Hala is trained in Somatic Experiencing, a body-based psychotherapy that helps resolve trauma and its symptoms. Hala has been teaching yoga and movement for over 25 years, and has been doing healing work with people living with trauma, depression, anxiety, or in life transitions for over 15 years. She also trains clinicians, yoga teachers, educators, and non-profit staff to be trauma-informed as well as healing- and justice-centered in their work through Collective Resilience (a training program she co-founded) and A Thousand Joys. She is an adjunct professor at Pitzer College where she teaches a Critical Community Engagement course. Hala loves to facilitate spaces of transformative learning.

Hala also has a beautiful and intimate online community program called Radical Wellbeing where you can practice with her and connect with others wanting to heal in community. Her book, Peace from Anxiety: Get Grounded, Build Resilience and Stay Connected Amidst the Chaos (Shambhala Publications) was released in April 2021. She is a co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World (OTM), a training organization that bridges yoga and activism within a social justice framework. Hala started OTM in 2010 with Seane Corn and Suzanne Sterling. This is a labor of love, and they have seen thousands of people get sparked to get engaged as a result of their programs.