Our Team

Margaret (Meg) Smith, PhD, RYT-500, TCTSY-F uses yoga with elite athletes, military service members, and other high performers to deepen the mind-body connections that enable sustained high performance as well as healing from trauma and chronic stress.

 

Meg is the sport psychology provider for Team USA Wheelchair Rugby (www.usawr.org) among other teams and athletes in Olympic, Paralympic, and collegiate sport. She's supported USAWR through two Paralympic silver medals and multiple international titles and from 2016-2020, supported the University of Alabama Adapted Athletics toward seven national championships in three sports. She has provided services for Team Navy Wounded Warrior and the Warrior Games since 2016. Meg ran track and cross country at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was part of 5 ACC Championships. She has a PhD in social psychology, and she is a faculty member for Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project (APAEP), which offers a bachelor of science degree program taught inside Alabama prisons. She also teaches as an adjunct professor for US Army’s Master Educator Course, a Master's degree program in Education for soldiers in instructional roles.