Erik Vienneau, LPC-C, RYT-200, helps people reduce their anxiety and find peace in relationships. Erik is the Founder of AWAKE Mindful Living, which offers mindfulness-based counseling supported by in-person and web-based mindful-living programs. Erik is dedicated to meeting people where they are along the path of wellness and offering them guidance and support to create a more peaceful and health filled life. Erik believes that peaceful minds = a peaceful planet. Erik’s passion for Buddhist Studies, meditation, yoga and a healthy lifestyle helps him to re-discover his own peaceful nature each day and fuels his ability to share mindful-living coaching and practices with others. The driving force behind Erik’s life is to show others they are pure potential and not the self-limiting thoughts that our minds often generate. Erik is the founder of Yoga Rocks the Park, Friday Night Yoga Club and the AWAKE Mindful Living Community. He sold the YRP + FNYC brands to YogEvents, LLC in 2015 after growing the live music and yoga events into globally recognized brands that spread to 20 cities across the United States and to Sydney, Australia while attracting well over 100,000 visitors in a seven year run. He currently focuses most of his time and energy on building the offerings of the AWAKE Mindful Living Community. When not active in the mindfulness/business community Erik enjoys a simple life in beautiful Evergreen, CO with his wife and two children. They love to ski, rock climb, hike, travel and raise organic food in the greenhouse.