Jacki Beckermann

My name is Jacki Beckermann and love to Guide Yoga Practices! I also love to paint and create custom jewelry! 

I have always found my happy place within when creating something. Growing up in California, I remember painting at a very young age just for fun and soon realized that I wasn’t half bad. I would draw pictures for friends at school and give them away, loving to see how happy I could make people with something I created. By high school I had begun to make jewelry for friends and got the same feeling when something I created brought joy to someone's face.   

My summers for over a decade were spent in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. My favorite days were ones with my shoes off and walking a mile down a creek to a waterfall. I still go to this place in meditation on occasion. Nature has always been a huge source of inspiration for me. I loved to spend the day just listening to the wind in the trees and the water flowing down the mossy waterfall in to two deeper pools.   

I am naturally a curious person so have always enjoyed reading and learning as much as I could. I stumbled into a massage therapy school while I was in high school and soon began training. My teacher became a very close friend of mine and became whom I usually refer to as my first “spiritual advisor.” Michael Eakin knew everything about massage and everything about energy. I was hooked and became even more fascinated with the human body and all the wonders of self-transformation. I worked for three years as a massage therapist right out of high school which exposed me to more natural ways of addressing ailments of the body including chiropractors, essential oils, and natural spa treatments.  

I spent most of my school years in art classes and even eventually finished an art degree by my mid 20s. I have always called painting and drawing my happy place. I eventually moved to Missouri and met my husband and began to work at a hobby shop running their art department. They had a jewelry department so this is when I really refined my jewelry designing and making skills. I loved to work with people in creating pieces for them or family and friends. It is very rewarding relating to people in this way. The shop was where my love for custom work really developed.  

After moving to Texas and having my second child I was beginning again. A dear friend suggested yoga for my post-partum depression and I became hooked! I was fully present when I was on my mat. My teacher came to me one day and asked if I had ever wanted to teach yoga. I thought I had only “done yoga” for about 3 months by that time. I have no idea what lead me to say yes but I now know it was God's grace. Everything in me said “YES” so loudly that my mouth moved before my head even heard it! I began training two days later! What a game-changer. This was my path and Yoga was the missing piece to my purpose.  
 

Now I get to show others the benefits! Training to become a yoga teacher was a surreal experience. It is so much more of a journey to find yourself than anything else. It shakes your foundation and rebuilds you so much stronger than you ever thought you could be. It was another beginning for me. I finally found my community of deep thinkers and noble adversaries. I made the ultimate connection of mind and spirit through awareness of the breath and movement of the body. Meditation and mantra have been my daily self-care routine to quiet down my mind and be present for guidance. To share with people something so simple as how this beautiful movement though our space linked with the breath can bring about a shift within that has the potential to change everything around you. What a blessing!  

These are my blessings. By the grace of God, I have found them and am continuously evolving them and I pray that I can continue to do some form of them for the rest of my existence. This is a daily practice of acceptance and having the stamina within our soul to receive the grace in order to do so. For me, daily mantra, meditation, and living consciously are all parts of the purification process in order to receive such grace.