About / Bio.

​Jodi Carey is a spiritual guide and movement artist who has been teaching yoga and healing arts since 2001. Daughter of a NYC salsero and conga player, Jodi was exposed to her roots through music very early in life. Her weekends as a 9 yr. old would be spent in a tenement building on Ave. D dancing long hours to the rhythms of afro-tribal beats, learning the discipline of dance and control of her body. It was also during this time where Sunday excursions to church were chock-full of musical worship and spontaneous healings, as Irish grandma sat along side Puerto-rican/Chinese granddaughters, longing for us to find some sort of faith. This time of life shaped my perception, opening energy fields that later I started reading about…

Jodi feels that these chapters of life initiated her path to healing that some call ancestral or shamanic. Although called a mystic and local shaman, Jodi is also highly respected as a teacher of teachers for her physical alignment based methods and hands-on practical applications to healing, and is internationally recognized as an innovator in the mind-body sciences. Guiding olympic athletes like tennis player Andy Murray through therapeutic programs has also given her reputation for physical therapy-like results for optimized athletic performance.

In 2001 during a short-lived Broadway career as a performing artist, Jodi delved deeper into holistic healing becoming certified in Integral hatha yoga with Swami Ramananda, pranic healing with Master Choa Kok Sui, and holistic counseling. She would spend long weekends at an Ashram in upstate NY where she experienced what some would call, divine awakening.

In Boston 2005, Jodi was recognized for teaching yoga as more than a physical workout, but a therapeutic intervention. She was led to a clinical setting where she helped implement a yoga program for the Trauma Research Foundation. Her team presented at the Annual Trauma Conference of Boston along side pioneers in the field of Neuroscience, Trauma and the Body. This project went to Camp Leguene, where trauma-sensitive yoga was first introduced to the Marines. As pioneers in the healing of yoga and post-traumatic stress, this work was acknowledged in the best selling New York Times publication, "The Body Keeps the Score", by Dr. Bessel Vanderkolk, M.D.

For the last 15 years of teaching yoga and meditation, Jodi has developed an integrative approach to her practice having moved away from what looks like power yoga, and weaves both ancient wisdom and modern day knowledge into intuitive counseling, somatic movement, and restorative yoga practices for self-healing. Jodi has helped hundreds of clients of all ages and status move more gracefully through the rocky, pivotal moments of life. She currently has her private practice on South Beach in Miami along side her colleague who facilitates crystal bowl vibrational healings at 1111vibe.

​Teacher/Lineage influences: Vini-yoga with Gary Kraftsow, Bo Forbes, Shiva Rea, Leslie Kaminoff, Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga, Contemporary Dance, Somatic movement, Tantric Principles, Katonah Yoga, Spirit Guides and the natural world.