Joanne DeCataldo

My first yoga certification was through the National Exercise and Sports Training Association. From there I went to Kripalu for a 10 day/85 hour intensive training in Yoga of the Heart with Nischala Joy Devi. This certification allowed me to teach yoga to people with chronic disease. During that time I worked for Care New England and ran their Yoga and T’ai Chi program. I managed 15 yoga and t’ai chi instructors; outlining these programs, creating schedules and promoting events. Auro Yoga was my next stop to becoming immersed in a 200-hour yoga teacher training. Since then I have taken weekend workshops with Ann Green and Todd Norian, returned to Kripalu a few more times for Rest and Retreat workshops, taken classes in many yoga studios around Rhode Island and continued teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga and Restorative/Meditative Yoga.