Joanne Spence, MA, ERYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP

Joanne Spence, MA, ERYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP, is a recovering social worker and certified yoga therapist, and author of Trauma-Informed: A Toolbox for Therapists: 47 Simple Practices to Calm, Balance, and Restore the Nervous System (PESI Publishing, 2021). She is the founder and executive director of Yoga in Schools. Joanne trains and teaches all sorts of amazing people, both nationally and internationally, in yoga. She has taught yoga in prisons, hospitals, schools, churches, and sometimes on street corners. She specializes in working with adults and children who are experiencing chronic pain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Joanne Spence has employment relationships with Yoga Abbey 300 Yoga, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Veteran's Administration, Urban Osis Pittsburgh, and Yoga in Schools. She receives compensation as a consultant and speaker and royalties as a published author. Joanne Spence receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Joanne Spence has no relevant non-financial relationships.