Yoga Teacher Spotlight: Linda Jordan

Linda Jordan is a deeply introspective yoga teacher based in Grand Junction, Colorado. A long-time practitioner who trained with Baron Baptiste, Linda now teaches intuitively from the heart, using yoga as a sacred tool to guide students back to their bodies, their truths, and their souls. Her passion is grounded in serving humanity and especially in passing down the practice to teens, equipping them with tools for emotional intelligence and self-trust.

What’s your most vivid memory from your first yoga class, either as a student or a teacher?

"My first yoga class was at Gold's Gym. After I taught, I remember my friend giving me the feedback...well I guess you have to suck to shine. I taught for a year in the gym before I did a demo in a private yoga studio."

What’s the most rewarding part of being a yoga teacher for you?

"Witnessing people's humanity. Our emotions connect us and this is a practice that invites us home, back into our body. So many souls have been deeply traumatized by the brutality of life. We are living in a time we people intuitively know this ancient practice is a way back to their own intuition, their own private guides. To be able to share that with others, to me, is sacred."

What does yoga mean to you beyond the physical practice?

"For most of my life I have thought my feelings instead of feeling them. The physical practice draws me into my inner world. It coaxes me to examine my ego, my soul and my spirit. The ego, with it's insatiable desire to be seen and heard, the soul which has an inner wisdom of not needing to constantly be reassured and the spirit which I believe we are divinely connected to at all times. "

What’s your go-to mantra or yoga philosophy principle, and why?

"'You are at the mercy of your own intent.'

'What am I getting from this and what is it costing me?'

'Who are you serving, yourself or something higher?'

'Where is your responsibility in the chaos?'

These questions when I answer them honestly keep me centered.

These questions are my yoga philosophy.

I also surround myself with what I now call "chicken-noodle soup" friends that give me honest feedback with love and respect.  I've learned not to keep stabbing myself in the wound after I make the mistake. Instead, I journal around what core wound needs attention."

What’s a key lesson you’ve learned from teaching yoga?

"Humanity. If you don't want to teach someone you can't stand, don't teach. How to let go of seeing the story and not the soul. I had to learn how to love myself again. The practice taught me how to see myself, to see myself more as God sees me. In doing that, I was able to love others more deeply."

What’s your vision for the future of your yoga teaching and practice?

"Hmmm, I don't really have a vision for me as much as I do for TEENS. I want to hand down the teachings of yoga to a population that can use it in their everyday lives immediately. How to feel all the 86 emotions without hurting themselves or others, how to do self-inquiry, how to discover their physical bodies through challenging postures and most importantly, how to trust the inner voice inside ALL of us that says, HEY listen to me. I've got you."

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