Teachers

Meg McCraken

Founder and creative heart of The Refuge, Meg has spent more than 25 years teaching yoga, meditation, and the wisdom traditions that inform them, through classes, teacher trainings, festivals and retreats around the world. She built The Refuge on one question: how do we each embody these teachings to live authentic, connected, vital and meaningful lives?

Crystal Bailey

For more than two decades, Crystal has walked the path of yoga as a student, teacher, and lifelong seeker. An E-RYT 500 who guided True North Yoga Studio in Paducah for ten years, she weaves mindfulness, embodiment, and soulful inquiry into practice that guides students home to the truth of who they are.

Clare Churchill

For more than twenty years, Clare has led Hatha classes that weave somatic movement, alignment-based asana, flow, pranayama, and meditation, along with Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra. An E-RYT 500 and YACEP, she loves the creativity of sequencing, so students end their practice feeling enlivened, peaceful, and uplifted.

Crystal Richter

Raised in a spiritual household in small-town Montana, and a tennis and basketball player through childhood and college, Crystal found in yoga a way to merge her physical background with her spirituality. She aims to live each day by the wisdom of Ecclesiastes: eat good food, drink good wine, enjoy good company, and love God.

Jennifer Shields

Jen weaves more than 20 years of yogic and somatic practice, psychological study, and the performance arts into an invitation to honor the power within. A somatically oriented psychotherapist steeped for ten years in the Sri Vidya tradition, she offers the space and tools to ground, embrace, and enliven all the layers of our human experience.

Jeymi Ballesteros

Jeymi guides Yoga Nidra, meditation, and gentle, accessible asana that support the mind, mood, and nervous system, a path that began in 2008 while she was healing from lower back pain. She loves to discuss non-dual yoga philosophy with anyone who wants to join, and above everything else, she loves movies. All movies.

Lauri Glenn

Lauri has practiced and taught yoga and meditation since 1999, with roots in Iyengar yoga and studies in therapeutic yoga, yin yoga, and mindfulness meditation. She offers a sustainable, accessible approach to wellbeing, and off the mat she is trail running in the mountains, where nature is her greatest joy, teacher, healer, and refuge.

Mike Lane

Dr. Mike Lane’s passion is guiding people into their bodies, so they can take care of themselves intelligently and effectively. A chiropractor, orthopedic massage therapist, and anatomy teacher, he also teaches Foundation Training and founded AnatomySense, his dynamic approach to teaching anatomy in yoga teacher trainings.

Trei Battle

Trei, creator of The Seal of Peace, centers his offerings on meditation, breathwork, and dharma practices that build our capacity for presence in everyday life. A Virginia native in Los Angeles with a 300-hour certification, he creates spaces where wisdom, laughter, and freedom of expression flow naturally.