Seane Corn

Founder, Social Champion

Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism, unique self-expression, and inspirational style of teaching. She has been featured in numerous articles, news programs, and has appeared on the cover of over a dozen magazines. As a strong and articulate voice for social change she was named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, and shares their mission to raise funds, provide service, and spread national awareness about the global emergency of HIV/AIDS. Seane has spent time in India, Cambodia and Africa working with impoverished prostitutes and street children, teaching yoga, providing support and aid, and educating them about HIV/AIDS prevention. She participates on the boards of the Cambodian Children’s Fund and the Engage Network. Seane also created the yoga program for “Children of the Night”, a shelter near Los Angeles dedicated to providing education and services for adolescent prostitutes. In 2005 Seane was honored with the “Conscious Humanitarian” award for her outreach efforts. Her award winning DVD’s “Vinyasa Flow Yoga”are available through Gaiam International, her “Yoga From the Heart” DVD can be found through Yoga Journal, and most recently “Detox Flow Yoga” from Sounds True.

Hala Khouri, M.A.

Social Champion, Director, Empowered Youth Initiative

Hala Khouri, M.A., E-RYT, has been teaching the movement arts for over 20 years. Her roots are in Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, dance, Somatic Psychology, and the juicy mystery of Life itself. Creative movement and honest self-exploration has always been a source of tremendous healing for Hala, and her calling to pass this on to others has been clear to her since she began teaching at the age of 16.

Hala earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religion from Columbia University and has a Master's degree Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She wrote her thesis on using yoga and other complementary disciplines such as eco-psychology and somatics for self-empowerment to inspire a global shift towards peaceful and sustainable living. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and focus on trauma's impact on the body-mind and ways to resolve it.

Hala has taught yoga and the movement arts to a wide variety of people and places ranging from juvenile detention centers, mental health hospital and police stations, to yoga studios, conference halls and jungles. Teaching is her absolute favorite thing to do! She currently lives in Venice, California with her husband Paul and their two sons.

Suzanne Sterling

Social Champion, Director, Global Seva Challenge

Suzanne Sterling is a dedicated musician, yogi, activist and social innovator who has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 20 years. She is a leading expert in sound and consciousness and her unique style is a passionate, ecstatic journey into the heart of creativity, authentic connection with Source, and joyful service. She has been a featured artist/teacher at numerous festivals and conferences such as, Wanderlust, Omega, Esalen, Kripalu, Yoga Journal, Hanuman, Burning Man, Ecstatic Dance, Bhaktifest, Boomfest, LIB, Earthdance (where she led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people) and many more.  She is also part of the nationwide faculty for YogaWorks Teacher Trainings.  She is one of the co-founders of OTM, and is the Director of the Seva Challenge. For many years, she has worked with Starhawk and the international Reclaiming Community, creating ritual and training teachers in eco feminist spirituality.  An award winning musician, she has released 3 solo albums, 5 DVD soundtracks and has 3 new albums being released in 2013.  Her life work is dedicated to inspiring others to find their unique voice and to use self expression as a tool for community building and conscious evolution. Find out more at www.suzannesterling.com.

Kerri Kelly

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Kerri was drawn to the healing power of yoga in 1999. On her mat, she discovered a new vitality that awakened her purpose and desire to serve. Kerri immediately recognized the opportunity to share this gift and has been teaching for over 7 years. Her purpose is to invest in the greatness of others and use her teaching to help individuals discover themselves and their potential to shine. She has been instrumental in catalyzing the San Francisco community around yoga and service and mentors local leaders on how to be purposeful and effective in their activism.

Kerri has been an active member of Off the Mat, Into the World™ for over 2 years, facilitating local yoga in action groups and building community around yoga and activism. In 2010, she took on the role of National Catalyst and has helped OTM develop a strategy and infrastructure to support its growth. Kerri feels blessed to be a part of this movement and is truly inspired by this growing community of change-makers.

Claire Williams, M.B.A.

community outreach MANAGER

Claire Williams, M.B.A., found Off the Mat in 2009 through the Teaching Yoga to At-Risk Youth and Adults Training, Esalen Intensive and joined a Yoga in Action group in 2010. Claire graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005 with a B.A. in Sociology and certificates in Peace and Conflict Studies and Leadership Studies from the INVST Community Leadership Program, earning an Americorps scholarship for over 450 service hours. Prior to joining our team, Claire was the Development Associate at GirlVentures, a San Francisco based non-profit. She is passionate about learning how to successfully build organizational capacity for non-profit organizations which led her to pursue an MBA in Sustainable Management at Presidio Graduate School which she completed in December 2011. In 2008, she became a Certified Yoga Instructor through Yoga Tree SF's 200-hour Program. She has led two seasons of service learning trips for college and high school students both domestically and internationally. She is trained in facilitation, consensus decision-making, grant-writing, and project management and brings strong experience collaborating in teams.

Rebecca Rogers

Global seva MANAGER

Rebecca is originally from Vermont and teaches yoga in San Francisco. She believes in the transformative power of yoga to build leaders and activists, by guiding them through experiences that inspire them to mobilize around a common intention of service. She holds a masters degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution with a focus on Sustainable Development from American University's School of International Service.

Over the last ten years, Rebecca has taught human rights to inner-city high school students, trained Peace Corps volunteers on cross-cultural communication, volunteered in an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and advised Fortune 500 companies to reduce their environmental impact.

As Global Seva Manager, Rebecca provides daily operations and programmatic support to fundraisers who have taken the Challenge of raising $20,000 through grassroots activism and community mobilization. www.rebeccarogersyooga.com