Gioconda combines alignment and flow to empower students to grow in their practice, inviting challenge in a nurturing environment. She encourages playfulness and enjoyment while exploring the science and art that is yoga. She believes passionately in yoga’s ability to bring unity at an individual, community and global level. This passion moved into action at the community level in 2008, as she initiated and co-founded the Austin based movement “Changing the World, One Om at a Time,” a seva project designed to unite yoga practitioners in practice and service. One Om events have continued to bring people together locally to love, honor and share the practice, and have sparked others teachers in the Austin area to initiate and create similar events. Gioconda has also contributed to the Austin yoga community through a decade of leading workshops, teacher training programs, advanced training programs, intensives, and mentoring programs. Gioconda has been practicing, teaching and studying yoga for over 18 years & is registered with Yoga Alliance as an ERYT-500. Her passion for teaching and sharing yoga is equaled by her passion for learning. In 2012, she completed her Master's Degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and in 2014 she completed a three-year training in Somatic Experiencing, a trauma therapy approach designed by Peter Levine. She combines these trainings with her yoga background to offer individual and group support through her private practice. She teaches locally in Austin, Texas for part of the year, spends part of the year traveling to lead retreats and presenting at conferences and festivals, and the rest of the time she spends in the mountains in Colorado, studying, creating and being in nature. You can find out more about Gioconda and her offerings at www.giocondayoga.com
This passion moved into action at the community level in 2008, as she initiated and co-founded the Austin based movement “Changing the World, One Om at a Time,” a seva project designed to unite yoga practitioners in practice and service. One Om events have continued to bring people together locally to love, honor and share the practice, and have sparked others teachers in the Austin area to initiate and create similar events. Gioconda has also contributed to the Austin yoga community through a decade of leading workshops, teacher training programs, advanced training programs, intensives, and mentoring programs.

Gioconda has been practicing, teaching and studying yoga for over 18 years & is registered with Yoga Alliance as an ERYT-500. Her passion for teaching and sharing yoga is equaled by her passion for learning. In 2012, she completed her Master's Degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and in 2014 she completed a three-year training in Somatic Experiencing, a trauma therapy approach designed by Peter Levine. She combines these trainings with her yoga background to offer individual and group support through her private practice. She teaches locally in Austin, Texas for part of the year, spends part of the year traveling to lead retreats and presenting at conferences and festivals, and the rest of the time she spends in the mountains in Colorado, studying, creating and being in nature.

You can find out more about Gioconda and her offerings at www.giocondayoga.com