Jo Bogacz is a full-time Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher based in Cardiff, Wales. Jo started practising yoga and meditation over twenty five years ago to bring a clarity to her life whilst recovering from a chronic health condition.  She trained as a British Wheel of Yoga Teacher in 2013, then further qualified as a Professional Yoga Therapist and is registered with Complementary & Natural Health Council (CNHC). She has specialist expertise in yoga therapy for mental health, chronic pain, older people and women's health. 

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She has personal lived experience of a long-term chronic health condition and how the transformative power of yoga as a psychosomatic technology coupled with compassion-based practice fosters healing, change and choice. Jo emphasises working with yogic tools and techniques for holistic health and purposeful wellbeing.  She encourages the use of yoga to foster more helpful choices in daily life, to reconnect with yourself, and as a process to find your own way authentically. She works in a trauma informed way offering integrative body and breathwork for optimum holistic health and somatic wellbeing.​

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As a qualified Yoga Teacher and registered Professional Yoga Therapist, Jo is committed to maintaining and building her range of skills, professionalism and competency through ongoing professional development and regular accredited CPD training.   Jo is a health practitioner on a Government approved accredited register for professional standards and has shown a commitment to maintaining standards in yoga practice including holding a range of roles in national organisations and being a Director in a social enterprise that brings yoga to members of the community who may not otherwise benefit from yoga. 

• ​​Level 4 RQF Ofqual regulated Diploma qualified British Wheel of Yoga Teacher, teaching since 2013.

• Level 4 NQF Ofqual regulated Diploma in Yoga Therapy accredited with British Council of Yoga Therapy.

• Founder and Director of Yoga Health Connect CIC.

• Founder Member of the Yoga Therapy Association.

• Registered as a Yoga Therapist with the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).

• Well-Woman Yoga Therapist.

• Yoga Nidra facilitator. 

• Level 4 Ofqual regulated Gentle Years Yoga teacher for older adults and those with age related conditions.

• Yoga therapy examiner and lecturer of Professional Practice & Ethics for a British Council of Yoga Therapy (BCYT) approved Yoga Therapy Diploma. 

• Elected British Wheel of Yoga National Officer for Wales.   

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Jo has undertaken further intensive trainings in trauma-informed yoga, women's yoga, pranayama, philosophy, meditation and yoga therapy for stress, depression & sleep.  She receives supervision for her clinical work from a senior Yoga Therapist.  Since 2012 Jo has undertaken retreat at Mandala Yoga Ashram, Wales to further her own process, to study and deepen her experiential understanding of yoga, meditation and tantra. 

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Jo teaches hatha yoga and meditation with the aim of improving physical, mental and emotional well-being.  Her approach is gentle and nurturing combining asana (physical postures), pranayama (yogic breathing) and meditation with a strong emphasis on mindfulness and relaxation.  She is committed to supporting students develop their own unique, personal yoga practice to bring a greater awareness, connection, balance, and renewed vitality to mind and body.  ​Jo's genuine interest in people naturally enables her to work in an empowering and insightful way. She brings compassion, kindness, and a person-centred approach to teaching and her therapeutic work.  Her therapeutic yoga classes & workshops, weekend retreats and 1:1 client work support you to use the transformative path of yoga as a process to find your own way authentically and to reconnect with yourself.  

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Jo has a proven long-standing commitment to improving health holistically and working in an integrated and collaborative way.​  As a younger woman Jo obtained an LLB (hons) and distinction at Postgraduate Masters level when she trained to become a professional solicitor, focusing on Legal Aid practice areas. She has worked in the third sector as a project manager and advocate, her clients have included the most deprived in the Welsh Valleys. Her commitment to social justice has continued as a Yoga Teacher and a  Yoga Therapist.

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