Joann Lutz LICSW, E-RYT, C-IAYT

Joann Lutz, MSW, LICSW, E-RYT, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, an experienced registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a Certified Ayurvedic yoga therapist. She studied and completed advanced trauma & yoga courses with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s The Trauma Center in Boston, MA.

Joann has been training mental health professionals to bring trauma-informed yoga into their healing work nationally and internationally for the past six years, bringing this work to universities, conferences, hospitals, ashrams and yoga centers. Her work was featured on Tucson, Arizona television. Her CEU course, “Bringing Yoga into Social Work Practice,” was published by the National Association of Social Workers, Ma. Chapter, in 2014.

She has practiced integral yoga for more than 40 years and taught for 34. During this time, in addition to her private psychotherapy practice in Northampton, Ma., she has taught yoga at Omega Institute; Harbin Hot Springs; Rowe Conference Center and Sivananda Yoga Retreat, Bahamas, among other venues.

She teaches trauma-informed yoga to groups recovering from major mental disorders in Western MA. She had also taught specialized yoga classes to combat veterans and individuals with eating disorders.