About Joanna Dunn
Joanna’s goal is your physical and mental wellbeing.
A yoga teacher since 2001, Joanna’s background is eclectic. She teaches a variety of styles, including beginner-level alignment, a Level-2 slow paced Vinyasa, Yin and Restorative, as well as somatic movement and meditation. Her teaching is influenced by Iyengar-based teachers Judith Lasater (Restorative yoga), Kathryn Payne (Pranayama) and Theresa Elliott (alignment, sequencing, and Vinyasa). Her primary influences from her early studies also include the choreographed multidimensional vinyasa of Lynn Kingston and the accessible, gentle yoga of Kripalu. Joanna is currently studying with Tias and Surya Little of Prajna Yoga. Prajna fuses traditional yoga practices (Ashtanga and Iyengar) with the energy body wisdom of yoga and Chinese Medicine, Buddhist meditation, and the somatic movement of Feldenkrais and Hanna.
What is it like to take a session with Joanna?
Joanna’s teaching style tends to attract students who are looking to slow things down, who are curious and want to build intelligence in their bodies and wisdom in their minds. In each session, you can expect to find yoga that is accessible, challenging, and interesting. You will leave with increased body intelligence and mindfulness, and feel more integrated physically, energetically, mentally, and spiritually. There is always an element of exploration, play, fun and laughter. Joanna strives to always provide an evolving conversation between herself and her students, especially around their needs and abilities.
Joanna Dunn is based in beautiful Leavenworth, Washington, but teaches retreats in the Pacific Northwest and internationally. She is co-director of the Rasayana School of Yoga Teacher Training and former owner of Evolve Yoga Studio.
Outside of teaching yoga, Joanna has an insatiable wanderlust and loves to travel. She is a runner, skier (nordic and downhill), and mountain biker. Her recent adventures have included running a section of the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier, and long distance bike-packing in Greece and Scotland.
“I never thought in my whole life I would ever identify with yoga. Thank you for making it accessible to me at this time. I have always been so “compressed” and your class is actually “decompressing” me as I leave each time more and more open.”
Want the nitty gritty? Visit the lineage page to read about who has influenced Joanna’s teaching. Or ask a question directly!