Annie Davis ~ Yoga Instructor
Annie Davis is a 300 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher. She completed her training in Bali with Eoin Finn’s Blissology School of Yoga. Annie believes that yoga is a powerful tool to deeply connect with ourselves, with one another, and the inspiring nature that surrounds us. With a degree in Hospitality and over 15 years of experience in this industry, she receives the most joy out of helping others feel g o o d. Annie has called Maui home since 2005, and believes that it is one of the most healing places on the planet. Yoga is her tool to…
Chris Ritchie ~ Trip Leader
For as long as Chris can remember, she has had a passion for exercise, health, and fitness. As a Sydney native she also loves to travel; especially when there are physical activities involved. After attending two retreats with SwellWomen, she was hooked not only to surfing but our retreat offering. So, it made perfect sense for her to join our SwellBliss Team as Trip Leader allowing her to share her gifts with like-minded women. In 1993 Chris swapped her late nights in the Advertising Industry for early mornings in the Fitness Industry, she found it to be a seamless transition as…
Connie Lozano ~ Yoga Instructor
Joining us all the way from San Antonio, TX, Connie is celebrating 20 years of instructing yoga & meditation. She teaches with a passion for yoga that is highly contagious. Her well-earned reputation for balancing humor with the quest for authenticity is truly refreshing, placing emphasis on self awareness and compassion in yoga that can be carried beyond the mat and into daily life. Connie’s journey is never ending, always enrolled in life, living and learning something new each day . Her yoga certifications are multiple as is her sharing of studies generous. She has included the study of Joytish, Vedic Astrology and shares Yogastrology® in her classes and…
Cyndy Henderson ~ Yoga Instructor
When on my mat or on a wave, I am here, now, and most myself. And I am so excited to share my love of yoga and my surfing journey by teaching yoga at Swellwomen retreats! My whole adult life has been a journey towards resilience, peace, and everyday joy. Being an eternal beginner surfer is a big part of that journey, and it became a dream to marry my long-time practice of yoga with my wish for more surfing through teaching yoga. If you dream it and take action to manifest, all things are possible. Let’s look for and find…
Dr. Sherri Hayden, PH.D., R.PSYCH, CYA-RYT250
Dr. Hayden is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor with the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Hayden has worked at UBC Hospital in the Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders as well as in her private practice at the NeuroHealth Clinic. Dr. Hayden has completed the AFMCP certification through the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM). She is also a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and has completed Culinary Health Education Fundamentals Certificates (CHEF Coaching: Basics & Beyond Basics) through Harvard Medical…
Fiona Peters ~ Photographer
A luxury lifestyle photographer by trade, Fiona Peters was drawn to the craft through her passion for the ocean and marine conservation. She lives a clean and active lifestyle and spends much of her time travelling to tropical paradise locations to capture the beauty of the oceanscapes, and the people who enjoy them. Fiona grew up on the beach, in a small coastal town south of Sydney, and can never be without the ocean for long. She loves meeting new and inspiring people from all walks of life. For Fiona, the ocean is where she finds peace of mind, and…
Gina Larkin ~ Leadership Coach
Gina Larkin is an entrepreneur and certified leadership coach with the ability to help create transformational change in the lives of her clients. Her immersion in whole leadership, positive psychology, neuroscience theory, and personal development resulted in a coaching practice designed to guide clients to discover their inner genius to break through to their next level of greatness. Through her signature coaching program, guests will discover how to live and lead a full, authentic and meaningful life. Gina is a former marketing executive with two decades of experience across global Fortune 500 companies, startups, and marketing agencies. Her coaching practice includes…
Gina Larkin ~ Trip Leader & Leadership Coach
Gina Larkin is an entrepreneur and certified leadership coach with the ability to help create transformational change in the lives of her clients. Her immersion in whole leadership, positive psychology, neuroscience theory, and personal development resulted in a coaching practice designed to guide clients to discover their inner genius to break through to their next level of greatness. Through her signature coaching program, guests will discover how to live and lead a full, authentic and meaningful life. Gina is a former marketing executive with two decades of experience across global Fortune 500 companies, startups, and marketing agencies. Her coaching practice includes…
