Livia Shapiro is a mama, long time yoga practitioner and teacher, somatic psychotherapist and author.

As a Somatic Psychotherapist Livia works holistically, helping people reorient and repair their nervous systems to live more vibrantly and powerfully. She assists in processes of trauma healing, navigating life’s thresholds, and supporting the emergence of authentic desire and healthy impulses. Livia is skilled in working with grief/loss, anxiety, PTSD, attachment trauma, intimate betrayal, major life transitions, eating disorders, and spiritual emergence in mind-body practitioners.

Livia is the author of The Somatic Therapy Workbook: stress-relieving exercises for strengthening the mind-body connection and sparking emotional and physical healing, released in December 2020. She continues to write on the intersection of yoga, somatics, and psychology, offering a fresh and sane voice to the emergent trends within the fields of yoga and wellness. Her article Yoga-Based Body Psychotherapy is published in the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy and is a tool for weaving yoga and psychotherapy into a seamless psychotherapeutic model.

As a creative writer, she creates vivid prose and free verse on topics including; feminism, dismantling and healing misogyny, narcissistic abuse, and the vast array of motherhood experiences. She has been featured on a variety of podcasts speaking elegantly to all of these topics with nuance, sanity, complexity, and courageous humanity.

In the yoga world she brings essential Somatic Psychology principles and tools to dedicated yoga students and instructors worldwide through Applied Psychology for Yogis and her somatic and relationally-oriented yoga classes.

Having practiced and taught yoga for over two decades, Livia encourages people to grow their ranges of motion and emotion through steady asana practice, somatic education, and body-centered mentorship. Known for her sincerity, directness and humor, her teachings illuminate the spiritual path as deeply human and body-centric.

Livia holds a masters of Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, CO and is a certified SomaSource Life Cycles Practitioner. She serves as adjunct faculty in the somatic program at Naropa University. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Vermont focusing on Psychology and comparative religion.

An avid mover, meditator, artist and cook, Livia resides in Boulder, CO with her family .