About
International dance, yoga and somatic movement facilitator, reiki and multidimensional healing practitioner, family and systemic constellation work facilitator, professional dance artist, hypnotherapy and subconscious reprogramming master – Laura Sarah Dowdall creates transformational experiences that uplift, empower and inspire people towards greater joy, happiness and freedom!
Laura’s passion is helping people get out of their heads and into the wisdom and insight of their bodies. She brings a 360′ perspective connecting science, arts, physical, mental and emotional health, quantum physics and spirituality in a practical everyday way.
She supports people to explore topics of change, sustainability, health, inclusion and innovation from an embodied perspective that enables greater solution-oriented focus, new perspective and opportunities for more authentic connection, impact and learning.
Laura supports transformational shifts, generational healing and empowerment through retreats, breakthrough courses, one to one healing sessions, workshops and weekly somatic movement sessions online.
Laura is a professionally trained dancer and life-long learner. From her early years she was able to connect with energy, read runes and symbols, and understand the issues relating to a person’s energetic field and physical body.
Near death experiences and periods of intense grief came with great realisations and visions that asked her to commit to her path as an advocate for healing and empowerment.
She leads community projects empowering women through dance, performance, nature-based workshops, ritual and land work that focus on healing generational trauma, supporting community and promoting inclusion and accessibility for all abilities.
She founded Running Blind in 2015 to make dance and its performance more accessible to people with vision loss. She continues her research and collaboration with the blind community and facilitates inclusion awareness workshops and trainings sharing the skills of social haptic / non-verbal communication, informed touch and the power of contact improvisation and dance.
She facilitates school workshop for students, teachers and parents promoting movement as a means of supporting mental-emotional health and teaches a six-week online course programme called ‘Creative Wellbeing’.
Laura’s work in inclusive dance, teaching people with vision-loss featured on Nationwide on RTÉ 1, Irish National Television on June 7th 2024.
She is the founder of Running Blind Dance, Healing Yoga and facilitator of inclusive dance projects in collaboration with the Anne Sullivan Centre for the Deafblind, Vision Ireland and Fighting Blindness since 2015. Laura was a tutor on the first Inclusive Dance Training in Ireland in 2023 supported by University College Cork and Dance Cork Firkin Crane.
Laura shares her work in Ireland and travels internationally to teach. Having lived and worked in Rome, Berlin, Boston and the UK, and solo-travelled through Mexico in 2022, Laura has experienced all forms of transitional challenge and change in career, culture and language.
Life Learning
Always an advocate for learning and personal development, a near-life threatening accident caused her to re-align her direction and apply her learning to empower a full and healthy recovery. First-hand life experience and dedicated years of training in the science, philosophy, mechanics and psychology of healing has distinguished her as an innovative whole-person wellness provider.
Known for her authentic presence, uplifting energy and creative dynamic, her passion is to educate and empower people to better care for their wellbeing, believing self-care is the key to sustainable health and happiness.
Bespoke Services
Laura is an innovator expanding the scope and possibility of personal awareness and healing through her mutlidisciplinary approach to empowerment and wellbeing, creating her own modalities, trainings and courses integrating the wisdom of her research and experience with the best of her training in Yoga, Clinical Somatic Education, TRE, Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Life Coaching, Family Constellation Work, Contact Improvisation, Reiki and Seichim Energy Healing, Hypnotherapy and Subconscious reprogramming. She provides a truly holistic experience.
Her awareness of all aspects of wellbeing enables her to create bespoke life-enhancing programs for the benefit of individuals, teams and communities around the world.
Laura founded Healing Yoga in 2010 and has since dedicated herself to the development of empowering wellbeing programs that encourage creativity, expression, self-awareness and joy in learning.
She has been interviewed and featured on Nationwide, RTE 1, in articles for The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, Positive Life Magazine, International Health Publications, TV3 and Irish radio for her wellbeing expertise.
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“Incredible, Mind-Blowing, Freeing, Beautiful, Full of Love. Laura is incredibly gifted and very inspiring. This was pure joy! It is for anyone wanting to feel free!”
