Maddie recently retired as a principal and shareholder from Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the nation’s premier environmental law firm, where she represented multi-national corporations for more than 27 years and co-founded the firm’s Texas Office.  During her legal career, Maddie taught and published extensively on a wide range of environmental topics and received multiple peer-rated awards and rankings including Chambers, Legal 500, and US News and World Report Best Lawyers.  As a Board Member for Veterans Yoga Project, Maddie draws on both her legal background and her prior work as a Board Member for other non-profit organizations dedicated to human welfare and the arts, including American Gateways, the National Peace Corps Association, the Austin Flamenco Academy, and CHULA.    

 

Maddie began teaching yoga in 2009 after receiving her first 200-hr yoga teacher training certification.  Since then, she has continued her to advance her yoga studies with a broad range of additional coursework and teacher trainings, including VYP’s Mindful Resilience Training.  She has taught classes in kundalini, hatha, hatha flow, yin, nidra, breathwork, meditation and sound therapy and is a member of the VYP Teacher’s Alliance. 

 

Maddie is the proud granddaughter of three World War 2 veterans and officers (both grandfathers and her paternal grandmother) and has experienced firsthand the generational impacts of PTSD and trauma on military families.  She has also experienced the profound difference that yoga can have managing those impacts and transforming lives.

 

Maddie has two amazing, talented, compassionate and hard-working adult children and resides in Austin, Texas.  She lives into Thich Nhat Hanh’s mantra, “No mud, no lotus” and when not practicing yoga, enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, trail running, swimming and biking.