Carolyn Johnson

• Developed and led yoga classes with a focus on therapeutic, trauma-informed approaches.
• Incorporate breathwork, meditation, mantra into traditional yoga poses.
• Established and have maintained a devoted student base, including those dealing with chronic pain, trauma, age-related issues
• Offered multiple workshops related to yoga for mood-management, chronic pain, as well as workshops to guide students to develop their own home practice.
• Offered a variety of yoga classes including Gentle Yoga, Slow Flow, Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga.
• Created an accessible, welcoming, nonjudgmental class to encourage both newer students as well as more experienced students who were seeking a balance in their practice.
• Incorporated principles of alignment, nervous system regulation, and offered extensive verbal instruction.
• Fostered an environment to help students develop body/mind awareness from the "inside out".

Offered a variety of workshops (see above) in addition to teaching 2-3 classes each week for 11 years until the studio closed in June.

Provided individual and group therapy incorporating somatic approaches, including yoga, creative movement, Tai Chi as well as cognitive-behavioral interventions, DBT, psycho- education, meditation, and traditional verbal psychotherapy.

-Worked with an interdisciplinary team to maximize therapeutic outcome.

-Offered support and in-services to staff r/t group work, creative arts therapies, trauma-informed approaches.

-Participated in multiple unit and hospital-wide committees.

-Trained in BLS (Basic Life Support) (every other year) and Management of

Aggressive Behavior (twice a year)