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Cleo has been teaching and practicing yoga for over 20 years. Her first yoga class was at an instructor's house nestled in the middle of the woods. While she practiced, she could hear the birds and the stream running outside. This connection with nature, the breath, and the yoga postures expanded her awareness and consciousness to a place of deep peace. Her love for yoga and nature blossomed after, bringing her to complete her 200-hour yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga, take Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Apprenticeship at Sage Mountain, and, a couple of years later, to Naropa University, where she received her 1000-hour yoga teacher training and B.A. in Yoga.

She returned to the East Coast and opened Rainbow Body Yoga studio, which became a thriving yoga studio in the community. After six years of the studio serving the community, she decided to close due to COVID. She shifted the business to focus on transformative nature-based yoga teacher trainings and retreats that combined her love of herbalism, yoga, and energy healing.

In 2021, Cleo began a graduate program at Naropa University, where she studied yogic texts, philosophies, Sanskrit, Shakta Tantra, and the history of the seven chakra system. Cleo has continued her research in yogic studies and is currently a PhD doctoral candidate in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, tracing the history of the seven chakra system from Kaula Tantra to medieval Hatha Yoga.

Cleo has studied with many amazing teachers over her journey in the herbal, energy healing, Reiki, plant spirit, and yoga worlds and is grateful for all the gifts they have shared with her, which she imparts to students during retreats and trainings.