Rhonda Mills,
Coach & Group Facilitator
Rhonda is a joyous being who is living her mission for more than two decades: to explore what’s deeply essential, and share what she's learned to facilitate connection, collaboration, and emergent creativity. Her trauma-informed work opens a space of compassion, inner freedom, and wondrous discovery.
After an international dance career including performing, choreography and teaching, Rhonda discovered yoga, meditation and ayurveda in 1999. A new focus emerged at the intersection of devotional spirituality, the ancient tradition of yoga, and modern influences of movement, mindfulness, and creativity. In 2001, Rhonda began to teach yoga, and in 2003 she was initiated into the tradition of Sri Vidya by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait of the Himalayan Institute. She studied with and assisted ParaYoga founder Rod Stryker from 2003-2009. Rhonda completed certifications as a Big Leap Coach in 2008, a Nonviolent Communication Trainer in 2009, a ParaYoga Level II Teacher (500-hour) in 2009, and Transformational Leadership in 2010. She facilitated and co-facilitated several year-long foundational and advanced yoga teacher trainings each year from 2010-2018. Rhonda founded her own year-long coaching program - the Facilitator of Embodied Transformation Training - and trained groups of coaches for three years (2015-2018).
Since 2018, Rhonda is actively engaged in the online training community of Thomas Hübl, studying meditation, Transparent Communication, and Trauma Healing on the individual, ancestral and collective levels. In 2020, Rhonda returned to University at Ubiquity for a B.A. Completion Degree in Integral Transpersonal Psychology. Upon completion, she intends to continue to an M.A. in Inner Science. In 2021, Rhonda completed her certificate as a NARM-Informed Professional (Neuro Affective Relational Model for Complex Trauma).
In the last several years, Rhonda has actively engaged in studying the collective traumas of systemic white supremacy and colonialism, to increase her capacity to disrupt domination systems internally and externally. She participated in the St. Louis YWCA Witnessing Whiteness Class Series in 2019, and attended a YWCA training then co-facilitated a cohort in Fall 2021. Rhonda participated in a Pocket Project Research Lab on the topic of Racialized Trauma and Reparations in the U.S. in Spring of 2021. In summer of 2021, she received a 50-hour certificate for Embodied Social Justice. Her ongoing commitment is: "to increase my capacity to perceive oppressive systems which shape the spaces I inhabit, speak to what I see, and act in ways that contribute energy towards living systems that benefit everyone and contribute to undoing collective trauma-fueled systems of oppression. " Read more about what Rhonda says about systemic oppression here.
Rhonda continues to be an avid learner, infinitely curious about the intersection between consciousness, intention and attention, embodiment, stillness, movement, connection, transformational leadership, and play. In addition to coaching individuals and couples online, Rhonda delights in supporting groups in aligning with embodied integrity individually and as a group, and creating powerful "we-spaces" in service of their shared purpose.
After an international dance career including performing, choreography and teaching, Rhonda discovered yoga, meditation and ayurveda in 1999. A new focus emerged at the intersection of devotional spirituality, the ancient tradition of yoga, and modern influences of movement, mindfulness, and creativity. In 2001, Rhonda began to teach yoga, and in 2003 she was initiated into the tradition of Sri Vidya by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait of the Himalayan Institute. She studied with and assisted ParaYoga founder Rod Stryker from 2003-2009. Rhonda completed certifications as a Big Leap Coach in 2008, a Nonviolent Communication Trainer in 2009, a ParaYoga Level II Teacher (500-hour) in 2009, and Transformational Leadership in 2010. She facilitated and co-facilitated several year-long foundational and advanced yoga teacher trainings each year from 2010-2018. Rhonda founded her own year-long coaching program - the Facilitator of Embodied Transformation Training - and trained groups of coaches for three years (2015-2018).
Since 2018, Rhonda is actively engaged in the online training community of Thomas Hübl, studying meditation, Transparent Communication, and Trauma Healing on the individual, ancestral and collective levels. In 2020, Rhonda returned to University at Ubiquity for a B.A. Completion Degree in Integral Transpersonal Psychology. Upon completion, she intends to continue to an M.A. in Inner Science. In 2021, Rhonda completed her certificate as a NARM-Informed Professional (Neuro Affective Relational Model for Complex Trauma).
In the last several years, Rhonda has actively engaged in studying the collective traumas of systemic white supremacy and colonialism, to increase her capacity to disrupt domination systems internally and externally. She participated in the St. Louis YWCA Witnessing Whiteness Class Series in 2019, and attended a YWCA training then co-facilitated a cohort in Fall 2021. Rhonda participated in a Pocket Project Research Lab on the topic of Racialized Trauma and Reparations in the U.S. in Spring of 2021. In summer of 2021, she received a 50-hour certificate for Embodied Social Justice. Her ongoing commitment is: "to increase my capacity to perceive oppressive systems which shape the spaces I inhabit, speak to what I see, and act in ways that contribute energy towards living systems that benefit everyone and contribute to undoing collective trauma-fueled systems of oppression. " Read more about what Rhonda says about systemic oppression here.
Rhonda continues to be an avid learner, infinitely curious about the intersection between consciousness, intention and attention, embodiment, stillness, movement, connection, transformational leadership, and play. In addition to coaching individuals and couples online, Rhonda delights in supporting groups in aligning with embodied integrity individually and as a group, and creating powerful "we-spaces" in service of their shared purpose.
“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
― Madeleine L'Engle
