About Alison Jones: Alison’s interest in yoga stemmed from over 10 years of teaching various fitness classes, the success she found integrating breathing techniques and other stress reducing activities into her Social Work with at risk adolescents (who resisted but benefitted nonetheless!) and the joy she saw children express during movement classes she incorporated in her home based daycare’s pre-school curriculum. Alison shares, “Discovering yoga was a life altering experience. It brought it all together for me. Like everyone, I have ‘issues in my tissues’! Helping others experience the emotional and physical release and calming affect that yoga provides is so rewarding”. Alison became one of the first Certified YogaKids® Facilitators in 2002, which required over 310 hours of study and training. Yogakids® has since become the premier and most comprehensive International certification program for children’s yoga and continues to be a source of inspiration and provide wonderful resources. “Although I love teaching children, I realized that there are so many adults like me who would benefit greatly from yoga and that I had a lot to share with them as well.” Thus, Alison became a Registered Yoga Teacher through Anahata Integrated Yoga Teacher Training in 2005 and finds it rewarding to teach various populations and specifically addressing certain issues and diagnoses with her teaching. In 2008, she became certified in Trauma Sensitive Yoga through the Trauma Center at JRI in Boston, MA. “The balance and variety I receive teaching all ages and using yoga to assist people in dealing with their personal issues gives me great satisfaction and it helps me keep things fresh and new. I continue to be a student and have been blessed to attend trainings with many wonderful local and international teachers, including Marsha Wenig, Pam Britton, Chris Morton, Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden, Donna Farhi, Ann Greene, Todd Norian, Gary Kraftsow, Rolf Gates and Baxter Bell, M.D. Alison enjoys integrating these lessons in to her own practice, then sharing them with others- “I consider myself to be very lucky to be doing something I love for a job, while simultaneously doing my most important life work here at home with a wonderful husband, two incredible daughters, our many beloved pets and an extended network of loving family members and friends.”
