Director

Jennie Hill of Laotong Yoga, Inc. is thrilled and inspired to be teaching yoga inside of WV’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) correctional facilities and certified recovery housing programs. She is the former Assistant Director for the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences (WVARR) and helped establish the certification agency for recovery housing in WV. Nationally, 80% of all residents living in recovery housing programs are mandated by the court system. Trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and mindfulness classes are a perfect fit to enhance state requirements for recovery programming. As leadership staff at the largest peer-led women’s recovery housing program in the state, Recovery Point Charleston, she built strong professional relationships within the community and keeps the goal of improving the quality of life for those with substance use disorders (SUD) as her number one priority. She is reliable and passionate; with 11 years’ experience working in recovery programs and 12 years in her personal recovery, she fiercely advocates for the healing space created by holistic recovery pathways. Her educational background is in Interior Design, with a BA in Art from West Virginia State University. She currently sits on the National Substance Use Disorder Strategic Advisory Panel for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. She achieved her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification in 2018 and again in 2023 from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. She also researches the evidence-base for mindfulness and yoga’s role in healing trauma in her spare time.