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Jini Yoga Susan McHaleI established Jini Yoga in 2015 with a simple aim: to share practices that help people navigate life’s challenges and opportunities with greater steadiness, clarity and wellbeing.
Together with my late partner, I later created Teach Your Yoga, an online teacher training that closed following his death. During that period my public teaching became quieter, but my own study and practice continued to deepen. Today, Jini Yoga has evolved into a space where I offer personalised yoga therapy, short focused courses and workshops, and introductory Vedic chanting groups supported by optional individual tuition. |
Alongside my yoga training, I bring many years of experience as an NHS occupational therapist, having worked in mental health, neurology, orthopaedics and CFS/ME services. This background continues to inform my approach, combining professional understanding with the practical wisdom of yoga.
I qualified through Shamayoga (200-hour YAI) and The Society of Yoga Practitioners (500-hour diploma), and I continue to develop through ongoing study and professional development. I am a registered teacher with The Society of Yoga Practitioners and continue to be mentored by Andy Curtis-Payne, who studied directly within the lineage of TKV Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya.
I am also a student and teacher of vedic chanting. My chanting teacher, Helen Macpherson, continues her own studies through teachers within the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai. Vedic chanting is one of the world’s oldest living oral traditions and was recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The tradition preserves ancient Sanskrit texts through precise methods of recitation that have been passed from teacher to student across generations.
Both yoga and vedic chanting are taught within a tradition that values lifelong learning, personal practice and ongoing mentorship. We learn from those who came before us, continue to deepen our understanding, and share what we have learned with others.
“Teach what is within you. Not as it applies to you, but as it applies to the one in front of you.”
T Krishnamacharya, Yoga Makaranda (The Nectar of Yoga).
Whether you come to Jini Yoga for individual support, a workshop, a course or an introduction to vedic chanting, my hope is that you will find practices that are accessible, meaningful and supportive for your own unique journey.
I qualified through Shamayoga (200-hour YAI) and The Society of Yoga Practitioners (500-hour diploma), and I continue to develop through ongoing study and professional development. I am a registered teacher with The Society of Yoga Practitioners and continue to be mentored by Andy Curtis-Payne, who studied directly within the lineage of TKV Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya.
I am also a student and teacher of vedic chanting. My chanting teacher, Helen Macpherson, continues her own studies through teachers within the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai. Vedic chanting is one of the world’s oldest living oral traditions and was recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The tradition preserves ancient Sanskrit texts through precise methods of recitation that have been passed from teacher to student across generations.
Both yoga and vedic chanting are taught within a tradition that values lifelong learning, personal practice and ongoing mentorship. We learn from those who came before us, continue to deepen our understanding, and share what we have learned with others.
“Teach what is within you. Not as it applies to you, but as it applies to the one in front of you.”
T Krishnamacharya, Yoga Makaranda (The Nectar of Yoga).
Whether you come to Jini Yoga for individual support, a workshop, a course or an introduction to vedic chanting, my hope is that you will find practices that are accessible, meaningful and supportive for your own unique journey.
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