200-hour RSMTT Supporting Faculty
Steven leonard, e-ryt500
Steven Leonard is an Instinctive Meditation coach, lead faculty member for the Kripalu School of Yoga and lead trainer for the Lahari Yoga Teacher Training. His aim is to help you connect with your life-force, take dynamic action in the world and heal from the aches of modern life. Steven offers private meditation coaching sessions to help you develop a practice that is highly customized and deeply fulfilling.
Steven lives in Massachusetts, USA and leads the Saturday skills labs in the training.
Michael McDowall
Yoga and meditation have been part of my life for nearly 20 years. I offer yoga classes, restorative workshops (including Bowen Therapy and Reiki treatments) and, of course, readings from The Radiance Sutras. I completed 350 hours Yoga teacher training in 2011, and have been studying with Lorin and Camille since 2016.
Michael lives in Queensland, Australia, and leads weekly Saturday live classes with Nancy and Sunday practice sessions for our 200-hour RSMTT.
Nancy Wang Gaeden, C-IAYT
Nancy started exploring meditation over 30 years ago, including 5 years practicing as a Buddhist nun, and is now a full time yoga therapist and Instinctive Meditation teacher. Nancy specializes in guiding gentle yoga as a form of meditation-in-motion, working privately with clients, as well as chronic pain and cancer care clinics to support patients in need. As a meditation teacher, Nancy is experienced in both monastic and contemporary approaches and she is passionate about teaching inner freedom in the art of meditation. Nancy has been studying with Lorin and Camille since 2016 and guides study groups as well as special workshops for 200hr RSMTT.
Nancy lives in Sonoma County, California where she teaches, makes pottery, and raises chickens. Nancy will co-facilitate our Weekly Saturday Live classes with Michael.
Kyle Schauenberg
I came to teach yoga and meditation out of sheer necessity. I had tried everything I could get my hands on to try to heal or cope with my anxiety and depression. When I became a mom, the need became vital and I was inexplicably pulled to yoga. The right teachers for me dropped in and instinctive meditation became my medicine.
Since 2012, I have been learning to meditate with Lorin and Camille. Between my work with them and my other yoga trainings, I have studied in 14 different group meditation teacher immersions. Beyond that, my indulgent form of study is mentorship. I have worked one-on-one with Lorin since 2014.
As a meditation coach and yoga instructor, I have worked in Connecticut, Chicago and Italy. Currently, I have a space in Sarasota, Florida, where I see clients in the same mentorship capacity through which I have deepened my own practice. I also volunteer with nonprofit groups offering meditation to their staff.
I relish the chance to support meditators in listening to themselves lovingly and honestly. And I am completely fascinated by the ways we learn to take care of ourselves, heal and unfurl.
Kyle facilitates our Wednesday morning Practice Sessions
Jessica Mady
Jessica Mady, LCSW is an international educator of health and well-being who is passionate about holistic living, communing with nature and being at home with ourselves in the Universe. It was a profound homecoming with The Radiance Sutras in July 2017 at a Hatha Yoga teacher training in Bali with Lorin and Camille. The teachings continue to both poetically and sensually inspire Jessica’s love of nature and cosmic symbiosis on the wild ride of life.
Jessica has cultivated an embodied lifestyle reflective of the Radiance Sutras. She coaches others how to create a vibrant and awakened way of life using their inner wisdom to navigate, savor and enjoy the journey. Jessica focuses on aligning our dynamic, sacred essence with Mother Nature with playfulness, compassion, and humor. She loves to groove to funky music, revel in mountain sports near her home in Durango, Colorado and sojourn around the Blue Planet with sentient beings.
Jessica facilitates our Wednesday afternoon Study Groups
heather Briann
As the founder of ALTAR movement, she loves the opportunity to gather community in order to facilitate experiences that help each person awaken to their own inner vitality. She weaves ritual, nature cycles, instinctive meditation, functional movement, biomechanics and yoga asana into her classes showing the truest reflection of her own experience of living out this path of intimacy with self, others and all of life. She loves nothing more than to open her heart, mind and soul to those curious souls who are willing to explore movement in all its various forms.
Heather facilitates our Thursday morning Study Groups.
Mayya Shveygert, PhD
Mayya Shveygert, PhD, is a Meditation Coach and a Health Coach who teaches meditation and stress relief methods to people in life sciences and biopharma. Mayya has worked for 20+ years in life sciences and drug development as a scientist and a medical writer, so she understands the unique needs of her students.
As the Executive Director of the Radiance Sutras School of Meditation (2020-2022), she developed online meditation programs for thousands of students. She is also on the faculty for Esalen Institute, a leading center for holistic healing. Mayya is a Mom to 2 kids and 1 dog and lives with her husband in Chester County, PA.