nina be | Founder and Director
nina be (MA, MEd, E-RYT-500, NCC) is the Director of MindBody Centering Yoga. She is a Somatic Psychologist, spiritual activist, yoga therapist, writer/poet, restaurateur, artist and performer, who has been mentoring, teaching, choreographing and designing wellness programs internationally for over 35 years. Her successful RYT 200/300/500/1000-hour Yoga Therapy Certification Programs of MindBody Centering Yoga are offered in Durham, North Carolina.
As the Founder of LiveGlobally, her vision of quelling children’s global poverty through the practice of mindful yoga in community has begun by supporting the building of a school in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Ingrid Education Centre.
Daria Drake | Design and Communication
Daria has been volunteering and collaborating with LiveGlobally since she completed her MindBody Centering Yoga training in 2018. She is a graphic designer by trade and likes to use her skills as a force for good. LiveGlobally supports her ethos of raising earth consciousness, practicing peace and living in the non-dualistic nature of our universe and all beings.
Trista Goforth | Marketing and Logistics
Trista teamed up with LiveGlobally to create more well being for the children in Drake Bay, Costa Rica. She is a resourceful problem solver and is motivated to create solutions wherever she sees a need. She has been teaching in Costa Rica since 2014 and is inspired by how new information can empower others. She is thrilled to be a part of the LiveGlobally team and looks forward to creating more miracles where communities need it the most.
Lee Coker
Lee Coker works with large investors on today's environmental and social challenges. He is also a professor of the practice of strategy and entrepreneurship at UNC's Kenan Flagler Business School. Lee strongly believes in the power of individuals to make a positive impact on the world and got involved in LiveGlobally to help further its mission.
Lilian Kerongo
Lilian has been working with Nina since the inception of LiveGlobally in 2010 when they combined efforts as moms to help the children of Ingrid School in Kayole, Kenya. Kayole is the second largest Slum in Kenya. LiveGlobally was able to help provide 2 meals to the children while they attended school and also provided a complete uniform with shoes and sweater for every child attending. They subsequently raised funds to build a school building. The children were able to move from a make-shift shelter that rained in the classrooms to a modern 3-story building.
Lilian hopes to continue partnering with LiveGlobally to make the Ingrid school sustainable and move this business model to other communities around the world. She is inspired by the work LiveGlobally is doing in our communities to touch people's lives in a profound manner. This is the legacy she would like to be known for.
Anya McGuirk
Anya grew up on a large farm in Maryland where her parents demonstrated the power of love and the importance and power of helping those in need one person at a time. In addition to her 14 immediate brother and sisters, Anya was raised among many other children taken in by her parents under varying circumstances, from all over the world. The healing power of the love, the meals, a warm bed, and the friendships formed were life changing for everyone. Upon meeting several LiveGlobally folks she knew she landed in the place she wanted to be. The small scale, on the ground, community driven, love based, organically grown nature of the LiveGlobally projects hooked her. She hopes to use her math and agricultural skills to contribute where she can in every way possible.
Maurice Werness
As a child, Maurice was broken... open. It took him a long time to realize the gift of this: it allows him the ability to feel the suffering of others. It gave him access to a resource that propelled him to a career as a professional athlete and ultimately on the journey of self healing that lead him to naturopathic medicine.
As a naturopathic physician, Maurice is tasked with the possibility of understanding forces of nature and how they might be engaged to facilitate healing. He is humbled and honored to have this privilege as a profession. And so LiveGlobally is a natural extension of his own healing.
He recently created a company, Fermanna, that seeks to bring the power of fermented nutrition to malnourished children. He lives in downtown Durham with his beloved wife, Lisa, their boy Eli Ashagre (adopted from Ethiopia, age 7, the gift of our life), two cats, and big butterball bull mastiff named Gaia.
Jonh Blanco
Hello my name is Jonh. I am an undisciplined-queer-yogi-artist, and survivor of early childhood domestic and sexual violence. In the past I have volunteered with LiveGlobally assisting with fundraising events, and currently serve alongside a diversely talented Auxiliary Board. I choose to partner with other compassionate human creatures with goals to take creative risks to empower those communities long not listened to. Visibility matters!
Viola Chow
Viola is a recent graduate with a degree in international development studies. She joined the LiveGlobally team in 2021 to contribute to this global community and learn more about furthering development on the ground. Based in Los Angeles, Viola is also grateful for the oportunity to connect with the amazing community in North Carolina that supports LiveGlobally.
Kyle Compton
Kyle had the honor of taking Nina's 200-hour MindBody Centering Yoga teacher training in 2016. From the trauma-informed perspective to the innovative body movement techniques, Kyle learned and grew immensely from the experience. He has had the good fortune to continue supporting the wonderful work of LiveGlobally at times over the past few years and recognizes the privilege of advocating with others to heal and empower ourselves and the world.
Julian Jiamachello
Who does not wish to draw the entire universe within our cells forth? and i certainly have a softness for whatever romanticism lays behind being kind to the unknown’s uncomfortableness...as if it were a gorgeous, wild animal shielding its need for the deepest love...just exploring with welcomeness- making the far feel near. and before coming to this part of north carolina, i spent no more than a few months in a number of places inside and outside of the country. it has been a recently humbling astonishment to walk with a surer step along the yogic path, so brightly lit by nina and mindbody centering yoga. finding the total organization in it all, feeling it to be the horizon itself, if we were to agree that horizons look back at us viewers from and on all sides, surrounding us with a full embrace as if we were the wildest animals shielding our need for the deepest love (too).
i believe in this species and our capacity to eliminate the burden of our existence on others when we are able to saddle our consciousness with a bit of perspective, effort, and humble tidings- to be in any way, shape, or form affiliated with a group that is immersed in such saddling as LiveGlobally, is my greatest privilege. may we all aspire to unfold the present into a future of greater healing/learning/sharing/discovering!
Violet Lee
I discovered LiveGlobally after completing a 200 hour teacher training with MindBody Centering Yoga in 2019. As someone who is intimately experienced with complex trauma as a result of the loss of a younger sibling, the family disease of alcoholism and the generational oppression of my Korean ancestors, I have much reverence for the interconnectedness of life and how influential the role of community is in creating meaningful change. I am an abstract painter, and I use art as a vehicle to share how I navigate and understand my ever unfolding self, creating embodied work that is informed by the process of living.
Pablo Robles
I was invited in 2017 to help support LiveGlobally through various communication and fundraising projects and to help nurture a newly initiated program in Costa Rica. And now after 3 years, we are running the Water for Living bringing clean water to over 80 people in Drake Bay, CR.
It’s doing this work as a collective that inspires me to stay connected, show up, and take into action. Seeing the many people share their expertise, learn from one another, and stay open to all possibilities of increasing support to all beings. I do this work for the children and so that we can experience our full potential with the world.
MK Thompson
MK is an undergraduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill and started volunteering at LiveGlobally in 2021. She chose to volunteer at LiveGlobally because she was inspired by their commitment to empowering communities through sustainable practices. MK looks forward to investing her time in fundraising efforts and sharing LiveGlobally’s initiatives with others.
Jack Datin
Jack Datin began working with LiveGlobally in February of 2022. He got involved because he recognized the importance of their work in expanding access to clean water through their construction of wells in Costa Rica and their role in expanding educational opportunities by funding the Ingrid Centre in Kenya. Jack graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 and currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In his free time he enjoys traveling with family, running outdoors, and playing music with friends.