Hello, I’m Josephine but most people call me “Jo”! I’m the Founder of Grace x Strength, a yoga teacher, mother to 2 boys and a Migraine Warrior living in Sydney, Australia.

I spent the first 12 years of my career in digital marketing, working in global media and tech companies.  Growing up, I loved artistic movement and did a bit of dance and figure-skating, while living with undiagnosed Episodic Migraine. In 2016, in a season of overwhelming stress juggling a corporate career and motherhood, my Migraine deteriorated into Chronic Migraine.  With a yoga teacher accreditation under my belt, I decided to leave my well-established career to pursue vocational yoga teaching.  Shortly after, I founded Grace x Strength - an online yoga space to give people who could not access live classes an opportunity to practice yoga (with a unique style of infusing Christian-faith messages of peace and love). This venture gave me the flexibility to focus on motherhood and managing Chronic Migraine.

Since then, I have received over 1000+ hours of yoga training holding certifications in Yoga Therapy, Chair Yoga and Kids Yoga. Trained by my guru, Briohny Smyth, I am a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance (RYT-500) and an Ambassador at Migraine Australia. I have taught hundreds of classes ranging across all levels but my greatest passion is bringing the gift of yoga to those who live with Chronic Illness.

My approach to yoga and pain is heavily influenced by my studies in neuroscience and how the yoga practice can be adapted to benefit those who live with pain. I believe that the science and art of yoga has a place for anyone with an open and willing heart. I stand as living testimony of how yoga and faith has helped me manage my Chronic Illness, as I was later able to manage the illness and re-enter the workforce while continuing my yoga teaching on the side.

I am motivated by seeing the healing and transformation journeys of lives who have been touched by the programs and content I offer, both digitally and through live experiences.

In between my corporate job, yoga teaching and entrepreneurial ventures, I’m a typical soccer mum running my boys to school activities or hanging out with girlfriends!

Honoured to be the first registered Christian Yoga Teacher on Yoga Australia, I’ve been featured on Migraine Xplained, Yoga Journal, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Canberra Times, Brisbane Times, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Salvation Army magazine (Warcry), Eternity News, New York Minute Magazine, Ezer Magazine, Modern Witnesses and Wesley Mission. I now teach private classes both in-person and online, and enjoy the occasional guest speaking opportunities!

In between my yoga teaching and entrepreneurial ventures, I’m your typical soccer mum running my boys to school activities or hanging out with my girlfriends!

Serving and breathing every moment in Him~