About me & my work
I have been working in the spaces of community activism, spirituality, creativity, and development since 2000 in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. For the last twelve years, I have worked in private practice, creating and facilitating fifteen unique educational courses and more than seventy-five live workshops and trainings, as well as hundreds of private sessions with individuals and couples from around the globe, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.
I tend to follow my professional interests, curiosities, and the path of breadcrumbs that life offers. This has led me to explore, facilitate, and earn certifications in intuitive and sacred art, ecopsychology, voicework, intuitive counseling, ecstatic devotion, somatics and embodiment work, trauma work and Polyvagal theory, neurodevelopment and primitive reflex integration, movement diagnostics, clown and its relatives, applied neuroscience, and applied theatre.
See the list here, if you like.
In searching for foundational approaches to healing (digging to the “bottom,” addressing issues at the root, looking for more effective approaches by finding the “true” cause), I discovered the difference between helpful and developmental. We can feel relief, receive comfort, create relational safety, express our truth, figure out who we are, and begin to make narrative sense of our own lives. And still, it often happens that those experiences don’t impact how we live or the choices we make; we don’t create real and lasting change. We don’t develop.
We can’t stop at helpful, especially considering how much change is required of us at this moment in history.
I regularly draw from my expertise in all fields I have studied and facilitated, and I now apply that expertise to the work of becoming. I help you create with and from where you are, not as something to be repaired but as something to use as resource.
My work has been informed by Cariad Astles, David Diamond, Augusto Boal, Lois Holzman and Fred Newman, Fluxus, The Keeneys, Sue Buckmaster, Cecil Collins, Arawana Hayashi, Gaston Bachelard, Phil Smith, and many, many others.
With degrees in sociology and health promotion, I began my career working with at-risk populations including wish granting for terminally-ill children, bedside companionship for hospice patients, and life skill instruction to adults in foster care. I wrote a public health theatre program for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada that was performed in thirty secondary schools in Toronto, and I was head of research and occasional guest on an international talk television program. I founded and edited a counter-culture parenting website recommended by Apartment Therapy and voted top online parenting resource by Life Learning magazine. My paintings and textile works have appeared in numerous print books, juried exhibitions, retail stores, and a Buddhist meditation deck. I am also a published poet and songwriter and have performed in folk groups, gospel and classical choirs, and musical theatre. I was a classroom art teacher at a Montessori elementary school, I translated a series of children's mindfulness books, and I have worked as a voice-over artist. For over a decade, I facilitated expressive arts, led sacred circle and ceremony, offered Akashic Record readings, taught intuitive development, and coached vocal self-expression in a modality I created called Conscious Voicework®.
What People Are Saying
Laura's approach was perfect for me. I came with specific questions and a desire to change a dynamic that had been plaguing me for decades. She first illuminated the dynamic from a soul perspective. This blew my mind because now I could see the challenge in context. But we didn't stop with the "aha" and instead explored it in my body. This made all the difference because now I had something to do. I could inhabit this persistent complaint in my life and somehow change the whole story. I could see it, I had agency around changing it ... and then I did. And thanks to this process, I no longer have this problem.
— David Sewell McCann
Laura is extremely skilled, warm, welcoming. From a greater distance of time, I’m even more appreciative of the healing I found. Working with her is a warm river of grace.
— Fiona Vipond
Laura is an exceptionally wise and vibrantly magical being who teaches with knowledge, grace and humour. She is thoroughly engaging and just really really good at doing what she does! A massive thank you, Laura, I learn so much from you and feel grateful to have found you and your beautiful expression in this world. May you and your work be blessed always.
— Ruth Blake
Thank you Laura for all that you’ve created, curated, and held space for in this challenge. I’m amazed at the presence and container you held for us. It’s been felt and appreciated. Thank you to the group as well! Your sharing, vulnerability and collaboration has been so inspiring for me. I am feeling reconnected with my creativity which has been dormant for a while. It’s a good reminder that creativity is not something I have or don’t have but a practice I can cultivate and connect to.
— Sarah O’Connor
I'm going to get in so much trouble, and strangely, I'm looking forward to it. I feel a permission to be naughty without facing any harsh consequences of being so. I feel a sense of many choices and just a broader definition of disobedience in my body. The binary is so restrictive. Thank you, Laura. Looking forward to taking part in more such workshops
— Reshmi Sahadevan
Many things I have been trying to do and let go of for YEARS are just solving themselves because of the sessions with you. It has been life changing. I haven’t thought of placing the same amount of energy and attention inwards and outwards, and since you showed me, I have felt SO grounded and at home in my body. What has been really important is learning that my body isn't wrong or broken. I am so grateful for it hanging in there with me, and I see that it always works in my favour to take care of me and protect me.
— Amanda Sjögren
Laura created a space that had so much acceptance so I could move some deeply held emotions and through it all, I felt her hold me. It is not often I meet course leaders like her.
— Lars Möller
Laura is a force of grace, light, and deep wisdom. I have had the pleasure of working with her over the past few years. Through Laura's loving and empowering guidance, a new found liberation was unlocked inside me. I highly recommend working with Laura if you are looking to unlock your voice and message to share with the world. If you already found your voice, I believe she can help you soar even higher.
— Janet-Lee Ropas
Laura Geiger is a Wise Woman and Healer. She has a deep, ancient knowledge of her material and is a graceful teacher and guide.
— Lawrence Flynn
Laura's course has changed my life. It sounds cliche but it's true. I feel like parts of me that were asleep or dormant have been awakened, old emotions are being cleared, and I am now safe to express things that I've held inside. I am extremely glad I took this program. Laura knows her stuff and her guidance has been and will continue to be invaluable
— June Morrow
