Jacqui Vernon is the founder and director of YogaSpa, Westchester’s premier hot yoga studio located in Elmsford, New York and four-time winner of Westchester Magazine’s “Best Yoga Studio” award.. A Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), Jacqui has combined her study with some of the nation’s leading yoga teachers and her many years of fitness training to create and offer a full spectrum of yoga disciplines and styles, including her signature Flow31, SlowBurn and BootCamp Yoga classes, all within the hot yoga lineage. Jacqui's personalized, hands-on teaching style, reflects her background in the study of anatomy and postural alignment, which guides her students to achieve their optimal experience in the yoga postures and allows them to enjoy their practice as a vehicle of personal transformation. Coming to yoga during her career as a biotechnical patent litigator for a prestigious law firm in New York City, Jacqui's keen understanding and passionate appreciation for yoga’s healing power, has garnered a large and devoted following for her in-studio classes, one-on-one private and semi-private trainings, regional master classes, and international yoga retreats and international Teacher Training Programs and was honored to teach at Wanderlust Festival in Stratton Vermont. Jacqui's corporate clients include YWCA of White Plains, Solar City, Bright Horizons Family Solutions as well as a host of corporate and sports private clients including former NBA Players, Medical Doctors and Television Executives. Having dedicated her studio, founded in 2001, to the memory of her mother, Jacqui has served as a founding member of the board of directors and organized fund-raisers for the Cancer Support Network, an organization that is committed to bringing yoga and other complementary healing modalities to cancer patients, their families and caregivers.