Summer Deaver is a creative community organizer, leader and teacher who has over two decades of experience leading diverse groups of people in life altering transformation through awareness practices.
Summer has worked in the nonprofit sector bringing yoga and mindfulness to marginalized communities, incarcerated youth and public education. She has trained hundreds of yoga, mindfulness teachers and reiki practitioners who work all over the world to support the awakening of consciousness. Currently Summer serves as Director of Caroline Huber Wellness Center at Brookdale Community College. The wellness center operates from a poverty informed framework to offer just in time support for student basic needs and enhanced community wellness.
Summer is truly a teacher’s teacher and leads with compassion for the human conditions, while advocating for environmental regeneration and social justice. Building trauma informed, inclusive communities is her forte as a working artist and orchestrator of programs and services.
Summer believes fervently in the power of true presence, and brings daring, loving kindness to her work and mentorship with community members and professionals of all kinds.
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