Our Team
Eat Breathe Thrive is sustained by a team of talented and dedicated individuals who give their time, energy, and heart in the spirit of service.
Chelsea Roff
Founder
Chelsea Roff is the Founder of Eat Breathe Thrive. A yoga therapist, researcher, and educator, she has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges.
In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week program that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in fifty days to kickstart Eat Breathe Thrive. Since its inception, she has brought the program to scale in thirty-two U.S states and seven countries.
Prior to her work in the charitable sector, Chelsea worked as a researcher and grant writer in a psychoneuroimmunology laboratory. Her early research focused on how yoga affects the immune systems of people with HIV/AIDs and cancer. She is currently overseeing a multi-study research initiative on yoga in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders, which includes two randomized controlled trials.
In 2019, Chelsea took on a new role as UK Operations Director for the Give Back Yoga Foundation. She is currently spearheading their initiative to bring therapeutic yoga programs to scale in healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. Chelsea is an avid swimmer and triathlete, and in her spare time studies Arabic and travels in her campervan.
Melanie Taylor
Director of Education
Melanie Taylor is a Yoga Therapist and Trauma-Informed Body Positive ViniYoga Teacher Trainer. For over 30 years, Melanie has dedicated her life and work to transforming what it means to live with stress, trauma, PTSD, disrupted body image, and an eating disorder. She is also the founder of the Life of Wellness Institute, which promotes the belief that everybody already has what they need to live with aliveness and fulfillment and to make their dreams a reality.
Through the Life of Wellness Institute, Melanie guides her students to reclaim and reconnect to their authentic selves, inner strength, resilience, and empowers them with resources and support to embrace their life, health, and wellness.
Outside of her work, Melanie enjoys time in nature, camping and hiking, a good book, and family fun nights with her husband and two adult children.
Amanda Kujawa
Creative Manager
Amanda Kujawa is the Creative Manager for Eat Breathe Thrive. She supports the creative direction of emails, promotional materials, and the website. Amanda works to build connections between people and ideas through storytelling and is interested in how folks navigate work, life, and their mental health with the overarching goal of working together towards building more compassionate communities.
A couple of years into her own recovery from an eating disorder, Amanda sought out volunteer opportunities to support the eating disorder community. She came across Eat Breathe Thrive and fell in love with not only the mission, but the brilliant, kind, and passionate people bringing that mission to life. Amanda also volunteers as an eating disorder mentor with ANAD and the Eating Disorder Foundation in Denver, Colorado.
Outside of work, Amanda enjoys rock climbing, paragliding, hiking, learning the cello, and trying to get her black lab, Charlie, to stop eating garbage.
Daneen Farrall
Communications Specialist
Daneen is an E-RYT 200 certified yoga instructor, a Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider (YACEP), with specialized training in yoga for athletic recovery. She has been a student of yoga for over ten years, a certified teacher since 2014, and has worked with all levels of athletes from high school to professional. She enjoys understanding the science behind “how” yoga works and gains inspiration and insight from instructors like Jason Crandell, Tiffany Cruikshank of Yoga Medicine™, and our founder, Chelsea Roff.
She lives in Cleveland, OH, with her husband and four children. She credits yoga with helping her stay grounded and flexible through parenting. Before becoming a mom, she worked in corporate training consulting and now enjoys using those skills to develop yoga and wellness programs and experiences for studios and private clients.
Yoga played a meaningful role in developing a deeper, kinder, and loving relationship with herself - body, mind, and spirit. Daneen’s hope is to create spaces and experiences for others to realize that yoga is accessible, doable, and available to anyone regardless of age, size, race, gender, sexual orientation, or income.
Brittney Seltzer
Administrative Assistant
Brittney is a 200hr certified yoga instructor who has witnessed firsthand the powerful role yoga can play while healing from disordered eating & a negative body image. She fell in love with yoga when she realized it was the first time she entered a “workout” from a place of loving her body rather than wanting to change it. After completing her 200hr YTT in 2022, she knew she wanted to use her passion for yoga to help others improve their interoceptive awareness and develop a more positive body image. Upon discovering Eat Breathe Thrive, she felt immediately aligned with its mission and dived in as an Administrative Volunteer. She is honored to be part of the team and is determined to help the organization grow.