Lauren Turner is the founder of Warrior Within Yoga Project, a trauma informed yoga instructor and business consultant known for her down-to-earth teaching style and collaborative nature. Lauren’s work with veterans and first responders, both as an instructor and nonprofit leader, is making trauma-informed yoga services more accessible throughout Massachusetts.

With a professional background in marketing, Lauren has worked and consulted with businesses in the nonprofit, wellness and retail industry along with many yoga studios and wellness providers across the country. After several years of managing and co-owning a small yoga studio, Lauren founded Warrior Within Yoga Project in 2022 which is providing the veteran and first responder population with yoga, at no cost to them. In addition to her role as Executive Director of Warrior Within Yoga Project, Lauren offers business consultation and freelance work to local yoga businesses, including Berkshire Yoga Festival.

Lauren has taught in the MetroWest area for over seven years, receiving her initial certification in 2016 from The New School of Yogic Arts in Brookline. She skillfully teaches classes that are engaging, yet accessible. Sessions balance a focus on increasing body awareness, mobility and on techniques to foster resilience.

Lauren is known for her steady, grounded presence, and skillfully teaches classes that are engaging, yet accessible. Sessions focus on increasing mobility, stability and balance and include breath-work and meditative practices that guide the body back to a state of ease. Lauren invites students to tune into their bodies’ and breath as a way to come back to the present moment. It’s when we build steady focus on sensations of body, breath and mind, we learn how to become more comfortable feeling uncomfortable and integrate our life’s experiences more fully.