About Joann

Joann, trainer, author, psychotherapist, and yoga therapist/teacher, is the creator of Autonomic Yoga, a nervous-system informed, trauma-sensitive yoga approach to mental health care. 

Her book, Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone, is being praised by international leaders in yoga therapy and trauma studies. In it, she describes and applies the Nervous System-Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga model of care (NITYA).

She is also the author of a NASW CE course, "Bringing Yoga into Social Work Practice," and the paper, "Classical Yoga Postures as a Psychotherapeutic Intervention for Autonomic Nervous System Regulation." published in "Proceedings of the Yoga and Psyche Conference, 2014," published by Cambridge Scholars

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Joann has been practicing yoga since 1970, and teaching it since 1980. She has been licensed as a Clinical Social Worker since 1991 and Certified as a Yoga Therapist since 2016.

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