Training the Next Generation of Mindful Community Leaders to Embody Joy,
Inspire Peace, and
Anchor Love on the Planet
We help you and your teams create more health, happiness, and peace
by tapping into boundless energy through our
signature somatic mindfulness approach integrating ancient wisdom, meditation, music, martial arts, and movement.
Clients Who Trust Us:
About The Founder
Since age 6, my passion for song and dance was redirected into competitive violin, athletics, academics, and student body leadership roles. Fear and performance anxiety led to constant self criticism and eventually severe IBS.
As a broke art major, I built and sold my first six figure financial planning practice by age 27. But my quest to achieve at all costs led to physically collapsing from sheer exhaustion.
At rock bottom, when my family of 3 was living on food stamps borrowing money from my parents, I met my energy masters, H.H. Sai Maa and Ilchi Lee, whose mindfulness, meditation, and qigong practices changed my life.
Instead of avoiding even 5 minutes of self care, I now prioritized consistent, soul nourishing habits healing my health. “Having it all” became possible with a record revenue year in business, traveling the world, taking 9 weeks off, and being with family.
Despite the outward success, I still feel unfulfilled. All I wanted was to feel the elixir of being alive;
yet all I felt was why bother living?
I journeyed within to find what truly lit me up. After meditating 100 hours in 10 days and clearing emotional baggage in relationships, I earned my Black Belt in Taekwondo and was certified as an Energy Master.
Then unexpectedly, during a 16 day road trip, I wrote my first original song igniting a passion for songwriting I didn’t know existed. Within 6 months, I released a new song alongside a 7 time Emmy award winner at a global world peace concert!
Today, SolJoy ignites your light through energy mastery, movement, and meditation.
We’ve distilled ancient wisdom and 20,000+ hours of transformation into practical steps for modern living. Ignite your power within and unleash your brilliance so you can shine your brightest light.
If you seek a path to heal your body and trust your soul’s guidance alongside a community of conscious entrepreneurs, let’s connect. Your transformation begins here.
SolJoy Partners, Coaches, Educators
Dr. Gerry Ebalaroza-Tunnell, Ph.D
Affectionately nicknamed "Dr. G," embodies the Aloha Spirit and champions connection, compassion, and mutual prosperity. As the Founder and CEO of Co3 Consulting: Co-Creating Cohesive Communities, she is dedicated to nurturing transformative leadership and driving systemic change to empower cohesive communities and the BIPOC community.
Born and raised on O’ahu, Hawaii, specifically Palolo Valley and Pearl City, and now residing in Bothell, Washington, Dr. G's deep roots enable her to tap into her ancestors' wisdom and cultural heritage. Her unwavering commitment to a better world shines through all her pursuits.
Dr. G's dissertation, "The Evolution of AloHā: Systemic Change through Personal Transformation," reflects her dedication to positive change along with her award-winning children’s book Let’s Live Aloha, a captivating story that promotes empathy, adaptability, and emotional intelligence for young readers from PreK to 5th grade.
Bianca, Licensed Clinical Therapist
Bianca is a TEDx Speaker bringing 25 Years of behavioral health, 12 Years Healthcare Founder & CEO, and Health-Tech Entrepreneur and author of Pathways in Crisis Services Foundational Course, and Trauma-Informed Care in Crisis Services for Paraprofessionals Course. She's an Instructor for pre and post service members at University of Nevada, Reno.
Her company Reach-In Now™ is the culmination of her radical empathy and lived experiences from trials to championship at every level in her sport, in healthcare, and in education. Less than 1% of the global population can claim the level of expertise and influence Bianca possesses. She is the truest form of a disruptor and winner.
Bianca, is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up in Sonoma County, California. Bianca brings a genuineness and outpour of passion to every space she is in. She enjoys her first love of basketball, now as a recreational player and very emotional spectator. Bianca- a serious foodie, loves traveling, movie-watching, and golf.
Danielle Gaudette, Emotional Mastery Specialist
Danielle’s vision is a healthier, happier, and more peaceful world starting from within.
Bringing over two decades as a senior instructor, healer, and trainer, she's also currently on staff at Body & Brain Yoga Center, working 1:1 with hundreds of clients nationally.
Born in Manhattan, NY, she was adopted at 10 days old growing up with her adopted parents, later reconnecting at 21 years old with her biological mother actress Kate Mulgrew from the hit series TV sitcom Orange is the New Black and Star Trek.
As a highly sensitive person from a young age along with a deep concern for the state of our planet--these two qualities propelled her on a long journey in search for inner peace. Danielle's passion is helping people awaken their bodies and minds to meet their true nature, specializing in emotional management, brain management, aligning the mind, body, heart, and soul.
Cara Valentine, Intuitive Coach
Cara brings over a decade of experience as a professional coach for individuals, business owners, families, groups and organizations.
As a top performer with high integrity, she serves clients across sectors such as the arts, healthcare, finance, personal growth and career development. With a proven, personalized technique of tapping into each client's own specific and unique expression, she understands a broad spectrum of the human experience.
Her process as a powerful, intentional catalyst will guide you to accessing untapped paths that feel free, aligned and empowered. This leaves clients clear and inspired about taking seemingly effortless steps towards their goals.
