About Valerie

Valerie Griffiths

Valerie Griffiths is a Vinyasa yoga instructor at Newport Power Yoga and owner of The Breathing Barn yoga studio in Portsmouth, RI. A yoga enthusiast for twenty years, Valerie completed over five hundred training hours through Live Love Teach in 2014 and has been teaching ever since. She is certified to lead Intro to Gongs for meditation and healing and guides Yoga Nidra practices and meditation. She has co-hosted both national and intermational yoga reterats, holding space for others to respite from worldy demands, renew, unfold, and return back to nature.  She leads individuals and groups in matching their breath to movement and developing consciousness. Valerie is a believer in showing up for each session with no expectation, meeting and welcoming yourself exactly as you are in that moment. Her mantra is, “Each one of us is so much more than our thoughts,” a saying that guides her practice. She believes that in stillness and quiet, we find our true selves. We are here to learn the beauty and love within each of us and share it with the collective. Valerie is an enthusiastic vegan who loves bold flavors, and she is motivated by compassion and kindness. Valerie is passionate about helping others bridge the gap between a world of space and time where we use our senses to navigate, and the world of higher consciousness which is seated in the depth of our soul.

Meghan Leighton

Meghan Leighton is a yoga instructor, certified mindfulness educator, retreat leader, and student of Ayurveda.

Meg’s journey began twenty years ago when she started practicing meditation with absolutely no idea of the impact it would have on her life. As the benefits and shifts showed up, Meg’s enthusiasm for the practice grew immensely leading her to her purpose to share the teachings of yoga and meditation with others now through yoga classes and workshops, private meditation offerings, Inward Bound teen retreats, and facilitating yoga retreats in Costa Rica, Hawaii, RI & MA with her co-partners, Valerie Griffiths and Jess Gumkowski.