Debra Kiliru, Executive Director
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Over the past 20 years, Debra has collaborated with a wide range of nonprofits and schools working to enhance their capacity, management, and outreach. She has designed domestic and international wellness programs focused on food and agriculture, nutrition education, cultural connections and youth leadership. Her love of the outdoors reflects her passion for healing and learning through nature and is seen in her work as a global education facilitator, providing service-learning excursions in several African countries. Her joy comes through connecting people beyond borders. Debra has been a yoga practitioner since 1994 and became a certified instructor in 2002.
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ANDIE MORGENLADNER, PROGRAM COORDINATOR
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Andie believes in the connection that is born of authentic human experience. She uses acting, filmmaking and the practice of yoga to create platforms that cultivate a collaborative and ultimately, more sustainable way of being.
Andie is currently working on her 300-hr YTT training at Asheville Yoga Center, and received her First Degree of Reiki under the tutelage of Mary Goslen. She has taken continuing education in MindBody Centering Yoga, and completed social justice training through both Off The Mat, Into the World and Skill In Action. As a teacher, she fosters a supportive atmosphere where students can get radically present with themselves, so that they can use their personal practice of self-inquiry to compassionately show up for collective wholeness. Andie works with the non-profit Light A Path as the Program Coordinator, and is dedicated to connecting under resourced communities with physical fitness, yoga, dance and other somatic healing tools. |
CAITLIN VAN HECKE, VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
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Caitlin loves to ponder the question, “What if we started living yoga and practicing life?” Continuously connecting the dots between what happens on her mat with what happens off is what propels her to share her passion with others.
On the mat, she volunteers as a yoga instructor at Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women. She remembers walking into her first class with trepidation, not knowing what to expect and of how she would be received. She left with tears in her eyes, having witnessed the students’ courage, kindness, and humanity. It was and maintains to serve as a reminder that we are more alike than we are different. Off of the mat she serves as the Volunteer Coordinator, providing outreach, on-boarding and support for future volunteers. She welcomes everyone who wishes to serve with Light A Path to ask themselves, “What is my work in the world, and how can I best align that in service to others?" |