About Us
Tiara Cash, M.S., M.A., CWP
Founder & Owner
Executive Director of Holding Space (i.e., Programming)
Independent Contractor
Crowned Vitta LLC is a multi-disciplinary company serving communities through the concepts of mindfulness, meta-awareness, and meaningful self-relationships and relationships with others. Founder and Owner, Tiara Cash (she/they), was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She is a Black American & Indigenous (Non-enrolled Choctaw & Cherokee descendant) queer woman, and a former student-athlete who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise and Wellness from Arizona State University and two Masters degrees – one from Western Illinois University in Kinesiology (dual concentration in Sports Psychology and Fitness/Wellness Management) and one in Psychology from Simon Fraser University. She is currently completing her doctorate in Social Psychology at Simon Fraser University (expected July 2025) and is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar.
Tiara is a certified Mindfulness Instructor (with the Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults and ASU’s Mindfulness Leadership Certificate). She has a 20+ year personal practice of mindfulness and meditation and as a practitioner of mindfulness for the last 10 years, she has worked in various settings including higher education, athletics, and the non-profit sector. Tiara is also a certified Wellness Practitioner with the National Wellness Institute, which is a gold-standard certification that recognizes her multidimensional, multicultural high-level wellness understanding of implementing wellness standards in all of her work.
Featured on NPR (National Public Radio) as an expert and through her TedxSFU talk, Tiara is creator of the Equitable Mindfulness Framework. This framework includes 3 tiers (personal protection, sustainability of practice, and creating programming with the population in mind), and a model that is utilized for contentious conversations across social differences. She currently uses these concepts to curate conferences, create presentations and workshops, and conduct trainings on mindfulness and equity through her business.
Importantly, Tiara has also worked in many community settings as an accomplice, including: speaking and coordinating anti-Black racism events, supporting anti-pipeline movements, and being present on many advisory committees that support systemically and intentionally marginalized groups (i.e., PoGM, 2SLQBQQIA+, Disabled communities, and many more.)
Academically, Tiara has been invited internationally to speak and present her research on life transitions, prosociality, and mindfulness. Her research and career focuses include: delving into the intersections of mindfulness in systemically marginalized and underrepresented populations, and how prosociality buffers life transitions.
Tiara is also a children’s book author, writing two books under the Self-Affirmations and Journey to Loving Yourself Series: “Little Brown Girl, You Belong” September 2023 and “Little Boy, It’s Okay to Cry” in August 2024.
Certifications:
2024 – Certified Wellness Practitioner, National Institute of Wellness
2024 – IDI: Intercultural Development Inventory certified (IDI)
2021 – CCR in Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom, Simon Fraser University
2021 – Master Herbalist Diploma, Centre of Excellence
2019 – Certified Instructor, Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults (MIEA)
2019 – Ordainment in New Thought, Reyana Universal Essence Spiritual Center
2017 – Mindfulness Leadership Certification, ASU Center for Mindfulness
