Carrie Hoffman

Carrie has been practicing yoga for 14 years and teaching for 8. Her path to the mat is inseparable from her teaching philosophy. Yoga helped her get in touch with her intuition and finally quit drinking alcohol after a decade of addiction, work through her trauma, and reconnect with her higher self. Now she brings that same unflinching, recovery-aware presence to every place she’s blessed to teach: retreat centers, treatment facilities, schools, and juvenile detention centers.

For 6 years, Carrie has been the yoga provider for her home county’s Juvenile Detention Center, where she has trained and managed an entire community of trauma-informed yoga teachers. She has co-taught two 200-hour YTTs and multiple trauma-informed yoga trainings, led 100+ retreats across 7 countries, and holds an 800-hour Ayurvedic Health Counselor certification.

Her teaching is grounded, warm, and deeply practical. She infuses trauma-informed practices into every class she leads, yet also loves to challenge her students with a little intensity or a creative mobility flow! From vinyasa at a studio to yoga in a cell block, Carrie strives to infuse her yoga sessions with nervous system regulation, philosophy you can actually grasp, and a bit of humor as well. She believes every teacher deserves this foundation. An entrepreneur, writer, and activist, Carrie isn’t afraid to speak up about the cognitive dissonance of running a yoga business under capitalism. She brings years of real life experience as a founder, studio teacher, and retreat leader to this training and aims to transfer her business savvy as well as her teaching methods to trainees.

An avid traveler, Carrie has explored 44 countries, worked as a Health Education Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Tanzania, and coached many travel lovers on how to volunteer and live abroad. In her free time, Carrie loves trail running, mountaineering, playing harmonium, eating chocolatey desserts, and making friends with dogs.