About

About Allison

Allison is an ICF Certified Holistic Life Coach, 500hr-Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance, and a trained TN Supreme Court Rule 31 Family Mediator. She has special certifications in youth coaching, trauma informed approach, teenage yoga, yoga for emotional balance, and mediating family disputes with the special circumstance of domestic violence.

Over the past 15 years, Allison has blended her unique qualifications and trainings to meet people where they are and help them move forward. Beginning in the yoga world, Allison discovered the power of connecting the mind, body, and emotions in the present moment. What seemed like a simple discovery on the yoga mat soon bloomed in unexpected ways.

Allison began leading retreats, trainings, workshops, and private sessions designed to support people where they needed it most- finding their unique voice, developing emotional balance, uncovering the courage to move forward. This sometimes looked like yoga, but it could also look like talking, breathing, hiking, art, writing, meditating, and resting. It became about giving people a safe place from which to begin.

Merging her yoga and coaching skills, Allison began working with teens and discovered her own heart. She has led group coaching, yoga workshops, team-building retreats, one-on-one coaching, and meditation sessions, helping teens navigate the stress and pressures in their lives, all while uncovering their identity, personality, strengths, values, and purpose in this world.

Open Sky Coaching is here because of all of the people that have touched Allison’s life on this journey. It is a safe place for teens, young adults, and women to find the ground beneath their feet so they can spread their wings and fly.

Training and Certifications

• ICF Certified Holistic Coach – Radiant Coaches Academy
• Trained Youth Coaching Institute Coach for Adolescents
• TN Supreme Court Rule 31 Trained Family Mediator with Special Circumstance of Domestic Violence
• 500hr. Registered Yoga Teacher – Yoga Alliance
• AYC Trained Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor
• OM Schooled Certified Teen Yoga Instructor
• Certified Yoga Instructor for Men
• Rhodes College, Memphis, TN BA History
• The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA
• Published author in Medium, Thrive Global, Yoga Diaries and The Beautiful Practice
• Children’s book writer, including poetry, picture books and a middle school novel
• Member of SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators)