Our Founder

Beth Hope has been living yoga for 15 years. She started out her yoga journey studying Indian culture and philosophy at the age of 17. She has owned and managed yoga studies across the country and is a devout yoga practictioner and teacher.

As a yoga teacher committed to helping others discover and create their full potential as a human being, Beth uses many tools such as affirmations, mantra, and ribbons as reminders - both in classes for her students, and in her own life. Anything you believe in is possible.

Teaching nationwide in California, Washington, Missouri, Florida and now currently living in Scottsdale Arizona. Beth works with a variety of clients including; stress management, sports training, arthritis, infertility, cancer, cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis and scoliosis.

She also works with individuals with neck, back and other acute chronic physical and psychological injuries. Beth loves to spend a lot of time outdoors. She is blessed with two beautiful children Skyler and Rheya. Beth studied Simplified Kundalini Yoga (SKY), Meditation and Indian Philosophy with Indian Yoga master Sri Govida Swami.

Beth has studied Ashtanga Yoga with the late Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India, who is the founder of Ashtanga Yoga. Intiated into Level 1,2 and the Master Levels of the Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki System by Shri Harshad Sadashiv Dave of Mumbai, India, Beth is also a seasoned Reiki practitioner, offering her services to both private clients and hospitals.

Beth studied Thai Yoga Massage with Thailand native Pom Cayeiro and Yogic Arts creator Duncan Wong. She has studied Yoga, Pranayama, Trance Dance and Meditation under the following teachers; Rod Stryker, Mona Winston, Duncan Wong , Michelle Mauve, Shiva Rea, Lisa Adkins, David Swensen and Sean Corn. Beth is a certified Yoga Instructor though Yoga Alliance 200 hours.

VP Operations

Leasa DuVall has an extensive background in Operations and Program Management. She has been in the telecommunications industry for over twenty years. She now has the privilege of bringing these skills to the Vision Ribbon team which allows her to apply them to an area of healing and helping others through these affirmations and various other healing modalities.

Leasa is also a Reiki practitioner and has a deep commitment to her yoga practice. She lives a life dedicated to health and well being.

VP Marketing

Maria Radloff has been in the creative design field since birth. Growing up with a case of art supplies at her fingertips, she has been creatively expressing herself through design, art and words. As for actually getting paid for it, well, that didn't start until the mid 90s.

She began in graphic design, picking up a few projects, doing the layout and design for some local newspapers and magazines. She then joined the New Times production department designing ads, trying not to drop x-acto knives and listening to bad rap music. After five and a half years and numerous promotions, she decided it was time to step things up a bit and launched her first company, Holy Click!

Holy Click! was started in 2002 and was there until 2008, when she sold the business to an IT company out of California. During those years she positioned the company as a local, trendy, urban, creative design studio that specialized in beautiful design and creative ideas. As part of the community work, she joined Artlink and opened her studio as an art gallery, displaying 4-5 local artists' works each month. The name Holy Click! quickly became associated with downtown art and that drove our target audience into a highly creative niche.

Upon selling Holy Click!, she decided to retreat from business ownership and management and to begin to focus more on design and creative strategy. She also began her ashtanga yoga path at this time and has since worked very hard in finding a balance between work and play. Thus, her company Via Maria was born and she now can focus her attention on doing what she truly loves - beautiful, creative design. Embellish everything!

Senior Account Manager

Lisa Valle has found her passion in the healing arts. Committed to health and vitality, Lisa teaches yoga, offers emotional healing workshops with her partner, and counsels her local community on diet and nutrition.

Wanting to find new ways to reach more people about her passions, Lisa has joined the Vision Ribbon team in hopes of inspiring people to find their own passions, to live healthier and happier lives.

Lisa enjoys teaching yoga and working with her partner in love and life. Together, they facilitate healing the emotional body, assisting and empowering people to find their natural state of balanced well-being. Visit www.naturesownway.net for more information on their healing work.

Her yoga practices are created around healing and nurturing both the physical body and the subtle energies that work within.Coming from a creative background in the hair and beauty industry, shecreatively plays with her yoga classes by changing them up to meet the mood and energy of her classes. No class is ever the same, and it is her greatest intention that each class will bring whatever nurturing gifts each individual student requires.

When not teaching yoga, Lisa loves cooking and nutrition. She has great experience in food/diet, proper food combining, ph balancing, and using food as medicine for healing. Lisa has used nutrition for healing many physical disorders such as candida (yeast), digestive issues, back issues and ammenorea. Lisa enjoys doing a little freelance cooking on the side... her clients rave about the healing vegetarian dishes that she lovingly prepares.

Lisa continuously serves as an inspiration to others for vitality, health and happiness.

Account Manager

When Aminda Courtwright first saw the Vision Ribbons she was struck by the simplicity of the act to remember, realizing that becoming our true selves is an act of remembering she was immediately taken with the idea. Her love of the ribbon concept is only deepened by her study of hypnotherapy, a healing modality that works consistently with affirmations. It is taught that an affirmation should be seen, said, heard and written at least three times a day to make it part of your memory; what better, or prettier way, to begin to integrate a powerful affirmation into your subconscious? The use of affirmations is a major part of Aminda's work as a wellness mentor with her company, ARCreated, Inc. and she is looking forward to sharing the Ribbons with the world to help others affirm their way to their dreams.

Aminda began her journey to the divine by questioning everything. Growing up with an inquisitive nature and an open heart her experience of seeking has led her down many paths. These paths culminate in her current practice and what she has learned is expressed in her teaching. Her background in yoga is as varied as the questions in her heart, from Core Power Yoga to Anjali Restorative with dips into jivamukti, anusara and Yin along the way. Her classes are a representation of this variety alternating from flow to yin and back again, steeped in tradition, metaphor and inspiration. Her classes are designed around themes so that in addition to the physical we are exercising our minds, hearts and spirits as well all with a healthy dose of humor as she truly believes laughter is still the best medicine. Her highest aim as a teacher and mentor is to help her students reveal their true selves and find a place of tranquility and joyous acceptance of themselves.

As a 200hr RYT (Power and Anjali Restorative Yoga), Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Practitioner and Personal trainer Aminda has a broad perspective of life and many interests and ideas. For fun you will see her riding her motorcycle, volunteering with local animal adoption groups and most likely learning something new, always striving to find new and interesting information and hone her own teaching skills, rest assured if she finds something you will soon be hearing it in class! But her true passion lies with her family; her amazingly patient husband, incredibly supportive mother, three wonderful sons, and an adorable grand son that reminds her about joy everyday.

Christopher

Christopher began his spiritual journey with an awakening at the age of 13. This led him to ponder the vastness of the universe and question the reality he had been taught and conditioned for. He has studied a range of religions, philosophies and spiritual arts to gain a better understanding of the world around him meditation having the most profound impact. Those studies helped bring about an awareness of the power of intention, and positive subconscious reinforcement such as with the vision ribbons.

Activities for Christopher include Shaolin Kung Fu (began 1995), Tai-Chi (2009), Yoga (2002 Ashtanga is favorite), and Bonsai cultivation (2005). He also enjoys writing, the natural world, astrology, science stuff, camping, hiking, biking, gardening and volunteering in the local community. Past activities include serving 9 years in the Armed Forces two in Honor Guard, robotics competitions (state and national), cross-country running, clay sculpting, interpreting natal charts and theater--performing Shakespeare two summers in a row at the Boston Public. Christopher is currently studying Landscape Architecture at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU.

Christopher understands the power behind the vision ribbon concept and the empowerment it can help manifest in an individual. He is excited to be part of the vision ribbon team and to help others to find their own vision ribbon.