Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen is a Kenyan-American currently based in rural Portugal, passionate about slow healing through trauma-informed yoga. Wambui's root lineage has been Ashtanga Yoga, which she began practicing in 2008 and teaching in 2010. She began her studies in Trauma-Informed Yoga when the implications of the #metoo movement shed light on the abuse that took place in the Ashtanga Yoga lineage.

Wambui received certification to teach in 2020 through Nityda Gessel and the Trauma Conscious Yoga Institute. She has also trained with the OmPowered Facilitation for Trauma + Transformation; Teaching Yoga for Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers by Yoga Mala; Yoga for Self-Regulation + Trauma with Hala Khouri and Off the Mat Into the World; Skill in Action's 200 hour immersion with Michelle C. Johnson; Trauma-Informed Yoga + Embodied Mindfulness with Prison Yoga Project; and she most recently completed her certification with Zabie Yamasaki's training Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga.

Wambui is a student of Lama Rod Owens and Kaya Mindlin. In 2022, Wambui moved to the countryside to learn how to grow her own food, make her own medicine and reclaim both her self- sovereignty and deep symbiosis with the Land.

Wambui is deeply inspired by spiritual teachers and communities that seek ways to apply the insights from our various practices and teachings to situations of social, racial, political, environmental and economic suffering and injustice.

She would like to see wellness spaces engage more in collective liberation  and activist spaces learn to breathe deeply and practice sustainable self-care in the midst of dismantling systemic oppression. This is her definition of community care. Click here to receive your FREE morning meditation track and stay up to date with Wambui’s events and offers. Stay close as well on Instagram

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