Allie Middleton

An experienced somatic coach and creative facilitator/teacher with a local and global clientele, Allie is an author & poet who loves offering embodied learning experiences following the Theory U process, Social Presencing Theatre and ancient yoga and energy medicine practices. Allie has been meditating and practicing yoga for over 45 years, ever grateful for growing up in an extended family immersed in the wisdom traditions.

Strongly committed to creativity and contemplative inquiry in her work as a conscious change-maker, Allie enjoyed a long career as an inside start-up team developer and innovative leader in business, museums & libraries and behavioral healthcare systems. An early consultant to Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, she continues to mentor leaders for individual and systems transformation. Her involvement in the International Association of Yoga Therapists helped co-initiate a commissioned book with Singing Dragon Press, Yoga Radicals: A Curated Set of Inspiring Stories from Pioneers in the Field, using a ‘Presencing approach’, a map of a hero(ine)’s journey blended with an awareness- based social change model.

Allie migrated from NYC north to the Hudson River Valley healing and listening with the land for 20 years of rural homesteading. She has enjoyed an abundance of global work travel, including wilderness training for corporate teams undergoing hostile takeovers and was deployed as a mental health first responder after the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster. She landed and found love in Albany NY in the late 1990’s, currently serving locally as an indigenous learning advocate in a land conservation organization.