BOARD PRESIDENT

Maria Wichlac-Grove  is a long-time nonprofit executive who is excited to join the board in a fundraising role. She is a Buddhist and incorporates yoga and meditation in her practice.  She is a licensed EMT and mom to two wonderful humans.   

INTERIM TREASURER | PhD, RYT 200

Lee Furey has been doing yoga her entire adult life but became more serious about her practice in 2003, when asthma forced her to begin learning advanced pranayama. Lee has been involved with Pranakriya since December 2013, when she started practicing with a Pranakriya yoga teacher training class and began to try to find more classes like that one. After completing Pranakriya’s 200-hour teacher training at Evolation in Atlanta with William Hufschmidt (assisted by Vladimir Tchakarov and Chris Mastin) in April 2016, she continued to the 300-hour program.

She served on the Board of Directors since October 2018, including as the Board President 2021-2025 and currently as our Interim Treasurer.

BOARD MEMBER | RYT 500

Marybeth brings with her more than 26 years as part of the federal prison system, a career that taught her that all people have value, sometimes you just have to look deeper and see differently. She came to yoga to adjust to her changing physical abilities and completed her 500-hour certification and yoga therapy training through the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts. She has been an IAYT certified Yoga Therapist (retired) and thoroughly believes yoga is a path to healing.

BOARD MEMBER | E-RYT 500, IAYT, LMT, CST

Shelbi completed her 200-hour yoga training in the Kripalu and Pranakriya traditions and her 500-hour in the Pranakriya tradition with a focus in Yoga Therapy. She created and has led the Client Relationship: Cultivating Intuitive Presence and Boundaries program, and the Teaching Restorative Yoga Program for the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts.

As a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), Shelbi brings over 20 years of training and experience in private practice to her Craniosacral therapy (CST), medical intuition and distance energy healing sessions. Shelbi is a Certified Yoga Therapist through IAYT and is the former co-owner of Crofton Yoga.  She is the Curriculum Committee Chair for Pranakriya and has been on the Board since 2021.