TERESA LASHA (SHAY) HUFF

MINDFULNESS | YOGA | SOUND | BREATH | FACILITATION | MEDITATION

I am a self-exploration guide and workshop facilitator, sound bath facilitator, breathwork journey guide, and yoga instructor. My goal is to support folks in deepening their relationship with Self by continuously drawing the senses inward, using breath, sound, and somatic sensation as their guides.

It is my belief that the path to wellness is winding and multifaceted. It can feel messy and fruitless. In my experience, it’s not until we can fully see and meet ourselves exactly where we are, with mindful compassion, that we begin to experience wholeness. In those moments, however brief, we are fully embodied. When we can gaze with love into our shadows, we awaken a powerful potential for acknowledgment, compassionate witnessing, integration, and transformation.

I’ll be the first to tell you that you need nothing outside of yourself to be whole. Still, there are practices that can help soften or enhance our experiences and create space for expansion as we peel back layers. The tools I offer are merely pathways for opening, experiencing, and integrating. They are meant to be helpmates, catalysts even, but not saviors. I offer these modalities knowing they have supported me in going deeper, enriching my life, gaining insight, and expanding.

Working with me offers a grounded, heart-centered space to reconnect with your inner landscape, listen deeply, and remember that healing and wholeness have always lived within you. Through the blend of breath, sound, movement, and mindful awareness, I hold a compassionate container that supports your unfolding at your own pace and in your own way.

The path of healing is more a squiggly line than a straight path. Once we let go of what we think should be, there’s room for real movement along the road.

INTENTION & BACKGROUND

Intention: to help you gain in your capacity to hold life’s experiences. to help you breathe, move, feel with a little more ease.

TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS

  • Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator Training via Sword & Lotus, Level III, 2023 - Current

  • Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator Training via Sword & Lotus, Level II, 2023

  • Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator Training via Sword & Lotus, Level I, 2022

  • Yoga Behind Bars Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training, 2019

  • 50 Hour Yin Yoga Training, 2018

  • Conflict Resolution and Managing Difficult Conversation, 2017

  • Managing Emotions Under Pressure, 2017

  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Cultural Competency Training: Creating Synergy in the Workplace, 2016

  • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 2016

PROJECTS, OFFERINGS, FACILITATION

YOGA INSTRUCTOR, FEBRUARY 2016 - CURRENT

  • Guide accessible, intentional yoga practices centered on mindful movement, breath, and body awareness.

  • Incorporate elements of Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative Yoga, breathwork, and meditation.

  • Create practices ranging from gentle and grounding to active and strength-building based on the needs of students.

  • Encourage students to explore movement with curiosity rather than focusing on performance or achieving specific poses.

  • Offer modifications and variations to support different bodies, abilities, and levels of yoga experience.

  • Facilitate private instruction, group classes, workplace wellness experiences, retreats, and special events.

  • Create space for students to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and leave feeling more grounded and present.

EXPANSIVE BREATHWORK JOURNEY GUIDE, MAY 2024 - CURRENT

  • Created a welcoming arrival experience with tea, fruit, and time for participants to ground, orient, and settle into the studio space.

  • Opened the experience with introductions and gentle movement focused on creating space through the body and supporting lung capacity and expansion.

  • Guided participants through a 60-minute Conscious Connected Breathwork journey accompanied by an intentionally curated playlist.

  • Offered optional supportive touch, breath holds, and toning to deepen the experience and support energetic release.

  • Closed the journey with an extended savasana followed by optional group sharing and individual journaling.

  • Provided tea and light snacks following the session to support grounding and integration.

  • Shared post-journey integration practices participants could use in the days and weeks following the experience.

WE ARE HER SURVIVOR RETREAT, JUNE 2024

  • Prepared and presented information on Expansive Breathwork to Domestic Violence survivors and staff in order to prepare them for their first experience with continuous intentional breathing.

  • Offered and held one-on-one check ins with any participants who wanted to discuss the coming journey, contraindications and past trauma history privately and/or more in depth.

  • Provided an overview of the potential benefits, common somatic experiences during session and contraindications.

  • Followed up with a question and answer session before guiding a group of 14 through a 60 minute breathwork journey.

WE ARE HER SURVIVOR RETREAT, AUGUST 2023

  • Designed and facilitated three 90 minute workshops: (1) Intro to Breath; (2) Energetic Flow, Body Awareness & Movement; and, (3) Trauma Informed Yoga.

  • Encouraged participants in intentionally engaging their breath as body sensation increased.

  • Supported participants in connecting to their body in ways that felt safe yet intimate.

  • Guided participants in thinking about what it means to reclaim and transform energy.

SOOTHE YOGA, SOUND BATH AND MEDITATION, APRIL 2023 - June 2026

  • Provided a safe and calming space for participants to access a deeper level of connection to Selelease stagnant energy and “tune up” chakra centers by way of a body, breath and sound experiences. This monthly offering brings together the elements of body (postures), breath (conscious connected breathing, pranayama breathing and breath focused meditation) and sound (crystal singing bowls) to allow for a more acute focus on encouraging energy to move through and be released from the body.

GROUP SELF EXPLORATION WORKSHOPS

  • Developed and facilitated workshops centered in self-care and self-discovery by implementing the trifecta of Openness, Curiosity and Compassion.

  • Supported women in meeting each part of themselves, as best they could, without judgement and with a willingness to allow what is to exist without harshness so that what is meant to be may be born out of love, not shame.

GROUP SELF EXPLORATION (ADULT), 2016 - 2020

  • Created space for women to bond and discuss daily challenges in a solution based environment.

  • Provided a safe space for women to practice vulnerability and explore ideas of self worth and self care in a group setting with like minded women.

  • Coached women in mindfulness and support them in building a toolkit for managing stress.

SELF EXPLORATION WORKSHOPS AT FOREST RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART, 2018 - 2019

  • Worked with teaching staff and high school director to develop a series of workshops for girls 9th - 12th grade centered in self-care, self-discovery, defining success and perfectionism.

  • Designed and facilitated workshops around agency and authenticity, building connections, setting boundaries, consent and integrity.

STAFF FACILITATOR TRAINING: FOREST RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART, 2018 - 2019

  • Provided facilitator training focused on navigating difficult or *courageous* conversations.

  • Facilitated teacher and staff training on self-awareness, managing emotions under pressure with the fundamentals of facilitation in an approachable and easily adaptable manner.