Opportunities for private retreats, speaking engagements, immersive wellness experiences, and collaborative programs are available.
Rev. Dr. Shelley Best’s yoga and mindfulness practice is rooted in the belief that healing, reflection, creativity, and nervous system restoration are essential forms of Creative Disruption®. In a world shaped by exhaustion, overstimulation, caregiving fatigue, and constant demand, these practices create space to pause, breathe, listen deeply, and reconnect with what matters most.
Her work integrates gentle Hatha yoga, mindfulness meditation, Yoga Nidra, breathwork, reflection, sound, and contemplative practice to support renewal of the body, mind, and spirit. These experiences are designed especially for caregivers, helping professionals, artists, leaders, activists, clergy, educators, and changemakers seeking sustainable pathways toward well-being and resilience.
This is not performance yoga.
This is restorative, reflective, body-aware practice rooted in presence, accessibility, and care.
Programs may include:
• Sunrise Yoga and Moving Meditation
• Days of Peace and Renewal
• Caregiver Restoration Experiences
• Mindfulness and Nervous System Regulation
• Yoga Nidra and Deep Rest
• Creative Reflection Retreats
• Private and Small Group Sessions
• Leadership and Burnout Recovery Retreats
• Embodied Practices for Creativity and Healing
Experiences are designed to be trauma-informed, body-positive, and welcoming to practitioners of all levels and abilities. Participants are invited to move at their own pace within environments grounded in safety, reflection, consent, and belonging.
About your Teacher Rev. Dr. Shelley D. Best
ev. Dr. Shelley D. Best is a yoga teacher, mindfulness meditation guide, minister, artist, and founder of Creative Disruptor®, a transformative framework exploring how creativity, contemplative practice, and courageous self-awareness can help people heal, lead, and thrive in challenging times.
Known for creating deeply restorative and emotionally intelligent spaces, her teaching blends Hatha yoga, mindfulness meditation, Yoga Nidra, breath-centered movement, storytelling, and contemplative reflection into an experience that is both grounding and transformative. Her classes are designed not around performance, but around presence, nervous system restoration, resilience, and authentic personal renewal.
Her yoga practice is rooted in a trauma-aware Hatha yoga lineage shaped through extensive study with Anne Falkowski of Samadhi Yoga Studio, drawing from Kripalu and Forrest Yoga traditions with an emphasis on accessibility, body awareness, and compassionate practice. She has also trained in the Insight Meditation tradition with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach and is certified in Yoga Nidra through Tracee Stanley.
Rev. Dr. Best’s work is especially resonant for caregivers, changemakers, clergy, artists, leaders, and those navigating stress, burnout, grief, transition, or emotional exhaustion. Her teaching emphasizes safety, consent, accessibility, and body positivity, inviting students of all levels and abilities into practices that honor the wisdom of the body and the need for deep restoration.
In addition to leading classes, retreats, and immersive mindfulness experiences, Dr. Best is the founder of The 224 EcoSpace, a living creative laboratory for healing, belonging, contemplative practice, and social innovation. Through Creative Disruption Yoga & Mindfulness, she creates spaces where people reconnect with themselves, strengthen their inner lives, and prepare for the work they are called to do in the world.