Niamh, Humanitarian Law / International NGO
Background
Before concentrating her career in dance, holistic wellbeing and social entrepreneurship – Laura worked for Enterprise Ireland throughout the USA, tech start-ups in Ireland and an International Law Firm in Germany. She attained a First Class Honours Degree in International Commerce and Italian from the Business School at University College Dublin, and completed postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School in International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Creative Health & Community
Laura is recognised as an impactful Social Entrepreneur for her National Dance Ability Programme– providing people who are blind and deafblind with access to the wellbeing benefits of dance. She developed the Creative Wellbeing Programme for Schools and Special Needs Centres- educating students, parents and teachers on the life-long benefits of self-care and wellbeing.
Laura believes that continuous professional development, personal practice, and active research are integral to offering the best service to her clients. Laura practices what she preaches and is very down-to-earth, personable, and motivational in her approach.
Mission
Healing Yoga’s mission is to enable, educate and empower children and adults to live their full potential, aligned by their unique values and aspirations.
Services
Laura provides: one to one consultations, group workshops, school programs, corporate wellness events, online classes, retreats and teacher-parent training programmes throughout the year.
Connect with Laura, by email- laura@healingyoga.ie or through our contact page.
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Testimonials
“”Healing Yoga has been a blessing for me during the pandemic, it has really improved my long term back pain and has also decreased my levels of stress. Laura is a very warm and patient teacher. She encourages you to work with your body instead of against it. Her one-on-one sessions provide a personal introduction to the practice and include tailored exercises to suit your individual experiences. Laura can also provide Zoom recordings of your classes on request for you to practice in your own time. Would highly recommend, thank you for all your work this year.”
IsabellaExecutive
“Laura has amazing psycho-spiritual skills to facilitate groups. Her sessions are intrinsically multidimensional in nature. She works in such a holistic way: cognitively, emotional, spiritually, bodily. I have done yoga for years and travelled extensively around the world doing all kinds of healing and yoga workshops. It is not an exaggeration to say that Laura is attuned to a Higher Consciousness. I could not recommend her enough!”
– NoeliaPsychotherapist
“Laura is a unique teacher and therapist. She is whole-heartedly devoted to what she does and to all the individuals she is teaching or treating. Her yoga classes helped me to better understand my body, to realize what was going on inside me and notice things that needed more attention. Her classes helped me to relax and lift my energy levels. I also received reiki from Laura; it was such a powerful experience and I would recommend it to anyone. I am thankful that I got introduced to the world of yoga, reiki and meditation by this special person.”
– EllaSinger
“I believe in life that everything happens for a reason and coming upon Laura in a random internet search for help with back pain was true testament of this hypotheses…from my first phone-call with Laura and her intuitive ear, she had a plan to help that would go beyond the manifesting back trouble that I was having … Over the last few months I’ve practised with Laura in her beautifully spirited gentle yoga classes. Her classes along with her Reki practise give truly self nurturing techniques and rituals that everyone should have the benefit of both knowing and practicing!”
– MaureenLawyer
“Time-out with my body was a revolutionary experience! I really enjoyed the energy of the workshops- both relaxing and energising!”
– DanielCEO
“I find online classes so beneficial with the stress and tension of covid times. I feel energised and more connected within myself, both physically and emotionally. It encourages me to open up rather than shut down and survive. It helps manage my symptoms of MS too.”
– AnnaNurse
“Laura is a highly skilled and much learned teacher and practitioner who invests great amounts of energy and warmth into her classes. I know of no one so determined to spread the benefits of somatic yoga, and so passionate about what she does, which is equalled only by her supportive nature and wisdom. The lessons I have learned about my body and healing from her are incredible. I highly recommend her.”
– AndrewTeacher
“Laura has the most amazing calming and grounded energy, she seems to see past the physical and straight to the core of a person making them feel at ease. She is encouraging and full of knowledge. She creates a safe space to practice in, her classes and her 1:1 sessions are fantastic.”
– RowenaEvent Mangement
“As someone who suffers with chronic migraine, these sessions have been very helpful, relieving the tension built up in my neck and shoulders. Covid times has meant more hours sitting, the somatic movement sessions have been both invigorating and relaxing.”
– LauraRecruitment Manager
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