Rachel Joyce

Rachel is a RYT Yoga teacher, a student, a devotee, a sādhaka. With over 600 hours of continuing education, she is dedicated to learning the roots, history, culture, and practices that have kept the yogic flame lit for many thousands of years.  Rachel’s primary focus is the classical Hatha Yoga practice of Iyengar Yoga. Rachel’s teaching draws connections between physical practice to the unseen experiences of the energy body and the expansion of awareness, intelligence, and consciousness. Opening not only bodies, but hearts and minds, to yogic wisdom and putting it into daily practice is her dharma.

Often, Rachel has said Yoga saved her life. In her practice, she found refuge during her most desperate and darkest hours. Through devotion to the practice, she has become more than her suffering. Little by little, moment by moment, pose by pose, breath by breath, sit by sit, she achieved healing and empowerment. She has experienced freedom from the darkness of suffering through yoga practice. Now sharing this practice is her dharmic duty and calling.

Rachel has been a Yoga practitioner for nearly 15 years.  In 2018 she completed her 200-hour training at Brooklyn Yoga Project to become an RYT. Halfway through her training, she knew her education must continue and it must be immersive.

Rachel spent the majority of 2019 absorbed in sādhanā in India, Hawaii and home in Pennsylvania with master practitioners and teachers. Every place she lived and visited, she sought out teachers and training. She spent three months in India studying yoga across different regions. Six of these weeks were spent in Pune, home to Iyengar Yoga, observing and practicing under Gulnaaz Dashti, a disciple of Geeta Iyengar. Since 2020 she has been mentored by Holly Walck Kostura, Senior CIYT.

When she’s not teaching private students, group classes in Jim Thorpe, or workshops at Nourishing Storm, Rachel is either working on her home renovation or at her laptop logging hours as a digital / marketing consultant in leadership roles. Her goal is to build a yoga school, a mountain ashram, and continue to share the teachings that have saved and shaped her.