Jackie Jackson she/her
Trauma Informed Yoga|Facilitator| Author
About
As a former social worker with a corporate background, Jackie is passionate about writing, sharing yoga, and complementary, healing modalities to support your your recovery journey. She currently works as a writer, yoga practitioner, and group facilitator with the national, online, Other Parents Like Me network. Here she supports those with kiddos who are struggling with mental health issues. https://oplm.com/
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Jackie is an experienced registered yoga teacher (ERYT-500) and Continuing Education Provider (YACEP®) with Yoga Alliance since being certified in 2001. She completed her year-long comprehensive yoga therapy certification in 2013 and her trauma-informed yoga certification in 2016. She is lifelong learner and a member of the International Association Yoga Therapists (IAYT.)
She has shared her book, meditations, stress reduction, and lifestyle management skills to thousands of people in a variety of settings including online, in homes, schools, studios, fitness clubs, shelters, corporations, retreats, and teacher trainings. Current classes: Privates, Livestrong at the Y Cancer Survivor program facilitator, and ongoing embodiment workshops and yoga classes at the Angel Cooperative, YMCA, in privates, and online. In Spring 2024 she will be hosting a year-long, Yoga Alliance certified, 200-hour, yoga teacher training through the Angel Cooperative.
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Her debut as an author is Urge Overkill: A Story of Breaking Free, a self-help book on overcoming domestic violence from her days working at a domestic violence and rape shelter. Her second is Holistic Trauma Healing: Strategies to Integrate the Body, Mind, and Spirit, exploring how Psychology/ Allopathic Medicine comes together with complementary modalities for the layperson. It is a lifeline/toolbox of practices based on expert research in both fields to connect you with your internal strength and healing abilities. Each chapter offers resources and DIY practices to explore. It is due out through Llewellyn Worldwide in June 2025.
Offering Yoga & Writing Services
Yoga & meditation for you and your group in a variety of settings including corporate spaces, nature retreats, studios, workshops, schools, and shelters, both live and online nationally.
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Writer: Jackie offers over a decade of experience as a freelance writer for newsletters, newspapers, magazines, psychology papers, white papers, copy writing/editing, features, and articles. During this span, Jackie covered a wide range of topics including but not limited to local news/events, trauma healing, domestic violence, self-help, travel, and yoga lifestyle.
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What to expect in my yoga classes, workshops, and retreats: Jackie teaches trauma-informed, breath-centered, flow (aka vinyasa,) style with a focus on stress reduction, accommodating injuries, and adapting the poses to meet you where you are.
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Come explore a variety of tools to meet your needs drawing from the Eight Limbs of Yoga Philosophy. In addition to postures and breath work, practice might include mantra, mudra, meditation, chanting, and other curated experiences to help you delve further into holistic healing modalities tailored to these special interest topics as presented in her books.
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Her specialties include: prenatal yoga, adaptive and trauma-informed yoga, and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and other meditations. She is a Reiki Master in the tradition of Dr. Mikao Usui.
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Teaching, Writing & Corporate Services
Yoga Privates, Group Sessions or Retreats
Freelance writing, editing, copy writing and white papers
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Hire Me: 3 Packages
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Family Yoga/ Corporate Package: Relax and bond with loved ones/ your group with yoga. The family/group that does yoga together...
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Trauma Informed/ Therapeutic Yoga: Invitational, accessible yoga with lots of options and adapted to meet your individual needs, the opposite of one size fits all...
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Yoga for Anxiety: An accessible practice that engages with the physiological effects of stress in the nervous system, works through it and ends with down regulation for calm.
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Package cost: $125 for an hour and a 15 minutes.
Jackie is the best yoga instructor I have ever worked with, she is an expert in her field. She focuses on a deep yoga experience that emphasizes both the inner and outer journey. She incorporates different types of yoga into her classes (vinyasa/yin/therapeutic) so I'm always learning something new about the practice, my body and myself. Jackie is knowledgeable and practiced in many healing modalities.
A private yoga session may include chakra healing, breathing techniques, therapeutic yoga, meditations, mantras, or sound bowls. I always leave feeling a sense of self-acceptance, self-knowledge, and new possibility. Recommending Jackie to a friend makes me feel like I am giving that friend a special gift — the gift of working with a healer whose teachings and presence are transformational.
Marcelle Soveiro- Student
“Jackie was my first yoga teacher. When I attended my first class with her close to thirteen years ago, it was in a difficult place in my life. Having recently lost my Mother to cancer and trying to cope with every day life, I was trying to find some sort of peace and stability. Jackie helped me find that. I enjoyed her classes so much that I've continued to practice yoga over the last 12+ years. Her classes were relaxing and challenging at the same time and she always incorporated different aspects of yoga into each class. I was saddened when Jackie and her family moved to CT but I also knew that she would be successful wherever she was and would inspire more people like she inspired me to live and love yoga!”
Laura Barlow - Student
"Jackie brings care and love to her teaching. Her classes have wonderful variety and are always fun. She provides just the right amount of physical challenge, and always has creative options for deepening or modifying poses to be appropriate for a wide range of students. But it is her authentic presence, open heart, and desire to share what she has learned, that make Jackie such a special teacher.”
Ann Jones - Ten year student
