Poonam Raj Singh

Poonam Raj Singh (she/her) Ed.M, PCC is a coach, facilitator, theatre artist, yoga teacher, mother and doula. Poonam’s deepest intention is to hold a deep listening space for communities and individuals to tap into their own inherent nobility, creativity, and power, especially those on the margins.  

Poonam focuses on collective healing through love. Through her training in Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre, Poonam uses play, story and movement in groups to process conflict and intergenerational trauma in order to work toward group healing and repair. Poonam is also trained in restorative justice (level 1,2, and 3 restorative justice certified), and draws from ancient indigenous ceremonial practices and her training by Oakland Unified School District and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth as a way to center conflict, meditation and healing in groups. 

Poonam is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Facilitator, certified by the International Coach Federation and trained by the Coaches Training Institute. She originally learned the practice of Deep Listening through Thich Knath Hanh’s Plum Village community. She has achieved the highest designation of Master-Level Life Coach through the International Coach Federation.  

Poonam draws from her indigenous lineage of yoga and mindfulness, certified from the Yoga Alliance as a 500-hour yoga instructor and trained by Art of Living Foundation, to teach yoga and mindfulness to both children and adults as a way of being and moving through life. She has been practicing her entire life. 

Poonam has a strong grounding in community and direct service, with early-career roles as a community organizer, teacher on emergency credential, afterschool youth development worker, leadership coach and diversity, equity, and inclusion expert in the nonprofit sector. She founded a nonviolence & social justice leadership training program for youth called Soulforce Leadership that she ran for 8 years. She has a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and completed her undergraduate studies in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, with a focus on racial policy and immigrant identity politics. Poonam lives with her three children and her husband in Mountain View, California - the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma and Ramyatush speaking Ohlone people. Poonam is a first gen kid from LA who is indebted to her parent's sacrifice and love!