Featured Facilitator:

Reggie Hubbard

Reggie is a certified yoga and meditation teacher, member of the Kindness Collective and founder/Chief Serving Officer of Active Peace Yoga. His yoga and meditation practices have served as a sanctuary of peace and perspective while navigating the stresses of being a black man in the world and serving in pressure filled jobs at the height of politics. He began practicing yoga under extreme emotional distress at work and now freely and humbly shares his peace and practice to all walks of life, respecting his role as a guide and wisdom steward.

Reggie practices the art of sacred living, with reverence for the present moment in service to our collective well-being. He seeks to offer heart medicine for these grief stricken times, rooted in authenticity, compassion, presence and purpose. His classes help others nurture peace of mind as a resting state, creativity, equanimity in spirit and physical health - making well-being foundational rather than an afterthought, which is an act of liberation.

In Reggie's Own Words ...


Meet Our Facilitators

Sam Abraham

My main teaching expression is in the realm of Vinyasa classes with challenging asana flow sequencing, alignment direction, and Adjustments. I believe that, through yoga, we can work with our bodies to open to our greatest potential as human beings. By exploring sensation and movement in the body, I see this practice as a gift. I have been practicing yoga since I attended a small local yoga class over 20 years ago. A skeptic at first, I decided to commit to weekly practice and noticed a difference in my quality of sleep, balance, and flexibility, and most importantly, my ability to breathe through difficult situations. Years later, I decided it was time to open the yoga door for others and teach. Classes are geared around the unique needs and energy of the students and will help build strength, flexibility, and a more acute awareness of your own physical and emotional needs.

Kourtney De La Luz

Kourtney De La Luz is a visionary, keynote speaker, philanthropist, yoga teacher, coach, and advocate of us all being well and winning. Having been a student of Eastern philosophy, metaphysics, ancient healing traditions, and spirituality for decades; she is most passionate about raising human consciousness. She has collaborated on humanitarian and community yoga projects with SAATH Nepal, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living, and organizations throughout Latin America. She is the founder of the East Meets West Yoga Event, and principal of Elevate Your Life Coaching and Consultancy Group. Much of her work in the yoga and wellness space has been around soul-full leadership, yoga philosophy and modern-day applications, as well as the formulation of pro-humanity, and DEI initiatives. “While I understand that the work that lies ahead in this time and space can appear overwhelming, the goal is to heal, and we cannot heal what we do not face. That is my why—collective healing on micro and macro levels. Unification and consciousness can only come from a deep healing. Dismantling oppressive systems of all sorts is an act of healing—more spirit than ego, thinking in terms of collaboration vs. competition and so on.” -Kourtney De La Luz

Tricia Glennon

Tricia has been teaching yoga for close to 15 years and loves coming together in community to support each other in awakening and remembering who we truly are. Her heart centered way of being helps people feel seen and supported. Her no judgment approach helps people relax and build self-esteem. Tricia was trained in Vinyasa with Tina Porter, and at Kindness Yoga in both signature series and partner yoga. During her classes, Tricia will always practice with the students and demonstrate the poses. She provides her students with simple and easy to follow instruction on getting in and out of poses, easy for beginners or people who are just learning. People love to hear her words of wisdom, as she is forever reading yoga books, and sharing whatever resonates from her heart.

Patrick Harrington

Patrick Harrington is living the life of his dreams. He has shared his gifts as an entrepreneur, teacher, and coach within the yoga and personal development spheres for the last 25 years. During that time, he has had a front-row seat to the roller coaster ride of living a life devoted to self-reflection and growth. The year 2020 was a turning point in his personal and professional world when the physical, in-person, community he co-created closed its doors permanently. Patrick and his wife, Cameron, made the challenging decision to allow that version of their work to dissolve, so that a more expansive version could rise. Over the past year, a team of dedicated facilitators and business people has created a new online learning environment rooted in the interplay between live community events, purpose-led meditation, and healing movement. The inspired learning that is COVID and our Kindness Yoga Call-Out are sharing the space with a circle of people who recognize and value how much humanity needs one another. Patrick works daily with his patterns and blind spots while celebrating the journey of being a husband, father, and son. His favorite way to pass the time is with family and community, sharing what is most inspiring, having fun, and appreciating the moment. Patrick is living life in the hopes of dying a good death

