Laura Staton, C-IAYT, OTR/L. Laura’s yoga classes cultivate increased body awareness and organization. As a faculty member of Samamkaya, she co-teaches the Adaptive Yoga Class and the Advanced Studies curriculum and also teaches classes in her home studio in Clinton Hill. Laura completed her 800-hour professional therapist program through Integrative Yoga Therapy and is certified as a Yoga Therapist through IAYT.  Laura is a graduate of The Juilliard School and was a performer/choreographer in NYC before receiving her Occupational Therapy Degree from NYU. She  works as a Senior Occupational Therapist specializing in acute rehabilitation and is the co-founder/author of Baby Om -Yoga for Mothers and Babies, published in 1999 and her latest yoga book on healing orthopedic issues with yoga was published in 2021.