Joanna Cashman

Since 2003 she has passionately facilitated an annual 200 hour Yoga Alliance approved teacher training that has trained over 150 remarkable teachers. Joanna has brought the health benefits of Radiant Health Yoga® and transformational dance to prisons, cancer survivorship programs, mental health centers, retreat centers, universities, and substance abuse centers across the country and internationally in Russia, Ukraine, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, and Hawaii. Yoga gave Joanna relief from her own scoliosis back pain and helped her through the challenges of her grief and loss issues. Her personal process of recovery inspired her to share yoga with others. A deep commitment to lifelong learning inspired her to obtain yoga certification through Joseph LaPage’s holistic health oriented IYT training. She is a licensed massage practitioner, Acutonics® practitioner, registered nurse and graduate of the Donna Farhi Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program. Her yoga background includes study of Integrative Yoga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Farhi and Anusara styles. Additionally Joanna earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Arizona State University where she studied dance, kinesiology and ideokinesis. Her fascination with the nervous system led her to study a variety of approaches to neurodevelopmental movement re-education including the Bartenieff Fundamentals, Brain Gym, Brain Dance and Body-Mind Centering®. She is a graduate of the HANDLE Institutes advanced training in a holistic approach to neurodevelopment and learning efficiency, a body of work that is helpful for attention deficit and learning issues. The Radiant Health Yoga® curriculum integrates many neurodevelopmental principles for injury prevention and whole brain function. Joanna loves to facilitate classes, workshops, retreats and individualized practices that incorporate Radiant Health Yoga®, acuyoga, IYT, chakra dance, massage and Acutonics®. She teaches with humor and sensitivity to individual differences and bows in humble gratitude to her most influential teachers, Donna Farhi, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Doug Keller, Bill Evans, Cheri Clampett and Joseph La Page. Joanna currently directs Radiant Health Wellness, a non-profit organization offering holistic health services across the life span. Joanna holds the trademark for Radiant Health Yoga® with the US Patent and Trademark Office, others using the term Radiant Health Yoga who are not graduates of the RHY teacher training, are doing so illegally. For more info visit: www.RadiantHealthYoga.com www.JoannaCashman.com