Founder @ Luna Nidra

Specialty: Yoga Nidra

I started practicing yoga in 2007, at the Yoga Room in Cleveland, Ohio, learning the Iyengar system from Erica Steinweg. After moving to Austin in 2008, I studied with Peggy Kelly, and then Liz Belile. Life got in the way for a few years, and my practice became erratic, but I never lost interest. After getting injured training martial arts, I returned to serious yoga practice. I am now completing my Level 1 ParaYoga training with Yogarupa Rod Stryker. I also continue to study in Austin, primarily with Laura Teal.

In addition to yoga, I love to write, and am the author of two poetry chapbooks: Come Into the World Like That (Five Oaks Press, 2016) and We’re Smaller Than We Think We Are (Finishing Line Press, 2013). I have a B.A. in English from Kenyon College, an M.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University, and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso.

PachaYoga & Healing
Leaps with Language

• Speech-Language Pathologist,
• Shamanic Practitioner,
• Yoga Teacher,
• Reiki Master

Amanda weaves together nearly twenty years of experience as a pediatric speech-language pathologist with the yogic and shamanic traditions. She is passionate about empowering and educating others so they can navigate the world confidently. Her holistic approach addresses building connection and communication on the physical, mental, and spiritual or energetic levels.

In her practice, PachaYoga & Healing, Amanda facilitates deep, soul level healing by releasing emotional or physical trauma, grief, fear, negative patterns/habits, and blocks. She offers individually designed practices and sessions for continued support to anchor in the energetic shifts, inviting one to be an active participant throughout the healing journey and to co-create with source in everyday life.

As the owner of Leaps with Language, she provides alternative education, therapy, and consultations for children with speech-language disorders and learning differences, specializing in treating children diagnosed with brain injury and Autism Spectrum Disorder. She incorporates knowledge and practices from a variety of disciplines, as well as the healing arts.

Amanda is excited to impart the powerful medicine and tools which have been extremely effective in transforming her own life. She shares her medicine through individual sessions, consultations, customized ceremonies, workshops, speaking, and writing. Her six-year-old son and the families she sees daily are her continual teachers. She holds the vision for a holistic medical model that is inclusive of connection and spiritual healing for well-being.

Amanda earned a Master’s degree in Communication Disorders from Southwest Texas State University following a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language from the University of Texas at Austin.

She is a registered yoga teacher at the 200 hour level and has also completed the Radiant Child Children’s Yoga training (95 hours) including Yoga for Autism, ADHD, & Differently-Abled Children.

She is Mesa Carrier in the Q’ero tradition, a Master Reiki Practitioner, and studied Energy Medicine Certification at Austin Shamanic Center.

Get in touch on Leaps with Language (site no longer available), or PachaYoga. Depending on your needs.

Austin Yoga Tree is more than a yoga studio.

We’re a hub for mindfulness and passionate living in Austin Texas. Our goal is to help you journey inward through the practice of yoga and mindfulness; to find your strength, your vitality, and your spark of divinity. Begin your journey inward. We promise you, it’s beautiful inside.

In addition to our daily schedule of yoga classes, we offer private Kid’s Life Mastery classes, Self Love Revolution, and personal and group Life Mastery coaching.

The journey is now. Take a breath. Close your eyes. Unwind your mind.

Heal your body. Befriend your soul.

relinquish yoga and wellness

Christina Cohee
BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 200, YACEP

I was introduced to yoga in the early 90s through a magazine. My life was chaotic and unpredictable, and I was drawn to the serenity I found in practicing the postures and breathing techniques. In college I enjoyed the physical release of an asana practice, but it wasn’t until I was debilitated by chronic and mystery illness that I discovered the breadth of yoga as a healing modality.

After suffering for close to 20 years, a friend invited me to a restorative yoga class. After the first class, I thought it was a waste of time and money. I kept going (to be with my friend), and amazingly, after a few weeks I began feeling better. I was curious to know why “doing nothing” was affording me some relief. Thus began my journey through teacher training.

I completed a Foundations of Yoga Therapy 200-hour training, and knew I wanted to become a yoga therapist. I graduated from the Practice School of Yoga Therapy and now have a thriving practice as a C-IAYT. I have had the privilege of both learning from and serving as an assistant for Judith Hanson Lasater in restorative yoga training. I have completed studies in Yoga of 12 Step Recovery (Y12SR), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and a Neuro-Rehabilitation Program for Chronic Illness, among many others.

I now live a life free from chronic conditions. My work with clients comes from a place of lived experience with chronic illness and recovery. I enjoy guiding clients with dysregulated nervous systems, trauma, and chronic conditions (and others, too) to befriend their bodies, connect with joy and ease, and ultimately connect with and live from their wholeness.

