Janet Stone

Janet Stone is a San Francisco yoga teacher whose path began with meditation. She grew up on rural land in Northern California, danced through her teens and took up meditation at seventeen. After years working in film and television production in Los Angeles, she travelled to India in 1996, her grandfather's birthplace, and committed herself to yoga. She has now been teaching for more than two decades.

Her classes join a creative, flowing vinyasa with the eight limbs of yoga, pranayama, meditation and bhakti, the devotional yoga of chanting and mantra, and she often teaches alongside live music from her partner, the producer DJ Drez, and she has released three albums of devotional mantra. Through Stone Yoga School she runs 200-hour, 300-hour and longer teacher trainings in hybrid and online formats, and she offers PRACTICE*365, an online membership with live and recorded classes. She teaches regular public classes in San Francisco and leads retreats and immersions at Esalen, in Mexico, in the Columbia River Gorge and in India, as well as a six-month mentoring programme. Her book Stories of Our Lives retells sacred Indian myths as maps for everyday life, and she has recorded a ten-day course on deep rest for Commune.