Becoming the Ocean:

Christine Gyovai is a professional facilitator and coach in building resilient communities, and she teaches yoga, meditation, and loves to be outside. She completed her 500 hour yoga teacher training with Drishti Beats, she is in a two year meditation teacher training currently with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, and she’s been practicing for almost three decades. Through her work as the Principal of Dialogue + Design Associates and host of the Yes! We Rise podcast, she guides civic leaders and community members to envision a more sustainable future and come together to make that vision a reality. The granddaughter of a coal miner and a firefly scientist, she facilitates networks of change-makers and uses skills that include consensus-building, community planning, ecological design and mindfulness practices. Christine loves sailing, yoga and paddleboarding, and she lives at the base of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia with her husband, two children, and an assortment of fruit trees and blueberry bushes.