Janina Surya Devi Jaya Edwards

Her teachers include Swami Jaya Devi (Kashi Atlanta Ashram), Acharya Shakti Durgaya (Kashi Florida Ashram), and Judith Lasater (Relax & Renew Yoga). She is also a kirtan wallah. In addition to singing and leading kirtan, she plays the violin, harmonium, and bells/cymbals. In 2015 she received a Yoga Alliance Scholarship to complete her 300-hour certification. Janina is deeply grateful for her yoga practice and the tools it’s given her to have a deeper life experience, and to be deeply grounded in spirituality.After a lifetime ‘playing’ with yoga, Janina dived in deeply to help recover after a running injury. In 2011, she did her initial 200-hour training at Kashi Atlanta Ashram. She spent the next year there as an apprentice yoga teacher. Janina gained control over the problems that brought her to yoga, and fell in love with some of the deeper elements of yoga. During the teacher training Janina began to explore restorative yoga, in order to balance her energy while facing the challenge of the 6-month training. She came to love the Restorative practice. It helped her achieve a looseness and deep level of relaxation, through stillness. As a result, in 2012 she pursued and received certification in Restorative Yoga and completed her level 2 training with Judith Lasater.In 2015 Janina was awarded a Yoga Alliance scholarship to complete her 300-hour training in Kali Natha Yoga at Kashi Florida.Janina has taught yoga regularly at Tucker Yoga Collective (TYCO), Kashi Atlanta Ashram, LA Fitness, the Shepherd Center, and the Metropolitan Atlanta YMCA. She’s volunteered at the Partnership Against Domestic Violence, the DeKalb County jail.