Wellbeing

Weekly Yoga Class

Healthy lifestyles and a sense of well-being are essential components of Black life at Vanderbilt.  Certified yoga instructor Jo-Jo Jackson will offer reoccurring yoga classes in the BCC throughout the school year to help nourish the body and the spirit.

About Jo-Jo Jackson

Jo-Jo Jackson started practicing yoga in January 2010. In April 2014, Jo-Jo completed a 250-hr Yoga Teacher Training program at Asheville Yoga Center. In December 2018, she completed 450 hours of her 600-hr Ayurvedic Health Counselor program with Mas Vidal of Dancing Shiva Yoga & Ayurveda. Jo-Jo’s now enrolled in Asheville Yoga Center’s advanced studies 300-hr Yoga Teacher program to complete her 500-hr certification as an advanced practitioner. Her Hatha-vinyasa classes are dynamic, vigorous, playful, and creative; her restorative Hatha yoga classes are grounding, relaxing, centering, and peaceful.