga teacher, psychotherapist, and disability justice activist. They have been teaching yoga since 2014 and have spent more than 20 years as a practicing trauma therapist, specializing in work with neurodiverse clients from LGBTQ and BIPOC communities.

They wear many hats, also contributing their talents to diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy, as well as accessible UX/UI design in the tech sector. Kristen takes an intersectional, anti-oppression, and social-justice-based approach to all of their work, and believes in holistic approaches to healing, combining Jungian Depth Therapy with the Restorative Practices of Well-being Model. Kristen also works with GALAP to support transgender and gender diverse individuals in the process of seeking gender affirming medical care, is a specialist in working with emotions around food and body, is HAES-aligned and anti-diet culture.

They aim to ensure that clients and students feel held and supported, and they strive to create safe, non-judgemental spaces for practice.

You can learn more about Kristen at @kristenshumanlpc.

Noha Arafa (they/she), Esq., RYT-500, is an Egyptian, Queer, non-binary, neurodivergent, person of color, a human rights attorney, movement and mindfulness teacher, and trauma survivor.

Noha is the founder of Our Ancestors’ Children, which offers community-based, accessible, trauma-informed movement and meditation classes, and co-founded the Trans Yoga Project, which creates Trans, Non-Binary and Queer-affirming healing spaces through class offerings, education, and community building. They have worked in human rights law and advocacy since 2001, advocating on behalf of asylees, refugees, protestors, and survivors of gender-based, police, and carceral violence through direct legal representation and grassroots community organizing.

Through their offerings, Noha aims to honor the roots of Yoga and empower their students with resources for self-regulation, self- care and collective care. Their work centers BIPOC, Trans, Queer, neurodivergent people and people living with PTSD and C-PTSD. They are particularly interested in the intersections of Yoga, mental health, disability justice, and social and economic justice, and believe everyone has a fundamental human right to health, healing, and rest.

Noha is based in Los Angeles on occupied Tongva-Gabrieliño, Chumash, and Kizh land.

Connect with Noha at: www.ourancestorschildren.co // www.transyogaproject.com

Jess Nabb (they/them) is a Feminist Parent Coach, Accessible Yoga Teacher and Neurodiversity Advocate.

They are also a queer, autistic, chronically ill, solo-parent/carer to one wildly neurodivergent seven year old.

They help Feminist Parents come home to themselves using accessible yoga and spiritual care practices, so they can push back against Normative Parenthood and start doIng things their own way, in alignment with their values and unique family culture.

Connect with Jess at: www.liberatedparenthood.co

Sherene Cauley (she/her) is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, the founder of The Nurtured Life and the Associate Director of The Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Sherene lives with her husband, mother, and children on the coast of Maine. As someone who has struggled throughout her life with dyslexia, she began to recognize how her many neurodivergent sensitivities help her to tune into her internal and external environments, which not only allow her to experience her spirituality more fully but also to guide others in healing practices that are responsive to mind and body. The Nurtured Life has evolved as a wellness coaching service for clients across the country and includes workshops on attuning to our inner and outer realities to build supportive, sustainable lifestyles.

Sherene’s academic research has examined the effects of hegemonic white patriarchy on spirituality and human development. As an American and woman of Iranian heritage, she recognized both socially and personally the harm caused by racial structures and the need to actively cultivate a culture of wellbeing. She continues to combine her knowledge in health coaching, peace studies, and wisdom traditions to offer coaching around barriers to peace, equity, and social justice. 

Connect with Sherene at: www.thenurturedlife.org // www.thewholehealthcenter.org

M Camellia (they/them) is a yoga practitioner and facilitator, writer, consent educator, and advocate called to create profoundly accessible spaces for self-inquiry. They believe that yoga is a practice of collective liberation and challenge contemporary yoga practitioners to dismantle the systems and beliefs that hold us all back.

M is a co-founder of the Trans Yoga Project and serves on the staff of Accessible Yoga, among other roles within the realm of yoga service. Their teaching and writing center Queer and Trans* identity, consent and agency, body liberation, and disability justice in relation to yoga philosophy and practice, and they serve as a mentor for other yoga teachers and practitioners desiring to deepen their understanding of accessibility, power dynamics, trauma, and yoga as social justice.

M lives in Southern Maryland with two cat companions, Matcha and Chai, and regularly makes offerings online and in the Washington-Baltimore metro area.

Connect with M at: www.mcamellia.com // www.transyogaproject.com