Johanna Putnoi is an author, a counselor in private practice, and an Enneagram teacher, certified in the Narrative Tradition, who lectures and leads workshops, seminars and trainings in applied Somatics, the movement arts, and the Enneagram. She teaches throughout the United States and Europe and holds degrees from New York University and the American University in Paris.

For more than twenty years, Johanna Putnoi has worked to help people develop a new awareness and respect for their body's natural intelligence, their mind's natural clarity, and their inborn capacity for pleasure.

She has studied directly with seminal figures in all of her fields of interest: modern dance pioneer Martha Graham; educator Ivan Illich; mind/body trail-blazers Moshe Feldenkrais, Robert K. Hall, Richard Strozzi Heckler and Emilie Conrad; and psychological/spiritual thinkers Helen Palmer, Claudio Naranjo and Carl Whitaker. Her students include bodyworkers, psychologists, actors, dancers, screenwriters, business consultants, federal prisoners, health care professionals and Enneagram enthusiasts.

A popular workshop leader at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California since 1989, Johanna Putnoi and has been teaching workshops and trainings in Lomi Somatics and the Enneagram since 1980, and has been in private practice in Menlo Park, California for more than twenty-five years. Johanna has been a regular presenter at the annual International Enneagram Conference since its inception, and most recently has been highlighting the body language of the nine types with paintings from the old masters.