Libby (she/her) is a yoga and meditation teacher, community builder, and author. She shares practices that bring awareness to the subtle body to create spaciousness in the mind, vibrance in the body, and compassion from the heart. She believes that we can live more fully as our unique and radiant selves when we make time for moments of stillness and receive support from our environment and community.
Libby has completed 700 hours of training and holds certifications as an E-RYT 200 hour and YACEP. She supports people in receiving deeper sleep, releasing tension, caring for aches and pains, and tending to the postpartum body. She offers a blend of restorative yoga along with techniques from yoga nidra and guided meditation to help quiet the mind and allow deeper relaxation in the muscles and tissues of the physical body. Her three years of experience offering yoga and meditation to trauma and mental health populations, along with her lived experience of giving birth and living with an autoimmune condition provide her with first hand understanding of how the practice of restorative yoga supports one’s health and wellbeing.
She initially connected with yoga as a movement modality compatible with her urban lifestyle. She drew closer to her practice when she faced health challenges. Her restorative yoga, breath, and meditation practice enabled her to access optimism and self compassion in order to lovingly care for her body amidst the discomfort and confusion. Yoga’s teachings in the sutras and upanishads gave her a road map for courageously going inward and understanding how she identified with the different layers and aspects of her being. After nearly a decade, her health steadily improved and the practices of visualization, movement, breath, reflection, and rest, continue to enrich her life in unexpected ways.
Libby was the founder of the Setu Community (2017-23), an online yoga teacher directory and community that focused on bridging positive relationships across different identities. She is the author of 'I Courageously Show Up in the World with Love,' a guided journal that supports heart-body-mind connection. Libby is the creator of the Show Up with Love: 25-hour restorative yoga teacher training, which is rooted in yogic philosophy, social justice, and embodied practice. She served on the board of The Practice Coalition, a non-profit providing trauma informed yoga for survivors of domestic and sexual violence in NYC. She has a MA in Art History and a BA English, Creative Writing.
Listen to Libby speak about her practice on the Grounded in Greek podcast.
Training
200 hr Registered yoga teacher, Three Sisters
95 hr Registered kids yoga teacher + 52 hour teacher trainer, Yoga Ed.
75 hr Kula sequencing, Schuylar Grant and Nikki Villela
60 hr Yoga Nidra, Tracee Stanley and Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
50 hr Tantra Meditation, Tracee Stanley & Kriya Tantra Institute
85 hr Restorative, Jillian Pransky, Cindi Lee, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
40 hr LoveYourBrain Yoga and Facilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury
20 hr Trauma Informed yoga, Sangeeta Vallabhan
Studies
Race and Resilience Leadership Cohort, Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Kerri Kelly
Love and Rage meditation course, Lama Rod Owens
Meditation Mentorship, Tracee Stanley
Skill in Action Immersion, Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Transformational Teaching, Kerri Kelly, and Seane Corn
Experience
Meditation teacher for professional and community groups
Yoga teacher in studios and for private clients
Founder of Setu, a yoga teacher online directory and community
Facilitator and host of wellness workshops in-person and online
lululemon ambassador
Brands Libby has worked with
Libby leads yoga and meditation workshops and special events. Past clients include: lululemon, Medley, Chelsea Piers, Industry City, Adobe, Kickstarter, Small City, Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance.