Joy Ravelli is a Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500) with Yoga Alliance and is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP).  Joy is an IAYT certified Professional Yoga Therapist.  Joy is the founder and director and primary teacher of the Purusha Yoga School which is an accredited IAYT Yoga Therapy School, and 200, 300 Hour RYS with the Yoga Alliance.   Joy has been teaching yoga for over 25 years.  Joy compliments her yoga offerings with her experience and professional expertise in Health Education, Health Science, Holistic Nutrition, Personal Training, Pilates, and Healthy Lifestyle/ Human Potential Leadership.  Joy is also the founder and director of the Purusha Seva Project (a 501C-3 nonprofit organization).    The Purusha Seva Project provides yoga to under-served and at-risk populations including veterans, incarcerated, homeless, health workers, families, and children.  Joy has taught thousands of people the ancient practices of yoga in a way that is accessible and inspiring through her clear interpretation, creative delivery, and welcoming approach.  Joy's greatest teachers have been her children, wild nature, her family, her students, and a few very humble individuals including; Thich Naht Hahn, John Featherstone, Dr. Rao, Pema Chodron, Robert Svoboda, and all of the fascinating gifted mystical teachers and writers of the ancient texts of which Joy has studied, revered and made her life's journey to continue to study, explore, discover and express through her work.   Joy has found that the greatest wisdom comes from the simplest of places and that knowledge is found on the edges of society and in the centers of it all.  Joy welcomes you to reach out and share your path of yoga.  Yoga is the path of empowering the self and uniting community.  It is always a pleasure to meet a new friend on this journey.  Namaste!