conscious campus Coby Kozlowski Transformative Leadership, Yoga, Meditation and Movement Facilitator Full Bio:

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1 conscious campus Transformative Speakers and Performing Artists Coby Kozlowski Transformative Leadership, Yoga, Meditation and Movement Facilitator Wellness Leadership Stress Reduction Self Care Self Expression Full Bio: Coby Kozlowski, MA, E-RYT, is leading the revolution of inspired action and living; a fierce life coach and yoga educator, passionate about real personal leadership and dedicated to freedom of the heart and mind. Known as a vibrant, intelligent, relatable, and funny inspirational speaker, workshop leader and storyteller. She is faculty for Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, a movement artist, yoga, meditation, and dance teacher, expressive arts therapist, and expert in transformative leadership, along with being a professional life coach and inspirational speaker. She has been seen sharing her enthusiasm for creating a conscious life at universities, retreat centers, festivals, conferences, and studios throughout the globe. She is the founder of Souluna Life Coach Certification training, Co-founder of Sacred Lasya Yoga Teacher Training, founder of revolution 180: Karma Yoga Leadership School, host and founder of Yoga Temple: An Inquiry into Living Yoga, creator of Ecstatic Prana Dance, and creator of the revolutionary education program Quarter-Life Calling. Coby specializes in working with women, men and young adults who are ready to step into a life of choice, empowerment, and conscious living. She believes you need to be true to yourself to be complete and clear; then you can find absolute freedom and ease no matter where you are, who you are with, or what the circumstances may be. Over the years Coby has coached and inspired thousands of extraordinary men and women to dream, explore, and reach their goals. Coby helps you learn to make yourself a priority, create an intention in your life, and feel inspired that anything you want in life is a possibility, and how to make it happen. Along with her passion for her work, she is a poet, skier, surfer, artist, triathlete, ultimate frisbee player, fire spinner and hooper, flying trapezist, ukuelele novice, and lover of adventure.

2 Coby brings to her transformational approach extensive experience in upper-level management, entrepreneurship, coaching, yoga, mediation, positive psychology, neuroscience, and ayurvedic studies. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Business Administration and Environmental Studies and her Masters in Transformative Leadership and certificate in expressive art therapy from Lesley University. Studying group dynamics and team development in Mexico on a three-month experiential learning trip with the National Outdoor Leadership School (N.O.L.S) inspired her passion of transformative living. Upon graduation she completed a thesis on group dynamics and leadership and also designed and taught a collegiate class based on her findings. She then had the opportunity to work and train with the Walt Disney World Corporation. She has worked with executives and young adults while managing districts all over the U.S. Coby is a graduate of the Landmark Forum and has done her coaching training/certification at The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She completed CTI s nine month experiential leadership program. She worked with Kripalu s semester intensive program, a holistic education program for college students. Coby leads leadership workshops, offers life coaching and teaches yoga at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. She is an E-RYT, registered 500-hour vinyasa flow yoga teacher, 500-hour and 200-hour Kripalu yoga teacher, has completed her 500- hour yoga teacher training with Shiva Rea. She is a certified ayurvedic health educator, certified Yoga Ed. teacher, certified flower essence practitioner, certified Journey Dance and Trance Dance teacher. Coby has completed the master level Avatar Training. She is also trained in Eugene Gendlin s Focusing Technique and Laury Rappaport s Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy. And she has been blessed to study with: Shiva Rea, Devarshi Steven Hartman, Rodney Yee, Todd Norian, Ann Greene, Lorin Roche, Erich Schiffman, Dharma Mittra, Angela Farmer, Sean Corne, Vinn Marti, Dave Stringer, Joe Dispenza, Carolyn Myss, Tony Bergins, and many other gifted teachers around the world. Workshops: Inspired Action: A Call to Leadership, Love, and Freedom It s time take hold, and take charge. Life is filled with possibilities waiting to be revealed. Shed the barriers and unleash the personal leader within to create a world we want to live in a world of connection, cooperation, and commitment. This vibrant workshop empowers students to move beyond merely thinking about how they would like to live their lives by offering self-empowering tools and yogic wisdom that enable them to take full ownership of their own existence. This workshop will help students: Ignite a life of passion and purpose Embody the Yoga of Leadership, a powerful new leadership model that wakes them up to transform their lives Tune in and turn on who they really are Unshackle their life and release limiting beliefs that hold them back Discover their life s purpose and acquire tools to act on it Explore how living yoga is a gateway to personal empowerment and freedom Come delve into the wisdom of yoga and discover how it can help propel life to new heights. Students emerge from this program aware of how every moment is a bold opportunity to step into living leadership, living yoga, and living in alignment QUARTER-LIFE CALLING: Creating an Extraordinary Life in Your 20 s For students, their twenties can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of their deepest values and truths. It also can be a time of challenge and doubt as they begin creating the kind of life their soul is calling for. This intensive workshop is designed for young adults aged twenty to twenty-nine who are interested in cultivating an authentic life of meaning and purpose.

