Meet Joyanna
Teacher~guide, mystical body worker, Mind, Body & Spirit healing.
Life enhancing, poetic,
harnessing creative play with Devotion~QiGong~Yoga, GYROTONIC®, that inspires life, breath, freedom, movement, interconnectivity and Heart cultivation.
For these times, to activate, to fine tune, to shift frequency and to employ evolutionary change,
for the GOOD OF ALL.
Devotion
Devotion was an early gift in my life. My young years of Catholicism struck a deep chord in my heart. The celebrations of saints and angels, the rituals of Latin hymns, the familiar fragrance of incense, all moved me. My mind and consciousness turned as my seventeen-year-old eyes caught glimpses of the first yogi-gurus arriving in America. Paramahansa Yogananda's words bridged my thinking to a more universal, non-dual experience. Swami Satchidananda's first western book inspired my yogic calling. Being drawn into a refreshed spiritual life, I rose, deepened and grew. These spiritual traditions beckoned, my mind expanded, my heart opened. Love was a constant theme of my experience. I had a developing interest in the body's health and healing ways.
Mystic Travels
Traveling to China in 1986 gave me a rare experience to train in Chinese hospitals. Here, esteemed Chinese-Taoist Master teachers led me to a deeper connection to healing energy. I studied Qi (energy) Gong (cultivation), which enriched my exploration of the Taoist healing arts, Qigong healing and Tuina massage. Returning from our China travels, Venerable Lama Tenzin blessed our Grace Clinic and Rejuvenation Center, and the opening of the Dragon's Den Herb Shoppe, in Makawao, Maui. This was one of the first healing centers on Maui, where we focused on Chinese and Naturopathic Medicine, Chinese-Taoist practices, as well as my developing bodywork modalities of cranial sacral, myofascial work, woven with energy work. For more than 25 years, we hosted extraordinary healers and practitioners, offering classes, workshops, lectures, demonstrations, treatments, and health fairs. We even began the Chinese New Year Dragon Dances and Martial Arts Parade in Makawao.
Landing Back Home
A bright horizon of change came when Ram Dass arrived at our clinic door. Our growing relationship touched me deeply and reached into a new vastness of my inner Universe. From sharing personal healing sessions for Baba Ram Dass and the House family, to the invitation to guide a Qigong experience at his bi-annual Open Your Heart in Paradise retreats. I stepped up into a new level of teaching Qigong and Yoga, expanding into circles that reached around the world. The director of the Garchen Buddhist Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat and teaching center, discovered my work and invited me to join Garchen Rinpoche, with his devoted Lamas, for their retreats and empowerments to open the day with my unique blend of Qigong-Yoga. During the Covid-19 pandemic, our group that had been practicing together for 30+ years gathered in a majestic meadow in PoliPoli, on our Haleakala Crater/Mountain, coming together as a circle outdoors in the sweet beauty and power of nature, cultivating our practices: breath, meditation, movement, and energy flow.
May these offerings be of benefit for all beings.
May these gifts and skills find their best way to serve.
Deep bows and gratitude to all my teachers!