Jojie is a Seattle-based healer and yoga teacher trainer dedicated to the ever-evolving work of trauma-sensitive practices. She currently serves as the lead teacher and curriculum developer for the University of Washington's Yoga for Healing Program, a free 8-week series each quarter that supports trauma survivors.

Over the last eleven years, Jojie has taught yoga, meditation, and breathwork in a variety of settings including: prisons, juvenile detention centers, eating disorder treatment programs as well as universities, museums and community yoga studios.

Jojie is inspired by the power of each unique individual and their ability to access resiliency, empowerment, and wholeness through ancient practices like yoga, meditation, breathwork, reiki, and mindfulness. And while she has experienced the healing power of these practices, she has also witnessed the harm caused as much of the West has digested and transformed them into an exclusive commodity that feeds on perfectionism, lack of self-love, and the troubling regularity of teachers who abuse their power. In response, Jojie’s approach to healing is interpersonal, encouraging community care and a deep questioning of our individual impact in everyday moments. She truly believes every encounter is an opportunity to move the world forward, or back. Her teaching is poetic and free-spirited, but also trauma-informed and science-based. Some people might even say her classes are fun. ; )