Meet Our Team

Jodi is dedicated to teaching movement to adults and children. She has acquired over 1000 training hours, studying with Jennifer Cohen Harper, Jennilee Toner and Baron Baptiste, and has taught more than 750 hours of yoga. Jodi is currently in the work of reconciling parts of her training with current issues in our moral dynamic. 

She created Connect Yoga at Brook Hollow to be of service, approaching leading this practice with individual and social responsibility. When she's not teaching yoga at Connect, she is a physical education and health teacher to students in grades Pre-K through 12, as well as a mother of five humans and four animals.

Joani Isabella was initially drawn to yoga for fitness after being diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica. She fell in love with the transformative peace of mind, clarity or thoughts, and overall feeling of wellbeing that the practice of yoga and meditation brought to her life. 

Joani’s mission is to challenge others to form a relationship with movement, inspire a deeper sense of confidence in their physical experiences, and spiritually provide students with a practice that they can embody in their daily lives on and off the mat.

Her yoga training includes Baptiste Yoga level 1 and 2, 200 hour Baptiste teacher training, Art of Assisting, 100 hour Children’s Yoga teacher training, is a facilitator for the 40 Days to Personal Revolution program, and a Yoga Alliance 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. Joani is a first grade teacher and also a Level II certified ski instructor through PSIA, teaching skiing for over 40 years.