Biography

Jill was born in Knoxville TN.  Her love of yoga first began when she took some yoga classes in college in 2001, and read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahamsa Yogananda.  After graduating from New York University in 2004, with a BFA in dance performance, she started taking classes at Dharma Yoga Center in NYC, where yoga became not just something that she enjoys, but a life long path.

Jill graduated from Dharma Yoga Center’s Life of a Yogi 200 hour teacher-training in 2005 and the 500 hour teacher-training in 2010.  In NYC she taught yoga, senior yoga and other fitness classes at NYU, to private clients, and was performing in a variety of modern dance companies.

Presently, Jill teaches yoga at Strang Senior Center, Glowing Body, and to private clients.  She also creates, performs and teaches modern dance with Go! Contemporary Dance Works and Studio Arts for Dancers. 

“I feel blessed and grateful to Dharma Mittra for passing on the teaching of Hatha Raja Yoga.  To teach Dharma yoga is to transmit the Sri Dharma message of compassion and love of God.  “Be Receptive” to the supreme teacher within!”