Jazzy is an energetic light who loves to share her passion for mindfulness, meditation, and yoga with her yoga students. She is deeply committed to sharing yoga as a healing modality for trauma, addiction, and symptoms of mental illness. She has dedicated her life’s work as a Clinical Social Worker to bring yoga into prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers. She has spent the last four years teaching at San Quentin State Prison with the Prison Yoga Project.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have couch surfed in Paris and it was such a great experience that I am greatly looking forward to opening up my home to the couch surfer community and continue to meet new people from around the world and further expanding my horizons and cultural competency. I absolutely LOVE hosting when I have the time, cooking, baking, and making people feel as much at home as possible!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My sister and I stayed in Chatillion, France with a wonderfully delightful couple, David and Vladi. They were the most gracious host and greeted us with open arms, smiles, french cheese, and wine! They really gave us a great peak into the day in the life of a Parisian and ultimately really opened my eyes to how great being a part of couch surfing community really is! David convinced me to update my profile, so you should be smiling right now.

I've also hosted a ton of travelers who were passing through Sacramento. It has been a tremendous experience and without a doubt has expanded my horizons within a world wide community of travelers, healers, seekers, adventurers.

Centres d'intérêt

When I'm not in the yoga studio you can find me writing poetry, frequenting tea houses, teaching commercial paddle boarding in the San Francisco Bay, singing my heart out, meditating in the forrest under a big oak tree, facilitating a monthly creative writing group, fire dancing, taking and teaching improv comedy classes, nurturing my veggie garden, or traveling to beautiful and tropical parts of the world to surf, yoga, and just be.

• writing
• poetry
• singing
• acting
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• cheese
• baking
• vegetarian
• triathlon
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• clubbing
• gardening
• traveling
• blogging
• surfing
• trail running
• religion
• social work
• mountains

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Currently LOVE the movie Wild. Loved the book even more.

Reading "Pilgrim" by David Whyte. I LOVE his poetry. My spiritual handbook is "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron. I'm also loving "Enlightenment for Idiots" a novel by Anne Cushman. "Daily Om" is on my bedside table for inspiration and guidance. I'm a multiple book reader kinda gal.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I was a prison social worker for 4 years and during that time I co-founded the Prison Yoga Project with a mission to bring yoga programs into prisons all over the world. I wholeheartedly believe in yoga as a powerful healing modality for incarcerated individuals and people in underserved communities.

I was a competitive triathlete for 5 years. I raced in over 50 triathlons, completed 3 half ironman races, and ran 35 miles in the mountains all at once. I even founded a triathlon club and was acting president for the first year of its existence. That was a time in my life when I was pretty much insane. I'm still trail running and road riding for fun but I've calmed down a bit more since then. ;) Yoga is my new religion.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

my secret storytelling and poetry blog:

http://jazzydoesonecrazythingaday.tumblr.com

I guess this makes it not so secret anymore. ;)

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Private yoga sessions, gourmet vegetarian meals, and a joyful energetic playful spirit.

Pays que j'ai visités

France, Italy, Spain, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada, Italy, United States

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