Jessica Anderson Yoga Lessons and Yoga Instruction

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell

Experienced Yoga Teacher
(Registered With Yoga Alliance and Reiki Practitioner)
and
Marriage and Family Therapist Intern
#70382
(Supervised under Trevor Reynolds, MFT, #41847)

YOGA/MEDITATION:
Jessica Anderson, ERYT, found her personal practice of Ashtanga yoga in 1996 and has been a teacher since 2000. Certifications received from Sarah Powers as well as a 300 hour general and advanced teacher training from The Yoga Tree in her native city Seattle, Washington, have accumulated to over 500 hours of training. In addition, teacher intensives with David Life and Sharon Gannon (Jivamukti Yoga), David Swenson and Rodney Yee and have influenced Jessica with a wide range of teaching styles. In 2005, Jessica Co-Directed the first 200 hour yoga alliance registered teacher training held in the Conejo Valley. In addition, she has lead workshops for Back Care, anatomy for yoga, yogic philosophy, meditation and yin yoga.

As a student, Jessica’s practice explores the traditional Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and meditation, Patanjali’s Ashtanga yoga, the teachings of Osho, and Tantra. Her lifelong investigation of direct experience through svadhaya (self study) has proved to be the main support for her path while she continues to draws inspiration and from her sangha (yoga community) and teachers Max Strom and Saul David Raye. In 2005, Jessica became a second level Reiki energy practitioner to enhance her understanding of the subtle body.

Like a dance, Jessica’s group classes blend physical alignment, core strength and mindfulness in a fluid rhythm using the breath as the underlying current for the practice. Through metta (loving kindness) and sharing her love of poetry, she encourages and empowers students’ inner wisdom to guide them towards the gradual realization of their own inherent nature of body/heart/mind!

Jessica also works privately with individuals who are healing from surgery or other injuries and those who are interested in deepening their understanding of the yogic path. Whether its through meditation instruction or mindfulness counseling, her greatest love is in assisting her private students to live their yoga by moving beyond their conditioned and unconscious patterns and lead a life of joy and freedom.

PSYCHOTHERAPY:
To balance the spiritual teachings of the East and develop an understanding of the human mind, Jessica completed her B.A. in psychology and sociology at CSUCI and her M. A. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate institute. Jessica is a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern #70382, supervised under Trevor Reynolds, MFT #41847 at Engage Psychological Services in Westlake Village, Ca. To schedule a therapy appointment with her you may call the office directly at 805-497-0605 or through the contact page on this site.