YOGA + MEDITATION
Practices for Presence, Healing, and Deep Inner Connection
Through yoga, meditation, breathwork, and somatic awareness, Veronica guides students into a deeper relationship with their bodies, their nervous systems, and their inner wisdom.
Her work is designed to help you soften, listen inward, reconnect with yourself, and integrate healing through movement, stillness, and embodied practice.
Speaker. Coach. Facilitator. Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Communication & Relationship Strategist. Change Catalyst.
THE PRACTICE
A Grounded Approach to Movement, Breath, and Self-Awareness
Veronica’s yoga and meditation practices are rooted in embodiment, emotional awareness, and deep respect for the body.
As a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and yoga teacher trainer, Veronica integrates somatic practices, breathwork, mindful movement, and meditation to support healing, self-discovery, and nervous system connection. Her background includes Hatha, Kundalini, aerial yoga, yin yoga, and trauma-informed yoga.
This is not about performance or perfection. It is about coming home to yourself — one breath, one movement, and one honest moment at a time.
WAYS TO PRACTICE
How You Can Experience Veronica’s Teachings
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Personalized yoga, meditation, breathwork, and embodiment sessions designed to support your unique needs, nervous system, and season of life.
GROUP CLASSES
Guided experiences that help students cultivate presence, self-awareness, emotional balance, and a deeper connection between mind and body.
WORKSHOPS
Transformational group spaces that combine movement, breath, reflection, conversation, and embodied practice.
CORPORATE WELLNESS EXPERIENCES
Grounded practices for organizations, teams, and leaders who want to reduce stress, strengthen presence, and create more mindful connection.
MODALITIES
Practices Rooted in Embodiment and Awareness
Hatha Yoga
A grounding practice that supports strength, alignment, breath, and body awareness.
Kundalini Yoga
A dynamic practice using breath, mantra, movement, and energy awareness to awaken vitality and inner clarity.
Yin Yoga
A slow, restorative practice designed to support deep release, stillness, flexibility, and nervous system regulation.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
A compassionate approach that centers choice, safety, body awareness, and empowerment.
Breathwork
Guided breathing practices that help regulate the nervous system, release tension, and reconnect you with your body.
Meditation
Mindfulness and guided practices that create space for reflection, self-trust, emotional clarity, and inner connection.
RETREATS
Immersive Spaces for Restoration and Transformation
Veronica’s retreats are designed as intentional containers for deep rest, reflection, embodiment, and reconnection.
Through guided practice, movement, meditation, conversation, nature, and community, participants are invited to slow down, listen inward, and return to themselves in a more honest and grounded way.
These experiences are for people who are ready to step away from the noise of daily life and enter a space where healing, clarity, and transformation can unfold with support.
Join Veronica for Upcoming Workshops and Guided Practices
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Body Temple Sensuality Training for Women
October 9-11, 2026
An invitation to awaken your most alive, vibrant, and turned-on self! Over this transformative weekend, rediscover play and uninhibited self-expression through sensual embodiment practices.
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CIVANA Residency
Let's flow, breathe, and discover the magic of this harmonious space together at CIVANA.
IN THEIR WORDS
What People Are Saying
★★★★★
❝I cannot thank Veronica enough. She’s an incredible soul. If you get the opportunity to attend one of her retreats, classes, workshops, just sign up! You are going to have the time of your life.❞
— ANETTE DE LAROSA
★★★★★
❝She [Veronica]creates a space for self-healing and self-discovery that’s fun, deep, and genuine. It’s woman’s power, it’s beauty, it’s love!❞
— ALANNA Z.
★★★★★
❝Veronica creates a safe space for everyone to explore deeply, expand freely, and to fully be exactly who they are.❞
— BETH ROGERS
★★★★★
❝Best yoga class I’ve ever taken - hands down.❞
— JULIE B.
★★★★★
❝Veronica was the most wonderful example of a healthy, loving presence. I’m so glad to have spent time in her class and learn the techniques to create a solid foundation for my relationship and progress to a higher level of happiness, unity, and love with my spouse. I highly recommend spending time with Veronica! Simply the best.❞
— ALEXANDRA GABINO
CERTIFICATIONS + TRAINING
Experience Backed by Study, Practice, and Deep Facilitation
Veronica brings years of devoted study, embodied experience, and professional facilitation to every practice she leads.
