Yoga
Whether you're in a strong, playful or gentle season of your life, I am passionate about leading a soulful and inclusive practice. Helping you drop into your flow state and stimulating the body's inherent self-healing and regenerative capacities through improved circulation, range of movement, postural alignment and soothing mantra.
I’ve spent my life exploring bodywork disciplines, initially coming to yoga to protect myself from injury whilst touring as a contemporary dancer.
I travelled to India in 2011 to explore its classical roots, completing my first TTC in Sivananda's beautiful Madurai Ashram, continuing onto graduate from Triyoga's 2 year Advanced TTC in 2018 with mentor's Jean Hall and Anna Ashby.
I also work as a massage therapist and have trained in pre and postnatal yoga with Kirsteen Ruffle of Birthlight.
In 2018 I co-created Hourglass/Ground Yoga a Cafe & Yoga Space next to Clissold Park. During the Pandemic classes moved to the lovely community studio around the corner Hackney Showroom where I continue to teach alongside a handful of other lovely local studios and Hourglass transformed into Brewed.
Trainings:
300hr Advanced Yoga Alliance Teacher Training, Mentors Jean Hall & Anna Ashby, Triyoga.
80 hr Pre and Post Natal Training, Birthlight, Yogacampus
IPTI accredited Thai Yoga Fusion Massage with Spike Warwick.
Using Sound Therapeutically Simone Salvatici.
Restorative Yoga Teaching and Sequencing CPD with Adelene Cheong.
Science meets Practise CPD with Roger Cole.
Yoga for back care CPD with Anji Gopal.
Teaching Inversions with Sainaa.
RYS 200 hr Yoga Alliance Diploma, Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Meenakshi Ashram, Madurai, India, 2011.
PG Diploma in Dance Performance from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
BPA in Contemporary Dance from NSCD, majoring in teaching and receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2009.
“Honestly, Joelle is such an incredibly gifted teacher. I am in awe of the creativity and thought that goes into her classes, both the grace that powers the movement side, and the way the sequencing ties into a beautiful flow of thought and metaphor that gives it such depth. I find myself still thinking about her comments days later, (the ribs being a basket rather than a cage..) and I also love her physiological explanations of what effect poses are having, how movements that seem so slow and gentle can have such transformative effects. Her classes are so playful and profound at the same time, almost like a dance or a poem.” Emily (Writer)