About Jazz.

Glasgow-based yoga teacher Jasmine 'Jazz' Dey has been in love with the wellbeing world from an early age, and first fell in love with yoga and meditation when she was gifted a yoga mat and a deck of yoga cards in her early teens. Not having ready access to yoga classes growing up, Jazz began to practise yoga on her own (with the help of YouTube!) and soon felt the profound benefits of dedicating time to her mind and body in this way. Throughout her teens and early twenties, the love affair continued, and she finally realised her dream of becoming a qualified yoga teacher in September 2018, completing her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training course at The Association of Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh, India. In 2018 and 2019 Jasmine was running her own regular classes at the St Francis Church in The Gorbals, Glasgow, as well as an after-school class for pupils and teachers at Govan High School. After talking a break from teaching in 2020, Jazz is now ready to re-immerse herself in the yoga community and is excited to share yoga with others under the name ‘Dharma, Drishti.’ .

Above all else, Jazz, considers herself a student of yoga. Always eager to learn, she hopes to build upon her existing knowledge by working with students of varying backgrounds, ages and abilities and is looking to complete additional, more specialised yoga courses in the future to expand her teaching portfolio. Her teaching style is focused and theory-led, yet down-to-earth and joyful, with students commenting on feeling welcome, seen and valued in her classes. She is known for making the transformative, powerful practise of yoga accessible and enjoyable for both the beginner and the experienced yogis.

Why ‘Dharma, Drishti.’ ?

The title for Jazz's yoga teaching journey came to her whilst she was in a state of deep meditation. The Sanskrit word ‘Dharma’ has multiple meanings, including ‘the cosmic law that ordered the universe from chaos’, ‘right way of living’ and ‘one’s ultimate purpose in life’. Consideration of your ‘Dharma’ can reveal the ultimate truth of who you are and how you can serve the world, and aligning with this truth can help bring focus and peace to our own lives as well as provide valuable service to others. ‘Drishti’, also a Sanskrit word, is the name given to a ‘focus point’ in yoga, for example, in certain yoga asana you will be invited to focus on your toes, a spot on the wall in front of you, or along the line of your middle finger, as a ‘Drishti’ point. This sense of steady, calm focus can bring about more stability both in our yoga practise and in our lives off of the mat. And so Jazz resonates with the name ‘Dharma, Drishti.’ as it encompasses how she feels about her own yoga practise; making a conscious effort to align with our purpose can support us to focus on what really matters in the pursuit of a happier, more peaceful, and more fulfilled life.