Alpenglow State | Shelby Trevillian

ABOUT SHELBY

I grew up in Tennessee, where much of my early life was spent outdoors- always in water, exploring forests, and developing a deep curiosity about the relationship between people and the natural world.

That curiosity led me to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, with a minor in Economics, at the University of Tennessee. My studies explored the intersection of ecology, human behaviour, policy, and systems thinking—an education that continues to influence how I understand health, community, and our relationship with the living world.

Long before I facilitated breathwork or taught yoga, I was teaching.

As a lifeguard, swimming instructor, summer camp counsellor, and later an Interpretive Park Ranger, I learned how to guide people through experiences that invited awareness, confidence, curiosity, and connection. During my summers as a Park Ranger at Norris Dam State Park, I regularly led more than twenty educational programs each week for visitors of all ages.

While I was interning at an environmental institute, I was dreaming of the mountains and a completely new start. I accepted a job out west in Keystone Colorado as a Children’s Snowboard Instructor and moved within a week of graduation.

Snowboarding took me across North America, New Zealand, and Australia, where I worked as a snowboard instructor and eventually earned advanced certifications through the Professional Ski Instructors of America and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors. I was deeply involved in my community and these six seasons became a place of adventure, challenge, humility, and presence—lessons that continue to shape my work today.

In 2012, I moved to Australia.

What was initially intended as a season my whole life! I transitioned from the continuous winter, landing a dream job as a manager at a local snowboard shop. Around the same time I began studying yoga and eventually completed more than 500 hours of yoga teacher training, including additional qualifications in prenatal, postnatal, children’s yoga, yin yoga, and another supporting women in life’s transitions.

The years that followed were transformative.

After navigating a difficult period in 2016 that included a collapsed lung, post-wedding blues, and patterns of coping that no longer served me, I committed myself more deeply to practices that fostered genuine healing, responsibility, and self-awareness.

Between 2017 and 2019, I completed extensive professional training, became a Lululemon ambassador, taught regular yoga classes in Canberra, and offered fortnightly après-yoga sessions in the Snowy Mountains. During this time I was also offered a position teaching snowboarding again at Perisher—an opportunity that reflected how deeply connected I remained to mountain culture—though life had other plans. By the end of that year, I was preparing to become a mother.

Motherhood became one of my greatest teachers.

It deepened my understanding of nervous system regulation, embodiment, seasons of life, identity, and what it truly means to live in alignment with one’s values rather than external expectations.

In 2022, I discovered Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery, now known as Breathwork Mastery RBM.

What drew me in was not intensity, but gentleness. The emphasis on conscious breathing, body awareness, intention, and integration felt deeply aligned with the principles that had guided my work for years. I went on to complete a 540-hour trauma-informed professional training with Eleanor Mann, the holder of this lineage through The School of Breathwork and continue to deepen my studies and practice.

Today, I bring together the many threads of my life—environmental education, mountain themes, yoga, somatics, breathwork, motherhood, and facilitation—through Alpenglow State.

My work supports people to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and cultivate the inner resources needed to navigate life with greater presence, responsibility, resilience, and joy.

Because beneath all the methods and modalities, I believe most people are searching for the same thing:

A way home to themselves.

You can find me teaching yoga at Wild Studio Canberra and KIND Canberra and sometimes SOULution Yoga and for Breathwork, see my “breathwork” tab.

My YouTube Yoga videos! 🤸🏻‍♀️

Qualifications/Experience:

• Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance
• Somatic Practitioner Graduate of The Core Rising, Maggie Hayes https://www.thecorerising.com/Directory
• International Certificate of Breathwork Mastery, The School of Breathwork 2024
• Australian Breathwork Association Endorsed https://australianbreathworkassociation.org.au/australian-capital-territory/
• Together Rachael Rose Women’s Circle Facilitator Training, 2022 https://rachaelrose.com.au/directory/shelby-markli-trevillian-alpenglow-state/
• 200 hour SOULution Yoga Teacher Training completed in 2014
• 300 hour SOULution Yoga Teacher Training completed in 2018
• Prenatal and Postnatal training with SOULution Yoga, 2019
• 85 hours Mamata Yoga Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, 2020
• Kundalini Reiki Millenium Master Teacher, 2019
• dōTERRA AromaTouch Technique, 2017 dōTERRA oils
• 27 hours Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training, 2017
• Lululemon Ambassador Canberra Store, 2017-2019
• Certified American Association of Snowboard Instructors Level 2 Intermountain, 2012 
• Professional Snowsports Children’s Specialist 1, 2012
• CPR and First Aid Certified, current
• Working With Vulnerable People Registered
• Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Studies with a minor in Economics, University of Tennessee 2008
• Alpha Kappa Psi Alumni, Zeta Lamba Chapter UTK

What I am up to?

Currently

I live in Canberra, Australia with my husband, three daughters, and our kelpie dog, Smoky. In recent years, I completed a 540-hour Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery training through The School of Breathwork with Eleanor Mann, graduating in the same week I welcomed my third daughter during a redemptive home birth. Today, my work brings together yoga, breathwork, somatics, women’s circles, seasonal living, and over two decades of experience guiding people through learning, growth, and transformation.

Outside of my work, I find joy in simple things: tending our home and garden, building meaningful connections within our neighbourhood, exploring the mountains, and sharing life with my family. As a lifelong snowboarder, I’m especially looking forward to teaching my oldest daughter to snowboard and getting my toddler on skis this winter. More than ever, I’m interested in living a life that feels connected, intentional, and wildly resourced—and supporting others to do the same.