Bethany Crawley still, founder

Since 2002, Bethany has been cultivating a personal mindfulness and self-awareness practice. After apprenticing and training with Dr. Mary May, Bethany began teaching mindfulness and self-awareness skills to individuals on a one-to-one basis, including mindfulness of the body, senses, feelings and thoughts, supporting emotional and attentional regulation to cultivate well being and self-care. She is certified as a Mindfulness for Professionals Facilitator through the Mindfulness Institute's European Training 2013/2014 and has been teaching yoga and meditation for over 20 years. In 2008, she co-founded Lotus Yoga and taught yoga and mindfulness trainings. She has facilitated medical residents, physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, psychologists, psychology fellows and other helping professional through mindfulness teaching/trainings, including developing and delivering mindfulness and resilience curricula tailored to teach mindfulness practice to healthcare providers. She works with those suffering from complex relational trauma and people who are simply suffering as a normal part of the human experience. Bethany is certified both as a stress management specialist in the Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Program and as certified Trauma Center's Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (300 hour) by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. By trade, Bethany is a lawyer. For 16 years, she practiced as a commercial litigator, concentrating in the areas of complex commercial disputes and reinsurance litigation and regulatory work.

offerings

  • One on one sits to explore mindfulness and self-care

  • Trainings

  • Retreats

  • Team building

Provided trainings, retreats, presented at Grand Rounds, and taught with:

  • Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Tallahassee, FL

  • Ascension St. Vincent Hospital, Jacksonville FL, Riverside, Clay and Southside campuses

  • Ascension St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Clinic, Jacksonville, FL

  • Ascension St. Vincent’s Weight Loss Services, Bariatric Program

  • University of Florida Health (“UF Health”), Jacksonville, FL

  • UF Health, Jacksonville Leon L. Haley Jr., M.D., Brain Wellness Program

  • UF Health, Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL

  • Synergy Lifestyle Center, Dr. Dean Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Program

  • Florida Children’s Home Society, Jacksonville, FL

  • PACE Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL

  • Fidelity Investments, Inc., Jacksonville, FL

  • Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation, Jacksonville, FL