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neurobloom

The person behind it

Lindsay Watkins. Founder, yoga teacher, listener-in-chief.

Lindsay has built her career across special education, behavioral health, and community-based services, supporting autistic individuals with high support needs in home, school, vocational, and clinical settings for the past decade and a half. She is also a certified yoga instructor, with a focus on nervous system regulation and grounding practices.

Throughout her career, whether in homes, schools, clinics, or community settings, she saw the same gaps repeated: neurodivergent individuals were underestimated, families were overwhelmed, and support systems were rarely designed to work together. Too often, support focused on managing behaviors or meeting demands without addressing the underlying issue of regulation first.

Her work has consistently centered on interdisciplinary support, with a particular emphasis on integrating communication, regulation, sensory, and daily living approaches in ways that actually translate to real life. Insights from occupational therapy, nervous system regulation, behavioral support, and lived experience have all shaped NeuroBloom's foundation.

Her perspective deepened through her own lived experience with post-traumatic stress disorder, where she saw how regulation and sensory overwhelm shape what a person can access, express, and do. Somatic and nervous-system-based practices, including yoga, played a central role in her recovery and revealed what was missing from most support systems.

At the center of her work is a simple shift: communication, learning, and independence are only accessible when regulation is supported first.

NeuroBloom is her response to that gap: regulation-first support designed for real life, not ideal conditions.

The ecosystem is being built in close conversation with the people it is for, including clinicians, caregivers, and neurodivergent individuals themselves.

You will hear from Lindsay personally when you join the waitlist.