About Us

 

 

Jane C. S. Johnston, BS

 

Qualifications

Jane Johnston has been teaching group fitness classes on land and in the water since 1977. Jane began teaching Yoga classes in 1995, doing Personal Fitness Training in 1997, Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement® classes in 2003 and Tai Chi in 2010. Jane holds several national certifications in Land and Water Fitness as well as several Land and Water Post-Rehab Certifications. Jane is certified by AAHFRP as a Post-Rehab Conditioning Specialist and ATRI as an Aquatic Therapeutic Exercise Specialist, by the National Arthritis Association for their Land and Water arthritis classes, and has a particular interest in working with aging clients in a rehab situation. Jane is Registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level, is certified by American Yoga College, Yoga and Health Studies Center and Yoga Afloat as a yoga teacher and has been studying yoga since 1977. Jane became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner® in May 2005. She is one of only three practitioners worldwide to take Feldenkrais to the water. Jane is also a APHERD certified Adapted Aquatics Instructor and Red Cross Certified Water Safety Instructor and teaches children and adults to swim. She is currently studying Yang Style Tai Chi and Qi Gong at the Shenandoah Taijiquan Center and is studying for her Level Four Ranking. Jane is beginning study for a Medical Exercise Specialist Certification. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with an emphasis in Physiological Psychology.

 

Advanced Certifications

§     Adapted Aquatics Teacher American Alliance for Heath, Education, Recreation and Dance

§     Aquatic Therapeutic Exercise Specialist 
Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation Institute Certification – (ATRIC)

§     Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®
Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA)

§     Post-Rehab Conditioning Specialist
American Academy of Health, Fitness and Rehab  Professionals – (AAHFRP)

§     Registered Yoga Teacher 200 
Yoga Alliance – (YA)

§     Certified Yoga Teacher 200 hours                          American Yoga College now International Yoga College – (AYC(IYC))

Basic Certifications

§     Adaptive Yoga Yoga Heals Us Karen O’Donnell Clark

§     Aquatic Fitness Instructor
Aquatic Exercise Association (AEA)

§     Arthritis Aquatic Program Instructor 
National Arthritis Foundation & YMCA

§     Bones for Life®                                                                       Foundation for Movement Intelligence

§     C.O.R.E. Level One Instructor
Resist-A-Ball®

§     Group Fitness Instructor
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA)

§     Safe Exercise Leader, Step & Slide Instructor
Exercise Safety Association

§     People With Arthritis Can Exercise (PACE)
 Arthritis Foundation

§     Personal Fitness Trainer
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA)

§     Yang Family Style Tai Chi, Level Three, Golden Eagle
International Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association

§     Tai Chi for Arthritis                                                National Arthritis Foundation

§     Teaching Adaptive Yoga for MS Yoga Teacher Training                                                                          Yoga Heals Us Karen O’Donnell Clarke

§     Walk for Life®                                                                       Foundation for Movement Intelligence

§     Walk with Ease National Arthritis Foundation

§     Water Safety Instructor
American Red Cross – (ARC)

§     Yoga Afloat Instructor
Defining, You

§     Yoga Instructor
Yoga and Health Studies Center – (YHSC)

Other

§     AED                                                                                            American Red Cross

§     Adult, Infant & Child CPR for Professional Rescuer
American Red Cross – (ARC)

§     Community First Aid and Safety                                       American Red Cross – (ARC)

§     Risk Awareness and Safety Training  Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institute

 

Offerings

 

Memberships

Group Classes

§     Adapted Swimming

§     Aquatics for Arthritis, MS & Others with Limited Movement

§     Awareness Through Movement®

§     Low Impact Aerobics

§     Very Gentle Yoga

§     Personal Fitness Training – Small groups

§     Swimming

§     Water Aerobics

Individual Sessions

§     Awareness Through Movement®

§     Functional Integration®

§     Post Rehab Conditioning

§     Personal Training

§     Swimming

§     Yoga

 

 

 

§     American Academy of Health, Fitness and Rehab Professionals

§     American College of Sports Medicine

§     Aerobics and Fitness Association of America

§     Aquatic Exercise Association

§     Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institute

§     Exercise Safety Association

§     Feldenkrais Guild of North America

§     IDEA Association of Health & Fitness Professionals

§     International Association of Yoga Therapists

§     International Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association

§     NAMASTA

§     Yoga Alliance