Laura Johnson
Yoga Instructor RYT-500
Certified Trauma Conscious Yoga
Environmental Studies Lecturer
Community Rest/Grief Worker
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Yoga Instructor RYT-500
Certified Trauma Conscious Yoga
Environmental Studies Lecturer
Community Rest/Grief Worker
Laura Johnson, PhD, is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with advanced training by Samantha Akers of TheraYoga Method and certification in the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method (TCYM) and Yoga for Social Justice with Nityda Gessel of the Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute. She is also a Geography and Environmental Studies lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt, and she holds a doctorate in Geography with a specialization in Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change from Michigan State University.
Laura is the founder of A Restful Space, offering personalized restorative yoga and community rest & eco-grief circles in Humboldt County, as well as her premiere self-paced online course, Yoga for Ecological Grief. Laura is passionate about yoga in a holistic sense as a relational and embodied practice for personal and collective healing and has been invited to present at the 2022 Sedona Yoga Festival as well as the annual Post-Capitalist Conference.
Laura is also a Reiki practitioner and sound healer, novice permaculturist, toddler/dog/chicken/goat momma, practitioner of the Work that Reconnects, and freelance writer with essays and poetry published in LionsRoar.com, Science and Nonduality (SAND), Tikkun, Resilience.org, Taproot Magazine, and Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects.
Laura lives on Wiyot land in Eureka, CA, with her husband, Nick, and their young daughter, Cordelia.
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