Hildi Guiney ~ Yoga Instructor
Hildi, a registered Yoga Teacher certified by the Yoga Alliance, is from Norway and has been living in Rote, Indonesia since 1998 with her husband and learnt to surf on the island. She has been doing yoga for about 15 years and specializes in Restorative and Yin Yoga for surfers. She is also a Level 1 & 2 Reiki practitioner. When she is not teaching yoga on the beautiful island of Rote, where she is based 8 months of the year, you will find her in Europe on her snowboard. She loves keeping fit and active and believes that nature…
Jodi Mossop ~ Founder of Barnacle Babes
Founder and CEO of Barnacle Babe Productions Inc. (aka Barnacle Babes), an international magazine, web-series, Warrior Women of the Sea Conferences, and a catalyst of change for human development and ocean conservation, Jodi has been a life-long lover of all things water. Having been a competitive swimmer for 15 years and a provincial level water polo player, her lack of fear of water then took her to white water and ocean tour kayaking and a continued yearning to continue other ocean/water pursuits into her late 40’s. Jodi’s love for community, conservation (now a board director for Ocean Plastics Foundation Canada)…
Katherine Wilder ~ Yoga Instructor
YOGA ~ Katherine has been studying yoga since 2001 and has been teaching since 2004. The philosophy and Universal Principles of Alignment of the Anusara Yoga method have had the most influence on Katherine’s life, yoga practice, and teaching style, unveiling the deepest experience and understanding of connection between the spirit, mind, & body. It is this understanding that fuels her teachings, Katherine encourages her students to remember the importance of having fun and how to play in the realms of the mind and body liberating the spirit. She has learned through experience that creating proper alignment in the mind…
Katy Cox ~ Team Leader
Self-confessed ‘Landlocked mermaid’, Katy has been part of the SwellBliss Team since 2014. She has over 15 years of organizing retreats around the world. Her travels through Asia have provided wonderful opportunities to enhance her skill set with the study of Ayurvedic body treatments, herbalism, aromatherapy, and powerful breath and movement practices. She is a Registered Nutritional Therapist and loves to bust the myths around what keeps us healthy! Above all Katy believes in the power of nature and fun to bring us to a higher state of wellbeing and enable us to shift old patterns and open to new…
Katy Cox ~ Yoga Instructor
Self-confessed ‘Landlocked mermaid’, Katy has been a guest teacher with Swellwomen since 2014. As a yoga practitioner for over 20 years, she draws her training and inspiration from various traditions, including Iyengar, Hatha, Therapeutics, and Yin yoga. She specializes in a nervous system reset using a combination of yin/restorative postures, guided meditations, and gentle pranayama. Her travels through Asia have provided wonderful opportunities to enhance her skill set with the study of Ayurvedic body treatments, herbalism, aromatherapy, and powerful breath and movement practices. She is a Registered Nutritional Therapist and loves to bust the myths around what keeps us healthy!…
Laurel Marshall ~ Trip Leader
An insatiable curiosity for the unknown. An addiction to wanderlust and adventure. A never ending quest for bliss: finding balance, mindfulness and wellness. A passion to inspire, empower and develop others around her. A pursuit and love for warm tropical waters and waves. Welcome to Laurel’s inspiration and foundation for personal growth and development. Somewhere along the way, high up in the Nepalese Himalayas, she fell hard and stumbled deep into others’ cultures, collecting over 25 years of experiences, memories and friends while living, working and surfing her way around the world, from San Diego to South Africa; Sydney to…
Lauren Llacera ~ Yoga Instructor
Lauren Llacera, Registered Yoga Teacher certified by the Yoga Alliance, believes that there is an Infinite Energy of Radiance and Joy that exists in each and everyone of us. Her Teaching style ignites that beautiful light through dynamic, creative Vinyasa flows and slow, deep, inward-looking Yin/Restorative practices. She created sequencing called ChakraFlow where she awakens, transforms and balances Energy through the 7 main Chakras (energy centers) of the body. By bringing awareness of the properties of each Chakra, Lauren invites an inner journey of mind and spirit with a dissolution of physical energy blockages leaving the Yogi with a profound…
Lulu Agan ~ Chief Officer of Bliss