Ara Lee

Ara has spent her life devoted to studying, experiencing and teaching Movement, Psychology, Meditation and Applied Neuroscience. As an adopted Asian woman raised in Europe by American parents, she knows the friction of “belonging” and the beauty of a multicultural perspective. An innovator in the field of psychotherapy, yoga and wellness, Ara has designed programs that span the range of resiliency training for first responders and inner-city school educators, to holistic relationship and well being immersions for executive leaders in the domains of politics, finance and social impact. Ara’s experience has taught her that interpersonal evolution is the seed that sprouts cultural evolution. She is a professional who thinks outside the box and remembers that the only real box is the delta between imagination and action at the leadership level. Ara’s vision for The Kindness Collective is to grow into a thriving community where, through our shared human experience of love, life and loss, we learn, play and practice together - challenging ourselves to grow beyond our inherited systems and into the more beautiful world we know is possible.

Franco Marini

Franco Marini is an Affiliated Executive Faculty member at the Daniel’s College of Business at the University of Denver where he leads educational experiential projects. His expertise is in the area of effective and transformational leadership. Franco is a certified Yoga instructor in the Sampoorna tradition, a certified wellness coach, a massage therapist, and a consultant. He is a ceremonialist, a sacred drum maker, and a pipe carrier in the Ojibwa lineage. His current research in the Neuroscience field has inspired him to develop several Neuro-Leadership programs and has created retreats in: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France Portugal, and Canada.

Peret Martellini

Peret started practicing yoga in 2006 to regain flexibility after a hip replacement surgery. After her first class she realized that yoga is about so much more than flexibility. She was hooked and found herself on a spiritual journey that brought her to teacher training in 2011. She is a ERYT - 500 and has studied Hatha, Vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Therapy. She is deeply interested in helping people find balance and strength through yoga and meditation. “I couldn’t bend down far enough to tie my own shoes when I started yoga, so I understand both how difficult and how amazingly rewarding this practice is.” Peret finds an immense of joy in teaching people how to reconnect with their bodies and heal themselves.

Alec Rouben

Alec is a lover of life and all things health, wellness, and consciousness expansion. With a background in vinyasa and ashtanga yoga, and more recently influenced through senior teachers in Iyengar, he teaches a Yoga On The Inside approach based on Foundational Alignment. With one training per year over the past decade including an M.A. in Traditions Of Yoga & Meditation, he holds razor-sharp attention as a teacher with playfulness. He’s the co-founder of the Yoga Revealed podcast with 350K listeners, which illuminates the transformative power of yoga from the greatest wisdom keepers of our time. Alec’s favorite motto? 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚! Connect more with him on social @aleclovelifeyoga & join him in the Kindness Collective Containers!

R.R. Shakti, PhD

Shakti is a Contemplative Mythologist, ritual facilitator, and writer who presents a Tantrik approach to personal empowerment and social action. She is the founding teacher of Inner Power Yoga® where through contemplative story-telling and mind/body practices, she offers a vision of deep peace and radical freedom. Weaving World Mythology with mind/body practice, she guides participants home to their deepest wisdom. Shakti infuses esoteric teachings with real-life meaning to facilitate embodied ritual that is both mystical and practical. Her teachings call for extreme authenticity and deep human connection to activate an awakening of one's inner power. Shakti has studied holistic approaches to wellness for over 20 years. She holds a PhD in Mythology and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a certified Yoga Therapist, licensed Massage Therapist, and Ayurvedic Consultant. Among her greatest inspirations, Shakti counts Sreedevi Bringi, Marion Woodman, and Pema Chödrön.

Sharon Wahlfeld

In the 1990’s at “Bikram on 6th” in Denver, CO Sharon fell in love with the experience of clearing stress and worry through breath, movement & sweat. Years of hot yoga practice led to her first yoga teacher training through the Denver Institute of Yoga in 2007. On the path of yoga and continuous learning she has completed certified trainings in Vital Roots through Vital Yoga, Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga with Judith Lasater, Yoga Nidra with Jeremy Wolf, Kari Kwinn Yin Yoga, and 600 hours in Therapeutic Application of Yoga with Hansa Knox/ Prana Yoga and Ayurveda Mandala. Sharon is motivated by the belief that yoga is for EVERYONE. In her classes she encourages slowing down the body and mind in order to increase ease and whole body wellbeing. Expect to breathe deeply, move mindfully, and cultivate presence by connecting movement with breath. Her students describe her classes as thoughtful, peaceful, grounding, and rejuvenating.