Let's get real. Sometimes you just need a little help.

Cultivating self-awareness is the first step to finding clarity, balance, contentment and internal resilience in a complicated world. Over my many years as a yoga teacher and therapist, I’ve seen first hand and personally experienced how a lack of self-awareness gets in the way of navigating life’s ups and downs.

Self-awareness is the ability to see, understand and accept our beliefs, habits and behavior without judgment. When this skill is actively employed, we see our reality as it is, not hidden behind a veil of wishful thinking or denial. Then we can consciously choose to make changes, remain unchanged with full awareness of the consequences or find acceptance and peace of mind if change is not possible. This is the process of enlightening up. When we cultivate self-awareness we learn how to celebrate life’s ups with balance and contentment and manage the downs with clarity and internal resilience. For most of us, it will take time to develop this skill and use it wisely.

More about me.

Beth Gibbs, is an award-winning author, speaker, and self-awareness trainer who has held management and executive positions in media, higher education and non-profit organizations. She holds a masters’ degree in Communications from the University of Hartford and another in Yoga Therapy and Mind/Body Health from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. 

She has over twenty years’ experience teaching and mentoring hundreds of yoga students, teachers and therapists from all over the world to implement the five-layer model of self-awareness in their professional work and personal practice. She created, developed, and implemented a curriculum for introducing the five-layer model of self-awareness to children in after school and summer camp programs.
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Beth writes fiction and personal growth nonfiction for mainstream audiences. Her goal is to inspire, inform, and entertain. Her published writing includes short stories, blog posts, newsletters, and magazine articles on the benefits of personal growth, self-awareness, yoga, mindfulness and meditation.
She is a member of the writing team for Yoga for Times of Change, an international blog.  Her published books include, Enlighten Up! Finding Clarity, Contentment and Resilience in a Complicated World, Soul Food, Life-Affirming Stories Served with Side Dishes and Just Desserts and a children’s book, Ogi Bogi, The Elephant Yogi, Stories About Yoga for Children.
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​Beth is a faculty member at the Kripalu School of Integrated Yoga Therapy in Stockbridge, MA. Her skills include taking complex concepts and ideas and presenting them in ways to encourage practical applications to real-life situations. 

Her forty-eight years+ experience in executive management include working for an NBC broadcasting affiliate and a variety of not-for-profit organizations. Her twelve years in broadcasting included PR and marketing, production, writing, editing and appearing on camera.
Her non-profit experience includes development, finance & budgeting, operations, grant writing, program development, public relations, strategic planning & board development.

Beth has also served on the International Association of Yoga Therapists Educational Standards Committee from 2013 – 2015 to develop standards for certification of yoga therapists. 
​Beth won an EMMY award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston/New England Chapter for a public service documentary; Bronze and Gold awards for advertising and public relations from the CT Advertising Association and was selected for inclusion in the CT Historical Society’s “Achievement Against The Odds, journalism category. She is the recipient of numerous awards for professional excellence and community service.

She is a member of Journey Writers, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides a safe space for writers to share their work, and to give and receive honest, constructive, encouraging feedback. The group also offers a variety of programs for members to present their work to a wider audience.

​Beth is the owner of ProYoga Therapeutics, a  yoga therapeutics practice in Connecticut.

Her favorite quote, has been tacked to several refrigerators and has survived least three moves over the past 20 years. It is:

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks. – Gloria Anzaldua

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The Garnett Gibbs Family Fund ​

Beth has established The Garnett Gibbs Family Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving in memory of her parents, Margaret Jackson Garnett Gibbs and Elmer Taylor Gibbs.

The purpose of the fund is to support yoga and other healthy living programs in the Greater Hartford, CT region for at-risk populations and people of all ages, especially programs for children based in the public schools or community settings. 

For more information and to consider making a donation please visit the Garnett Gibbs Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving website here.