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Joseph Lofthouse — Yoga Teacher, Author, Earth-Based Wellness Guide

I teach yoga grounded in peace, joy, and self-love. My early practice began in rigidity and striving, yet over the years it softened into a path of curiosity, embodiment, and freedom. I now guide others through gentle, earth-rooted practices that weave movement, breath, meditation, and nature awareness into daily life.

Join me for public or private yoga practice.
435-363-5119
Garden@Lofthouse.com

Public Yoga

• Salt Hollow Massage, Hyrum, Utah — Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 am (two of those days)
• Juniper Moon, Paradise, Utah — Tuesday 10 am
• Watch my Facebook page for other times and locations.
• Facebook Group: Tantra, Bhakti, Earth Yoga & Ayurveda with Joseph Lofthouse for online lessons and musings.

Private Yoga

I come to you. I teach when it works for you. Private sessions run on a donation basis.

Each practice adapts to your needs—gentle movement, deep meditation, sacred sound, breathwork, or restorative stillness. I also offer:

• Custom yoga for retreats, families, or quiet circles
• Seasonal, earth-based meals or teas for your group, prepared with care and simplicity

As a farmer, I remain flexible, grounded, and attuned to the rhythms of nature.

Teaching Style

I teach balanced, heart-led yoga. Every session begins and ends in meditation. In between, we might breathe, stretch, dance, rest, or explore yogic ethics. I often bring aromatherapy or chanting. When welcome, I offer light, supportive touch—especially during savasana.

My temperament suits:
• Gentle stretching and soft strengthening flows
• Mindfulness and ethical reflection
• Ecstatic dance, chanting, and drum circles

Tantra Yoga

Tantra invites us beyond dogma, beyond division, into a sacred weaving of all life. Nothing stands separate. Every breath, every seed, every ache and joy belongs.

This practice cultivates radical self-awareness—not by escaping the body, but by coming home to it. Tantra recognizes the sacred not only in temples or scriptures, but in compost, moonlight, tears, and the warm curve of our own hands.

Tantra whispers: everything touched with presence becomes holy.

Bhakti Yoga

Bhakti means devotion in motion. It blossoms in song, shared meals, gratitude, and laughter under the stars. Bhakti invites us to fall in love with life—not as concept, but as daily practice.

We chant, we dance, we serve, we rest in the quiet awe of being alive. Bhakti begins with tenderness toward ourselves and expands outward into community.

Earth Yoga & Earth-Based Wellness

This path begins with bare feet on soil and sun on skin. Earth Yoga and Ayurveda guide us to live as part of the living world—not apart from it.

Ayurveda, the nature-based healing system of ancient India, influences how I understand seasons and elements. My practice, however, grows directly from my lived experience in the high-desert valley where I farm.

We study not only poses, but also the patterns of wind and flame, hunger and rest, warmth and cooling, dawn and darkness. Wellness becomes a conversation with the elements.

We eat with the rhythm of day and soil. We stretch like trees waking in spring. We warm our bodies with oil and breath. We rest as fully as winter soil.

This yoga asks: What would it feel like to trust your body the way you trust rain? It invites sacred relationship—with food, with breath, with land, with life.

(Author of Landrace Gardening.)

Ethics of Yoga

The first principle of yoga is sometimes translated as non-violence. I call it gentleness.

Gentleness with the body means listening deeply—pausing before pushing, honoring sensations instead of overriding them. We stretch not to dominate the muscles, but to greet them with breath. We balance effort with ease, presence with play.

Gentleness with the mind means softening the inner critic. When harsh thoughts arise, we watch them drift like clouds. When we stumble, we respond with the same kindness we offer a friend.

Gentleness with daily rhythms means tending ourselves like a beloved garden. We nourish with real food, drink clean water, rise with intention, and rest without guilt.

These ethics live in relationship—with our bodies, our choices, our communities, and the more-than-human world. Yoga becomes not just a practice on the mat, but a way of moving through life with care.

Practicing Together

I guide with care. You listen to your own body. Together, we meet in trust.

Yoga isn’t about performance—it’s a personal path. Please come exactly as you are, without pressure to push or achieve. Honor your own rhythm.

If you feel called, you may share a little about your experience or your body. This helps me hold space with awareness and respect:

• Have you practiced yoga before?
• What approaches speak to you?
• Are there places in your body that ask for gentleness—injuries, sensitivities, or repeating patterns?
• Do you feel discomfort in areas like the neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, belly, balance, or anywhere else?

You remain free to answer—or not. We begin with presence. We continue with care.

Credentials

500 hr yoga teacher training, World Yoga Federation.
Logged 500 teaching hours (as of 2025-03-21).
See bio for more.

Warm Regards,
Joseph