Bethany Sanchez
Director
Doctoral Candidate, Holistic and Wellness Psychology BA, MA + 60, Cognitive Linguistics, CBT, NLP, CiPP, Yoga Mentor and Instructor, RYT 1000, Integrative Wellness Therapy, DBT, Ortho Gillingham Trainer
Raised in a Caribbean, creole and cajun family in southwestern Louisiana, Bethany grew up speaking multiple languages and absorbing the last vestiges of the unique mixtures of codes and cultures that comprised what the creoles and Cajuns uniquely blended from the natives, Afro-Caribbeans, and Europeans for hundreds of years there. This led to her joining multiple international organizations in high school that aimed to preserve and promote these cultures and studying and working in other blended cultures for 12 years globally before beginning post graduate work on Acadian and Creole history in Lafayette, Thibodaux, and Nola.
Here, her family’s groundbreaking work in opening a research based institute for neuro-diverse children led to a deepening of her work and research studies in neuropsychology, wellness, mindfulness, CBT, NLP, positive psychology mentorship, community relations and intuitive nutrition to support wellness and executive functioning as well as happiness and interdependence. She runs an educational collective and farmstead and a local artisan collective to assist creators, artists and dreamers in their entrepreneurial goals.
She found kundalini yoga at 16 and has traveled the world practicing, studying and teaching it, and has been honored to work closely with RaMa and Gurujagat for almost seven years now in collaboration and deep symbiosis. Her work with neuropsychological and positive psychological studies continues globally and is the objective of the body of reserch conducted here.
Amy Kraljev
Administrator - Educator - adaptive pe Coordinator - trainer
Amy Kraljev, a native of Portland, Oregon has been teaching at Vermilion Bend Academy for the past eight school years. She came to southern Louisiana originally as an All-American to play Division I volleyball. While at the University of Louisiana she completed both her undergraduate and masters programs in early child development while also serving as the head volleyball coach. Kraljev returned back to her home state briefly
working in management and has returned to Lafayette to continue her passion as an educator and advocate for children. At Vermilion Bend Academy she serves as the co-director, elementary school instructor and also heads our adaptive PE program. Amy is also the owner of King’s Court Training Academy, an academy that trains and develops high-level volleyball players.
