A Greeting from Jami (she/her)
Student Yoga Therapist.
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Hello! I’m Jami. What I love about yoga is that it has looked different at every phase of my life, and my practice is always changing and growing. I took my first class in 2008 in Varanasi, India. They gave us chai at the end, and, naturally, I was hooked. If you get to know me, you’ll know that good food and drinks are my love language! At the end of the class, we did laughter yoga. I was faking it until I saw my husband and our new local friend peeking their heads through the doorway. I burst into laughter and got the whole class cracking up! When we came back home, I signed up for an entire year of yoga. I felt a deep longing to practice more and more. Back then, my yoga practice was mostly about asana. I wanted to stretch and feel like I’d gotten some exercise. After going back over and over, I started to realize that I also really enjoyed the opportunity to slow down and connect with my breath and, ultimately, myself. I practiced regularly until 2013, when I went back to India and took my first teacher training. I loved the training, but never quite knew if teaching was right for me. I always felt like I needed a combined degree in kinesiology and philosophy to teach. I felt like an imposter. I thought the only way I could effectively teach was if I knew absolutely everything about how the body moves and said something profound in every class. However, I felt like my training of the body was limited, and I didn’t have anything profound to say! My lack of confidence kept me from teaching regularly, but I always kept up my practice. After my second child was born in 2017, yoga became a lifeline for me. As a parent of two small kids, I needed to practice yoga to maintain my sanity! My yoga practice became a way for me to care for myself, which led to me being a better parent to my kids. Yoga transitioned from a mostly physical practice to a mental and emotional practice. It allowed me the time and space to just be and breathe, without any expectations or obligations of parenting for 75-90 minutes. In 2025, I was fortunate enough to further my yoga education. I completed more teacher training and offered yoga classes as part of my Bachelor of Social Work practicum. Being able to incorporate yoga into social work has offered me the chance to develop my yoga practice off the mat, incorporating yoga into daily activities and finding creative ways to use yoga throughout the day, not just on my mat. This has transformed my personal practice into something that is with me always. Whatever I’m doing, and wherever I am, I can tap into yogic practices and take a moment to breathe, to withdraw from my senses by turning off my phone, or by closing my eyes for a few moments and noticing how I feel. I can pause before reacting to a tough situation. I can allow myself the freedom to slow down and rest. The more I practice all of these things, the more I want to share yoga with others. While I still want to know it all, I know that I never will. My yoga studentship is lifelong, and I always want to learn more and deepen my relationship with yoga. I still feel like an imposter sometimes, but I try to look at it as a good thing. If I knew everything and wasn’t nervous sometimes, I think it would get pretty boring! I don’t know everything about the body, and I may not always have something profound to say (I’d like to, but I’m practicing letting go of that one!) My goal as a yoga teacher is for people to feel safe in my classes and to be themselves. If you’ve ever seen Bridget Jones’ Diary, you might remember the scene where Colin Firth’s character tells Bridget that he likes her. She says, “Yeah, minus the drinking, and the smoking, and the…” He says, “No. I like you…Just as you are.” That’s how I want people to feel in my sessions. Safe to be themselves, and to show all sides of themselves. I want people to feel like they can come to my sessions and not have to wear a mask or pretend to be or feel something they are not. If you feel great, that’s welcome. If you’re having a rough day, week, month, or year, that’s also welcome. I want to offer others what yoga has offered me: a place where we can learn about ourselves that’s free from judgment, expectations, and is full of love and compassion. A place where you’re loved and liked…just as you are. I look forward to meeting you! Jami |
