Judy Churchill is one of the few Accredited 
® Teachers in North America. In 2001, she received formal initiation in India from Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at Bihar Yoga Bharati and was given the spiritual name, Jayasri. She later earned a Level 2 Accreditation from SYA from the Yoga Association of Mangrove Mountain, NSW, Australia. A full-time yoga teacher for the past six years, Jayasri teaches that yoga is much more than posture; rather, it is a complete system of human development.Although she has found that the physical branch of yoga has many wonderful side-effects such as flexibility, strength, balance, well-being and equanimity, Jayasri also teaches workshops on meditation, history & branches of yoga, and other related topics. She provides reviews on this website of books from Yoga Publications Trust in India.
Jayasri's classes are student-centered: - tailored to the students' goals, interests and current abilities. “It is most important to cultivate awareness regardless of the level of difficulty. A second essential ingredient is safety. What keeps students coming back is a sense of enjoyment and continued learning. I love to answer questions whenever I can, and to pass on additional knowledge from the extended family of my teachers.”