We're dedicated to providing you with a distinctively different and deeper yoga experience that you'll want to keep exploring. Classes are smaller and more intimate to allow each student more personal attention and hands-on assistance. We also invite other teachers and practitioners to present workshops and classes that help to enhance the experience of ananda bhav, featuring complementary practices that offer wisdom, healing, education and support.
To nurture and facilitate an expanded sense of Self in each individual through the practice of physical, emotional and spiritual exploration that is yoga. To create a community that is a haven for fellowship, self-discovery and healing ~ fostering acceptance, personal growth and transformation.
Jody has studied extensively with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, founder of Svaroopa® yoga and Master Teacher at Master Yoga Teacher Institute. She has studied meditation with Sally Durgananda Kempton, and posture with Jean Couch at The Balance Center. Her teaching path has been inspired and illuminated by many great masters, living and passed, including Sri Amma Karunamayi, Ramana Maharshi, Bhagavan Nityananda and Neem Karoli Baba.
Jody’s unique gift as a teacher and healer is her profound understanding of pain and the body’s wisdom to heal itself. She has a very personal perspective on chronic pain and immobility through her own experience with herniated discs and sciatica. It was the practice of Svaroopa yoga that allowed her to finally overcome these issues. Through Svaroopa® yoga’s compassionate approach, Jody found she was able to let go of the effort to fix herself, and instead begin to heal and transform herself. As the physical pain began to melt, an awareness of what lived beneath it and within it led her to a deeper understanding of the mind/body connection and the compelling promise of yoga. Jody’s greatest passion is to inspire others to come home to their bodies, and in so doing, come home to the Self, and find rest and comfort there.
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Georgia Licensed Massage Therapist #MT003064.
About Jody Grombach
LMT, RYT 500, CSYT
Jody is the owner and primary instructor at Ananda Bhav Yoga. She has been teaching yoga since 2000, specializing in the Svaroopa® style. Her teaching is compassionate, playful and intuitive. She teaches classes, workshops and special clinics designed to enhance and expand your experience of Svaroopa yoga. Her studies include hatha yoga asana and anatomy, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation, and advanced techniques in yoga therapy.
Jody is a Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher registered with the Yoga Alliance (RYT500), Certified Embodyment® Yoga Therapist, and vichara therapist, with over 1,000 hours of training with Master Yoga Teacher Institute.She is also a licensed neuromuscular massage therapist and has been in private practice since 1996.
