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“Jane is a master teacher sent to us from the stars. There’s nobody like her. She’s a soul teacher as much as a yoga teacher. Her class gives you a space to play around inside yourself. I realize afterward that I’m in here, really in here.” “I’ve been practicing with Jane for five years, and it has quite literally changed my life. In developing a deeper relationship with my body, I have changed the way that I relate to everything else in the world. Jane’s yoga is an integration of exercise, therapy, spirituality, and poetry. If you’re weary from posing and ready for transforming, then this is the place that has been created for you. “Jane’s teaching is accessible for all bodies and absolutely vital to the times in which we are living. Her style is rooted in ancient wisdom and completely relevant for what is happening right NOW. “What I loved about Jane’s classes was that they were a whole experience of internal, physical, spiritual, personal and collective movement. Every class was different, and alive and fun, and deep. It was such a great way to start my day. There was a feeling of community in our classes with Jane. We loved to stay afterwards and visit with each other. My body got so strong from being in her classes. My posture changed. I opened.”
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Jane holds a B.A. in English Literature & Psychology from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she completed her thesis titled “The Yoga of Embodiment” in 2002. In 2001, Jane founded a yoga school in San Francisco, The Yoga Loft, that became her home for teaching and learning somatics, classical hatha yoga and nervous system re-education for over a decade. Each day, in and out the door of 321 Divisadero Street, master teachers and students from all over the world collaborated and contributed to an incredibly lively, ongoing conversation about full body awakening, consciousness and attention. Such were the early aughts in San Francisco and it was a magical time. Throughout the years, Jane has remained a grateful student of Angela Farmer, Judith Lasater, Tony Briggs & Sofia Diaz. When Jane relocated to Nashville, TN in 2009 to begin a family with her husband Griffin, she was delighted to realize that she was living close enough to The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown that she could take a true deep dive into the study and experience of natural child birth and spiritual midwifery as taught by Ina May Gaskin. Jane’s daughter Emma was born in a cabin at The Farm in 2011 and in 2013, a 10 lb Clara Jane was born in Jane’s bedroom in Nashville. Childbirth, as it turns out- the ultimate teacher. Over the years in Tennessee, Jane taught classes, individual sessions, workshops and retreats through Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health and Ha.Lè Integrative Health. Jane continues to work with individuals and groups through the offering of 1:1 (zoom) therapeutic sessions and periodic retreats (led with poet/storyteller Minton Sparks). Jane’s practice serves the desire to fully align with the voice of wisdom and aliveness deep inside the body/mind- a gentle, self-guided process that allows for the metabolization of grief and the awakening of the body’s most intuitive and self-healing systems. ‘Poetry of the Body’ retreats are nature-infused immersions that include yoga, writing, memorable food and (thrilling) story-telling experiences. Jane currently resides in Connecticut with her husband Griffin and their two daughters, Emma and Clara. “Devoted to the life-affirming process of yoga, Jane’s teaching is a rich integration of the classical teachings and disciplines of Hatha Yoga with a more creative exploration of one’s relationship to Self. Jane’s extensive background in body-oriented therapy and classical Hatha Yoga merge to offer a holistic approach to practice that facilitates health and wholeness on all levels of being.” Jane’s Work: |
