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Aliza Weller
Bio
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION AND YOGA TEACHING:
I’m a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (certified by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in 2023) with trauma-informed teacher training and DEIA training. I’m also a Mindfulness Mentor (certified by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in 2024), a Luminous Awareness healing practitioner (certified by Lorraine DeLear and Anna-Lisa Adelberg in 2017), and an Iyengar yoga teacher (certified by Hart Lazer and Yoga Alliance International in 2010). I have 28 years of yogic practice and Qi Gong study, especially in Ashtanga and Iyengar lineages, with additional certification as a Thai massage and Thai Yoga/Tai Ji Qi Gong practitioner (certified by International Training Massage School, Chiang Mai, 2009 ITM). And I have 26 years of meditation practice and study in 21 lineages, with Vipassana as taught by S.N. Goenka as my core practice, and traditional Japanese Zen as my root practice. I have several years of experience as a mentee of Dan Emmons, Dan Spinner, as well as Advaita Vedanta practice with Rupert Spira. As a coach I’m trained in Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Soffer, and Kingian Nonviolence by Kazu Haga and the East Point Peace Academy. I co-facilitated a Peace and Reconciliation conference in Washington with the East Point Peace Academy in 2019, and have been involved with their dismantling racism curriculum since early 2020. I’ve taught meditation and yoga for 12 years, around the world, including in the arctic circle, in Silicon Valley corporate tech companies, in maximum security mens’ prisons, and at global peace and reconciliation conferences.
COACHING, LEADERSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORK:
I currently work in the corporate tech environmental sustainability and learning and development spaces. I’ve been coaching corporate, non-profit, community, government, and multi-stakeholder leaders and executives for 20 years. I’ve managed training programs at Apple for 10 years, where I’ve also facilitated meditation classes for two years. I’m certified in Miyawaki-method afforestation by Shubhendu Sharma and Afforestt; and I’m a certified Permaculture Designer (Thailand, 2009). I’ve used these certifications to design nature-based climate and biodiversity solutions in land remediation projects with the AppleEarth core leadership team, with whom I’ve co-organized corporate tree planting events around the world. Prior to Apple, I managed the communications department for an environmental impact assessment team in the High Arctic Circle for the Canadian Government. I cofounded the Intelligent Play Institute in 2008, with whom I’ve co-led workshops in 15 countries in 4 languages. I'm a leadership mentor for Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, and a Climate Leader trained by Al Gore in 2018. I have an Environmental Studies masters degree from Dalhousie University (2008), focusing on transformative environmental learning design. I studied Aboriginal Law, Biology, and World Literature at the University of British Columbia, and Global Political Change at the University of Copenhagen. I have a certificate from the World Bank Group (Greenhouse Gas Protocol) and World Resources Institute in “Designing Measuring, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verifying Systems for Entity-Level Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” I just completed an executive leadership LEAD certificate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I focused on strategic leadership, financing innovation, building power to lead, and the neuroscience of leadership.
Membership Register ID
#4885
Cohort Graduation year
2023
First Name
Aliza
Last Name
Weller
Email
Gender
woman
Country
United States
State
California
City
Boulder Creek
Zip/Postal Code
95006
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