About Jo
About Jo:
Jo has found that practicing yoga helps her to enjoy art and life, and produce to her full potential - while her background in art encourages a unique approach to respectfully reinterpreting yoga, ensuring her classes are never dull. Combining art and asana (physical yoga) helps to free blocked creative energy, bringing a meditative mindfulness to art and life, and creating a fun, fresh and creative approach to beginning or revitalizing a yoga practice.
Each session is unique, as the practice evolves depending on the season, yogic philosophy, the response of the students and the creative flow of energy through the class. The breath is the thread linking each of the postures and Jo specializes in creative core strength work and adapting each practice to suit each students individual needs.
Jo Stewart balances a respect of the traditions of yoga with a fresh reinterpretation. She considers it a joy and privilege to share her knowledge with others. Her studies in Melbourne: Adv. Diploma Yoga Teaching (CAE/Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy), Studio Pilates certification with Louise Taube Pilates and Soma Chi certification give her a technical foundation. Her travels in India have provided her with an inspiring view of the history of yoga and its integration into people’s everyday lives. She also recently travelled to America for further study with Rodney Yee, Cyndi Lee, Ana Forest, Jason Crandell and at the Jivamuhkti yoga center in New York.
