Samala is a Compass Cohort 1 Teacher Trainer Graduate and has been teaching students in the Unified Mindfulness framework, mostly focusing on working more skillfully with somatic and emotional challenges related to trauma (childhood and adult). Sam is also an advocate for the therapeutic use of Psychedelics to work with trauma, affording unique opportunities to work with trauma using UM as the framework to help her students prepare for, navigate during, and definitely integrate both challenges and reward states that occur during psychedelic experiences. Sam lives in the Tampa Bay Metro area, teaching both UM to her students and utilizing her MAPS and NVC training to support those interested in the intersection of mindfulness and altered states of awareness.