Jack
My Story
​A Practice That Kept Bringing Me Back
Yoga has been part of my life for more than 15 years—not as a perfectly straight path, but as a practice I've returned to through challenge, recovery, growth, and change. Today, those experiences shape how I teach, how I coach teachers, and what I'm building through Studio Savino.
My Journey
My path to teaching wasn't a straight line
2009
I first found yoga in the spring of 2009. What began as something I wanted to try quickly became a consistent part of my life. For the next two years, I practiced regularly and discovered something I hadn't expected: yoga wasn't simply exercise. It challenged me physically while creating space to slow down, focus, and reconnect with myself.
2011
In the spring of 2011, that practice was interrupted by a low-back injury that ultimately required surgery. Recovery changed my relationship with movement. When I was able to return to yoga that summer, I came back with a different appreciation for what it meant to move intentionally—to pay attention, adapt, and rebuild rather than simply push forward.
2013
Then, in the summer of 2013, I suffered a traumatic brain injury. While my physical yoga practice came to a halt, mindfulness and meditation became meaningful parts of my recovery.
2021
I eventually found my way back to the mat in the fall of 2021. ​That return felt different.
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Yoga became less about what I could accomplish in a pose and more about rebuilding connection—with movement, breath, awareness, strength, and myself. My experiences with injury and recovery fundamentally changed the way I understood practice. Progress wasn't always linear. Some days strength mattered. Other days stillness mattered. Learning when to challenge myself and when to give myself space became part of the practice itself.
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Yoga didn't erase the difficult chapters of my life. It gave me a way to move through them. ​And eventually, returning to yoga became something more: I wanted to teach it.
From student to teacher—returning became teaching
2025
In spring 2025, I stepped to the front of the room and began teaching Yoga Sculpt at CorePower Yoga. I loved the combination of movement, strength, energy, music, and community—and I quickly discovered that teaching challenged me in an entirely new way.
2026
In spring 2026, I expanded into Power Vinyasa, bringing together the physical practice I had known for years with a deeper understanding of sequencing, breath, philosophy, anatomy, and intentional facilitation.
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What started as my own practice had become an opportunity to create experiences for other people.
I don't teach people to practice like me. I teach them to discover what their own practice can become.
The Science Behind the Practice
Science-minded. Human-centered.
Long before I became a yoga teacher, I was trained to think about health through a scientific lens. I earned a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an experience that taught me to ask questions, examine evidence, and appreciate just how interconnected the systems that shape human health and well-being really are.
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That perspective continues to influence the way I approach yoga. I'm fascinated by anatomy, physiology, movement, breathing, adaptation, and the ways our physical and internal experiences intersect. I want to understand not only what we're doing in a practice, but why we're doing it and how it affects us.
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At the same time, yoga has taught me that the human experience can't always be reduced to what we can measure. There is value in awareness, stillness, curiosity, and simply learning to pay attention to what is happening within us.
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My teaching lives at that intersection: science and tradition, knowledge and experience, effort and awareness.
Teaching teachers.
My work in yoga has expanded beyond leading classes. As a Teacher Training Coach, I help developing instructors make the transition from learning yoga to actually teaching it.
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That means working through sequencing, cueing, class presence, intentional language, anatomy, transitions, modifications, feedback, and the countless small decisions that turn a sequence of poses into an experience.
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Coaching teachers has also made me a better student. Having to explain why something works forces me to continually examine my own teaching, stay curious, and keep learning.
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That same philosophy is behind the Studio Savino Yoga Teaching Kits: practical resources designed to give teachers structure without taking away their individual voice.
Training & Credentials
300hr Teacher Training
Advanced Yogic Studies
CorePower Yoga
200hr Teacher Training
Foundational Yogic Studies
CorePower Yoga
50hr Teacher Training
Yoga Sculpt
CorePower Yoga
Advanced Teacher Program
Power Vinyasa
CorePower Yoga
Certified Group Fitness Instructor
American Council on Exercise
Master of Health Science
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
This is Studio Savino.
Studio Savino grew from all of those chapters.
It's a space for movement and stillness. For building strength and creating awareness. For people discovering yoga for the first time, practitioners looking to deepen their practice, organizations creating space for employee well-being, and teachers finding their own voice.
I don't believe yoga has to look one particular way to matter. Sometimes it's powerful and sweaty. Sometimes it's slow and deliberate. Sometimes the most meaningful practice is simply learning to sit still long enough to notice what's already there.
Wherever you're starting, there's room to begin.
