Boutique yoga school offering cutting-edge yoga education for students who care about their practice and teachers who care about their students.
About
We’re a community of die-hard yoga lovers.
Yoga isn’t just something that we do, but an important part of who we are.
Yoga pulses through our veins.
It's our calling, our passion, our path.
There’s no dividing line where yoga ends and the rest of our life begins.
We see yoga in everything, and everything in yoga.
We love a good stretch, but our practice goes way beyond stretching.
We are the true believers in yoga’s limitless power, and we’re here to unlock it.
For ourselves, and for those around us.
We’re willing to put in the work.
We're not here to blend in or check boxes.
We’re here because we marvel at the world and want to explore the mystery that is life.
We’re here to jump headfirst into our best life.
Story, Vision & Mission
We make getting a world-class yoga education convenient, affordable, and fun
Movement Wisdom is a boutique online yoga school. Our mission is to make it as easy as possible for anyone who is truly passionate about yoga to get a thorough, well-rounded yoga education. Because that's what you need to tap into all the incredible benefits of yoga for body, mind and life.
Movement Wisdom was founded by Jess Rose in 2020. To learn what every good yoga teacher should know Jess had to:
complete 8 YTTs and 23 specialty programs,
fly to India multiple times and track down hard-to-find gurus,
spend long nights reading research papers and yoga books,
and suffer through an embarrassing period of trial and error in order to build solid teaching skills and find her own style.
All in all, Jess invested 10,000 hours and more than $50,000 before she was capable to help all of her students - no matter their goals, interests or limitations.
50%+ of YTT graduates never start teaching because they lack knowledge, skills and confidence.
Her story is not the unfortunate exception.
No wonder most passionate practitioners and aspiring teachers don't have the training they need to really tap into the transformational power of yoga.
Getting a world-class yoga education is too difficult, too time-consuming, and too expensive.
When Jess realized this after talking to hundreds of fellow yoga teachers and YTT students she sat down to compress everything she had learned over more than a decade of intensive studies and teaching yoga at the highest level into a single comprehensive program.
There is no "perfect" yoga teacher training just like there's no "perfect" yoga pose.
But the Movement Wisdom 200 Hour YTT is absolutely a shortcut for anyone who wants to master the art and science of yoga.
You can learn in a few months what took Jess years to figure out, and for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Lead Trainer
The Seeds Of Movement Wisdom
Jess started her exploration of the body and spirit as a kid growing up in Kansas City. Her elementary school slumber parties with friends mixed Disney movies with meditation & hyperventilation games to reach altered states of consciousness. By middle school, she split her free time between the basketball court and the soccer field, and went to the local Buddhist and Unity temples on weekends. This mix of intense physicality and deep spirituality became the foundation of what would later become Movement Wisdom Yoga.
Yoga As A Handbook For Hard Times
When her best friend died at 20, Jess tried to numb the pain with drugs and alcohol. The day she graduated college, she left Kansas and traveled the world with a band. Before finally settling in Europe, and still searching for healing, Jess tried yoga for the first time at a YMCA in Toronto. The loud music, harsh lights, heat, and crowded room were overwhelming, and she fled after just five minutes, convinced yoga wasn't for her.
It took several years before Jess went to another yoga class. This time at a cancer hospital in Texas where her mom had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. For several months Jess and her mom went to daily restorative yoga classes at the hospital.
These sessions were very different from the chaotic yoga class she'd fled at the YMCA. This was gentle yoga for the heart and spirit. Each session was an escape into peace and quiet amidst an ocean of unbearable uncertainty and pain. Here, Jess discovered what yoga is truly about. Despite the constant fear of losing her mom, Jess felt more whole and balanced than ever before. Yoga helped her realize that the mystical state she'd been chasing since childhood actually lived within her all along.
10,000 Hours Of Yoga
After her mom left the hospital, Jess kept going. She threw herself into yoga like her life depended on it and practiced six days a week, 90 minutes a day. As her physical practice evolved, Jess got more and more interested in the spiritual and philosophical side of yoga.
When a friend suggested that she should join a yoga teacher training to learn more, Jess didn't hesitate. Three weeks later, she had sold most of her belongings and was en route to her first YTT in India. Not necessarily to become a professional teacher, but to fully understand the vastness of yoga.
Jess completed her training and spent several months living in an ashram. She studied with spiritual teachers and traveled to sacred pilgrimage sites across the subcontinent. In those days Jess learned to view herself and all of life through the eyes of a yogi.
The training was the beginning of a 10-year learning journey that included multiple return trips to India, several more 200 and 300-hour YTTs in the US and Europe, certifications in Yin, Restorative, and Prenatal Yoga, and rigorous studies in anatomy and movement science. But the wisdom she gained in India remains her greatest inspiration, and compass, in life.
From 12 Students To 1 Million Over Night
In 2015, a scout for DoYouYoga - then the world's largest online yoga community - discovered Jess’ teaching in a dance room at an elementary school. Overnight, she went from having 12 dedicated students, to teaching hundreds of thousands worldwide.
Her work caught the attention of major publications including San Francisco Yoga Magazine, NY Magazine, YogiTimes, and Elephant Journal. By 2018, Jess had filmed hundreds of classes for multiple major yoga platforms and several hundred thousand students practiced with her regularly. Jess also began leading sold-out retreats and training programs in Morocco, Italy, Thailand, Mexico, France, and Spain.
The Birth Of Movement Wisdom
During the pandemic, after studying and teaching yoga non-stop for more than a decade, Jess started the Movement Wisdom School of Yoga to shift her focus from teaching classes, to teaching teachers.
Her mission is to make it easy, affordable and fun for anyone who’s truly passionate about yoga to get a world-class education. So that more people can experience yoga as not just a “hobby”, a “workout”, or a “nice stretch” - but as a catalyst for profound transformation. As the thing that helps you step into your power and live life the way you always dreamed of.
