Therapeutic Yoga Educator + Breath Work Facilitator
Jona Ellis
Your body isn’t broken. It’s just alive—and sometimes that feels like a lot.
I believe bodies don’t need to be ‘fixed’ to be worthy of care. From that belief, I work as a therapeutic yoga educator, breath work facilitator, and anatomy enthusiast. I specialize in supporting aging bodies and people navigating illness or injury, with a focus on yoga for cancer care and age-related transitions.
My teaching sits within a post-lineage tradition—rooted in yoga’s foundations yet shaped by lived experience and contemporary understanding of the body. I study primarily with Jason Crandell, whose precision and respect for individual anatomy continue to inform my approach, but my work has been refined through more than 1,000 hours of anatomy-based study and over 20,000 hours of teaching experience with real bodies in real life.
Before teaching full-time, I spent nearly two decades with Nike, where I helped shape mindfulness and movement programs before wellness became a buzzword. That foundation—and later collaborations with BlueCross BlueShield and Tivity Health—taught me how meaningful change happens when practice meets everyday life.
Evidence-based but deeply human, my work blends science, compassion, and just enough irreverence to keep us laughing at ourselves—because wisdom lands best when it feels like truth and a little bit of relief.