DOULA SERVICES, YOGA
Hillary Lopes
she/her
Hillary has worked in various communities and settings as a yoga and mindfulness teacher and certified holistic health coach, focusing on weaving elements of healing from the inside out in order to strive for personal and collective liberation. She believes in using physical body and subtle body movement as vehicles for reducing stress, addressing trauma, and learning how to continuously be in the practice of claiming one’s worth for the purpose of healing.
Hillary has lived a life built on movement: first, gymnastics and, later, classical ballet. Yoga made its debut into Hillary's life as a therapeutic remedy to a dance-related knee injury. There have been many teachers guiding her path of uniting soul, heart, body and mind. She attended the ISHTA 200hr yoga teacher training and Prema Yoga Brooklyn’s inaugural vinyasa training. She has also trained and taught with Little Flower Yoga training program and Urban Yoga Foundation focused on working with young people from 4-18 years-old within the NYC school system.
Hillary trained to become a doula through Mama Glow with the incredible Latham Thomas. She now offers doula services throughout the Hudson Valley to support the entire birthing community.
She has she blended her passions for community action, social change and wellbeing by joining the Off the Mat, Into the World organization for their leadership in action training and then their advanced training in social justice. Recently, she founded the Blackwell birth foundation to connect BIPOC birthing people with birth and postpartum doula services at no cost to them.