Born in Denmark to a Viking Mother and a Guatemalan Mayan Father, I became a natural seeker of balance between two contrasting forces. Growing up with a foot in Scandinavia, another in Central America, and yet a third in the US, I learned at an early age there is no “right” way to do anything - rather that each person has their own truth based on their own experience.  By deeply listening to the body I inhabit, the merged practices of yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism have brought me back to me. 

The blessings and the shadows of our culture get woven into the very fabric of our being.  The culture of family, of relationship, of community, and society inform the wiring of our nervous system, brains and body. There is no one way to be: we are each as unique as a fingerprint.  

My experiences as a First-Generation American, tri-cultural immigrant kid, mother, Woman of Color, Peace Corps Volunteer, partner, trauma-survivor, Clinical Social Worker and trauma therapist deeply inform my 27 years in the yogic world. For the last 17 years, I have been teaching ongoing weekly classes, co-directing 27 teacher trainings, and guiding more than a thousand beloved clients through the release of the traumas of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and capitalism from their body-mind.

The creation of Camilla Luna Yoga is the organic integration of all that I have lived through, synthesized, felt, studied, questioned and healed. To all my teachers, from Shannon Potts Hicky to my sons, from Saul David Raye to my students, from Katchie Ananda to the Pachamama, from the indigenous Maya to my sisterhood, from my brown body to the historical Buddha, I am so grateful for all of your gifts, and fostering the learning, loving and listening of self and Self.

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Camilla Luna Figueroa is a Master’s Level Clinical Social Worker who has over 1000+ hours of Yoga, Thai Yoga, and Yoga therapy certifications, and 15+ years of yoga, private somatic yoga therapy practice, and training others to be yoga teachers. She shares life and evolution with her husband Kevin as they live between Austin, Texas and Taos, New Mexico. She continues her studies of yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, neuroscience, polyvagal theory, Trauma and Race, Attachment-Theory, Non-Violent Communication and Indigenous Shamanism, reconnecting with her Mayan roots. Camilla teaches virtual and live classes in Texas and New Mexico and leads retreats around the world.