A Restful Space

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A Radical Rest-orative Yoga Studio and Cozy Community Liberation Space in Old Town Eureka.🙏

Restorative & Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidrā, Community Grief Circles, and more. ❤️

Voted Best Yoga Studio in the 2025 NCJ Best of Humboldt contest!🙌🏽

Musings from the center of an eclipse portal. 🌀
08/23/2026

Musings from the center of an eclipse portal. 🌀


I sent my mom a rare selfie recently, and she responded that I looked beautiful but she saw sadness in my eyes. Well it'...
08/18/2026

I sent my mom a rare selfie recently, and she responded that I looked beautiful but she saw sadness in my eyes. Well it's a sad time to be alive, I replied. I wear my grief and love on the outside. 💔❤️


My name is Laura, she/her/they, PhD, & I'm the founder of A Restful Space, offering accessible, trauma-conscious, post-capitalist rest-orative yoga & collective grief tending in Humboldt County, CA. I'm also a geography college lecturer, parent, writer, & creator of two self-paced online courses, Yoga for Eco-Grief (now housed with ) & Breathing for 🍉. My work explores the radical intersections of rest & grief, yoga & community, embodiment & power, cyclical wisdom & collective liberation.

I'm a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with advanced restorative training from Samantha Akers & certifications/cont. ed. in the , Embodied Activism from , Yoga Nidrā with , & accessible pranayama & meditation with .

I've deepened in my trauma-informed grief offerings as a practitioner of the & a student of , & I have an MA in International Studies & a PhD in Cultural Geography specializing in Gender, Justice, & Environmental Change.

A yoga practitioner for more than a decade, I've offered yin & restorative classes, workshops, & private sessions since 2018, & I began facilitating community grief circles in 2021. I've been invited to share at the , , , , , & at Vipassana meditation retreats. I've also published essays in places like & , & I wrote a Yoga Nidrā-inspired children's book called 'The Little Book of Rest' w/art from .and.pine.

I live on unceded Wiyot land in Arcata, CA (Wiyot place name: Goudi'ni, meaning 'among the redwoods' 🌲) with my partner & our daughter, dogs, & cats. I'm devoted to centering collective liberation & radical care in everything I do...this is what we must do now. May we all get free. 🔥🧡


I really believe that enchantment is one of the things that will save us, and Outer Roominations, Humboldt Art Gathering...
08/03/2026

I really believe that enchantment is one of the things that will save us, and Outer Roominations, Humboldt Art Gathering is a master class in magic and enchantment and radical imagination. This is reason infinity why I love Humboldt County. So much gratitude to all the artists and musicians and creators and organizers. Absolutely splendid. 🙌🏽

May we fall back in love with this world and each other. May we see and remember magic everywhere. May we wake up to who we really are. May all beings everywhere be free.


Community Grief CircleSunday, July 26 2-5 pmA Restful Space NEW Arcata studioin the historic Jacoby Storehouse $36 excha...
07/21/2026

Community Grief Circle
Sunday, July 26 2-5 pm
A Restful Space NEW Arcata studio
in the historic Jacoby Storehouse
$36 exchange or sliding scale upon request

Gather in tender community and intervulnerability to acknowledge, honor, and metabolize personal, collective, systemic, and ecological grief. Beginning with gentle somatic mindfulness practice and opening ritual to create our trauma-conscious container, participants will be invited (never required) to speak anything into the circle that they would like witnessed and held in compassionate community. In addition to freely sharing, folks are also welcome to bring poetry, prose, artwork, photos, and/or song to share.

Together we will practice deep listening and compassionate witnessing, without the need to fix or solve, and seal our container with breath, meditation, song, and sound bath. Warm herbal tea will be served. 7 spots per circle, $36 exchange honors the studio and facilitation, and sliding-scale or community care spots are available upon request (email Laura at [email protected] to ask for what you need).

