Dakini Jaeger

Dakini grew up in a ballet studio where the concept of taking care of one’s body was non-existent. It was a daily practice of pushing oneself beyond one’s limits where she learned that pain was a reward for being dedicated to the craft. At the early age of twelve she became an apprentice in her first ballet company which lead her into her professional career as a modern/ballet dancer at the age of 17. As a dancer she tried to find meaning in life through art and movement but mostly found injury and competitiveness.

In 1997 she tore her hamstring in a show in which she was performing, Siegfied and Roy, which led her to an alternative healing therapy called yoga. In her first Bikram class she experienced a type of movement that felt more true and authentic than the art she had been performing for years. This is where she realized how healing, both spiritually and physically, yoga could be. To Dakini, yoga is a way to delve deep into the spirit of the heart and to serve and dedicate herself to the people in her life. When she took her first Bikram class she fell instantly in love with the deep alignment it brought to her body as well as the harmony in created in her mind. Her career took her from NYC, LA, and Las Vegas until she finally decided to retire in Colorado.

Dakini now lives and practices in Colorado. From there she began to transverse the power of Vinyasa through CorePower. In 2002 she took the Level I 200 hour Teacher Training offered through CorePower Yoga. She has always been aware of how the mind, body, and spirit all need to be in balance for a life of clarity and success, which is why yoga so appealed to her sense of a personal and universal truth. In 2003, she had the amazing opportunity to work for CorePower as one of their managers and during that five year tenure she dreamt of owning her own yoga studio. In 2007 that dream came into fruition with the opening of the CorePower Yoga Stapleton studio owned by her company Blue World Yoga, LLC. It was her intention to create an environment in which each practitioner feels supported in his/her yogic journey. Dakini likes to incorporate harmony and fluidity into her teaching and enjoys sharing her energy with her yoga students. She believes that through yoga and the understanding of the body, a deeper knowledge of the mind and spirit will be developed.

She continued her Vinyasa study in 2006 with Seane Corn and completed an Intensive Teacher Training with her as well as Shiva Rea in 2009 and earned her 500 hr yoga certification. In addition to those trainings, Dakini has completed her Restorative Yoga training with Judith Hanson Lasater and her Anusara Immersion Teacher Training with Madhuri Mudd. During those years of asana training and practice she was introduced to Bhakti Yoga. As a child, Dakini not only grew up dancing but singing as well and because of that musical element in her background the Bhakti practice really appealed to the next level of her personal yogic training. Bhakti yoga did all of the things that a physical yoga practice could not do for Dakini, mostly it taught her to experience her heart and how to be vulnerable in a safe and spiritual way. From that first experience of a Kirtan, she knew that that would be the next expression of both her art and her yoga combined. In 2007 she began singing with local Kirtan groups until most recently she co-formed the band Waking Alchemy which is slated to have their first album out in late 2010. In 2009 she began to co-lead the Level I Teacher Trainings for CorePower and in addition offers Level II continuing education Teacher Trainings through her company Blue World Yoga. In the end, the light in the practice comes from supporting others’ light and that is the blessing of yoga.