My name is Jane Giacone
I am a Hatha / Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher, certified with Yoga Alliance. I was trained to a high standard of teaching (with Katy Appleton of appleyoga academy: www.appleyoga.com) in 2014, to offer properly sequenced, safe and hopefully inspiring yoga classes.
Since 2014, and that very intense first Yoga Teacher training, I have continued to work on my yoga teaching and my own yoga practice. As well as attending many workshops, retreats and trainings in the Hatha/ vinyasa styles of yoga with many fabulous teachers, too many to list, I attend regular classes with senior Iyengar teacher Julie Hodges, (https://www.putneyyogacentre.co.uk/) which consistently educate and inspire me.
Previous to teaching yoga, I worked for many years in the community as a Senior Occupational Therapist for people with physical disabilities. Before that I worked with people who had serious mental health issues.
I have a daily meditation practice which I feel helps greatly to keep me ‘sane', although my children may not agree with that…Always a work in progress. In 2016, I discovered , online, the Dharma Ocean community of meditators who are based in North America (https://www.dharmaocean.org/about/). This path of embodied spirituality, little by little continues to profoundly transform my life from the inside out. It also fits so perfectly with the physical practice of yoga and pranayama.
To summarise, yoga in all it’s guises is integral to my life. I am a student of yoga philosophy and have been practicing the physical postures of yoga for many years, mostly in the Vinyasa and Astanga vinyasa traditions. I am, however, open to all styles and have experienced many.
As a normal flawed human being with a desire to live life as fully and authentically as I can, I am excited to be able to lead classes in what, at it’s very least can create some level of space, strength and flexibility in the body and mind, and at it’s best offer practical tools to transform lives into more fulfilling ones.
You can expect to focus and sweat with conscious, intelligent opening of the body and mind. To learn to use the breath in union with the movements and postures and also as a way of anchoring the fluctuations of the mind.
I am eternally grateful to all the teachers that have developed my knowledge and deepened my yoga practice along the path so far. And I bow to the feet of the ultimate guru, the one that dwells within each and every one of us.
Om shantih shantih shantih.