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton Surfing, yoga, cooking and wellness: these 4 passions are what lead Lulu Agan, globe-trotting surfer and yogini, to SwellWomen which launched in 2003. Having spent more than a decade as a Private Chef and more recently getting certified as a Health & Wellness Coach with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Lulu cultivates a great knowledge and enthusiasm for top-quality cuisine that promotes glowing health, from the inside out. As a supportive mentor and wellness authority, she works with clients to help them…
Lynn Alexander ~ Yoga Instructor
Lynn is an adventurous spirit and loving soul, hailing from Ontario, Canada and now living off grid in Costa Rica. She’s a surfer, yogini and Thai massage therapist who brings light and a deep sense of connection to her classes and massage sessions. Lynn is trained in classical Ashtanga yoga, hatha, vinyasa and restorative styles of practice. Her classes draw on elemental flow and nature connection through sensory experience. Find her on the mat, riding a wave or hiking through the beautiful jungle in Cabo Matapalo, Costa Rica. Full bio on website: www.moderndayoga.com Instagram: @mettamamacita
Me-Shell Mijangos ~ Trip Leader & Swellness Coach
Growing up as a young girl in California’s high desert, Me-Shell always had salt water on her mind and at a very young age knew she would live next to the ocean one day. Even when she was a professional snowboarder living in the mountains of Colorado, she still dreamt of the ocean and heard it’s beckoning call. Now only 3 minutes away from her favorite surf break on Maui, Me-Shell is a die-hard surfer and gets her salt water therapy in every single day at the break of dawn. “Surfing for me checks all the boxes- exercise, social time,…
Meredith Cameron ~ Yoga & SUP Yoga Instructor
Freedom comes in many different shapes and sizes. Meredith Cameron encourages everyone to find their version of freedom. She teaches people to find their freedom through connection and stability. Her offerings allow us to get up and off of our organs and to use our bones so that we have boundaries, providing efficiency in our bodies. Offering ample quiet time within her offerings amps up our ability to connect to ourselves. Feeling good + finding quiet = finding our freedom. How often do we stop to ask ourselves how we feel? THIS is why Meredith does what she does. She…
Rachel Young ~ Yoga Instructor
Born and raised in Florida, Rachel is a spirit of the sea. Rachel aims to spread positivity and light through a unique mix of yogic philosophy, strategic communication and humbled philanthropy. A spirited explorer and lover of nature, she has a service heart and is firm in her commitment to unity, wholeness, peace — yet is never satisfied with the status quo. At a young age, Rachel learned to thrive by embracing self-awareness and purpose, particularly in regards to education, travel and writing. An interest in yoga sparked after graduating college and realizing that life was meant to be more than a lukewarm cycle…
Rebecca Wasilewski ~ Yoga Instructor
Rebecca is a Yoga Instructor, Registered Massage Therapist, wife, mom, car-signing entrepreneurial, tropical weather-loving, barefoot woman! She is the owner of a multidisciplinary healthcare clinic & yoga studio in the heart of her city, where she shares her passion for movement, mindfulness, and anatomy with her community. Rebecca grew up spending many hours at the Taoist Tai Chi Society with her family observing and soaking in the movement and the energy it created. She was unaware just how much of an impact it had on her until her teen years when she discovered that movement was an incredible source of peace.…
Steve Farwig ~ Wing Foil Coach
Steve Farwig grew up in the US and Canada. From a young age until he was 19 years old, he skied during the winters competing at national level races. In his late teens, summers were spent teaching windsurfing in the Columbia River Gorge. His passion for skiing carried over to the 1988 Calgary Olympics when he coached for the Bolivian Olympic Ski Team. His love for windsurfing brought him to the island of Maui 28 years ago which lead to his current passion of wing foiling. As one of the pioneers of this sport, he decided it was time to…
Vivian Luo ~ Yoga Instructor
Growing up on the west coast, Vivian cultivated a diverse athletic and sports background, playing volleyball since age five and later expanding to basketball, muay thai, swim, surf, scuba, and lacrosse. After moving to NYC, she continued to embrace athleticism in the form of high intensity classes, indoor rock climbing, road and obstacle races, strength training, and yoga. Vivian began her yoga practice to balance her body and was quickly captivated by the many benefits of practice. She firmly believes that students can achieve anything with a positive mindset and her classes aim to engage and challenge students of all…