Dr. Hope McLoughlin is a vitalistic Chiropractor and Yoga Instructor of the Hatha and Kundalini styles.

Dr. Hope knows that the body is designed to heal and thrive, and that Chiropractic care works through the Nervous System to ensure the proper conditions for this healing to take place!

Dr. Hope graduated from Life Chiropractic College West with highest academic honors and spent hundreds of hours outside the curriculum learning various adjusting strategies that enhance the biomechanical framework she learned in school. These studies took her into the philosophy of Chiropractic and the subtler dimensions of tension-storage in the body for more easeful adjustments into receptive tissues. By combining a grounded understanding of anatomy and physiology with a keen awareness of how the intelligence of the body communicates using subtler cues, her adjustments “hold” with lasting results.

The power of the adjustment is to release bound potential in the body related to stored life experiences, so the medicine from these experiences can crystalize into the best you possible!

She looks forward to witnessing your most beautiful unfoldment under Chiropractic care!

LMT, RBP, RES-CPT, RYT @ Austin Bowenwork & Alignment Center

Bowenwork, Myofascial Release (John Barnes method), Restorative Exercise Specialist, Intuitive Healing

I have over 19 years of professional experience as a bodywork therapist. My niche is helping my clients relax like they never have, overcome chronic pain and begin moving freely again. Most importantly, my passion is creating space for the body and heart to reveal what it needs for healing and expression. I believe we are all worthy of our inner heart’s desires and sometimes we have to manifest pain and illness as a way to wake up to our awesomeness! I am a Master Bowenwork Practitioner, a Registered Yoga Teacher, Restorative Exercise Specialist through the Nutritious Movement Center, Licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Texas, and a healing intuitive.

Jessica is now offering coaching for women

*Updated for 2022

Heart centered coaching for women who are ready to heal, grow, and live a more purpose filled life.

Learn more at: JessicaSheaffer.com

Health Coach @ Balance Personal Fitness Training

Karen Shopoff Rooff is a Women’s Wellness Warrior who champions realistic approaches to living a fit and healthy life. After earning certifications as a personal trainer & perinatal fitness specialist, Karen launched Balance Personal Fitness Training in 2008. In addition to in-person fitness, wellness, and health coaching, Karen facilitates self-directed ecourses and virtual bootcamps for clients worldwide. Her blog Running on Balance is known for excellent content regarding women’s health, particularly as related to the childbearing year and perimenopause. In her free time, Karen loves to travel to new places to run marathons and ultramarathons. But because she believes in balance, Karen is also an avid reader and backfloater (though not at the same time).

Karen holds a variety of fitness, wellness, and health coaching certifications (listed from date earned):

Personal Training, Perinatal Fitness Specialist, Group Exercise Specialist, Aqua Yoga Instructor, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, Women’s Wellness Coach , Aqua Yoga Specialist, Health Coach

Founder & CEO @ WellMarkt

Yoga, Coaching, Ayurveda

Lily’s personal mission is to connect people with the best versions of their vital selves. Knowing that the most powerful key to wellness comes from within, Lily uses a unique combination of mind-body practice, coaching, and Ayurveda, to ignite the body’s innate intelligence.

She is a professional coach and writer with two decades of nonprofit management experience (primarily academic medicine–biomedical research, healthcare delivery systems and health promotion interventions, and public health policy). Motivated by the recognition that our lifestyle largely influences our state of wellness, she offers personalized coaching interventions and is also the Founder and CEO of WellMarkt, a website and social impact company connecting people with holistic and complementary health providers and networks in their local communities, and beyond.

Lily holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business. Lily completed professional coach training through Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance and teaches individual and group sessions. Further, she is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor intern and is completing a National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)-Certified Ayurveda Practitioner course of study.

She is a New Yorker at heart living in the very lovable city of Austin, Texas. In her spare time, she enjoys reading way too many books simultaneously, fitness training and hiking, and hanging out with her daughter Sophie, husband Jed, and Labraheeler Casey.

Founder / Director / Instigator @ Whole Movement Center

Specialties: Infant Developmental Movement & Somatic Psychotherapy & Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy

MY CERTIFICATIONS & BACKGROUND:

Before becoming a movement therapist and psychotherapist, I was a professional dancer, choreographer, and theater artist who founded a dance company and directed a yoga and bodywork studio.

I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with a specialty in development and Pre and Perinatal Birth Attachment Therapy. I also have a Master’s in Counseling Psychology.

My certifications include:

Body Mind Centering® Practitioner
Licensed Professional Counselor
Registered Somatic Movement Therapist w/ the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
Infant Developmental Movement Educator®
Certified Pre and Perinatal Birth Attachment Practitioner
Somatic Experiencing provider
Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist
Hatha Yoga Teacher for all ages
Advanced Bodywork Therapist
Skinner Releasing Dance Technique® Educator
I draw from all of these disciplines to work with any person who wants to overcome pain or restricted movement, seek recovery from trauma or stress, or become more fully connected with their own body and authentic self.

