Susan Smedley is a social worker turned yoga teacher, community builder, and founder of Resilient Soul Yoga. A 200-hour RYT with advanced certifications in Oncology Yoga, Yoga for First Responders, and Grief Yoga, Susan brings a trauma-informed and deeply compassionate approach to her teaching.

Having walked through her own experiences of trauma and a lung cancer diagnosis at age 32, Susan knows firsthand the healing potential of yoga. Her practice became both refuge and reclamation—restoring calm, strength, and presence when life felt uncertain.

Before opening her studio, Susan dedicated her career to advocacy work, serving in the rape crisis movement and later as a national leader in the lung cancer community. After moving from the Midwest to Colorado, she felt called to create a space where others could reconnect with themselves through movement, breath, and nature.

At Resilient Soul Yoga, Susan’s mission is simple yet powerful: to help people feel more at home in their bodies and more at ease in their lives. As she often says, “I don’t care if you can touch your toes—I care that you can sleep at night and show up for the people you love.”

She has handpicked several dozen yoga teachers and healing arts practitioners who also believe in fostering a welcoming community where people can reconnect with their breath, process stress and trauma, and, just as importantly, find joy.

For Susan, yoga isn’t just about movement—it’s about transformation, healing, and rediscovering the power within.