About Jessica

Jessica has been a registered teacher with the US Yoga Alliance since 2004 and has taught yoga to preschoolers, Bronx teens, septuagenarians, New York Islanders, mums-to-be, frazzled war reporters, diplomats and flexibly challenged execs around the world. She was an apprentice under Joan Pohl (Integral Yoga) before completing teacher training certification with the Sivananda Vedanta Centre in India and gaining advanced certifications with Integral Yoga (USA) in teaching yoga for pregnancy and childbirth, as well as to gentle yoga for special needs.

She is influenced by the classical holistic philosophy of the Sivananda and Integral yoga tradition, the focus on Iyengar's and viniyoga's alignment and adaptive techniques, the laughter of Joan Pohl's classes, and the continuous fusion of traditional and western expressions that are making yoga's deceptively simple, yet potentially transformative practices more accessible to all. Jessica continues to study with many renowned and anonymous (but equally brilliant) teachers from India to the US, but is equally inspired by her students, the serendipities of daily life, and her own lessons on the mat.

Jessica gained her massage qualifications in the UK, studying anatomy and physiology, holistic massage and reflexology under holistic therapist, osteopath and author Denise Whichello Brown. She has studied advanced massage techniques at the SEED Institute (UK) and is also studying intermediate thai yoga massage under the senior Lotus Palm School teacher and structural yoga therapist Rishi Dion.

Jessica also has a BA in social anthropology, an MBA, and certification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Her interest in holistic health developed from her need to find a better sense of balance in an itinerant and adrenalin-fuelled lifestyle, during nearly a decade of work with the UN and NGOs in the African refugee humanitarian crises during the 1990s. New York born and raised, but still suffering from seemingly incurable wanderlust, Jessica has lived and/or worked in nine countries, giving her the opportunity to pass on the gifts of these practices to people from all walks of life. Jessica has been based in Denmark with her husband and children since 2004.