Tawny Sterios
tawny@tawnysterios.com
Follow my story @tawnysterios
Education
B.S. in Applied Nutrition | Cal Poly SLO, CA 2007
Masters in Depth Psychology | Pacifica Graduate Institute 2022-2025
Certifications
200 Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training | Golden Bridge, LA, CA 2005
500 Hour LEVITYoga Teacher Training | mBODY Yoga, SLO, CA 2011
Certified Labor Doula & CAPPA trained Postpartum Doula | CAPPA 2015
Applied Somatic Jungian Psychology 2024
CPR and First Aid Certified |Red Cross 2025
Trainings
Artemis School For Women’s Wholeistic Sexual Wellness 2016
Postpartum Support International Perinatal Mental Health Provider 2024
Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training 2003
Activate Your Inner Jaguar Alumni | with Kimberley Ann Johnson 2023
Therapy
Tawny Sterios, (AMFT #155683) is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in California. Tawny’s approach to therapy is rooted in helping clients connect with their body’s wisdom to explore patterns, release tension, and build resilience. Through a mix of talk, movement, breathwork, and expressive arts and creative practices, Tawny’s sessions create a felt sense of transformation — allowing one to approach life’s challenges with presence, clarity, and self-compassion.
Tawny sees clients in-person and online at Swell Therapy and Wellness and the Community Counseling Center in San Luis Obispo, CA, under the supervision of licensed therapists:
Teresa Pardini, LMFT #40720 at Community Counseling Center
Monique Sigler, LMFT #82989 at Swell Therapy and Wellness
Doula
Tawny’s fascination with birth started with the arrival of her daughter, Athena. Experiencing this unbelievably beautiful transformation sparked deep curiosity and respect for the unique female body and heart. She naturally felt called to be of service in helping women through pregnancy and childbirth in the most conscious and empowering way by supporting the innate wisdom of each woman’s body.
Yoga
A co-founder of mBODY Yoga in San Luis Obispo, CA. Tawny has been teaching yoga since 2003 and is certified in both kundalini and hatha yoga, with a very personal experience in prenatal yoga. Tawny was featured in Yoga Journal in 2010 and 2011. The gift of yoga keeps giving to her and she enjoys bringing it back to her students full circle. She brings her passion for yoga and her lighthearted presence to all of her classes. Her teaching style is very approachable and accessible to students of all levels. In addition to teaching weekly classes in hatha, prenatal and postnatal, she teaches in LEVITYoga’s 200HR Teacher Training Programs. Tawny holds a monthly Women’s Circle and teaches at an annual Journey To India Retreat. In 2011 and 2012, Tawny was one of a select group of national instructors invited to teach yoga at the White House for Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity initiative.
Qoya
Qoya is a practice of inspired, intuitive movement that helps women reconnect with their body, wisdom, and joy. Through Wise practices like yoga and meditation, Wild authentic dance, and Free choice of movement, Qoya guides you to honor your body, release stuck energy, and move with presence and pleasure. Trauma-informed and deeply healing, it’s a space to trust your body, feel fully, and celebrate life as sacred.
Circle
Tawny has been sitting in circle with women for the past 15 years, where women hold sacred space for the unfolding of life and the quiet inner knowing that bond us. Nurturing sisterhood and the ability for women to uplift and uniquely honor one another is something she values and has seen heal countless times. These circles are modern ceremonial gatherings with women that blend yoga, dance, meditation, intention writing, visualization and sisterhood fun into a monthly ritual that connects women more deeply to the rhythms and ways of nature and themselves. Sometimes these circles are taken into nature and span over a weekend or a week, like the Women's Camp Retreats in Big Sur twice a year. Think deep renewal and transformation.