Follow Your Yum’s founder, Valerie Reiss, is a journalist, essayist, poet, speaker, artist, seeker, and native New Yorker. Her writing has been published in Yoga Journal, Natural Health, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, The New York Times, and more. She’s been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years and is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor.
For four years she ran the Holistic Living section (and more) of the largest inspiration site, Beliefnet.com. Prior to that she was a founding editor at Breathe, the late, awesome, before-its-time, yoga-inspired lifestyle magazine. She holds degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Beloit College. As a survivor of cancer, Valerie appreciates the power of gratitude–the ultimate yum–choosing to live beyond perceived limitations, and occasionally enjoying organic s’mores.
She lives in Brooklyn.