Focus Room Facilitator

• Aug 2022 - Present

Yoga Instruction Experience

• 1997 - 2023

➤ Successfully established a yoga business, teaching online and at-home classes in Europe, while building the client base.➤ Centering learning around connecting with breath, body, and self while exploring universal emotions and experiences.➤ Creating meaningful weekly newsletters and themed, individualized yoga classes for different ages and skill levels.➤ Teaching small classes for children and one-on-one sessions with adults to create a personalized experience. ➤ Holding yoga classes for various local charities in order to provide good for and say connected with the community. ➤ Ensuring that each client has a deep, meaningful internal experience while helping them feel safe and comfortable. ➤ Demonstrating techniques and observing clients perform movements, making suggestions and forming adjustments.➤ Effectively developing a loyal customer base with empathetic customer relations and creating a desire for new programs. Show less

Teaching & Education Experience

• 1997 - 2021

➤ Contributing to the administration of the program, including coordinating activities and events, and advising students.➤ Increasing students' academic/cultural literacy by fostering relationships and expanding their comprehension of subjects.➤ Placing student growth and success as the driving force behind all actions, and fostered commitment to lifelong learning.➤ Tutoring special needs student 1:1 to improve reading and writing skills, as well as teaching all levels of ESL classes.➤ Working with adults and children, both online and in-person, to build writing, reading comprehension, and study skills.➤ Designing and implementing appropriate, innovative curriculum, as well as organizing lesson plans and materials.➤ Facilitating the after-school activities program, including Spanish Club, and Cooking and Creative Writing workshops.➤ Working with students from the outset to identify their strengths, learning styles, and areas needing further development.➤ Delivering engaging course lectures and motivated students to actively participate in all aspects of educational process.➤ Stimulating discussion by asking questions that draw upon their diverse cultural references and occupational interests.➤ Using proven educational models for social-emotional/personalized learning, and data-driven differentiated instruction.➤ Effectively managing allotted learning time to maximize student achievement in an intensive, productive environment.➤ Helping kids enjoy learning and have a great time in class, sharing personal appreciation for the field and journey ahead.➤ Regularly evaluating student performance and making recommendations for improvement, and recording their progress. Show less

Content Development & Marketing Experience

• 1997 - 2020

➤ Creating own brand, Balance Yoga, to offer classes and content to students, and developing the company website.➤ Establishing online presence on my website, Facebook, and Instagram to develop clients and highlight promotions.➤ Writing weekly newsletters and driving engagement on social media to inform, inspire, and unite the yoga community.➤ Formulating creative ideas/strategies and suggesting innovative ways to deliver content and engage target audiences.➤ Creating awareness and interest within audiences and stakeholder groups, driving traffic through digital content.➤ Producing marketing materials including sponsorship booklets, press releases, magazine ads, information packets.➤ Creating messaging, marketing materials, and various forms of digital online copy, using SEO to optimize content.➤ Increasing new business through impactful networking, while also creating excellent client rapport and referrals.➤ Implementing sales initiatives, serving as a brand ambassador, and effectively representing the company at all levels.➤ Setting and maintaining delivery schedules for art and content and corresponding with clients to manage the changes.➤ Writing product design documents, testing for functional/content bugs, and interfacing with offshore production facility.➤ Developing story lines, character profiles, and sample episodes for animated children's television show proposals.➤ Researching, writing, editing content for educational CD-ROM titles for 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades, and other programs.➤ Writing and editing creative, engaging material for book activities and worksheets, and web content for various sites.➤ Producing content for a sport magazine, including athlete profiles, welcome speeches, highlights, and auction copy. Show less

Professional Experience

• 1996 - 2019

➤ Yoga Instructor – Self-Employed, Online, Monaco, & CA – 06/2014 to Present➤ English & ESL Teacher – Self-Employed, Monaco & USA – 10/2002 to 06/2021➤ Household Manager – Monaco – 2002 to 2021➤ Middle School Language Arts Teacher – International School of Monaco, Monaco – 09/2005 to 2009➤ Freelance Production Assistant & Writer – LeapFrog, Emeryville, CA – 01/2000 to 06/2002➤ Contract Associate Producer – MB5, The Festival for New Media Visionaries, Emeryville, CA – 05/2000 to 10/2000➤ Content Writer & Associate Producer – Morgan Interactive, San Francisco, CA – 06/1997 to 12/1998➤ Second/Third Grade Teacher – Laurel School, San Francisco, CA – 09/1995 to 05/1997➤ Editorial Intern – Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA➤ Editorial Intern – Buzz & Elle Magazines, Los Angeles, CA➤ Writer & Editor – Mills College Weekly Show less