Stephanie St. John, RYT came to yoga through voice at New England Conservatory in 1995, where she began taking yoga to help with her breathing techniques. However, it wasn’t until 2001 when she started having gynecological issues and was advised by her shiatsu practioner to revisit yoga to reduce her stress levels. She decided to start practice with Baron Baptiste VHS’s, simply because his studio was next to the acupuncture and shiatsu clinic and the people looked happy. Slowly she started to heal her body from these issues, and depression and started to confront her fears of moving again after being a competitive swimmer while growing up. “I was living my life for everyone else but me.” The journey was tumultuous. Slowly she started to improve her body and spirit. It took Stephanie a few years to join the Baron Baptiste community, however after her first class in the studio she had a swimming dream and she felt the essence of flow even stronger. Over the years she has lost over 100lbs and soon friends, family, people she didn’t even know wanted her to teach. She trained to be an assistant at the Baron Baptiste studio in 2008 and soon found a desire to teach and share yoga, so in 2010 she became completed her teacher training with Baron Baptiste and in 2011 with Ana Forrest.
Stephanie is continuingly accept herself as a queer sexuality, woman of color, who is fat & sex positive and how she can nurture not just her community but ultimate initiate change in the world . Teaching yoga has been the perfect opportunity for Stephanie to integrate her passion for connecting with others whether or either as a classical trained vocalist and where she has been working in the field of biotechnology previously as a case manager for Multiple Sclerosis patients. As a first generation America whose family is from Barbados, West Indies her connect to her presence is an antennae to which students have found ways to breathe more deeply, hear their internal rhymes and be at peace with what is. “Our bodies are beacons for something that lies deeper within us.”
To contact Stephanie St. John, call 954-257-3547.
