About
Samantha Leonard
brings warm-hearted wisdom and humility to her work, believing the answers you seek are inside you.
She has always felt a deep call to honor the role suffering plays as a catalyst to personal metamorphosis.
She seeks to be a facilitating witness to patterns of movement, thought, feeling, and behavior that can both prevent and create physical pain and emotional suffering at conscious and unconscious roots.
Samantha aims to empower people from 6 to 99 to trust their inner wisdom, allow new layers of self-compassion to emerge, and achieve positive transformations in their careers, relationships, and overall lives.
Experience and Education
Samantha is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, a Noom Certified Health Coach, and founder of Davidson Yoga Therapy and Health Coaching.
She has held complimentary healthcare positions at The Blanchard Institute, Atrium Hospital, Levine Cancer Institute, Sanger Heart Clinic, and Davidson College. She has presented for Fortune 500 companies and major Universities, both public and professional audiences, on this thing called yoga therapy and what it can do when it is unpeeled, revealed, and adapted to meet the needs and the abilities of the person doing it.
She leverages her three decades of yoga therapy, and health coaching experience with the following therapeutic models:
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Jungian Psychology
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Interfaith Perspectives
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Spiritual Technologies
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Trauma Healing
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Polyvagal Somatics
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Rest & Restore Protocol
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Compassionate Inquiry
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy
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The Neurosequential Model
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Internal Family Systems
All this is to say, there are many doorways to use on the path to healing and self-discovery, and Samantha’s breadth of experience allows for vast creativity on which approach is right for you!
Specialty Services
In our work together, you'll be invited to see yourself not as a problem to fix, but as an exquisitely complex and fascinating human being. Like a diamond that catches the light in different ways, we’ll explore your physical symptoms, emotional patterns, and deeper questions from many angles—curiously and compassionately. Whether you’re dealing with pain, anxiety, sleep struggles, or stress-related issues, this is a space to slow down, listen in, and begin to understand your body and mind in new ways. You can explore more about how I work through my specialty services below.
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Conditions Benefitted
Yoga therapy is effective at managing and even eliminating health conditions because it is a multidimensional practice working on a multi-dimensional being.
A well-designed practice can alleviate low back pain, manage anxiety, give you focus, energize you for your day, and put you in touch with your higher Self - all at the same time.
Click the links below to read testimonials from satisfied clients!
Structural Conditions
General Low Back Pain, Back Pain with Bulging Discs,
Knee Surgery Pre/Post Operation,
Neck Pain, Post Spinal Fusion Surgery,
Mental/Emotional
Anxiety, Kids 6-11, Teens, Depression, Complex Trauma, Grief, ADD/ADHD,
Physiological
Ankylosing Spondylitis, Autoimmune Conditions,
Cancer, Cardiac Health, Chronic Pain, COPD,
Fatigue, IBS/IBD, Insomnia, Fibromyalgia, Leukemia,
Menopause, Headaches/Migraines,
Parkinson's, Traumatic Illness
