
Hana Clare Raftery
M.S. in Occupational Therapy - Yoga Teacher - Ayurvedic Health Counselor - Breathwork Facilitator - Reiki Healer - Safe & Sound Protocol Provider


My Story
Writing a bio is not easy - I am multi-faceted, multi-passionate, and ever-evolving (as I know you are too).
I am a highly-sensitive mother, a partner, a daughter, a friend, and a entrepreneur. I am a student of yoga, of nature and the seasons, of my own body, and my own nervous system.
The first thing I want you to know about me is that I (like you) believe in a brighter and more beautiful future. I want us to have careers that light us up instead of burn us out. I want us and I want our children and grandchildren to have access to clean water and beautiful forests. I want us to know and be known by our neighbors and bring food to each other. I want us to make art together. I want us to feel safe and nourished in our bodies.
I believe we each have a role to play and unique ways of contributing to our collective future.
The second thing I want you to know is that I (like you) am all too familiar with burnout. I’ve burned out from sensory overwhelm and overstimulation. From people-pleasing and over-giving emotional support to friends. From perfectionism and incredible amounts of internal and external pressures in my academic life. I've burned out from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue in community mental health work. I’ve burned out from over-working at multiple jobs while following my dream to start my own business. Then I burned out from starting my own business. Most recently, I’ve burned out from the sleepless nights and endlessly overwhelming and overstimulating challenges of motherhood.
By necessity, I have been on a life-long journey of figuring out how to care for my highly-sensitive nervous system while trying to contribute my small-but-important role in service of a brighter, more beautiful future.
My work combines my lived experience of mothering, entrepreneurship, healing from burnout, and navigating life with sensory sensitivities, plus my 15+ years of practice and advanced studies in yoga, ayurveda, breathwork, reiki energy healing, meditation, life coaching, occupational therapy, polyvagal theory, mental health, teen wellness, pre and postnatal care, sensory processing science, and trauma-informed somatic healing. I am also a certified Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, an evidence-based therapeutic listening program designed to help you think, feel, and connect better through nervous system regulation.
Some fun facts about me:
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Birth Order: Eldest Daughter
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Astrological Birth Signs: Aries Sun, Libra Rising, Libra Moon
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Ayurvedic Dosha: Pitta - Vata Predominant
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Myers Briggs Personality Type: INFJ
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Enneagram: 2
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Human Design: Projector
My Resume
Formal Education
B.S. in Exercise Biology, U.C. Davis, 2012
M.S. in Occupational Therapy, San Jose State University, 2015
Certificates & Training
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Avalon Yoga Center, 2008
Massage Therapy Training, Massage Therapy Institute, 2009
Art of Yoga: Using Yoga and Art to Empower At-Risk and Exploited Teen Girls Teacher Training, Mary Lynn Fitton, 2013
Prison Yoga Project Teacher Training, James Fox, 2013
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training for Special Populations (Aging, Prenatal, Cancer, Youth, and Trauma-Informed Populations), Niroga Institute, 2014
MBSR: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training, Stanford University, 2014
Trauma, Memory, and the Restoration of Oneself, Bessel Van Der Kolk, 2016
Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Mentorship, Rolf Gates, 2016
Y12SR: Yoga for 12-Step Recovery Training, Kyczy Hawk, 2018
Reiki Level I/II Training, Arda Ozdemir, 2018
Mamayurveda: Ayurveda for Women's Health Training, Sunny Rose Healey, 2019
Breathwork Facilitator Training, Michael Brian Baker, 2019
Yoga Nidra Teacher Training, Scott Moore, 2019
800-Hour Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Radiant Living School of Ayurveda, 2020
Ayruvedic Postpartum Doula Certificate Training Program, Sacred Window Studies, 2020
Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training, Bliss Baby Yoga School, 2020
500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Rolf Gates, 2020
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate, The Embody Lab, 2022
Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, The Embodied Recovery Institute, 2022
Safe and Sound Practitioner Certificate, Unyte Integrated Listening Systems, 2023