Durga Leela is an Ayurvedic and Yoga Therapy Specialist and the founder of Yoga of Recovery®, a comprehensive program that integrates Ayurveda and yoga with recovery tools for those affected by addiction and self-destructive behaviors. She teaches a holistic approach to recovery, integrating mind, body, and spirit. She overcame her own struggles with addiction and is a grateful member of 12-step fellowships for over 20 years. She is the author of Yoga of Recovery: Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda With Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction with a foreword by David Frawley.

Kelvin Young, RSS is an award-winning sound healer, recovery support specialist, published author, co-founder of the SoulCare Love, LLC and sober from alcohol and other drugs since March 6, 2009. Kelvin has presented around the country in diverse settings, including yoga studios, retreat centers, conferences, high schools, colleges, prisons, addiction treatment centers, psychiatric hospitals, and mental health agencies. He is passionate about holding space for people to heal and is known for his warm, loving, and down-to-earth way of connecting with people.

Cathy Coleman holds a doctorate in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She has worked for the past six years with the CIIS Center for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research, and earlier was a senior administrator at CIIS for 20 years in several key administrative roles. She was President Kepler College, a state-approved college of astrological studies in Washington state. She is the author/editor of Intrepid Explorer: Reflections of the Life and Legacy of Ralph Metzner (to be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2024). In private practice as an astrologer and coach, she has lectured nationally and internationally on Western and Eastern (Jyotish) astrology. She is the National Education and Certification Director for the Professional Astrologer’s Alliance (PAA). With her late husband, Ralph Metzner, they co-founded the Green Earth Foundation
(www.greenearthfound.org). She was married to Ralph for 31 years, and is a mother and grandmother.

For the past 10 years, Tarini has closely studied with Durga Leela, incorporating the practices of Yoga of Recovery into her unique recovery journey.

Tarini’s own recovery journey led her to discover the transformative power of Yoga of Recovery. She has attended multiple Yoga of Recovery courses since 2014, completed the Sivananda Yoga Teacher’s training course (Yoga Farm, California 2016), became a Yoga Nidra facilitator (2016 with Dr. Marc Halpern), and graduated as a Yoga Therapist from Yoga Vahini’s 4 year course in 2022. Throughout these programs, she gained invaluable insights into her addictive habits and discovered effective tools and practices to find her own flow through life’s challenges. Tarini (she/her) brings a unique perspective to YoR Yoga Therapy sessions, drawing from her personal experience as someone in long-term recovery from heroin use disorder.