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Joyce Savitz has headed various yoga and exercise programs around the City of Jacksonville since 1976. She has taught segments of Yoga on Channel 12 and Channel 4. She has been featured in the Times Union, Ponte Vedra Recorder, Beaches Leader, Jacksonville Business Journal, Water’s Edge Magazine, Folio Weekly and Women’s Magazine. Dr. Joe Barton has had her as a part of his feature of total health. Joyce is the first yoga teacher to bring Anusara to this area and now is the first teacher doing a Teacher Training for others to immerse themselves in this powerful style of yoga. (More information on the Teacher Training can be seen on the Workshop Page). Joyce has 3 DVD’s which can be previewed on the DVD Page. (#3 is still in production). Having an extensive background not only in Yoga but Massage Therapy allows Joyce to be Jacksonville’s best trained expert in helping her clients get out of pain and feel the freedom to enjoy life fully!
teaching a colorful fusion of bodywork, yoga and extreme athletics with the idea that the body in motion is a profoundly spiritual experience, and is truly the route to self-expression and contentment in life. Hailing from New York and New England from a family of writers, artists and athletes, Britton brings her signature body mind point of view to all her classes and one on one training including Anusara Inspired Yoga. Her classes ZEN spin, Hard Core Ohm Yoga, 11th Step Yoga and Hard Core Cardio are fusion classes she’s created as a result of her extensive background in bodywork, meditation and extreme athletics. Abbie’s specialty is cultivating a wonderful feeling of personal glory in her students through proper physical and spiritual alignment techniques and breath/pranayama practices. Today, Abbie’s classes ride a wave that arcs through a river of spirit soaring movement, mantra, meditation, pranayama and physical well being. She’s had the privilege of being taught by the best. Her Anusara Yoga training is the result of advanced training with Anusara’s lively creator and founder John Friend, and certified instructors/mentors Tara Judelle, Anthony Benenati, Noah Maze, Ross Rayburn, Naime Jezzeny and Kris Nelson. Her obsession with Tantric Philosophy is treated daily by the works of Douglas Brooks, one of the world’s foremost Tantric Scholars. Certified by Madd Dog, Abbie Britton took her first spin class with its creators, Johnny G. and Johnny B. in a garage in Venice California over twenty years ago. Her bodywork training, begun 32 years ago when she was 22, comes out of the Mabel Todd, Don Farnsworth and Hellen Costa schools of the “thinking body.” Abbie has trained with some of the seminal speed, strength and conditioning gurus: Radu, Lou Smith, Moji Olua. And she has been a meditation teacher for 15 years having studied with Princeton’s Les Fehmi, the creator of Open Focus. “I’ve been humbled to have had a clear and direct line of teachers who are creators, who have changed the way we perceive and act in our bodies. These are fearless innovators and healers.” Abbie was a competitive obstacle runner, speed skater, horse trainer, cross country runner and Martha Graham modern and Fokine ballet dancer and is currently working on the lengthy certification process for Anusara Yoga. She is a cum laude graduate of Columbia University and the mother of Eben Britton, an NFL Offensive Tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Gus Britton an actor, writer and filmmaker. Both of her son’s practice Anusara Yoga, and her mother, has been a Yogin for over 50 years. Abbie is also the creator of 11th Step Yoga an effective treatment modality for addicts and alcoholics which combines the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and the three A’s of Anusara. She teaches this on a volunteer basis and built the program in L.A. so that it is highly functional and welcomed by Alcoholics Anonymous and a meeting with a Yoga format. She has appeared as the Yoga instructor for Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab Soberhouse, and she is currently working on a book called The Righting Life—the body speaks, learning its mysterious language.