*While this experience can be deeply and uniquely supportive, please note that I am not a therapist and this is not a substitute for psychotherapy or crisis care.

**Please be aware that this is an anti-racist, pro-P@lestinian, pro-queer+trans, pro-humanity space committed to collective liberation.

🔗 to save your spot is in the comments. ❤️🙏🏽


The systems live outside of us and inside of us. And this is also a source of grief that needs tending.Next time you not...
07/20/2026

The systems live outside of us and inside of us. And this is also a source of grief that needs tending.

Next time you notice you're in a rut or a loop of scarcity and/or urgency, notice how your body responds. What parts brace, tense, constrict? As you practice softening your grip around the story, what tending do these parts need? What somatic practices, meditations, pranayama, asana etc. can step in to support you?

I've been loving these anapanasati phrases:

Breathing in, I am supported.

Breathing out, I can rest.

Breathing in, this is enough.

Breathing out, I am already enough.


Alignment is something you can feel in your body, in your bones, in your heart. And this move to the historic Jacoby Sto...
07/20/2026

Alignment is something you can feel in your body, in your bones, in your heart. And this move to the historic Jacoby Storehouse on the Arcata Plaza feels right in all the ways. I'm SO loving offering classes, circles, and private sessions in this incredible, literally glowing space. Friends and clients have described it as portal, womb, cocoon. Come see for yourself. ❤️🙏🏽


✨Weekly classes are held on Tuesday evenings (Yoga Nidrā 5-615, ONE spot just opened up for this week!) and Friday late mornings (Restorative Yoga 11-1230, full with waitlist this week).

✨This Sunday, 7/26 we'll resume our monthly-ish Community Grief Circle...there are a few spots left! Come tend and alchemize your grief as the liberatory love that it is.

✨ Private Deep Rest sessions (1-2+ people) are offered by request, please reach out to me directly or join the waitlist on my website to schedule! I'm also happy to plan a private class or circle for your group.

✨And my Monthly Community Rest-orative Yoga practice Om Shala Yoga Studio is happening this Wednesday, 7/22. It's so lovely to practice in this sweet community space.

✨Finally, I'm so delighted that my two online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉, are all cozied up over at . More in the works as well!

You can sign up as an experiencer for free to see all the beautiful offerings 70+ radical creators are putting out there and sign up for what feels aligned (both free and paid offerings available).

Also if you use substack, teachable, patreon etc I HIGHLY recommend that you consider making a radical shift away from big tech and toward actual aligned community. Join us as a Creator and support this liberatory mama-owned alternative!


I'll add 🖇️ in the comments for all the things. ❤️🙌🏽☕


Just Iike I created A Restful Space because it was the space I needed and couldn't find, Sally created because it's the...
07/09/2026

Just Iike I created A Restful Space because it was the space I needed and couldn't find, Sally created because it's the space she needed and couldn't find. The space she knew we all needed and that she had the skills to create. That's exactly what these times call for. Just imagine a world where everyone shared their passions and offered their medicine...

Since I discovered a few months ago I've joined as a creator and moved both of my on-demand courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉, over to this radical mama-owned liberatory platform, and I have lots of plans for more virtual offerings. There are also SO many more gorgeous post-capitalist creators offering their medicine...you can join for FREE as an experiencer and check out all of the fantastic courses and communities there.

Please join us!! And if you have offerings on Teachable or Substack etc etc or plan to, just say no to big tech and get on over here. We have to create and support the world we want to see. We have to do it now.


Check out the 🔗 in comments to see my courses all cozy on and all the other juicy offerings too.

❤️🙌🏽🌀


Writing these words to my college students, figure I'd share them here too. 🔥
07/04/2026

Writing these words to my college students, figure I'd share them here too. 🔥


I have a lovely painting made by a friend and fellow grief tender, Anastasia Upcycles & Creates
07/02/2026

I have a lovely painting made by a friend and fellow grief tender, Anastasia Upcycles & Creates

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