Lauren Duke is an author, teacher, TEDx speaker, and somatic educator with more than twenty years of experience in movement, contemplative practice, and body-based education.

She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Her teaching background spans yoga, Pilates, somatics, functional movement, breath education, fascia-informed practice, and nervous system education. Over the course of her career, Lauren has worked with thousands of students, helping translate complex ideas about the body, stress, resilience, and self-understanding into practical, lived experience.

Lauren is the author of Sh!thouse, a memoir about family dysfunction, addiction, shame, resilience, and the complicated inheritance of growing up inside chaos. The book marked the beginning of her public work as a writer and opened the door to a deeper exploration of how personal history, family systems, and healing are carried into adulthood.

Her forthcoming book, This Walk Will Change You, grew out of her graduate research on long-distance walking and resilience, as well as her own experience walking the Camino de Santiago with her family. That research later became the foundation for her 2025 TEDx talk, “What Are You Willing to Walk 500 Miles For?”

Today, Lauren’s work moves between the page, the classroom, the mat, and the road. Whether she is writing, teaching, speaking, or leading embodied practice, her work is grounded in one central commitment: helping people understand themselves more clearly, live with more agency, and return to the body as a source of intelligence, repair, and possibility.