Laurie Hang

Certified Yoga Therapist

Founder, Selfcare Atelier · Los Angeles

Born in a refugee camp. Raised as the eldest daughter. Built a framework from that life.

I was born in a refugee camp in the Philippines in 1979. My parents were among the Vietnamese who fled after the fall of Saigon, and I came into the world before we arrived anywhere permanent. We made it to the United States. My parents built a life. I grew up as the eldest daughter, which in our family — and in most families like ours — meant learning early how to hold things for other people.

That formation shaped everything I do now. I know that woman because I was her.

After years of other careers, yoga therapy gave me a language for what my body had been doing for decades without my permission.

I trained rigorously, earning the C-IAYT — the clinical standard in yoga therapy — alongside my E-RYT 500 and YACEP credentials. I built the Root to Rise framework from that training and from everything my life had already taught me.

Root to Rise is a five-stage spiral: Root, Reveal, Reclaim, Remember, Rise. Designed to move people from dysregulation to capacity. From inherited patterns to chosen ones.

THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS

Selfcare Atelier

Private wellness practice · for-profit

My private practice. I work with individual women through Root to Rise in 1:1 sessions and small group cohorts, and I bring that same framework into organizations through Root to Rise for Teams. The corporate work is not a pivot from the personal work. It is the same methodology, applied to the people inside institutions who are holding the most and tending to themselves the least.

Hike to Yoga

Los Angeles nonprofit · founded by Laurie Hang

A Los Angeles nonprofit bringing free movement and collective healing into communities that do not always have access to it. Hike to Yoga is where the Root to Rise framework first proved itself — in community, outdoors, with real people navigating real lives. It remains the foundation of everything built above it.

I work with women who are ready to stop performing wellness and start practicing it. And I work with organizations that understand their people are not a resource to be managed but a nervous system to be sustained.

If that is the kind of work you are looking for, you are in the right place.

Work With Me

Featured in the IAYT Training Video

Want to learn more about yoga therapy? In this Scope of Practice Training Video, you can see Laurie's view of Spirituality in Yoga Therapy starting at video mark 21:55.

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Featured in the Los Angeles Times

Laurie is also the Founder and Executive Director of Hike to Yoga where she makes nature-based yoga therapy accessible for all. Read more about it here: "Hiking Plus Yoga is The Perfect Combo"

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Featured Interview on Expressions of Leadership

"Leading Through Rest and Rebellion: Laurie Hang on Redefining Leadership"

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Featured Interview on Small & Gutsy

Host Dr. Laura Scherck Wittcoff sits down with Laurie to explore how a self-described non-athletic, first-generation immigrant built a movement now approaching its 100th event — and why she believes self-care is world peace.