ABOUT
GIANNA YOGA
Gianna is an international yoga teacher, sharing her love for natural healing though yoga, ayurveda, doula work, and coaching.
As a broken gymnast, her first passion was healing her herniations and intense joint pain. As an asana champion her passion was training and discovering different modalities and techniques to help achieve varied shapes and perspectives. As a motorcycle accident survivor her passion was living and integrating yoga into every aspect of her being no matter life’s phase. As a yogini devoted to practice, her passion is to share yoga as an adaptogen; a healing modality willing to meet you where you are.
Gianna is a USA National Yoga Asana Champion, a Bikram Yoga Certified teacher, an Ashtanga trained teacher, a Vinyasa, Bhakti, and Yin E-RYT 500-hour certified teacher, a continuing education provider, and an FRCms. With over 16 years of athletic coaching and teaching experience, she shares asana, pranayama, and meditation practices rooted in functional movement, hatha yoga, and ashtanga yoga in the light of her teachers David Swenson, Emmy Cleaves, Swami Satchidananda, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
In addition to being a yoga educator, Gianna is a Death Doula and mortality educator. Studying and certified through the Conscious Dying Institute, Gianna helps people confront their fears of death while providing the practical steps necessary to create, share, and heal the mind, body, and spirit. She specializes in the integration of grief work and Ayurveda and assists those living with and the families of the terminally ill.
Gianna is an Ayurvedic counselor studying Vedic Science at the Maharishi International University. She works with people of all backgrounds and specializes in working with those with ADHD. If working with Gianna in a coaching capacity, she will help assist you in structuring your life in accordance with Vedic wisdom through diet, lifestyle, routine, scripture study, yogic practices, and accountability work.
She started the Siddhi School of Yoga, offers 200hr and 300hr teacher trainings, teaches ayurveda on trainings around the world, wrote the 26&2 teacher training programs for 105F, is a partner with Open Lotus Retreats in India, plays drums in Tucson-based folk band called Barefoot on Bumblebees, and fronts a theatrical punk band called Human Sounds.
You can join her online community at the Siddhi School of Yoga to practice on-demand classes from your home. You can subscribe to her Instagram account for Vedic wisdom and knowledge, and you can catch her in person in Tucson, Arizona on Monday nights at 6 pm for expanding and Thursday mornings at 10 am for basics at Yoga Oasis Tucson.
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