Ms. Buchanan holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has a certificate from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT), is an RYT-500 with the Yoga Alliance, and has two decades of experience teaching yoga. As the co-owner of Bloom Yoga Studio in Lebanon, TN, she instructs classes open to the community, and as the director of the Bloom Yoga School, she trains yoga teachers. Throughout the years, Ms. Buchanan has pursued ongoing-education in many areas of mindfulness, such as yoga for resiliency and trauma and stress-management through breath and meditation, and she has been an active member of the Yoga Society of Nashville, having served on its board for eight years.