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Who is Yoga-Jo?

I am Josephine, Yoga-Jo to my students - an inspired, and inspiring, yoga instructor. My teaching style is informal, humorous, compassionate, unconventional and honest.

I live and breathe yoga, but that doesn’t mean I’m a perfect human being. It means I use yoga as a life-enhancement – and sometimes as a life-survival – tool. I fully believe yoga must fit us, rather than we try to fit it.

I used to be a London-based Editor and PR professional. If you had met me then, you’d have said I was good fun, positive, funny and perhaps a little wayward. You’ve heard it before but it’s still true :– When I got into yoga, it changed my life. I didn’t give up anything, or try to be anyone other than myself, just as now I never ask my students to. Gradually, though, I changed.

Yoga brings new balance and awareness from the inside out. In my case this meant my unhelpful patterns, my inner anger, negative thinking and excess weight - slowly, effortlessly, melted away.

I also started to enjoy the simple things in life. Without trying, I became a much nicer person. I found that I really did like other people, and I have even started to quite like myself! I find that the ‘hidden’ gifts, such as these, are the biggest that yoga brings.

My training

I trained to teach in 2001, driven by a desire to bring to others this amazing, healing, gift. I have learned and grown much through seven years of teaching yoga to others, and I am also an eternal student - I continue to learn and expand my professional skills, and to get beyond my personal blocks and weaknesses.

To my surprise and joy, I now have something of a glittering reputation. I am known and loved for my honesty and lack of pretension as much as my healing ability. My students appreciate my total commitment to bringing yoga to each and every one of them, whatever that takes!

I live on the Isle of Wight, where I can revel in the beauty of nature with my spoilt and happy terrier. I teach yoga on the island and throughout the South of England. Also, I am also an artist and occasional writer.

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