JEANETTE
DOHERTY
A NYC transplant from Detroit, Michigan, Jeanette Doherty came to the East Coast and to yoga through her first passion: acting. A practicing yogi since 2002, Jeanette transitioned from student to ever-learning teacher in 2014 through Tattva 200-hour teacher training with Keri Setaro and Paula Loose.
JEANETTE
DOHERTY
A NYC transplant from Detroit, Michigan, Jeanette Doherty came to the East Coast and to yoga through her first passion: acting. A practicing yogi since 2002, Jeanette transitioned from student to ever-learning teacher in 2014 through Tattva 200-hour teacher training with Keri Setaro and Paula Loose.
In 2017, she completed her 300-hour advanced training through Laughing Lotus NYC’s Love School and completed a 200-hour Katonah Yoga certification in summer 2019. Jeanette’s classes combine vigorous, creative flows with storytelling, inspiring students to take the curiosity, freedom, and playfulness they find on the mat into the rest of their lives. In addition to fluid asana, classes include restorative elements, as well as deeper spiritual study through dharma, meditation, chanting, and breathwork. Expect to dance, sweat, and surprise yourself as you safely explore challenging shapes and learn a little practical magic along the way. Outside the studio, Jeanette shares her life with a wonderfully nerdy data scientist, a playful pup named Stevie Nicks, and a snaggletooth cat named Rufus.
Questions. Answers.
What makes a house a home?
Sharing space with the people and animals I love.
What are you most passionate about outside of yoga?
Exploring sound and its healing potential with my voice, my harmonium, and my gong. Sometimes that comes in the form of sacred chanting, sometimes singing the whole soundtrack of a Disney classic.
What about teaching yoga inspires you?
The ability to connect with someone, even if it’s the first time we’ve ever met. This practice illuminates how we are more the same than different, more together than alone, more a we than an I.
Go-To Grounding Yoga Pose?
Deaf man’s pose/Karnapidasana: plow pose with knees to the ears, so the whole world is shut out and I’m in my very own turtle shell.