Jordan Ashley

Jordan Ashley is an activist, writer, yoga teacher, Tedx speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Souljourn Yoga, a US 501(c)3 nonprofit that creates transformational yoga retreats and teacher training programs to raise awareness and funds for young women and girl’s education around the world. Every one of Jordan’s retreats directly supports women and girls who are denied such essential human rights. She is an expert on yoga and wellness, regenerative / transformational travel, ethical tourism, and culturally immersive travel experiences.

In addition to service-based retreats, she leads Souljourn Yoga’s On the Ground Yoga Teacher Training, an empowering program for young women in Morocco, Rwanda, and around the world that makes yoga accessible to the entire community and promotes leadership values, peace building, and self-compassion. Jordan teaches girls and young women in the remote communities of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco how to teach yoga and meditation, providing them with a much-needed confidence boost and powerful outlet for the stresses they face as the first generation of their families to receive a formal education.

Jordan first had a taste of global seva (Sanskrit word meaning selfless service) when she completed two study abroad programs. The first in Siem Reap, Cambodia where she taught English and women's self-empowerment through the Ponheary Ly Foundation. The other in Dharamsala, India where she lived with a Tibetan family and studied the community in diaspora. Between completing her 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher training, Jordan uprooted to Southeast Asia where she worked as a reporter focusing on NGO coverage for the Phnom Penh Post and also as a journalist in Bangkok, Thailand.

Jordan’s work has been featured by Yoga Journal, USA Today, Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire UK, Woman’s Day, Women’s Health, and more, and she’s been a guest on several top podcasts, including The Behavioral Corner, Kitchen Club, and Seek The Joy Podcast. She’s also a contributor to Yoga Journal.

Sub-specialties:
"Toxic wellness” culture
Breaking down the barriers of wellness culture
Yoga combats societal pressure
Yoga gives everyone access to wellness
Yoga as an individual and collective experience
Embodiment (when your internal world meets your external world)
Engagement with ourselves and others
Empowerment