simplyYoga, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Joanne Carter (ERYT-500) is the owner, director and primary teacher at simplyYoga, LLC in Kingston, NJ (simplyyogakingston.com) (4.5 miles from the new-soon-to-be-opened Lululemon store in Princeton, NJ) working with more than 400 students a week in what has become one of the premier yoga studios in central New Jersey.
Joanne first discovered yoga while training for competitive horse jumping in Guatemala when a jump coach told her yoga would improve her concentration. For Joanne it did much more. Yoga certainly improved her concentration as she guided her horse around the course – but it also gave her a sense of peace, control and “completeness” she had never felt before. She has spent much of the past thirty years sharing that feeling with her students.
Joanne has taught at retreats across the country, has studied with a variety of the “household names” yogis, and completed several Teacher Training programs, and has developed one of highest-regarded RYT-200 teacher training programs in New Jersey.
Joanne brings a wide-ranging life story to her yoga practice, spending years in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ecuador, Spain and England – but says “the world you master, can be found on your own yoga mat.”