About

Jo's creative approach adapts to each practitioner’s individual needs, with a focus on body positivity, self-compassion and accessibility.

She founded the Garden of Yoga studio in Northcote in 2013 where she is the principal teacher as well as sharing her classes online and co hosting The Flow Artists Podcast.

Jo is the author of Eight Limbs of Aerial Yoga: Adapting Practice for Neurodiversity, Accessibility and Physical Support which was published by Singing Dragon in 2026.

She is passionate about making movement accessible to everyone, especially marginalised communities, and has taught free community classes with the Get Active in Darebin program since 2016. She is a Yoga for Good Foundation Grant recipient.

She is also an initiator of sharing the accessible aspects of aerial yoga. She presented a Body Positive Aerial Yoga workshop in 2019 in collaboration with Body Positive Australia. She shared a presentation of the Accessible and Therapeutic Aspects of Aerial Yoga at the Embodied Yoga Summit and launched the Making Aerial Yoga More Accessible facebook group. She led a sold out Body Positive Aerial Yoga retreat in Bali in 2025 and will be back in 2027.

Jo has been practicing the meditative art of Sumi-e (ink brush) painting since she was six years old and she discovered yoga while studying Visual Art at RMIT in 1998, and since then she has found that practicing meditation and yoga helps her enjoy living and creating to her full potential.

Jo's creative approach adapts to each practitioner’s individual needs, with a focus on body positivity, self-compassion and inclusivity. She is excited to share the whole spectrum of yogic experience - from supportive and playful movement in the aerial hammock, to workplace chair yoga classes and calm meditation in the quiet of a yin style practice.