Yoga Alliance
Melissa Thomsen is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in corporate branding and event management, currently serving as a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher since December 2019. Prior to this, Melissa held various leadership roles at Gartner from 2009 to 2020, culminating in the position of Senior Manager for the Global Conference Branding Team, where responsibilities included developing long-term strategies, managing teams, and overseeing global branding for major events. Melissa's background also includes financial planning at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and marketing internships at Swarovski, complemented by educational achievements in Organizational Leadership and Marketing from Quinnipiac University and Fairfield University, respectively.
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Yoga Alliance
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Yoga Alliance is the leading nonprofit association representing the yoga community worldwide. Our work is a direct reflection of yoga professionals’ needs and feedback, and supports and fosters the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching yoga everywhere. We do this through: • Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages; • Upholding the worldwide growth of yoga through education and community, including Digital Event programming; • Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative Standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga; • Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry, our community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices; • Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice; • Fostering accountability within our standards, membership, and internal team; and • Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.