Jocelyn Kelvin

Jocelyn was introduced to yoga as a child through her training as an actress and a dancer, and her consistent practice grew out of the desire to create a healthy connection with herself and others.  After graduating from Northwestern University in 2007, she dove into her yoga study and received her first teaching certification through an intensive year-long training with Daren Freisen at Moksha Yoga, the Midwest’s largest studio.  She arrived in Los Angeles this past October, eager to continue her growth as a teacher, and began studying with Shiva Rea for advanced certification at the 500-hour level.  Jocelyn’s teaching is also influenced by her training in therapeutic yoga with Gary Kraftsow (Viniyoga) and Gabriel Halpern (Iyengar-based therapeutics).  Having worked through personal injury using both methods, she is grateful for the opportunity to help others heal.  She has also been inspired by studying a variety of different teachings, including Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Anusara, Shadow Yoga, and Kalari.  She is endlessly hungry to understand more and dive deeper into the science of yoga.  A forever student, she shares her constantly growing practice in her classes and explores along with those she teaches. The yogic methods of integrating the body, breath and mind give her the tools to create balance, awareness, and confidence in her own intuition.  She is devoted to sharing these practices in her Vinyasa Flow classes, which she fills with dynamic, cyclical, exploratory movement. She encourages her students to discover and validate their individual journey without focus on achievement or result.   She emphasizes fluidity throughout each transition and the development of a sustainability of movement that can expand into life beyond the mat. To enhance her students’ faith in their innate wisdom, her classes involve both studied structure and spontaneous play.  Her practice combines creative, fluid, elemental movement with discipline and stillness, and she inspires her students to come to each moment as an adventure.