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Joanne Spence

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Joanne Spence, MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is a recovering social worker and certified yoga therapist. She has a Social Work degree from James Cook University and a Master of Arts from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She is the founder and executive director of Yoga in Schools.

Joanne trains and teaches all sorts of amazing people, both nationally and internationally, in yoga. She has taught yoga in prisons, hospitals, schools, churches, and sometimes on street corners. She specializes in working with adults and children who are experiencing chronic pain, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia.

Joanne draws on more than thirty-five years of clinical experience as a mental health professional and twenty years as a teacher and practitioner
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Joanne Spence I usually clean something or go for a walk. That usually clears my head and allows me to continue on. Alternatively, I teach a yoga class. Teaching re…moreI usually clean something or go for a walk. That usually clears my head and allows me to continue on. Alternatively, I teach a yoga class. Teaching requires my full attention for a whole hour. Plus I get to move my body and notice my breath too. Doing any of these things puts me in a better headspace to write.(less)
Joanne Spence What I like best about being a writer is managing my own schedule and understanding that thinking/daydreaming time is a huge part of my creative proce…moreWhat I like best about being a writer is managing my own schedule and understanding that thinking/daydreaming time is a huge part of my creative process.(less)
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Staying Alive is a Full-Time Job

I recently read a blog post from Ryan Holiday about a neighbor he interviewed in Austin, Texas. The neighbor turned out to be Richard Overton, the oldest living veteran in America at 110 years old. That’s where I came across the quote “Staying alive is a full-time job.” I get the context of the words from someone who is 110—it’s sort of mind-blowing really—but I am 56 years old, just over the half Read more of this blog post »
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Tish Harrison Warren
“Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes.”
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

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“Similarly, when we denigrate our bodies—whether through neglect or staring at our faces and counting up our flaws—we are belittling a sacred site, a worship space more wonderous than the most glorious, ancient cathedral. We are standing before the Grand Canyon or the Sistine Chapel and rolling our eyes.”
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“When suffering is sharp and profound, I expect and believe that God will meet me in its midst. But in the struggles of my average day I somehow feel I have a right to be annoyed.”
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“A sign hangs on the wall in a New Monastic Christian community house: “Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes.” I was, and remain, a Christian who longs for revolution, for things to be made new and whole in beautiful and big ways. But what I am slowly seeing is that you can’t get to the revolution without learning to do the dishes. The kind of spiritual life and disciplines needed to sustain the Christian life are quiet, repetitive, and ordinary. I often want to skip the boring, daily stuff to get to the thrill of an edgy faith. But it’s in the dailiness of the Christian faith—the making the bed, the doing the dishes, the praying for our enemies, the reading the Bible, the quiet, the small—that God’s transformation takes root and grows.”
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“The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

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