Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones Author

Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones is an international movement educator and author, an Advanced Pilates and E-RYT500 Yoga Teacher Trainer, as well as a movement specialist, Kinesiology, Dance & Exercise Science Professor. She resides in beautiful Northwest New Jersey, USA. Jo Ann has taught throughout the US, in the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Prague, Costa Rica, and France. She is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) and PAMA, the Performing Arts Medicine Association, IDEA Fitness, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and a senior trainer & Continuing Education provider through Yoga Alliance. Staugaard-Jones is the other of several books on movement and anatomy, including The Vital Psoas Muscle (North Atlantic Books), which has sold over 100,000 copies as well as being translated into more than 20 languages.