SKY Happiness Breathwork Retreat Day 1

Annelies Richmond is an international master trainer of SKY Breath Meditation, breathwork and leadership development programs through the International Association for Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation. She has taught tens of thousands of people in the last 22 years, and has trained over 1,400 certified meditation and leadership teachers in 5 countries. She started using these practices daily during her 15-year career as a professional ballet dancer with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC and found that they enhanced not only physical stamina and capacity, but also mental clarity and emotional resilience. She is founding director of SKY Campus Happiness Program, a national university leadership and well-being program, through which she trains and empowers student leaders, staff and faculty to become breathwork & well-being facilitators for their campus. She travels across the U.S. teaching and lecturing at institutions such as Yale University, Purdue University, UPENN, MIT, Northeastern University, Columbia University, the United Nations, and Google. Her courses, talks and sessions are known for their authenticity, lightness, and humor, combined with a depth of wisdom that brings one to the present moment.

Katie Tomer is a nationally Certified Health Education Specialist and a 1,000hr certified SKY Breath Meditation instructor that has taught youth, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, CEOs, college students, staff and faculty. After Katie experienced the benefits of the SKY Happiness Retreat as a college student, she formed a partnership with SKY Campus Happiness and her university’s recovery oriented campus center. Now in her seventh semester as an adjunct faculty member, Katie teaches the SKY Campus Happiness course for college credit as part of the University of Southern Maine’s Health Sciences Department.