Deborah Donohue is a Professional Writer and Editor, Certified Integrative Yoga Therapist, Certified Yoga of the Heart Practitioner, Certified Reiki Practitioner and Transition Doula sm (midwife to the dying and in support of their loved ones). She is registered with the Yoga Alliance and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists as well as the National Federation of Spiritual Healers.

Her empathic and therapeutic approach to her teaching evolved through decades of dealing with her own profound and exceptional health issues that both humbled and gifted her life. She has worked in the healing arts for three decades, many of those years caring for people with acute and chronic challenges: AIDS, cancer and cardiac among them. She has spent over ten years personally attending to the dying at Sarah House, a social model hospice in Santa Barbara, California.

Her private sessions, classes, workshops and retreats encourage deep transformative healing and rejuvenation through a blend and integration of Hatha, Yin and Restorative Yoga, guided meditation, breath work, healing touch, journaling and reconnecting with nature.

Aside from her writing, teaching and healing work, Deborah also enjoys beekeeping, sacred subsistence hunting, acting and dance, painting, organic gardening, and hiking the trails in and around Santa Barbara.

"Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does." - Isak Dinesen