Who Can Benefit From Yoga Therapy with Laura:

My approach to yoga therapy is especially supportive for people navigating the impacts of chronic stress or trauma.

I am experienced in addressing the unique needs of veterans, first responders, healthcare workers, and other high-demand professions.

My focus is on addressing the health impacts of chronic stress, including...

• Anxiety

• Emotional overwhelm or difficulty managing emotions

• Burnout

• Chronic Fatigue

• Depression

• Difficulty Sleeping or Insomnia

• Hypervigilance or inability to relax

• Trauma/ Complex Trauma / Post Traumatic Stress

• Perfectionism & Self-criticism

Through practical techniques that integrate into your daily life

Session 1: Evaluation

Your first session is all about you

—your story, your needs, and your vision for how you want to feel in daily life.

We’ll take time to talk through your important aspects of your health history and explore what matters most to you.

This is a personalized and collaborative process, designed to meet you where you are today and support you moving forward.

Together, we’ll identify the areas of your life where yoga therapy can help you experience more ease, balance, and well-being.

This may include

• Customized daily movement practices

• Breathwork

• Self-massage

• Somatics

• Mindfulness techniques

• Stress management

• Yoga Philosophy

• Lifestyle shifts

that help to balance your nervous system and support a healthy relationship with yourself and your EMOTIONS.

Yoga Therapy Follow-up Sessions

(No one-size-fits-all here)- Each meeting is uniquely shaped around you and what you are working on in your life.

Some sessions may include time on the mat exploring postures, breathwork, or meditation practices chosen specifically to support your needs.

At other times, our work may focus more on supportive conversation—checking in on how you’re feeling

• Physically

• Energetically

• Mentally

• Emotionally

• Spiritually

Exploring how yoga philosophy can support you through what you are navigating in your life.

Sessions are hosted virtually through Zoom for 1 hour.

Every session ends with a few simple, personalized “home practice” suggestions to help you carry the benefits of yoga into your daily life.

After we meet, you’ll receive a follow-up email with notes, guidance, and supportive resources to bring the tools of yoga therapy into your daily life.

Home Practice Video Library:

Your personal home practice and daily lifestyle choices are essential in the healing process of yoga therapy.

The real transformation often happens between our live sessions & off of your yoga mat—when the tools of yoga begin to weave into your everyday life.

To support this, you’ll receive your own private playlist within my extensive Yoga Therapy Video Resource Library, which includes more than 850 videos, tutorials, documents, and mini-workshops.

This personalized playlist will hold recordings from your customized practices, along with additional resources chosen specifically for your goals and the themes we explore together.

Your playlist will continue to grow and evolve with you, updated after each session to reflect your progress and next steps

—so your home practice always feels relevant, accessible, and supportive.

Nervous System Regulation

Nervous system regulation is the process of helping your body shift out of states of stress, overwhelm, or shutdown and return to a more balanced, steady state.

Learning how to facilitate this shift is especially helpful & empowering to those who have experienced chronic stress or trauma.

When your nervous system is regulated, you feel safer, more present, and better able to think clearly, connect with others, enjoy pleasant moments, and respond to life’s challenges with resilience.

In yoga therapy, we use tools like breathwork, gentle movement, mindfulness, and grounding practices to help you shift your nervous system from a stress response to a more regulated, calm/focused state.

In our sessions, we will build a set of practices that work directly with your brain, nervous system and energetic system that help you to shift the way you feel in real time.

These practices can calm an overactive stress response, build tolerance for everyday challenges, and strengthen your ability to return to a sense of ease more quickly after difficult moments.

Over time, nervous system regulation becomes a skill you can access in daily life—not just on the mat—helping you feel more centered, steady, and adaptable.

Emotional Regulation

Emotional regulation is the process of recognizing, feeling, and responding to emotions in a way that supports clarity, balance, and self-trust rather than overwhelm or avoidance.

Many of us were never taught how to be with our emotions—especially uncomfortable ones. We may suppress, push through, or become flooded by what we feel, which can lead to emotional reactivity, shutdown, or chronic stress over time.

When emotional regulation is supported, emotions become information rather than threats. You are better able to notice what you’re feeling, stay present with it, and choose how to respond instead of being driven by automatic patterns.

In yoga therapy, we use specific movement, breath awareness, body-based inquiry, and meditation to help you safely identify and experience emotions as they arise in the body. This creates a bridge between physical sensation, emotional awareness, and conscious choice.

Our work together focuses on expanding your capacity to be with both difficult and pleasant emotions—without bypassing, suppressing, or becoming overwhelmed. Over time, this builds emotional resilience and a deeper sense of steadiness from the inside out.

As emotional regulation becomes a lived skill, you may notice improved self-compassion, clearer communication, and a greater ability to stay connected to yourself and others—even during challenging moments.

Stress Resilience:

Stress resilience is the capacity to meet life’s challenges, disruptions, and uncertainty without becoming overwhelmed, shut down, or disconnected from yourself and others.

Stress is not something we can eliminate—it is part of being human. Resilience is not about enduring more or “pushing through,” but about having the internal resources to adapt, recover, and stay connected even (and especially) when things are difficult.

When stress resilience is supported, challenges feel more manageable. You are better able to regulate your nervous system, stay present with your emotions, and respond with flexibility rather than falling into patterns of reactivity, avoidance, or exhaustion.

In yoga therapy, stress resilience is built through practices that integrate nervous system regulation and emotional awareness into real-life capacity. Breath, movement, mindfulness, and reflection are used not just to feel better in the moment, but to strengthen your ability to navigate stress over time.

Our work focuses on expanding your window of tolerance so you can remain engaged with life—its demands, changes, and relationships—without losing your sense of stability or connection. This allows both challenge and ease to coexist without overwhelm.

As stress resilience grows, many people experience greater confidence in themselves, deeper connection with others, and an increased trust in their ability to move through life’s inevitable ups and downs with steadiness, clarity, and care.