Jo Phee
Teacher’s Teacher
Creator of AcuYin, MyoYin, Meridian Nidra
Known as a teacher’s teacher, Jo is a senior Yin Yoga & Anatomy Trainer well-known in the international yin yoga community for her specialties in Chinese Medicine, Bone Morphology, Functional Anatomy and Fascia Science. The first to introduce cupping, guasha, acupressure and myofascial release into yin yoga teacher training programs worldwide, Jo is also the pioneer yin yoga teacher to create “Upper Body Yin Yoga” to the mass public in 2006.
Widely dubbed as the “Queen of Props & Sequencing”, Jo has created hundreds of yin yoga variations and sequences in the past two decades through the ingenious use of props. These variations are showcased in her Book of Yin and have since been widely practised by the worldwide yin community.
Starting her yoga journey since 2000, Jo is the first-generation yin yoga teachers trained by Yin Yoga creators Paul and Suzee Grilley. Serving as their Senior Lead Assistant since 2009, she has spent thousands of hours in apprenticeship with them over the past two decades. She was personally mentored by them to teach their entire yin yoga and anatomy training curriculum. Jo has taught more than 20,000 public yoga classes since 2003 and conducted 200+ yoga teacher trainings worldwide. She has trained more than 10,000 yoga teachers and trainers in 20 countries all over Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and USA.
Brought up solely with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from childhood by her Chinese Taoist parents, all of Jo’s initial induction into TCM was based on experiential knowledge passed down from generations in her Chinese family. She learnt Guasha and Cupping treatments from her grandparents and Chinese herbal medicine from her mother. To add theoretical knowledge to her practical experience, Jo went on to study at the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Jo is a certified TCM Tuina Massage Therapist.
Jo holds a 3-year Diploma in Yoga (3000+hrs) from the Satyananda Yoga Academy. She has taken rigorous examination in the ashram to teach the original Yoga Nidra practice developed by Swami Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga. Her formal education in this practice coupled with her vast knowledge of the Chinese Meridian system inspired her to develop a new systematic practice – Meridian Nidra.
In 2012, in cooperation with the Vice Principal of the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jo developed the world’s first comprehensive Chinese Medicine module to be taught in a yin yoga teacher training program. This module is closely modelled after the curriculum taught to Chinese Medicine Doctors in TCM universities in China.
Since then, this module has been the “gold standard” for many Chinese Medicine yin trainings around the world. In 2025, Jo will lead the much-anticipated TCM collaboration with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for all Yinspiration graduates.
Driven by a profound interest in functional anatomy and fascia science, Jo has attended cadaver dissection labs in the United States and Europe since 2013. She has 1200 hours of dissection lab experience and has studied up to 100 cadaver specimens to-date. She has performed cadaver dissections at Stanford University, University of Padova Italy, McGill University Canada, Rutgers University Newark, University of Dundee Scotland, Marquette University Wisconsin and the Institute of Anatomical Research Colorado.
