Welcome to the Joyflow Institute website! I'd like to share a bit about my journey and the journey of Joyflow Yoga. Many of you know that I am the founder of Joyflow Yoga, a studio that operated in the Ridgeland Mississippi area for about 30 years, from around 1987 until 2017. During that time it was my honor to share yoga with the community, see big changes in the lives of my students, and develop the distinctive Joyflow style and focus. I began to mentor new yoga teachers under an approved Yoga Alliance 200 hour program.  Many of my student teachers have gone on to teach locally and throughout the Southeast.

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That all changed in 2016. I learned many lessons and closed the studio. I have continued to teach in various studios, in my home and on zoom. I have traveled throughout Mississippi offering events and workshops. I have continued to mentor teachers, now going on 22 consecutive years.

 

Why "Institute of Integrative Health"?  While no longer maintaining a studio, I have had to redefine Joyflow. As always my purpose has been to offer the experience of Yoga. As the Yoga Sutras state: the experience of Yoga is when we become aware of our true nature, which is Bliss, the 8th Limb of the Yogic Path, Joy, the Flow of Joy! Though many of us begin a yoga practice because of a physical need (I did), we soon realize that it is a way of healthy living and encompasses much more than the physical postures. As an Institute I intend to champion ALL ways of connecting to Health, Well-Being and JOY.

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