Ekam, inhale….

Jacquelin began practicing yoga in 2018 following a car accident that left her with a neck and shoulder injury. A daily practice helped alleviate her pain and discomfort, from here she felt inspired to inform others on the benefits of yoga. This led to her first 200 hour yoga teacher training with Yoga Punx PDX in Portland, Oregon, under the guidance of Sandee Lawless, and Ashley Low. Here she began her own personal practice of ashtanga. 

Shortly after completing her training in the summer of 2021, Jacquelin apprenticed beneath Lawless, and studied philosophy with Sri B.N.S. Iyengar before beginning her teaching path as a restorative yoga guide.

It was after a year of teaching, Jacquelin heard the gentle guidance that it was time to resume her role as a student so she spent another year and a half in intensive training, this time with the world as her teacher. 

After beginning a meditation practice with the Heart  of Wisdom Zen Temple, and completing a Yoga philosophy course with the Bhakti Yoga Movement center (located in Portland) and an Ashtanga Apprenticeship program where she learned how to teach the primary series under the guidance of Lawless, Jacquelin pursued a year of full time travel around Europe, Mexico and Asia where she helped teach and assist at retreats with Joey Paz.  

This journey would take her to first visit to India, the birthplace of this sacred philosophy in the winter of 2025, here she would complete 5 back-to-back training sessions, immersions and intensives studying beneath the lineage holders of the practice. Among them would be Sri B.N.S. Iyengar, Sri Srivatsa Ramaswami, and Sri TRS Sharma–all direct students of Krishnamacharya. 

She has recently made the commitment to devote herself to Zen Meditation, taking residency and refuge with a temple in her home state of Oregon for a 6 month residency. 

Jacquelin has a gift for grounding people in the present moment by creating a calm atmosphere and guiding others toward an awareness of their body. With a trauma informed approach to teaching, she enjoys creating supportive sequences for all bodies by playing around with props and including various meditation techniques in session. As a poet, she actively intertwines poetry and yoga in order to make sense of the dharma and to promote mindfulness in our everyday lives. She hopes to use the privilege she’s had in her education and background to honor and support your practice.