3 Through experiential exercises, lecture, powerful coaching and expressive art techniques, group sharing, yoga (postures and philosophy) and meditation, students will be supported in the process of tuning in to their inner knowing and making decisions from that place. Students will: Tap into the leader they can be in their own life Connect with their personal calling Discover the path to authenticity and accountability Explore yoga and meditation as tools for personal empowerment Find strength amidst doubt and insecurity and comfort in the unknown Learn to build a life based on inherent wisdom. This program sets the stage for an extraordinary life. Students will be supported in the process of tuning in to their inner knowing and making decisions from that place. They will leave with the tools and strength to live life fully. Women, Yoga and Leadership - It s Your Time. Really--Yoga, Women, and Leadership? This vibrant, fresh, and intense workshop takes students from thinking about good ideas of how to live life to actually diving deep, taking charge, and experiencing powerful and expansive living no more holding back and no more waiting! This is no joke. It s time to stop living someone else s life and go for it all. Through this unique experiential workshop students will: Join a community of women interested in cultivating a life of joy and passion Fall totally in love with life all of it Embody the Yoga of Leadership: a new and powerful leadership model Challenge indoctrinated belief systems Connect with their life purpose and have tools to act on it Explore yoga and meditation as tools for personal empowerment Immerse in movement, art, dance, ceremony, play, reflection, and nature Take the courageous inward journey and discover the leader within Live a life of authenticity and full expression A Healthy High: The Power of Breath and Relaxtion Come feel the bliss and sweetness of yogic breath work and rest. These ancient tools will connect students to a sense of surrender, ease, and peace. Through this experiential workshop students will: Discover techniques to reduce stress and relax Understand the nature of the mind Dynamic Flow into Unbound Meditation This yoga and meditation session provides an opportunity to truly fall in love with each moment, with each breath, riding the wave with whatever is arising. A practice that emerges from the inside out, or rather a meditation in motion, where the breath is the teacher, the breath is the guide. As students flow they can experience and dive into an unbroken stream of internal meditation, which supports the body to move in creative and primal ways. During our time practicing together students will: Experience life as flow and realize they are either flowing with it or not Come home to their yoga Tap into natural freestyle movement meditation Move their body in new and creative ways

4 This movement practice is a chance to tap into creative sequencing, powerful flow that becomes an invitation to a path of love, a path of beauty, and an inquiry into each moment. Ecstatic Dance and Movement Meditation An invitation to students to uplift their spirit and tap into the pulse of life as they celebrate, flow, move, dance and meditate like never before. Indulge into conscious dance and movement meditation in this ecstatic and joy-filled workshop for all levels. Ecstatic Prana Dance and Meditation is a journey and experience of living life fully and letting the entire self be expressed. Before beings ever practiced being they simply played, explored, danced, laughed, and shared. This is a workshop to embrace all aspects of life and soak in the bliss of being alive. Vinyasa Flow Yoga: A Compassionate and Mindful Approach This rejuvenating and compassionate movement-based, lecture and experiential workshop will take students into the depths of vinyasa flow and the inquiry of yoga. Through an inclusive and mindful methodology they will experience vinyasa flow in a new and empowering way. We will focus on a creative and dynamic sequence. They will experience the effects of creative flow, strength and fluidity as they come to their edge with compassion and awareness. Awaken the natural flow of life force that will guide them to thrive in all aspects of life. Experience creative and inspiring sequencing Be absorbed in meditation in motion Find a deeper connection to their practice by exploring vinyasa flow Deepen into the inquiry of yoga The Radiance Sutras The Joy of Meditation and Movement Meditation is one of life s great pleasures. There are hundreds of techniques, and when you find the style that fits your inner nature, meditation feels like the most natural thing in the world. In this workshop, we will explore the teachings of an ancient yoga text that describes 112 meditation practices for touching the sacred right here in the midst of daily life. During this workshop students will: Explore a wide variety of different meditation practices so their bodies can instinctively pick what they need. Learn how to let meditation be rejuvenating and soothing to their nerves. Learn how to be with the energies, emotions, and sensations that arise and take good care of themselves in meditation. Learn how to combine meditation and movement to keep it fresh. Build a practice around what they love. The Power of Self-Observation: Discovering Freedom Fall in love with this moment, this breath, this feeling. Through the power and magic of self-observation find the key to freedom in the heart, mind, and soul. This experiential workshop will guide students into self-observation, meditation in motion, and lead them into a deep state of relaxation. During our time together students will: Understand the nature of the mind Discover a practice that can be used daily to transform stress, anxiety and depression Realize you are not your thoughts, but they can be used as an access to freedom. What is Your Impact? As creators of our lives, is it critical to understand what impact we are having since we are all having an impact all of the time. Have you ever wondered what your impact is? Through the use of authentic movement, expressive play, lecture and group work students will begin to understand the impact that they are having.

5 During this workshop students will: Discover the impact they have on others Understand the nature of the universal field Reveal the power of accountability Delve into the difference between personality and authenticity Life as Perspective: The Power of Belief and Choice Every moment of everyday is opportunity to choose. We can t always control what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond and what we learn from it. Through this experiential and lecture based class, students will learn how to create a life based on choice and a formula to use to create a meaningful and fulfilling life. Students will gain insight into how to be empowered by choice, rather than be victim to circumstance. 137 Danbury Rd. #233, New Milford, CT Ph: consciouscampus.com