Qualifications:  Jill is a 500-Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) offering group and private classes in Northern NJ. She completed her 200-hour training in 2014 at Sacred Sounds Yoga, NYC, followed by a 300-hour advanced training in 2015 at Ignite Yoga, NJ.  

Background:  Jill began exploring yoga, nutritional healing and Eastern philosophies as a teenager growing up in Pennsylvania. She delved deeper into those interests while studying International Relations in college, and while living / traveling through China and Europe in the early 1990s. 

In 2000, she followed her dream of living on the the beautiful Southern California Coast by relocating to San Diego. It was there that she discovered Ashtanga, which profoundly changed her life as she embraced this disciplined, vigorous, meditative practice.  In 2003, she moved back to the  East Coast to join her husband in NYC. There she explored many yoga styles and lineages, but Jivamukti became one of her most influential practices, drawn to its combination of physical vigor, soulful motivation and social activism.  

After having 2 children, she and her family moved to NJ where she had her third child and continued her yoga journey, practicing Power Vinyasa and completing two teacher trainings. Through life's challenges, Jill has found yoga to be an enduring and uplifting system of self-healing and continual transformation.  

Teaching Style:  Jill’s classes are infused with warmth, sincerity and an eclectic mix of music. She incorporates the ancient spiritual, physical and philosophical principles of yoga into every class, encouraging students to release their fears and judgments to embrace the possibilities of change.  

Come to the mat prepared to get out of your head.  We will chant, breathe deeply, fine-tune your alignment, and move vigorously through flowing asanas. Expect to leave the mat with a greater sense of calmness, inner peace and compassion- for your yourself and everyone around you.

Jill Marcus, RYT-500 Yoga Instructor