We are very excited and honored to have the following Work Life Balance Leaders join us for Transform - Certificate of Executive Nonprofit Leadership.

Klia Bassing, MBA/MPP is the founder and director of Visit Yourself at Work (www.VisitYourself.net), which provides meditation for stress reduction to groups and individuals. Since its inception in 2005, Visit Yourself at Work has quickly grown to over 25 client locales, including the workplaces of the Internal Revenue Service, Northrop Grumman, Fannie Mae, Whole Foods, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, UBS (United Bank of Switzerland), the National Academy of Sciences, Discovery (Channel) Communications, the Washington Post, Kaiser Permanente, the Library of Congress, law firms and law schools. Visit Yourself at Work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, Legal Times, Law.com, the Bureau of National Affair's Human Resource Report and The Institute of Management and Administration’s Managing Benefits Plans. Before bringing meditation for stress reduction to workplaces, Klia worked at the World Bank in the areas of poverty reduction and judicial reform. She has also worked in Latin America and the Caribbean on economic development issues. Her Business and Public Policy master's degrees are from the University of Maryland. With an understanding of high-stress work environments, Klia's sessions are interactive, humorous, and provide immediate
stress-reduction benefits.

• Mindfulness Meditation for Relaxing the Body and Mind: For stress reduction, present moment awareness of the body and mind naturally bring a sense of wholeness and peace.

• Mindfulness Meditation for Increasing Energy Level: Overwork and sleep deprivation deplete our energy resources. Mindfulness of energy level in meditation restores energy resources and increases awareness of what and who depletes us in daily life.

Eleanor Graves is the director of Equanimity Yoga, which brings yoga to the workplace with weekly classes in conference rooms and lobbies. She has been practicing yoga and meditation for over fifteen years and completed the Yoga Works Teacher Training program in 2006. Her yoga practice is also informed by the teachings of BKS Iyengar, which emphasize knowledge of anatomy and joint alignment. Eleanor’s cheerful, non-judgmental style puts students of all abilities at ease. She teaches classes in businesses, government agencies, non-profit organizations and schools across Washington DC. For information on bringing yoga to your workplace visit www.equanimityyoga.com.

• Yoga to Balance Your Energy: This one-hour yoga session will explore how to let go and relax in the midst of great activity. We will learn simple breath work and use it to gently focus our attention on the poses. We will practice how to make basic poses more restorative or more rigorous by listening to our individual physical needs. Throughout the class we will look at the relationship between steady, even breathing and a steady, even mind. This is a good class for beginners (and very beginners!) and people already practicing with yoga who want to develop a home practice

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