Meredith Smythe has diverse background of skills and has worn many professional hats in her life. All of them centered around helping people to explore, bond, live a wholistic life, move better, and bring about peace and social change. Meredith has a background in cultural competency, service leadership, teaching and mentoring youth in France, Ecuador and the United States. She taught English for the French embassy for two years in France through the teaching assistant program and seved as an English teacher/ professor at the Enginering University in Quito Ecuador for a year. Meredith spent two years leading youth in the US with a co-chair in youth for Global Peace and transformation in Maitri Bodh US, and mentored professionally. She has an undergraduate degrees in Dramatic Arts from the University of North Carolina with a background in acting, writing, stage direction and dramaturgy. She performed in many shows that raised awareness for social change. Meredith has been a long time advocate for peace and human rights. In 2008 she helped organize the 9/11 Unity walk in Washington D.C. with 11,000 participants and keynote speaker Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She has Doctorate in Phyiscal therapy from the University of North Carolina, is a long time yoga practicioner and yoga teacher. As a Phyiscal therapist she integrates yoga in physical therapy practice as theurapetic exercise for older adults with various comorbidities and is an accessible yoga teacher.