JANET
STONE

She/Her

Vinyasa

What is something that would surprise me about you?
I was in the circus, in a band, an EMT on ambulance, a lifeguard, a wedding photographer, a producer in the film industry, raced mountain bikes, was sponsored for snowboarding, was bitten by a monkey, ran outback tours in Queensland, Australia, and so many other surprises you’ll have to stick around to unearth.

What can I expect from your class?
A welcoming embrace of you, exactly as you are, along with three decades of practice and study of yoga that expresses itself through grounded, enlivened, dynamic and devotional practice. Warmth of the kind that emanates from within and glows on your skin while you flow through asana, chant, meditate, and breathe deeply.

What is the most essential part of practice for you?
Compassion. With grace and empathy we move from doing yoga to being yoga and living yoga in our daily lives. Within this, we work to lessen what appears to separate and divide us and move toward an inner and outer sense of wholeness.

Always a student, Janet has immersed herself in the ancient practices of yoga for over thirty years. A global yoga teacher, she shares the teachings from the heart. Through curiosity, devotion, and dedication she creates a unique approach to living yoga.

Janet’s yoga journey began at 17 under Maharaji, her meditation teacher, whose reverence for simplicity and joy live on in her practice and teachings to this day. She shares from the depth of her own sadhana (sustained practice), her studentship in the eight-limbed path, her creative approach to asana, and her reverence for bhakti (devotional, heart-centered yoga, including chanting mantra).

With over thirty years in studentship to the practice and twenty years of teaching, Janet offers classes that challenge students to investigate what they think they know, to hold compassion for what they discover within themselves, and to remember presence, the long view and the radical depth of our interconnectedness.

In 1996, Janet traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, and became dedicated to the path of yoga. Based in San Francisco, California, she now shares the teachings through retreats, workshops, teacher trainings, an online platform, and three devotional albums filled with heart-centered mantra.

Always a student, Janet has immersed herself in the ancient practices of yoga for over thirty years. A global yoga teacher, she shares the teachings from the heart. Through curiosity, devotion, and dedication she creates a unique approach to living yoga.

Janet’s yoga journey began at 17 under Maharaji, her meditation teacher, whose reverence for simplicity and joy live on in her practice and teachings to this day. She shares from the depth of her own sadhana (sustained practice), her studentship in the eight-limbed path, her creative approach to asana, and her reverence for bhakti (devotional, heart-centered yoga, including chanting mantra).