The time is NOW

Born and raised in Cary, North Carolina, Cortney attended NC State University for Art Therapy in 2011. While attending, she enrolled in a Beginners Yoga course. As life’s path began to shift, she dove into the ancient wisdom of Yoga. After completing Mindbody Centering Yoga teacher training, she obtained her RYT 200, RYT 300, and ERYT 500. She continued to awaken her dream teaching, mentoring, and assisting in the facilitation of Yoga classes and Teacher Trainings for three years. While teaching a Mindfulness Meditation an opportunity arrived to move across the country, which awakened her traveler’s spirit. Taking to the roads, she was off pursing another dream. Landing in Utah, she discovered the science of culinary arts and the world of bouldering. Life happened and three years later in 2019 she drove back across the country to North Carolina with her husky puppy, Yolieghist (Yo), to continue yoga and awaken the dream of mastering the culinary arts.

After working as a Pastry Chef in North Carolina for seven months, she and Yo set out on an adventure. Unfortunately, as the world shut down in 2020, Cortney and Yo were forced to stay in the Florida. Taking these events as an opportunity, she awakened a dream of teaching nutrition and dietetics, and obtained her ISSA personal trainer certification. With the urge to travel building in 2021, she converted her Honda CRV into a camper and awakened a new dream. Together they visited many states, countless crags (bouldering areas), National Parks and Forests. They returned to the sunshine state, but her heart yearned for the red rocks instead of sandy beaches. So this traveling duo packed up and embarked on another journey across the United States, making a personal record of 190,000 miles traveled via car in five years.

Landing in Utah in 2023, her dream to publish children’s book began to build. After attending a writer’s workshop through Hay House Publishing, she was inspired to teach herself the ins and outs of self-publishing. In December 2023, she published her first book, With Magic, Grace, and a Steady Pace. Pursuing this dream, she continued to write, illustrate, and publish. In 2024, she published Sistar dreamAwake, Mastering Potentiality, along with ten books in the awaken A dream series.

Cortney had a dream to create a publishing house that empowered authors in making there visions a reality as they retain ALL rights and royalties, and at the end of 2024 GroovyRoads Publishing opened and welcomes ALL authors!

With her certifications, expertise, and extensive studies, Cortney also teaches yoga classes at Dancing Crane Imports in Salt Lake City, UT and offers private yoga therapy sessions.