Joanne originally became a Teacher when she restored her health and mobility through Yoga, after illness and injury. Her studies developed to include Structural Integration as a manual therapy, eventually teaching both in the USA and the UK. Jo remains passionate about how movement and manual practice meet and how they are applied through a vivacious understanding of animated anatomy & touch skills; uniquely expressed in everyone.

Jo's early studies were in the creative field of Art & Design and she spent the last 25 years working in Human Development. When she married a Chocolatier and learned the creative skills of the artisan, she had no idea that Chocolate - as a material - would train her profoundly in a key aspect of the human body.

After illness, injury and child birth Jo came to Yoga to restore her health and developed a fascination for how the body works. Chocolate was left behind for a career in Yoga (the work of Vanda Scaravelli) and then Structural Integration where she studied - and then worked - with Tom Myers for many years, teaching and developing Anatomy Trains for Movement Teachers.

As her teaching developed, she discovered that there are similarities between some of the properties of Connective Tissue, and those of chocolate as a 'working material'. Thus Jo was inspired and driven to explore the nature of fascia and continues to find magic in both! Joanne went on to work with Caroline Myss, training over a period of five years, to graduate from the CMED Institute in Sacred Contracts. There she was able to take her on-going studies in Human Development to a new level and discover where the world of the 'psyche' and the 'soma' (body) meet; in the animated expression of Archetypal Pattern - in the "architecture" and its connective tissue. Thus her work remains as exciting and diverse as the people she works with.

Jo is also a mother, author and private practitioner working from her studio in Sussex when she isn't teaching in the UK or abroad.