gianna and the Siddhi School

“Gianna is an international yoga teacher, death worker, and counselor sharing her love for Vedic wisdom and enthusiasm for life.

As a broken gymnast, her first passion was healing her herniations and intense joint pain. As an asana champion her passion was training and discovering different modalities and techniques to help achieve varied shapes and perspectives. As a motorcycle accident survivor her passion was living and integrating yoga into every aspect of her being no matter the physical ability. As a multitude disciplinary practitioner, Gianna is devoted to her practice, sharing all aspects of yoga as functional and sustainable, and helping people find their unique journey towards fullfilment and happiness. .

Gianna is a USA National Yoga Asana Champion, a Bikram Yoga Certified teacher, an Ashtanga trained teacher, a Vinyasa, Bhakti, and Yin E-RYT 500-hour certified teacher, a continuing education provider, and an FRCms. Gianna has been coaching bodies since 2004 and teaching yoga since 2010, she shares asana, pranayama, and meditation practices rooted in functional movement, hatha yoga, and ashtanga yoga in the light of her teachers David Swenson, Emmy Cleaves, Swami Satchidananda, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In addition to being a yoga educator, Gianna is a Death Doula and mortality educator. Studying and certified through the Conscious Dying Institute, Gianna helps people confront their fears of death while providing the practical steps necessary to create, share, and heal the mind, body, and spirit. She integrates grief work, Ayurvedice counseling, and yogic philosophy and meditation to assists the living, dying, and grieving prepare for death.

Gianna is an Ayurvedic counselor with a BA in Vedic science. She works with people of all backgrounds and specializes in working with those with ADHD, disordered eating, and trauma.

She started the Siddhi School of Yoga, offering 200hr and 300hr teacher trainings, teaching ayurveda and Vedic phylosophy on trainings around the world, leading classes and retreats, and well as . She also wrote the 26&2 teacher training programs for 105F, is a partner and sister school with Open Lotus Retreats in India, and plays drums in Tucson-based folk band called Barefoot on Bumblebees, and fronts a theatrical punk band called Human Sounds.

You can join her online community at the Siddhi School of Yoga to practice on-demand classes from your home. You can subscribe to her Instagram account for Vedic wisdom and knowledge, and you can catch her in person in Tucson, Arizona on Monday nights at 6 pm for expanding and Thursday mornings at 10 am for basics at Yoga Oasis Tucson.

“If I help everyone see that they have the power to tap into their deepest truths to experience liberation in their lives, then I have done what I am here to do, which is to simply offer another way.”

Gianna is an LGBTQ+ family member who supports acceptance, freedom, and power to POC queer and trans lives and is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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