Awaken Your Soul in Portugal: 6-Day Yoga & Wellness Retreat with Laura Shockley

Laura Shockley is the founder of Point Lookout Yoga, (PLY), a Yoga studio offering daily yoga classes, workshops, trainings and retreats. Laura also owns Joyful Treasures, an adjoining boutique and spa which expands upon the holistic offerings of PLY, providing curated inspired gifts and a wellness space for sacred healing, organic facials and Ayurvedic and traditional body treatments.

Laura has been practicing and studying Yoga for 30 years. Her passion has evolved into a mission to positively affect change in people’s lives through the practice of Yoga, both on and off the Mat in the beautiful seaside community of Point Lookout, NY.

Welcoming and encouraging students of all levels, Laura teaches intuitively from the heart, providing elements of compassion, spirituality, gratitude and motivation in her classes. Inspired by the ancient teachings of India and Sri Lanka, she focuses her students on the movement of energy through the body and mind as a vehicle for deep self-inquiry into the higher states of consciousness.

Laura's studies have taken her on several pilgrimages to India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia where she deepened both her Yoga practice and her Spiritual devotion. A believer that travel (and removing yourself from everyday life) inspires personal and spiritual transformation, Laura leads students in Self-Inquiry retreats and trainings with the goal of cultivating tools and practices that can then be implemented at home. She has developed a series of Meditation Study Circle courses at PLY, incorporating the ancient spiritual teachings from her travels and brings them to our local waterways with PLY’s signature Meditation Cruises. Laura also leads international retreats each year.

Laura has received specialized training in the areas of Hatha, Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin Yoga, Classical Yoga Nidra and Meditation, as well as instruction in teaching the aging population and students with disabilities, including cancer. Most recently, Laura completed her Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy training with the California College of Ayurveda, (CCA), the oldest State-approved college in the west offering Ayurvedic Medical Training. She has also completed her Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification at CCA and has received specialized training in Ayurvedic Body Therapies, including, Abhyanga, Shirodhara, Svedana, Marma and Ayurvedic Facial Rejuvenation and offers these sacred healing treatments at Joyful Treasures. Laura is continuing her Ayurvedic education at CCA, where she is pursuing her Ayurvedic Health Counselor Internship. Over the years she has received well over 500 hours of teacher training. Laura is certified 200 E-RYT, RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance. She received her 300 hour advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Jason Crandell.

Laura is grateful to bring the Yogic teachings and the healing principles of Ayurveda to her students while she pursues her lifelong journey of living joyfully, loving passionately and inquiring endlessly.