Stephanie Chee Barea is a multicultural Mindset & Leadership Coach with over 24 years of experience teaching embodied healing practices and creating brave spaces for belonging. Founder of The Rangeley Hideaway, Her Festival and mela.yoga, an award-winning sacred learning space in the SF Bay Area, she offers transformational retreat experiences, group programs and personalized coaching for female-identified founders and visionaries to strengthen and upskill their capacity to tap into internal wisdom, establish space, create flow and make decisions with clarity and authenticity in their personal and professional lives. Steph lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband, two children and two cats. She loves to stay active through dance, yoga, surfing, hiking, and paddling – always seeking grace, strength and confidence in relationship to nature.

Steph holds a B.A. in Biology from Columbia University, and is both a practitioner and educator of the science and philosophy of Tantric Hatha Yoga and an initiate of the Sri Vidya Tradition – a 5,000 year-old living wisdom tradition of the Himalayan Sages. As a lifelong learner, she continues to study and stay close to her teachers Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Jean Mazzei, and Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset.

She published her first mantra album, Igniting Protection, in 2019, and has also been featured on Thrive Global, Omnes.live, Down East Magazine and The Rangeley Highlander.

Her 1000+ hours of formal training certifications include EYRT-5oo, YCEP, Prenatal Vinyasa, Yoga For Teens, Yoga Sutras and Vishoka Meditation.