Joan White-Hansen

Joan White-Hansen, a certified JourneyDance and Kripalu Yoga Dance teacher, brings her love of movement, creating sacred space and joy of music to her dance classes.  A longtime student of both yoga and dance, Joan approaches movement as a personal journey, inviting the elements of curiosity and discovery in the body, while also creating a sense of safety in a communal setting.  Her core interest is in encouraging the body’s own inherent wisdom to release the inner fire as well as noticing the moment when movement becomes mediation in motion. As an artist, teacher, storyteller, singer and dancer, Joan inspires her students to engage in a creative process within the body and with each other.  Her love of skiing, biking and hiking in nature, as well as her family and living at Ten Stones Community in Charlotte, feed her desire of moving with grace in life.