Our Story
True balance is found not in perfection, but in the harmony of opposites - Yin and Yang, strength and surrender.
Susan Kniseley-Foy
E-RYT200/E-RYT500/YACEP
Susan discovered the transformative power of yoga in 2001. She brought this gift along with her on a journey teaching abroad in Taiwan, Korea, and Qatar. She has always been amazed at yoga’s ability to calm the restless mind and create community, even in foreign lands. Immersing herself in Anusara training initially, she later pursued her 200 and 300-hour teacher training certifications in Ashtanga/Vinyasa Flow at Yama Yoga Studios in Doha, Qatar, under the expert guidance of Valerie Jeremijienko, Dave and Cheryl Oliver. She also has had the privilege of studying under renowned teachers of diverse yoga styles, including John Scott, Lino Miele, Kathryn Budig, Briget Woods-Kramer, Mary Dana Abbot, Yogeswari, Emil Wendel, Kino MacGregor, Tim Feldman, Dice Iida-Klein, Briohny Smith, Ana Forrest, and Sean Corne.
Returning to Jacksonville Beach alongside her travel partner-in-crime/husband, Ron in 2013, Susan was happy to be back where yoga started for her. Here, amidst a thriving yoga community, she conducts public and private classes, workshops, and intensives. She quells her considerable wanderlust by organizing international yoga retreats, allowing her to merge her passion for travel with her devotion to yoga. Her teaching style embodies a fusion of energy, encouragement, lightheartedness, and creativity. Drawing from her rich training background, she incorporates thoughtful assists from Ashtanga, alignment principles from Anusara, and the fluidity of breath-connected Vinyasa flow into her classes.
She strives to engage and empower her students, and to help them find illumination in their practice in whatever way rings true for them. She considers yoga a constant lesson in how to…..everything… and considers it both a pleasure and an honor to continue learning and evolving through the practice.
Judy Smith
Yoga Instructor RYT 500
Mind Body Coach
LCSW
Sacred Passage End of Life Doula
Judy's teachings are a blend of eastern practices that promote healing for the mind, body, and spirit. Students will be treated to regular sessions of meditation and Yoga Nidra. Her Yin classes are thoughtful and encourage students to be present – living each breath of the practice in the moment. Emphasis on kindness is the spoken language throughout all the classes that Judy teaches. Reinforcement of trusting one’s instincts and inner wisdom as students learn to work Chi through their meridians. Judy has written all of her original Yoga Nidra scripts and encourages her students to live their truth both on and off the mat. The personal goal she inspires students to reach is to wake up each day practicing what brings them joy.
Judy's holistic psychotherapy practice and yin yoga classes are true restorative wellness. Her therapeutic practices encourage the unification of mind body heart and soul with the intention of living life in wholeness. Judy's intention is to incorporate all practices of connection, i.e. meditation, yoga, yoga nidra, breathwork, and mindfulness. She has spent 16 years on the mat and is certified in yoga nidra, meditation, cardiac yoga, pre-natal, senior and chair yoga, and yoga for people who have been touched by cancer. In addition, Judy has 25 years of private practice as a certified hypnotherapist, in emotional freedom technique tapping and solution-based holistic counseling.
