Body,
Mind & Breath
Cultivate your well being
Practicing yoga is like the tossing of a pebble into a pond and watching the effect of the ripples spreading far and wide. With each pose and each breath, we bring balance and healing to our self and that healing ripples all about us and beyond.
About Me
My Personal Journey Through Pain and Healing
My path to becoming a wellness practitioner has been shaped by a series of physical challenges and life experiences. From a young age, I encountered various incidents — falling down the stairs at age four and breaking my nose, colliding with a car door while cycling down a steep road, and enduring multiple falls on skis and mountain bikes. Each event contributed to years of chronic neck and back pain, leading to an ongoing search for relief and healing.
In my efforts to find solutions, I visited countless chiropractors, acupuncturists, and massage therapists, accumulating a range of equipment and gadgets that promised relief but seldom delivered lasting results. This persistent search reflected both my determination and the complexity of my condition.
Life’s twists and turns often push us to make choices that we feel are necessary for survival and stability. For me, this meant pursuing a long corporate career, which provided the stability I sought. However, the demands of long hours and high stress gradually took a toll on both my mental and physical wellbeing.
These varied life experiences have profoundly influenced who I am today, granting me a deeper and more personal understanding of pain, trauma, and stress, and how these can affect each individual in unique ways. Through this journey, I have come to realise that healing is neither linear nor identical for everyone; there is no magic pill or one-size-fits-all solution.
My hope is that, by sharing my experiences and maintaining a continual drive to learn about the human body’s capacity for healing, I can support others in their own journeys. Through the practices of yoga therapy, reiki, and, in time, craniosacral therapy, I aim to help individuals unlock their bodies’ potential for self-healing and greater resilience.
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I have been a long-time yoga practitioner and teaching for the past 10 years with over 2000 hours of student led instruction.
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200 hour Advanced Iyengar Yoga Studies; Brentwood Yoga Center with Sandy Carmellini, Kate and Jim Coughlin (2010)
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800 hour Advanced Yoga Studies (Yoga Therarpy); Niroga Institute (2015-2016)
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Teacher Training for Youth (Dynamic Mindfulness); Niroga Institute (2016)
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Yoga for Healthy Aging Teacher training (2019)
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Restore Your Prana; Essential Yoga Therapy (2021)
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Craniosacral I (CST I); Upledger Institute (2020)
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Reiki I, II, III Master training; Lisa Powers (2021)
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Healing from the Core Distance Healing; Suzanne Scurlock (2021)
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MBSR Online training program; Jon Kabitt Z in (2021)
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Offerings
"Yoga allows you a new kind of freedom you may not have known existed." BKS Iyengar
Online Classes
Gentle Yoga
Wednesday 10-11am PT
This is a gentle practice for all levels that focuses on increasing mobility, stability, flexibility, and balance. Beginning level yoga asanas are incorporated and modified for a gentler approach. Props, or a modified version, are used for supporting our practice and include a chair, blocks, strap and blanket.
Yoga & Movement for PD
Thursday 10-11am PT
This class highlights movements recommended for PD and benefit all of us - balance and stability training, flex- iblitly, strength, cognitive training, mindfulness and strengthening resili-
ence. A chair is used for the warm-up and for support when standing.
Healthy Aging
Friday 10-10:45am PT
In this quick 45-minute class we cover all aspects required for healthy aging, strength, flexibility, stability and mobility, balance, cognition and resilience. Light weights are recommended but not required.
In Person Classes (Ireland)
Community Yoga
at Ballycogley Community Hall
Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm GMT
and
Saturdays 10-11am GMT
All levels are welcome to this alignment based class, which includes a variety of styles and methods with a whole body focus. We will warm-up, move with our breath through a flow sequence, practice static poses and cool down with mindfulness and breath practices. Bring your mat and a thick towel or small blanket.
Personalized Yoga Therapy
An adapted approach to recovery and wellness through yoga
If you are recovering from an injury or health condition, preparing for surgery or wanting to bring your body back into balance, explore a personalized therapeutic approach to yoga. We will adapt each session to create an individual practice that supports you and your body where you are. Whether you are suffering from stress, back, knee or shoulder pain or managing a condition such as Parkinson's disease, yoga therapy can help to reduce symptoms, manage conditions of pain, and enhance your overall quality of life.
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Our sessions together will include a full assessment of physical and mental health, personalized and adaptive practices with easy to follow handouts for your home practice, email support and follow-up.
Testimonials
Nancy
I started doing yoga at age 60 with a wonderful person close to my home on Long Island. When my spouse and I retired and moved to California it took me a while to find the right place, but I eventually was fortunate enough to find Jodi. She is a joy to work with. I cannot do all the positions and movements well —I have had two knees and a hip replaced as well as shoulder surgery over the past 5 years—but Jodi always has a modification that I can work with. And it has been yoga that has allowed me to recover well from those events.
Jodi is positive, supportive, encouraging, and adaptive. She made the transition to Zoom to carry her classes through the pandemic so easily. I cannot praise her enough for all that she has done and continues to do for me through her yoga classes.
Alan
"I always look forward to my weekly Parkinson's Yoga class with Jodi. She is kind and compassionate, and an excellent teacher. I've been feeling a lot better ever since I started working with Jodi, and I also appreciate that she allows my wife to attend the class with me. She also really seems to care about my health and well-being. Jodi truly understands how to work with people who have advanced Parkinson's Disease, and I feel lucky to have her as my teacher."
Carol
I’ve been attending the Yoga for PD classes for 4+ years, and I love it. The classes are fun and quite the work-out. I always feel so good after class. Camaraderie and friendship is great too!
Rosemary
"I have been practicing yoga for quite a few years and consistently since I was diagnosed with PD. Jodi's class keeps us moving and stretching so people at all stages of PD find her class helpful. You can adjust all moves to work with your level of flexibility and strength and over time will be able to do more, as I have found. It is a pleasure to attend her class every week and it is a great way to meet other people with PD on a regular basis. I can highly recommend her class."
Benefits
Discover the benefits of Yoga Therapy and Reiki Energy
Yoga and Yoga Therapy
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Reduces Stress and symptoms of Anxiety
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Enhances Mood
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Improves Sleep
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Enhances Proprioceptive and Interoceptive awareness
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Increases Mobility and Range of Motion
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Improves Strength and Flexibility
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Improves Posture, Stability and Balance
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Enhances function of Digestive system
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Enhances and strengthens Immunity
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Builds Resilience
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Reduce symptoms of Chronic Pain
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Group exercise promotes sense of Connection and Community
Reiki Energy
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Supports the body's own natural healing process
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Brings about a peaceful, deep state of Relaxation
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Reduces Stress and symptoms of Anxiety
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Helps to Relieve Pain
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Dissolves energy blockages and tension
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Supports the Well-being of an individual receiving traditional medical treatments
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Support and stimulate the body's Immune system
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Increase the Vibrational Frequency on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels
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Supplies universal life force energy to the body
