A Dispute Resolution Process Informed By Meditation and Yoga Asana Practices

Throughout my youth my peers would ask for advice regarding conflict with their friends and family and so I served as a school peer mediator in high school. Later, I studied Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University and focused my coursework on workplace conflict and peace studies and earned a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution at Cornell’s Scheinman Institute. My passion for human rights and conflict resolution blossomed while studying for my Master’s degree at Columbia University where my thesis on Corporate Social Responsibility and Human rights, analyzed the business relationship between local coffee cooperatives in Costa Rica, the Costa Rican government and the Starbucks Coffee Corporation. Later, I earned my JD while increasing my knowledge in employment law and conflict resolution in legal clinics at the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards and in the mediation division at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. After graduating law school, I became a certified advanced yoga teacher and meditation teacher. I currently teach a yoga and meditation class weekly at Lighthouse Yoga Studio in Washington DC, where I have led community circles to help yogis navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the collective social awareness that emerged in 2020. Currently, my work involves balancing the interests of America’s retirees, health insurance consumers, financial institutions, employers, insurance companies and the complex employee benefits laws that impact all of those parties. I have combined my entire lived experience to create Meditation informed Meditation. A practice which blends the fairness and justice of legal philosphy with the wisdom and peace of a yoga and meditation practice. Together we can alchemize conflict into growth, harmony and positive change.