Joe Taft, Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor
After years of avid whitewater kayaking, Joe’s chronic back pain led him to his life’s passion, the study and teaching of Ansuara yoga. Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment™ coupled with Joe’s keen awareness of biomechanics, as a result of his athletic devotion to multiple sports, lead Joe down his path to self-healing. Today he dedicates himself fully to the teaching of Anusara yoga. Many of his students have expressed their gratitude for his insights into the healing components of yoga.
Joe has hundreds of training hours with John Friend, Sianna Sherman and other seasoned Anusara instructors. Joe possesses a positive and bright outlook on life and credits his supportive parents for this optimistic approach to the art of living. Joe is a student of such prominent scholars and professors as William K. Mahony and Douglas Brooks, the founder of Rajanaka Yoga, who ceaselessly offers a plethora of insights and wisdom to ponder.
Joe shares with his students his unwavering mission as a yoga teacher, which is to impart how yoga deeply touches the mind, body and one’s perspective on life. Joe enjoys witnessing those blessed moments on the mat when a student connects to his/her individual beauty and experiences how the body is a vessel for the spirit’s journey. As a full time yoga instructor, Joe teaches weekly classes, teacher trainings, therapeutic trainings, Anusara immersions, workshops and offers private one-on-one instruction. Joe guarantees transformational fun.
When Joe is not on the mat or in the yoga classroom, he is diving fully into adventures with his young daughter, Taytum, and his wife, Susanne. They live in Asheville, North Carolina, a spectacular city.
