Directing work for HBO. Smiley developed, pitch, sold Breath of Fire. She directed four episodes alongside Hayley Pappas. She also did the production design.

YouTube astrologer Katie Griggs rose to fame as the face of Kundalini yoga and reinvented herself as Guru Jagat, attracting followers — including celebrities and fee-paying devotees — with promises of prosperity, physical health, and spiritual fulfillment. Breath of Fire offers a multi-decade examination of the corruption within Kundalini yoga and a portrait of a misguided guru and master manipulator, spotlighting the uneasy nexus of the American dream, self-invention, and fanatical ideology.

HBO Documentary Films presents Breath of Fire. Directors, Hayley Pappas and Smiley Stevens

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