She is a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and yoga teacher trainer, with experience across multiple modalities including Hatha, Kundalini, aerial yoga, yin yoga, and trauma-informed yoga.
Veronica also leads and supports yoga teacher training experiences, including a 200-hour yoga teacher training at CIVANA Wellness Resort and Spa designed for students seeking to deepen their practice and become certified yoga teachers.
FROM BREAKDOWN TO BECOMING
How Yoga Became a Path Back to Myself
WHEN EVERYTHING FELL APART…
In 2008, I was 70 lbs overweight and on the brink of a divorce after 15 years of marriage. I had reached a point in my life where I was financially, emotionally, and spiritually bankrupt, and my children were hurting.
I found myself with the foundation of who I thought I was crumbled beneath my feet, and I held the jackhammer in my hand.
My breakdown was a culmination of each choice I had made, both conscious and unconscious, that had led me to my current state. At that time, I lacked the skills to accept ownership for my role in the heartaches and failures, so I ran—as I had done so many times before—in order not to feel or see myself for who I really was.
I thank God that I eventually had the insight to run into the hot room of a Bikram Yoga studio.
YOGA AND NUTRITION SAVED MY LIFE
Fast-forward to today and I am a woman significantly transformed.
I became a certified yoga instructor in 2012 and shortly after became a Holistic Nutrition Coach specializing in Plant-Based Nutrition.
I have pursued various modalities and trainings as a means to not only build upon my strengths as a teacher but as a human being.
There was palpable healing that took place when I became a practitioner of yoga. I kept practicing. I kept studying. And eventually, what had become part of changing my own life became something I could teach.
I didn’t come to yoga because I was looking for a profession. I came to it during a period when my life had fallen apart.
That history still matters to the way I teach today.
MAGIC EXISTS
I believe in magic and that dreams really do come true.
I also believe that it is my dharma—my duty—in this lifetime to help uplift humanity, and I do so with joy and utmost compassion.
Learning to have compassion for myself has been a game-changer for me because it has allowed me to develop a level of love and trust for myself, which allows me to see others more clearly and in a higher state of love.
THE PRACTICE I LIVE AND TEACH
Bringing Together Experience, Education, and Embodied Practice
HOW I TEACH
I don’t teach from the position of someone who has figured everything out.
I teach from what I have studied, what I have practiced, what I have lived, and what I continue to learn.
That means I am interested in more than whether someone can do a pose correctly or sit still long enough to meditate. I am interested in what happens when we slow down enough to notice ourselves. What happens in the body. What we do when we’re uncomfortable. Where we leave ourselves. Where we push. Where we stop listening. And what we can learn when we stay curious about all of it.
Yoga and meditation are part of a much larger body of work for me now, but I have never forgotten how I came to them.
MY PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Before this chapter of my career, I spent 14 years working across retail banking, real estate, and insurance. I have also owned several businesses, including a group home for teens and a transitional home for women in recovery.
I then spent 10 years working in higher education, with a focus on design, development, and implementation in adult learning.
I hold a Master of Science in Adult Learning, a BS in Psychology, and a Graduate Business Certificate from Walden University.
Those experiences may look very different from one another on paper. To me, they aren’t. I have spent much of my life studying people—how we learn, what shapes our choices, how we relate, what we do when life asks something difficult of us, and what becomes possible when we begin to understand ourselves differently.
YOGA + MEDITATION TRAINING
I have been recognized by Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500 Certified Yoga Instructor since 2013 and an RYT 200 Kundalini Yoga teacher since 2015.
My yoga training includes Hatha and Trauma-Informed Yoga, Power, Yin, Restorative, and Kundalini Yoga.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Plant-Based Nutrition Certification — Cornell University
Holistic Nutrition Certificate — Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
Foundational Ayurveda — San Diego College of Ayurveda
WHERE THIS WORK LIVES TODAY
I continue to teach yoga and meditation as individual practices and as part of the workshops, retreats, trainings, and experiences I facilitate.
What began for me in a hot yoga room in the middle of one of the hardest periods of my life has remained part of my life all these years later.
I still practice.
I still teach.
And I am still a student.