I'M BAILEY SMITH

I’m a mama to two sweet boys, wife to mr. incredible and yoga and meditation teacher (e-RYT). I'm a conscious consumer and a practitioner of the HEART work. I’m a big dreamer, an observer and an extroverted introvert.

​I LOVE: coffee, dark chocolate, thunderstorms, the moon, hiking the mountain trail, being barefoot and the smell of fall.

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I knew I always wanted to be an entrepreneur in some fashion, but I didn’t know exactly how! I followed a traditional path where I grew up in Ohio. I went off to college after high school in the ‘burbs and decided to pursue fashion merchandising as my major - it filled my visual and artistic needs and I’ve always been inspired by the movers and shakers of the industry. Post college, I worked as a visual merchandiser in a few retail locations, worked my way into the corporate fashion world and then landed my DREAM corporate buying job with LBrands (Bath & Body Works) in 2010. I was stoked! I grew up in Columbus admiring Les Wexner and the EMPIRE he had built. To me, this was the next best thing to moving to NYC and working directly with a designer.

It wasn’t soon after, though, that something still was feeling unaligned. My heart slowly started to pull away. What I know now is that there were a lot of layers beneath my surface that needed addressed and yoga had begun to draw this out, in the beginning, because I was paying more attention to myself as a collective. I decided to follow what was inside and enrolled in my first yoga teacher training. My fiancé (now husband) and I then had an incredible opportunity to move to Denver, CO, so we took the leap! After a few moves, I landed with Chipotle’s home office. It was a great change and shift, at the time! They stand for good quality, high standards and had a major emphasis on people, which I admire greatly. I met an incredible group of people, some very close friends and felt at home. After getting pregnant with our first son, I was learning that the transition to motherhood certainly didn't come natural to me and I decided to step away from working full time to stay home with him and to continue on my passion of teaching yoga.
Flashback to 2009 - I discovered yoga while living in Baltimore, and was immediately drawn into the practice. I was in my early 20s and looking for something new, while working in the fast-paced fashion industry and feeling disconnected from myself. Yoga felt like a new relationship with my mind, body and soul. I now realize that I may have taken my first conscious breath in that first yoga class - and THAT is why I kept going back. After a few years of practicing, I knew this practice was powerful. It was changing me and the way I showed up in this world, so I decided to study to become a teacher. I completed my first teacher training in 2012 with Kindness Yoga’s Patrick Harrington and stepped into teaching as a way to share this ancient practice with others and to open doors for them to also experience change. I later became certified in Prenatal, Kids and Yin yoga and currently teach Vinyasa, Meditation and Alignment-Based practices.
My practice has also opened me up to being incredible conscious about my body, what I put in it and on it, which is what got me into becoming a health and wellness advocate. I work with essential oils and advocate for safer beauty and personal care products. I'm a self-proclaimed conscious consumer, because what we expose ourselves to matters.

I strongly believe in the power of yoga and meditation to support the constant ebb and flow of life. I convey this belief through my teaching and it lights me up when people can feel a greater connection to themselves. I look forward to connecting more and am so grateful you're here.

xo
Bailey

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

  • Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology, Fashion Merchandising - The Ohio State University

YOGA TRAINING:

  • e-RYT Certified with Yoga Alliance 
  • 150 hour Vinyasa Yoga Certification, Balanced Yoga 
  • 200 hour Vinyasa Yoga Certification,  Kindness Yoga
  • 20 hour Prenatal Yoga, Belly Bliss 
  • 20 hour Kids Yoga, Radiant Beginnings Yoga 
  • 20 hour Yin Yoga, Kari Kwinn Yoga 
  • 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training, Yoga Medicine with Tiffany Cruikshank - in progress
    • Yoga Medicine Certifications:
    • Mindful, Trauma-Informed Yoga (20 hours) with Tiffany Cruikshank & Ann Bortz, PSY.D. ​
    • Yin & Meditation (55 hours) with Tiffany Cruikshank & Rashmi Bismark, MD - in progress

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