Jona Ellis

Your body isn’t broken. It’s just alive - and sometimes that feels like a lot. Jona is a therapeutic yoga educator and breathwork facilitator specializing in aging bodies, injury, and cancer care. Their work is grounded in anatomy, lived experience, and over 20,000 hours of teaching real people in real life. They teach within a post-lineage approach - rooted in yoga’s foundations and shaped by contemporary understanding of the body. Their work is influenced by studies with Jason Crandell and more than 1,000 hours of anatomy-based education. Jona’s work has been trusted in healthcare and professional settings, including Wellness Council of America, IDEA World Fitness, and Erlanger Health System. Before teaching full-time, they spent nearly two decades with Nike developing mindfulness and movement programs - long before 'wellness' became a trend. Their work is evidence-informed, practical, and deeply human - because when the body feels more steady, it stops feeling like the problem.

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