Jan was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and moved to Pensacola in 1977. Twenty years later, she picked up her first yoga mat. Her longtime friend Linda Sudevi Kramer had just started teaching yoga, and so the path began.

The two friends attended workshops together, starting in South Beach, FL, with David Life and Sharon Gannon in a Jivamukti Yoga intensive workshop. Other workshops included Andrea & Jeffrey Choen, Jivamukti Yoga teachers; Doug Keller, Anusara teacher; Didier Raison, Anusara teacher; and Doug Swenson, Ashtanga teacher. Jan also completed Sequence 2 in traditional Thai-Yoga Body Work.

Jan began her teaching by substituting for Linda Kramer at East Hill Yoga Studio. After completing a 200-hour Spontaneous Yoga teacher training with Acharya Yogendradev, from the Lakulish Institute of Yoga, Vadodara, Gujarat, India, in November 2007, Jan immediately started teaching her Vinyasa Flow Yoga classes at Breathe Yoga Studio in Pensacola.

Jan’s invigorating vinyasa flow has a broad appeal. She has taught everyone from college football players at the famed Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze to surfers, doctors and people from all walks of life, including children from the Montessori School.

While researching yoga for football players she was drawn to the great yoga master
Baron Baptiste, who was on the coaching staff of the Philadelphia Eagles for four years. After reading more about the Baptiste Power Vinysa Yoga developed by Baron, Jan decided to attend the teacher trainings offered by the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute. Level 1 teacher training was completed in February 2008, in Hawaii, and Level 2 was completed in June 2008, in Helena, Montana Jan completed all the requirements for certification, and in January 2009 she was certified as a Baptiste Power Vinyasa Teacher.

Jan put her heart into building a yoga retreat facility on the 10 acres where she resides in Pensacola. Fish Tree Yoga open during the summer of 2009 and offers Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga classes, retreats and workshops.

Jan is the mother of five children and has five grandchildren. She lives with her husband and a 20-pound cat named Earl. Besides her passion for yoga she also plays the piano and paints. Her artwork is just as colorful and unique as she is.