2026 Sedona Yoga Festival

Pamela Stokes Eggleston, MBA, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT-500, YACEP, is the Director and Faculty of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health’s School of Integrative Yoga Therapy and Founder and Director of Yoga2Sleep. She is a certified yoga therapist, somatic movement specialist, meditation teacher, and end of life doula with specialized training in plant-based nutrition, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), and trauma-informed yoga to work with service members, veterans, their caregivers, and insomnia sufferers. Previously serving as Co-Executive Director of the Yoga Service Council, she cultivated financial resilience and strategic partnerships for the organization. An avid yogini for over 20 years, Pamela was motivated to begin her teaching journey when she realized that yoga decreased her insomnia and reduced her osteoarthritis pain. Pamela has a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy from MUIH and a Master of Business Administration from University of Maryland Global Campus. She served as President of the UMGC Alumni Association, as a board member of the Accessible Yoga Association, and as Clinic Faculty at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH). In addition, she is a contributing editor of Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans (YSC/Omega, 2016) and Yoga and Resilience: Empowering Practices for Survivors of Sexual Trauma (Handspring, July 2020), as well as researcher/author of Yoga Therapy as a Complementary Modality for Female Veteran Caregivers with Traumatic Stress: A Case Study (MUIH, March 2018), and Addressing Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms: A Yoga Therapy Case Study (MUIH, June 2019). Pamela serves on the Grant Advisory Committee of the Yoga Alliance Foundation as a collaborative response to the impact of COVID-19 within the yoga community, and as a member of the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners at the Maryland Department of Health. An accomplished consultant, advisor, published author and international speaker, Pamela has worked for numerous agencies including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Veterans Administration, the Department of Labor, as a yoga therapy intern for Johns Hopkins Medical Center, and as an advisor on Congress-supported publications centering on substance abuse, mental health, criminal justice, and as a Co-Founder of Blue Star Families, military and veteran family matters. Pamela is a writer and a poet: her work and writing have been featured with Yoga Therapy Today, Insight Timer, Meditation Studio, Gaiam, Military Family Life.Com, Military Spouse Magazine, Yoga Journal, Mantra Yoga and Health, Essence, the Huffington Post, and on Ellen and MSNBC. She is the author of You Are the Pendulum: Poems and Practices for an Unsettling World.