Joanne Spence

Joanne Spence, DMin, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is the author of Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists: 47 Practices to Calm, Balance, and Restore the Nervous System and a companion card deck by the same title. Her latest book, written with Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, is Trauma-Informed and Responsive Yoga Teaching: A Universal Practice. Joanne has taught yoga in prisons, hospitals, schools, churches, and sometimes on street corners. Her sub-specialties are treating adults and children with chronic pain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia. She has over 30 years of clinical experience—10 of those years as the first yoga therapist at Western Psychiatric Hospital. Joanne’s poetry appears in Agape Review, Macrina Magazine, Enfleshed, and Pittsburgh Theological Journal. Joanne was recently awarded the Fred McFeely Rogers Award for creative ministry from the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Alumni Association. 

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