Meet The Team
Featured Contributors
REBECCA TRUJILLO VEST - OSMUNDA MUSIC
Rebecca Trujillo Vest is a music creator and collaborator, producer, singer/songwriter, community activist, and a philanthropic force of nature. Growing up in Santa Fe, NM, she began singing and playing guitar. Her band and brand is Osmunda Music, which she uses to guide her creative output. As an artist, she is influenced by many sources including world music and genres including new age, pop, folk, rock, Americana, and children’s music. Rebecca is a founding member of the band Space Babies. In 2010, she and her husband opened Earthstar Creation Center, a recording studio in Venice, California. She is a passionate activist for a wide range of causes from global warming and arts education to homelessness and hunger. Most recently, Rebecca established the nonprofit organization Pandion Music Foundation with two other artists. Pandion will serve as a clearinghouse for music content and licensing to benefit artists with no fees. In addition, Pandion will offer workshops, educational programs, and wellness initiatives to help provide a broad range of resources to music people and foster a wider creative community. Rebecca lives with her family in Los Angeles.
osmundamusic.com
Spotify • Apple Music • SoundCloud
Instagram • Facebook • YouTube
POOJA SHARMA
Pooja is a mom, studio founder, author, MBA/MPH, and known for her love of philosophy. She specializes in yoga & meditation for babies through teens, meditation and philosophy.
As a yoga educator, Pooja often leads Kids Yoga Teacher Training programs in local schools for staff and teachers. Along with her sister, Cristal, they bring their 20+ years of teaching experience and South Asian heritage to Soul Power Yoga. You can learn more about the Sharma sisters and Soul Power Yoga by visiting soulpoweryoga.com.
Their Soul Power Yoga Kids coloring book can be found here.
Instagram:
@poojasoulpowermeditations
@soulpoweryoga
LYNNE HARDY
Lynne is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator from Arizona. She grew up in Flagstaff, AZ and the Navajo reservation. She enjoys learning about her Dine culture and currently designs products for her online shop Ajoobaasani.
Diversity and inclusion is important to Lynne and she strives to teach others about her Indigenous culture and to tell the truth about the history of her people.
In her free time, she loves being outdoors, painting, eating new foods, and trying new restaurants.
Contributors
ABBY WILLS
Mother, healing-centered educator, youth development worker, writer, and nature lover with over 2 decades commitment to transformative mindfulness practice on k-12 and higher education campuses.
shantigeneration.com
Instagram:
@teachlovebreathe
@shantigeneration
GRACE CECILIO, M.ED
Grace Cecilio, M.Ed, is a Meditation & Yoga Teacher and former elementary classroom teacher from Los Angeles, CA. She is passionate about addressing the needs of the whole child by sharing mindfulness practices and social-emotional strategies. Grace is trained as trauma-informed facilitator, in Restorative Justice practices, and as a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher.
PATILLE VIOLETA
Patille is a Filipino-Armenian multi-disciplinary healing artist and educator with a background in Reiki, Meditation, and trauma-informed Yoga & Dance. With 12+ years of experience in Youth Advocacy and Wellness, she builds community and creates programs that live at the intersection of arts, healing, and social change.
ADINA ROSE BERNHEIMER
Adina Rose is a Los Angeles native who teaches yoga and art to children throughout the LA area. Through fun and engaging activities, she brings together the important benefits of yoga and art by cultivating mindfulness and creative self-expression. Adina studied psychology and fine arts at CSUN and is a certified yoga instructor for both adults and children. Having grown up in such a diverse and dynamic city, Adina found great importance for artistic expression. She is honored to work with children in such a creative capacity and continues to expand and grow with endless curiosity.
CRYSTAL MCCREARY
Crystal McCreary is a Lead Yoga, Mindfulness and Health Educator & Teacher Trainer with 15+ years of experience in instructing yoga and mindfulness to people of all ages. She has a passion for implementing comprehensive wellness programs within schools and organizations to foster compassionate and equitable communities and sustainable work environments. Crystal’s expertise is derived from a lifetime of harnessing embodied, contemplative resources necessary to navigate the challenges of living in an inequitable world. Crystal is the author of the Little Yogi Deck: Simple Practices to Help Kids Move Through Big Emotions On & Off the Mat (Shambhala Publications). She currently teaches at a K-12 independent school in New York City.
JYLANI MA'AT
As a practitioner and student of contemplative arts for over 25 years, for jylani ma'at, this is beyond professional, it's also personal. Consequently, jylani ma'at has a wide variety of body-centered practices and strategies to choose from, including but not limited to meditation, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, sound baths, and many variations of easy-to-learn conscious breathing techniques.
As a MNDFL Meditation, UCLA MARC + Mindful Schools + Tracee Stanley/Chanti T., trained and certified, international mindfulness and meditation facilitator; registered yoga teacher; certified integrative health coach; and licensed health professional, jylani ma'at shares a deeply engaging, integrated, practice that is culturally relevant, joy-centered, and a uniquely restorative wellness program for all people and all bodies.
ELENA RODRIGUEZ-DEPAUL
Elena Rodriguez-DePaul (she/ella/ela) is an antiracist and trauma-informed educator, yoga instructor, and mother to two beautiful girls. Born in Venezuela, she immigrated to the United States in 2016 fleeing political turmoil. She is currently residing in Massachusett, Pawtucket and Agawam unceded territories. Since 2018 she has centered embodied learning experiences and cultural transformation in a variety of spaces, such as yoga studios, nonprofits, museums and schools that are working hard to recognize the need to humanize all the peoples impacted by their structures and that are part of their communities. She currently has the privilege to pave the way in Salem, MA to reimagine middle school experience alongside an outstanding group of professionals. She earned her Bachelor in Pedagogical Sciences in Venezuela and feels privileged to have completed two post-graduate programs at Duke University in higher order thinking strategies and trauma informed education, as well as project based learning at NC State University.