Meet Joy
Joy is a Yoga Instructor and Wellness Trainer living & teaching on the beautiful, spiritual Island of Kauai. She teaches hatha yoga, meditation, pranayama (breathing), and wellness/fitness training for optimal health and well-being.
Joy holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education; her focus of study was Athletic Training, and Exercise Physiology. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a former Power Lifting Champion, and a Certified Thai Yoga Therapist.
Joy's love for yoga began when it found its way into the NYC fitness centers where she worked as a fitness trainer. Before long, she felt the calling to teach, and found her way to the Yoga Zone studios. There she practiced ISHTA (integrated sciences of hatha, tantra, and ayurveda), and participated in a teacher training program under the tutelage of internationally recognized Yogiraj Alan Finger, and his senior teachers. She went on to teach at the Yoga Zone studios.
Since then, Joy has taken teacher training, or workshops with the following influential teachers: Rama Vernon (American Yoga College), Nischala Joy Devi (Yoga of the Heart), Gary Craftshaw, Baron Baptiste, JJ Gormely, Saul Raye, and more! Last year, August 2005, Joy was blessed to journey to Beautiful Bali, where she participated with 21 other amazing yoga teachers in a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Training with Ateeka from Maui. The Training was called Bodhichitta- Compassionate Vinyasa to Open Your Heart. Living in Bali for a month was a life changing experience for Joy.
Joy has worked as a Personal Fitness Trainer at: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Tuder Investment, Morgan Stanley, Rothchild, and others. Her last full time fitness position was at the NYC Police Department at Headquarters. There she did fitness evaluations, consultation, program design, and introduced yoga to the department.
Joy is now becoming well known for her innovative Outdoor Oceanfront Yoga classes, which she has taught for the last five years on beautiful Kauai. These classes have taught the beauty of Yoga to people from all over the world, from beginners to advanced teachers.
Joy teaches a uplifting, peaceful, and empowering hatha yoga that allows students to experience the inner strength, peace, stillness, and happiness, that is already existing within themselves.
As Joy's "Oceanfront Yoga" goes traveling, she looks forward to sharing her love of yoga and life with you in 'new' exciting locations!
Heres what some of her students had to say about her classes:
"Listening to the delightful early morning birdsong combined with the quiet instruction from Joy was pure delight. Her carefully choosen words and lighthearted observations made the class one with the breeze in the palms and the undulant waves on the shore. Her instructional methods made it clear that she stood on the shoulders of giants; the wisdom of her teachers & the sages before them flowed out of her with clear effulgent light."
--Michael M., Yoga Teacher, Alaska
"Magical Class, Magnificent Teacher!"
--Diane - Brighton, MI
"Thank you for your wisdom, feedback, and vibrant energy!"
--Michelle H., Rochester NY
Joy's love for yoga began when it found its way into the NYC fitness centers where she worked as a fitness trainer. Before long, she felt the calling to teach, and found her way to the Yoga Zone studios. There she practiced ISHTA (integrated sciences of hatha, tantra, and ayurveda), and participated in a teacher training program under the tutelage of internationally recognized Yogiraj Alan Finger, and his senior teachers. She went on to teach at the Yoga Zone studios.
Since then, Joy has taken teacher training, or workshops with the following influential teachers: Rama Vernon (American Yoga College), Nischala Joy Devi (Yoga of the Heart), Gary Craftshaw, Baron Baptiste, JJ Gormely, Saul Raye, and more! Last year, August 2005, Joy was blessed to journey to Beautiful Bali, where she participated with 21 other amazing yoga teachers in a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Training with Ateeka from Maui. The Training was called Bodhichitta- Compassionate Vinyasa to Open Your Heart. Living in Bali for a month was a life changing experience for Joy.
Joy has worked as a Personal Fitness Trainer at: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Tuder Investment, Morgan Stanley, Rothchild, and others. Her last full time fitness position was at the NYC Police Department at Headquarters. There she did fitness evaluations, consultation, program design, and introduced yoga to the department.
Joy is now becoming well known for her innovative Outdoor Oceanfront Yoga classes, which she has taught for the last five years on beautiful Kauai. These classes have taught the beauty of Yoga to people from all over the world, from beginners to advanced teachers.
Joy teaches a uplifting, peaceful, and empowering hatha yoga that allows students to experience the inner strength, peace, stillness, and happiness, that is already existing within themselves.
As Joy's "Oceanfront Yoga" goes traveling, she looks forward to sharing her love of yoga and life with you in 'new' exciting locations!
Heres what some of her students had to say about her classes:
"Listening to the delightful early morning birdsong combined with the quiet instruction from Joy was pure delight. Her carefully choosen words and lighthearted observations made the class one with the breeze in the palms and the undulant waves on the shore. Her instructional methods made it clear that she stood on the shoulders of giants; the wisdom of her teachers & the sages before them flowed out of her with clear effulgent light."
--Michael M., Yoga Teacher, Alaska
"Magical Class, Magnificent Teacher!"
--Diane - Brighton, MI
"Thank you for your wisdom, feedback, and vibrant energy!"
--Michelle H., Rochester NY
OCEANFRONT YOGA IN PARADISE!
"A kind word can melt the hardest heart.
Look at a situation with Love- It changes everything."
- From A Little Book of Aloha
"A kind word can melt the hardest heart.
Look at a situation with Love- It changes everything."
- From A Little Book of Aloha