I also specialize in attachment, birth, birth trauma, adoption, developmental, and prenatal and perinatal issues. I am passionate about supporting and working with individuals and families with children with special needs.

Hello everyone, my name is Nicole Williams and I am so excited to be part of the Austin Wellness Collaborative! I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 8 years’ experience in counseling and over 20 years’ experience in working with children, teens and families as an educator, school counselor, Social Emotional Learning teacher, trainer and consultant.

In my practice I specialize in supporting individuals (children, teens, adults) and families with anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, and chronic illness. Being a chronic illness warrior myself, I understand the many different challenges that one faces with a chronic condition or diagnosis. I am passionate about helping others integrate a life of joy and connection while managing an illness., with care, wisdom, humor, and just a little bit of rebellion. There is so much power in being heard, seen, understood and believed, for both the individual and their loved ones who are also impacted.

When working with clients I believe in a whole-body approach, meaning looking at how to help them understand their nervous system, and practicing tools such as TF-CBT, Guided Imagery, Meditation, Trauma-Informed Yoga, and EFT (Tapping) to help regulate their system. I also use traditional talk therapy along with Psychodrama, and CBT relational care to help support healing and change.

When I am not at my practice I love to be out in nature; hiking, camping, paddle boarding, you name it, if it is outside, then I am there! I am also a foster fur mommy to rescue pit bulls (pibbles as we call them if they are puppies). If I had a bigger house, I would fail at fostering more often than finding a home for them, I can be a complete pushover with sad puppy eyes!

When my house is empty of furry fosters I love to travel, especially volunteer travel. My favorite volunteer trip was to Borneo where I worked with an orangutan rehabilitation and release center by day and taught the children in the village at night.

While I know the challenges of living with a life altering illness, I also know the profound joy of integrating things that you love in new ways to a life after the diagnosis. I would love to help others who are facing this same challenge. For more information on my practice or to learn of any upcoming workshops and presentations on the link between Trauma, and Chronic Health Conditions, please visit my website (link below).

Summer Greenlees became a certified yoga instructor in 1997 and became a licensed massage therapist in 1998. Her specialized focus has always been in prenatal and postnatal yoga and massage therapy, having discovered the amazing benefits of prenatal Yoga during her first pregnancy, when her career began. She has also always worked with clients of all ages and fitness levels, both male and female.

Having worked as a full-time professional massage therapist and yoga instructor for over 20 years, her certifications also include:

• Neuromuscular Therapy and Myofasial release
• Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy (“Deep Feet”, Barefoot Massage technique)
• Acupressure and Shiatsu
• Reiki III
• Bodywork for the Childbearing Year
• Advanced Yoga Studies with Donna Farhi
• Massage Doula
• Infant Massage Instructor
• Massage Therapy Instructor
• Functional Yoga Therapy
• Watsu 1 and 2
• Healing Dance 1

Summer is currently enrolled in the Holistic Health Mastery program for completion of certification to become a holistic nutritionist and health coach. She is also currently enrolled in Sadie Nardini’s “Yoga Shred” program for an anatomy informed, intelligent approach to fitness and yoga fusion.

Summer spent 12 years attending births as a doula, in addition to her yoga and bodywork practice. During that time, and having attended hundreds of births, Summer has learned how to effectively train and prepare expecting couples for an optimal, positive birth experience using the tools of yoga and massage therapy. She very much enjoys the opportunity to share her skills with expecting couples, including labor massage techniques to expecting birth partners, and breathing and movement techniques for moms to lower stress, reduce pain, and create greater ease during birth. Look for Summer’s Labor massage Class under Maternity Services to schedule this class.

Summer received the “Best Massage Therapist” award from the Austin Birth Awards in 2013.

Summer’s private yoga therapy practice specializes in movement repatterning for reducing strain and tension in the body during the everyday movements of life as well as movements of the client’s exercise and fitness or yoga practice.

Summer’s Yoga Classes and Yoga Therapy sessions are based on a somatic approach, strongly inspired by her Yoga teacher, Donna Farhi, and her own 20 years experience with yoga, bodywork, and maternity support.

Her yoga series classes taught privately or in a small group session provide a foundation for the beginner or seasoned yoga practitioner to discover or re discover his or her own way of moving, breathing, and being in yoga practice that is truly integrative and supportive of the individuals highest well being and personal wellness goals.

Summer has been a Watsu student and practitioner for 6 years and of all the modalities offered, Watsu and and Yoga therapy are her favorite modalities to share.

Please check out Summer’s awesome reviews on Yelp!
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