Joni Wellness has been practicing and teaching yoga since 1970, with special expertise in hands-on assists, yoga therapeutics, Back Care, Pre-Natal, is a trainer of The Great Yoga Wall, and more.  She served as a Doula (childbirth support), Hospice volunteer, Nutrition, Health and Life Coach, and Massage Therapist of the Joffrey Ballet and to elite athletes and dancers.  She has been immersed in studying the Iyengar Yoga method since 1988, and received her first Iyengar Yoga teaching certificate in the 90’s. She was certified as a Jr-I Iyengar Yoga Instructor in 2009.

Joni was Deborah Wolk’s first yoga teacher, way back when.  In 2023, she received two total hip replacement surgeries and is loving being a “beginning” yoga student again, re-activating the intelligence gained from a long yoga life.  She especially enjoys passing on the game changing yoga poses and tips that brought her out of back pain and maintain her back pain free.  If you saw x-rays of her spine, you wouldn’t understand how she couldn’t be in pain, and she attributes being virtually pain-free to the specifics of Iyengar Yoga along with an understanding of spiritual healing.  Her approach to bringing Sama, evenness, and symmetry includes use of peripheral references such as the floor, walls, and chairs, which reverbs to a more even posture and spine, as well as creative visualization. www.joniwellness.com