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. She taught one year in three elementary schools in Blois, France. Two of the schools were in the poorest parts of the area with mostly immigrants from North and West Africa. She also taught English and acting techniques in the Pyrenees at two high and middle schools. Then she was an English teacher/ professor at the poltencial 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, has mentored Undergraduates applying for physical therapy school, and has been a mentor to teen age girls in North Carolina. Her undergraduate degrees was in Dramatic Arts from the University of North Carolina with a background in acting, writing, stage direction and dramaturgy. Her mentors included Joan Darling who was the first woman to win an Emmy award for directing and specialized in Shakespearean performance. She was also trained in a summer program at a conservatory and performed professionally starting in high school. She studied African West African theater, African Dance and was in the African heritage dance group at UNC. She performed in schools raising awareness for social change starting at the University. She was in a show about human rights workers from around the word and another show to raise awareness about the situation in Darfur, Sudan. More recently performed in the Vagina Monolgues Raleigh in 2018 to help raise 4,000 dollars for the domestic abuse shelter. Meredith was a volunteer with Amnesty International letter writing campaign for 10 years. In 2008 Meredith helped organize the 9/11 Unity walk in Washington D.C. with 11,000 participants and keynote speaker Archbishop Desmond Tutu and speeches by Rev Mpho Tutu, Senior Rabbi Bruce Lustig, Immam Abdullah Khouj, Rev. Richard Cizik, Most Revered Martin Holley, and Arun Gandhi. She holds doctorate in phyiscal therapy from the University of North Carolina and has over 26 years of personal yoga asana training in many different linages including astanga and hatha yoga. As a Phyiscal therapist she has studied taken classes in Maitland manual therapy, and is a PWR moves therapist and has worked with patients with Parkinson’s for four years as well as older adult athletes. She has been a registered yoga teacher since 2019 and integrates yoga in physical therapy practice as theurapetic exercise and has completed continuing education in this. She is currently finishing her certification in assessable yoga with Jivana Hayma