Seed Yoga Therapy’s mission:
To provide a transformative space where people and communities can move toward healing personal, intrapersonal, interpersonal, historical, and systemic wounding through connection and resilience.
Vision:
Envisioning a world where all beings are free and whole
Values:
Transformation, integration, courage and grace
Gratitude for my teachers:
With a deep bow I honor my teacher, Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan, who shows me the mirror and the path to freedom every day.
Immense gratitude to Leticia Nieto, Molly Lannon Kenny, Stephanie Sisson, Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Richard Miller who deepen my love and knowledge of yoga, interdependence and healing.
I humbly, gratefully and lovingly walk in your footsteps.
Saumya (Laura) Humpf is passionate about supporting people heal from the effects of individual, collective, intergenerational and systemic trauma as well as cultivating and nourishing resilience.
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in working with a wide range of challenges including: depression, grief, shame, and the struggle to love the body one lives in. As a certified Yoga Therapist she utilizes body-based approaches to healing, which can decrease pain, emotional and physical, and trauma symptoms (i.e. insomnia, panic, dissociation, etc.) while increasing acceptance, courage and the capacity to meet life with compassion and choice.
Saumya works from trauma-informed, consent-based and liberatory approaches and is committed to clients experiencing agency, empowerment and freedom.
Saumya also offers Resilience Coaching to organizations that experience high levels of burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary trauma. She has worked with outreach workers, therapists, social workers, case managers, physical therapists and executive level positions. Through this embodied and mindful approach to resilience she has seen an increase in the ability to adapt and recover more quickly after stress, adversity, or tragedy, improved work satisfaction, decreased levels of depression and anxiety and more.
Saumya turned to Yoga in 2002 after struggling with burnout and insomnia herself. She started teaching Yoga in 2004 and has been a Mental Health Therapist and Yoga Therapist since 2007. She completed her Master’s in Child, Couple and Family Therapy from Antioch University and was certified as a Yoga Therapist though The Samarya Center’s Integrated Movement Therapy program. She was the steward of Rainier Beach Yoga, a studio focusing on resilience and social and racial justice from 2015-2020.
This work fills Saumya up, and she is grateful to have the opportunity to share it with others. She looks forward to working with you.
License Number (Laura Humpf): 60208999