Cara gratefully supports humanity with a humble heart, a desire to help people become more of who they are here to be, and an equitable, loving vision for our world's collective future.
Melanie Newman, Brain Education Mindfulness
Master Melanie Newman has been a dedicated instructor and center manager with Body & Brain for over 8 years. A former special ed elementary school teacher, Melanie turned to holistic mindfulness practices after struggling with long-term anxiety and depression.
Through Body & Brain's transformative classes and programs, she was able to release negative patterns, strengthen both her mind and body, and rediscover love and joy in her everyday life.
Passionate about sharing healing and holistic principles, Melanie is deeply committed to helping others tap into their own capacity for self-healing and transformation.
She has taught over 2,000 Brain Education mindfulness classes including yoga, qigong, breathing, and meditation reaching thousands of students, passionate about helping others on their path to self-healing.
Kael Balizer, Ayurvedic Practitioner, NTS
Kael Balizer has maintained a successful practice as a Natural Therapeutic Specialist, Ayurvedic Doctor and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner, serving hundreds of clients over the past 20 years. She is the co-founder of Life In Balance Ayurvedic Rejuvenation Center on Vashon.
Her work focuses on the integral connection between the body, mind and emotions. In the last 10 years she has integrated EFT(Emotional Freedom Techniques) into her practice, finding it most effectively facilitates physical and emotional healing by getting at the deep emotional roots of the issue. She is committed to bringing her clients to the place of experiencing love and acceptance for themselves and living joyfully; awake and fulfilled in the difference they make in their families and the world.
Kael lives on Vashon Island with her husband and 2 children. Her other joys are walking on the beach and forest, gathering in circles with women, retreating to hot springs, singing, laughing and preparing and sharing delicious food with friends.
SolJoy's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Statement
Unleashing boundless energy and joyful expression for all!
World peace starts with inner peace. We are creating a new humanity of elevated consciousness by providing spaces of equal opportunity and accessibility for all walks of life who desire to unlock their fullest potential, grounded in their passion, to embody a new era of humanity for global enlightenment.
Through mindfulness, meditation, movement, martial arts, and music, we celebrate eastern ancient wisdom and western science to sustainable self care cultures for wellbeing and happiness widely benefiting humanity.
MEASURES
1. Diverse staff, leadership and partners: Diversity isn’t a box to check off for a quota. Instead, diversity is an imperative for thriving successful leadership in providing what’s needed in our constantly adapting world for the next generation of leaders. To balance out the underrepresentation in society, we over represent minorities at SolJoy to bring in balance. Our current leadership and partners are 100% are women, 75% BIPOC, and 50% LGBTQIA.
2. Accessibility: As a social enterprise, we provide sliding scales and scholarships for our programs. Baked in our DNA, 100% of our company profits fund educator and community leader scholarships to merit and needs based diverse leaders in mindfulness training and emotional resilience to bring back to their communities.
3. Systemic Racism Efforts
Language: We lovingly point out when systemic racism phrases are used such as “grandfathered in” or “master bedroom” (see this article) and educate others in conversation as it arises, while constantly educating ourselves on new terms we may unknowingly be using.
Education: Keeping history straight. We’ve impacted our local school curriculums by communicating with teachers when what gets taught to kids may not be as accurate or shared from a colonist standpoint as the truth.
4. Equitable Media Representation: SolJoy is committed there is equitable media representation by advocating for BIPOC speakers at events and participating in regularly contributes DEI related talks and articles on the intersection of mindfulness and diversity, equity shared, broadcasted to various social and media channels and advocated to be shared in local school and parent communities.
In her past business in event consulting, Anna organized high profile events such as TEDxBellevue, ensuring best in class speakers who were also BIPOC were equitably represented, that historically was rarely represented if at all.
See Award Winning Selected as the Editor’s Top 3 Papers “Belonging in America” published in the 2023 Conference for Global Transformation Journal.
5. Celebrating All Cultures: SolJoy aims to be bold in sharing BIPOC culture highlighting other BIPOC leader’s stories.
Social Impact TV : Interviews with Diverse Leaders Making an Impact
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suqʼʷábš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suqʼʷábš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here the suqʼʷábš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.
SolJoy is a Social Purpose Corporation
As a social purpose corporation, we are a proud Pledge 1% member, and verified as a People and Planet First social enterprise supporting UN Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education.
Our company profits fund the Conscious Leadership Foundation through our fiscal sponsor Kitsap Community Foundation, helping local school teachers be trained to help K-5 kids in areas such as mindfulness, emotional management, focus, stress relief, leadership through the proven Power Brain curriculum that has trained over 500 schools, 25K teachers, and 500K students.
We envision a future where kids grow up learning energy management, emotional resilience, and mindfulness as an integral part of all school curriculum. We are working towards the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education to “ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.”
How It Began
The foundation kicked up by hosting a Conscious Business Summit in Poulsbo, WA on Nov 2019, fundraising $3,300 at the event to jumpstart the fund followed by a series of mini fundraisers online and in partnership with local businesses. Madrona Waldorf school was the first recipient school to be gifted training for the second graders when the pandemic hit halfway through the program.
Since then, we have partnered with like minded organizations to find scholarship recipients for educators and teachers to take the training to bring to their classroom and students.
Conscious Leadership Partners
