Our Being Informs Our Doing
We believe that inspiration and inner wisdom can more easily flow into our lives when we are present and attuned to what is happening in and around us. When we are fully aware we are able to bring our full selves into all that we do, and our being informs our doing. This is a radical shift in a culture where we are often led to believe that it is our doing – high stress lifestyle, ever-increasing financial goals and competitive busyness – that informs our beliefs about who we are.
A Whole-Person Approach
We value individual learning styles and create the space in our workshops and retreats for participants to get exactly what they came for, whether it is learning new skills at their own pace, gaining insight, finding their voices, working with an injury or illness, or deepening knowledge for their professional livelihood. Our workshops and retreats provide an opportunity for real human connections as well as personal time to restore and reflect inwardly. We recognize the tremendous value of being in a community, and we take the time to build a sense of connection, trust and safety within the group allowing for everyone’s individual intentions to be met.
Our professional trainings, workshops and retreats emphasize a whole-person approach to learning with mindfulness as a central, grounding principle. We know that how well you cultivate presence has a profound impact on your personal and professional interactions with clients, co-workers, employers, family and friends. This is why mindfulness is a thread in everything we offer whether you have come to learn from us about breathwork, meditation, sound healing, reflexology or ethics in the workplace.
Space to Breathe
We know that place makes a difference and can vibrationally assist your retreat experience by reminding you to slow down, breathe with more ease, step into presence and remember that you are part of a collective whole. This is why a large focus of our behind the scenes work is on the considerable care we take to select and bring you to special places in the world. We frequently hold our workshops at retreat centers in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia and internationally in Bali, Costa Rica, Italy and Turkey.
We are passionate about creating inspiring and heart-opening workshops and retreats for individuals and groups to make a difference in classrooms, workplaces, treatment rooms, homes and communities. Our focus is on mindful awareness of the body and mind, relationship communication, and present-centered leadership. We hope you’ll join us in bringing more presence, heart and kindness into the world!
Meet Our Team
Tracey J. Moon, LMBT
Founder
Tracey has a warm down-to-earth presence and a deep intuition that helps her facilitate groups with clarity, spontaneity and loads of inspiration. She believes in the profound intelligence of the body and breath and empowers others to live and work with more awareness, happiness, resilience and hopefulness. It is her own relationship with being vulnerably human and her capacity to deeply listen – along with years of meditation, movement, deep rest and a fierce courage to evolve – that most deeply informs her wide capacity to be a healing presence with others.
Tracey completed her massage therapy training at The Body Therapy Institute and has been a North Carolina licensed massage therapist for 25+ years. She is a former faculty member of The Body Therapy Institute and is a graduate of the Spirit of Learning, a program through the Center for Embodied Teacher Education led by Carey Smith. Tracey worked at Duke Integrative Medicine in its early entrepreneurial phase where she built the integrative massage program from inception.
She received her initial training as a breathwork facilitator through Clarity Breathwork in Costa Rica and has completed further training in Biodynamic Breath. In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India, with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound. She is a Certified Integrative Reflexologist, has trained extensively with Claire Marie Miller, and is now an international teacher in this well-rounded reflexology modality. She received her professional training in Mind Body Skills through the Center of Mind Body Medicine in Washington, DC. Much of her work is influenced by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program.
Tracey co-facilitates retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Sharon Nash on the topics of meditation and mindfulness, depression and anxiety, breathwork and sound healing and Integrative Reflexology. They are Approved Providers of Continuing Education by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). Their workshops and retreats are open to all.
Sharon Nash, MA
Founder
Sharon brings a unique blend of heart wisdom and strong mind into her work. Her clear, direct facilitation style meshes seamlessly with her dynamic energy, playful exuberance, and attentive presence to create a safe and inviting space in which participants relax and reconnect to their own inner wisdom. Sharon unselfconsciously shares stories of her own spiritual journey and its challenges to remind participants that they are not alone, and that through collective inner work we can foster a powerful sense of community to support and sustain us.
Sharon has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Auburn University and a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Duke University. She has had many incarnations as a teacher since 1990, including as a secondary mathematics teacher in southern Africa, North Carolina, and Guatemala; as a teacher trainer and online educator in North Carolina; and as a co-facilitator of healing retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Tracey Moon in meditation, breathwork, sound healing, bodywork and reflexology. Sharon has completed trainings in Integral Education, Non-Violent Communication and Clarity Breathwork. In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India, with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound. She connects to her own inner wisdom and guidance daily through her intuitive practice of sound healing.
Carolyn Cramer, LMBT
Assistant
Carolyn brings a joy to breathwork in a way that helps people come back to a natural, fuller breath with more ease and relaxation. Her grounded approach is welcome in the retreat space as she reminds us through her heart-centered presence to delight in the moment.
In her own life she finds beauty and healing life through music, gardening and baking. She is an avid world explorer having hiked the Appalachian trail and traveled throughout southeast Asia, a big leap from her southern coastal town upbringing in Wilmington, NC.
Her work with Cultivating Inner Stillness began in 2014 when she attended her first Breath, Body & Sound retreat. The transformations that she saw through the combination breathwork, sound, movement and meditation were powerful, and she’s been part of the team and traveling with Tracey and Sharon ever since.
Carolyn lives in Asheville, NC, with her husband and daughter where she manages a creative and innovative medical practice. She is passionate about bridging traditional and alternative wisdom, and will soon launch her breathwork practice through her primary care home base.
Christian Stegall, LMT
Assistant
Having graduated from the Tennessee Institute of Healing Arts in 1999, Christian has been steeped in the art of healing since the tender age of 18. One of the most sought-after bodyworkers in Chattanooga, TN, she recently became a certified Polyvagal-Informed practitioner in 2022, rounding out years of training in Orthobionomy and Somatic work.
She attended her first Breath, Body & Sound retreat in 2017 and fell in love with breathwork and its ability to shift and shape the nervous system. Since 2020, she has been assisting in Cultivating Inner Stillness retreats and brings a natural enthusiasm for life-long learning, a contagious playfulness and a grounded presence that supports retreat participants reconnect with their own inherent nature.
Christian loves her work and loves to travel. She also loves being in nature and tries to get outside daily. Mostly, however, Christian loves people. She relishes time spent forging deep and meaningful connections, walking alongside her fellow humans on their journey to wellness.
A Change of Pace
With a shared vision of shaking it up and waking up, Tracey and Sharon stepped out of their busy lives in the US and moved abroad, first to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala in 2011. They let go of 90% of their belongings and left their comfortable salaries and environment in the US with the intention of breaking out of cultural conditioning, diving deeper into purposeful work and a healthy way of living and working. After four years on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala and five on Lake Chapala in Ajijic, they returned to the US in 2020. They love the vibe of the small city of Chattanooga, Tennessee on the Appalachian ridge where they enjoy hiking with their dog Milo and birdwatching with their two adorable cats, Jackson and Lucy.