JJ Gormley, Director, MS, C-IAYT, CN, E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT
SCHYS Director | Program Director | Certified Yoga Therapist | Certified Nutritionist | Certified Yoga Teacher
JJ Gormley is the Director of Surya Chandra Healing Yoga School. She is the core faculty and co-leader of all programs, and has been dedicated to teaching yoga since 1989. She is committed to the School, her students and faculty, and more importantly, the clients she serves as their Yoga Therapist and/or Nutritionist.
JJ received a B.S. degree in Mathematics and taught high-school math for several years. Graduate work led her to receiving a M.S. in Complementary Integrative Medicine and a Graduate Certificate in Nutrition (CN) (double-major). This education serves her well in running the training programs, as well as in her private practice as an Integrative Healthcare Practitioner, Holistic Nutritionist, and Yoga Therapist. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and Registered with the Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Yoga Teacher (ERYT500), Prenatal Teacher (RPYT), and Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT). She has been and continues to be a student of yoga (since 1979), teaching yoga since 1989, and running teacher training programs since 1994. Her teacher training programs have been registered with the Yoga Alliance since 1999 and her Yoga Therapy Certificate Program with the International Association of Yoga Therapists IAYT since 2017.
JJ has studied from some of the worlds leading teachers including TKV Desikachar and his son, Kausthub Desikachar, John Friend, Rodney Yee, Erich Schiffmann, Patricia Walden, Barbara Benagh, Donna Farhi, Richard Freeman, K.Patabhi Jois, George Purvis, Dean Lerner, Baron Baptiste, Swami Satchidananda, and many others. She has studied from many of the major yoga traditions including Integral Yoga, Kundalini, Iyengar, Anusara, Ashtanga, and Viniyoga. She has also had the privilege of working with yoga teachers: Claire Collins, Kate Holcombe, Leslie Kaminoff, Gary Kraftscow, Richard Miller, Sonia Nelson, Larry Payne, and Amy Wheeler as the event coordinator for the Yoga Therapy Summit in 2013 and again in 2017. She has also had the pleasure of presenting at the annual yoga therapy conference called the Symposium for Yoga Therapy & Research (SYTAR) sponsored by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) several times, taught an eight-week series on yoga philosophy for the Smithsonian Institute’s Resident Associate Program, has been a presenter for the Yoga As Medicine conference in Washington, DC, served on a panel on Yoga for Systemic Lupus at the National Institute for Health in Bethesda, MD, has served on the IAYT Accreditation Committee’s Peer Review Board, and is on the Advisory Board for their Yoga Therapy Today magazine. She has also published many VHS and DVD recordings, a chanting CD, numerous yoga and yoga therapy training manuals, co-authored Holistic Healing with Yoga Therapy, and has been featured in numerous magazines articles.
In her spare time JJ loves to hike, kayak, read, knit, garden, or hang out with friends who like to play cards, enjoy good food and good company.
JJ’s weekly classes:
Online classes—topics offered vary by session. Please click here to see the current online classes.
Please see JJ’s YouTube channel. to experience JJ’s teaching. Please subscribe to JJ’s YouTube channel—it’s much appreciated.
Consultation Sessions with JJ in Yoga Therapy, Holistic Nutrition, or Integrative Health
Please visit JJ’s website: Integrative Health Opportunities for details, to book an appointment, and/or to pay for an appointment:
Integrative Health Opportunities
You may purchase a single session with JJ by clicking below either the Student rate ($85), or the regular rate ($120) for a one-time session with JJ for Yoga Therapy. For other purchase options including for nutrition or integrative health, please click on the website link above. Please schedule your appointment by clicking on the website link above, then clicking the “schedule” button—appointments may be booked now, then make your payment for the session at a later time.
Student rate is for students of JJ’s continuing their work with JJ (outside of the requirements of any SCHYS program). These students have already completed at least eight sessions with JJ (during their SCHYS program or otherwise), are considered long-term students who meet with JJ regularly (at least four times per year), and are not purchasing a package for five or ten sessions. Student rate for appointments is $85.00 per session (approximately one hour per session).
Package rates are found by clicking on the website link above.