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Jessica Trudeau — Yoga Teacher & Global Trainer
Jessica Trudeau brings over 20 years of teaching experience and global training leadership to her work. Known for her masterful creative sequencing, mindful alignment cues, and inclusive, therapeutic-informed approach, she invites both teachers and students to explore practice with curiosity, confidence, and self-trust.
Jess believes yoga is for every body. Her multi-level, accessible teaching style emphasizes choice, intelligent adaptation, and nervous-system awareness—ensuring that each practitioner feels supported, seen, and empowered to meet themselves exactly where they are. Rather than striving toward a single shape or outcome, she encourages students to explore their own edges with awareness and compassion, honoring individual structure, energy, and lived experience.
With equal parts inspiration, playfulness, and grounded philosophy, Jess creates spaces rooted in connection and community—where students can deepen their personal practice while cultivating resilience, clarity, and an authentic relationship to their own voice. Her teaching artistry supports both personal and professional growth, celebrating the uniqueness of each student and inviting a joyful connection to yoga as a living, evolving practice.
Certifications & Training
E-RYT 500 | RYT 900
• Laughing Lotus NYC – 300
• YogaWorks NYC – 300
• Heartwood Institute, CA – 200
• Blissology, Bali – 100
Jess carries over 900 hours of advanced training and has led teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and classes worldwide. A nomad at heart, she taught her very first class to a group of women in remote villages in Mongolia while serving in the Peace Corps—an experience that revealed yoga’s universal capacity to inspire healing, belonging, and connection across cultures.
Her classes are infused with yoga’s rich philosophy and lineage, thoughtful sequencing, and mindful alignment, inspired by her ongoing devotion to creativity, embodiment, and play. Jess teaches a wide range of styles—from Restorative, Chair, and Therapeutic Yoga to Partner and Aerial Hammock Yoga—while feeling especially lit up by the fluid diversity of Vinyasa Flow taught through a multi-level lens.
She is deeply committed to accessibility, creatively using props and adaptations to support beginners, injuries, pregnancy, and diverse body types. Her mantra, “move like yourself,” encourages students to trust their inner teacher, guided by clear principles rather than rigid form. Classes may include mantra on harmonium, hand mudras, pranayama, and intentional themes—inviting students out of routine and back into a felt sense of presence and belonging. Jess seeks to balance the architecture of alignment with the grace and freedom found in flow, cultivating strength, integrity, joy, and gratitude for this extraordinary life.
Jess began practicing yoga in 1999 while attending art school, instantly drawn to its creative and expressive nature. The practice has been her steady foundation through motherhood and a life-altering illness—Guillain-Barré syndrome—which left her temporarily paralyzed in 2016. Through this experience, yoga and meditation became profound teachers, illuminating the body’s remarkable capacity for resilience, healing, and transformation. She views yoga as a gateway to self-understanding, compassion, and wonder—learning to honor our humanness and find light in the cracks.
Jess has been deeply influenced by her studies with many inspiring teachers, including Dana Flynn, Sri Dharma Mittra, Carrie Owerko, Jillian Pransky, Suzanne Sterling, Chrissy Carter, Elena Brower, Cyndi Lee, Eoin Finn, and Desiree Rumbaugh, among many others she gratefully credits for their wisdom and transmission.
“This relationship to yoga allows me to arrive back home to my mat, no matter where I am in the world. Whether in the traditions of Bali, the silence of the Mongolian steppe, or the wildness of the ocean, my practice reminds me how to return to the unchanging nest within—eternally present.”
A nomad at heart, Jess now resides on the northern California coast. She leads adventure yoga retreats, teacher trainings, and workshops internationally. When she’s not teaching, you’ll find her surfing wild northern California waves, feeding chickens with her son Kai, planting succulents, or immersed in her home pottery studio.
Jess has taught extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, including New York City, California, Dominica, Mongolia, Bali, Nicaragua, Pennsylvania, and Montana, and has led retreats in Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominica, Bali, and Mexico.
Give yourself permission to live WILD & FREE.. past the edges of your own skin, into infinite manifestations of possibility!
