Jodie Lea

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About Jodie Lea

Jodie K Lea, AMFT, E-RYT 500, EMDR practitioner, is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Yoga Teacher and has been teaching in the healing arts for over two decades. Jodie taught 200 and 500 hour yoga teacher trainings for seven years and has led yoga and meditation retreats in Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and the US. She worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern at the Integrative Medical Clinic at St. Luke’s Medical Center in McCall, Idaho before directing her full attention to teaching yoga. In 2020, Jodie made the difficult decision to close her yoga studio in McCall, Idaho, as a result of the Covid pandemic. This pivotal moment led her to Crestone, Colorado, where she pursued a long-held aspiration to be part of the inaugural research team at the Center for Contemplative Research where she embarked as a research participant in a two-year silent meditation retreat.During this transformative retreat, Jodie embraced a life of solitude and silence, while also contributing to a research project that explored the lasting effects of full-time dedicated meditation practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Throughout the retreat she focused on refining her attention skills and gaining deeper insights into the workings of the mind and heart. When she finally emerged from retreat, Jodie returned to the field of counseling psychology and moved to Chico, California, to be closer to family and complete licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist in California.Along with full-time work as a therapist Jodie continues to lead yoga and meditation retreats to share the insights she has gained through her lifelong commitment integrative wellbeing through counseling psychology, yoga, and meditation.