Louise Green

Self Healing & Yoga Instructor

Private and Group Appointments

 

Rev. Louise Green is an ordained minister since 1992, a community organizer since 1994, and now a spiritual director and yoga educator. Her classes and workshops at Luminous Warrior draw on a wide range of movement and yoga styles, dance, world religions, Insight Meditation, and Shamanic healing.

Louise became interested in studying shamanism more formally in 2010, and sought a local shaman with whom to meet regularly. After completing the Medicine Wheel week of the South through the Four Winds Society of Alberto Villoldo, she signed up for Sara’s mentoring program in D.C. She found the healing appointments to be powerful and transformative, and her own engagement with shamanic methods deepening with Sara’s coaching. Louise took another leap forward in awareness during a retreat Sara organized in the spring of 2011, and began to see earth-based healing methods as part of her ministry.

In November 2011, her clergy role at All Souls Unitarian in D.C. ended, and sabbatical training as a yoga educator took place in Costa Rica from January–March 2012. Becoming a class and workshop instructor at Luminous Warrior seemed a natural fit, as Louise has been a member since the opening days of the center.

Louise earned a B.A. (1983) from the University of Oregon, an M.Div. (1991) from Harvard Divinity School, and an M.A. (2010) in Applied Healing Arts from the Tai Sophia Institute of Maryland. Her ordination was in 1992 with the United Church of Christ (UCC), and she is now active with both UCC and Unitarian clergy groups. She has practiced yoga since 1988, and was certified to teach (YA-300) at the Nosara Yoga Institute of Costa Rica in 2012.

Her ministry experience included serving three congregations, most recently eight years at All Souls Unitarian in D.C. Louise was a community organizer with several affiliates of the Industrial Areas Foundation in New York City for over nine years, doing multi-issue leadership training and strategy for public action. Her background in movement includes eight years of work as a professional modern dancer and teacher with companies in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area, and with the Eugene Ballet and University of Oregon Contemporary Dancers.

Louise teaches Warrior Fitness and Luminous Yoga at Luminous Warrior. She also teaches a once a month Self Healing class and Yoga workshop, and sees individuals for private or small group appointments. Contact Louise directly to schedule your private appointment. Call 202.393.1330 ext. 3.