045 Creativity, Writing and Yoga with Janna Hockenjos

<p>Janna Hockenjos is a published author and a full time yoga teacher living in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and their Golden Retriever.</p> <p>The summer Janna Leyde turned 14, her father was in a near fatal car accident that changed everything she knew. Upon earning her BA at Wittenberg University, Janna moved to New York City where she received her masters degree in magazine journalism at NYU and spent the her twenties in New York City, learning the in and outs of magazine writing and publishing. In 2011, she left the industry to become a yoga teacher and write her first book, <em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Never-Liked-Cake-Janna-Leyde/dp/0990561216/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1468374562&sr=8-1&keywords=he+never+liked+cake&linkCode=ll1&tag=goharfit-20&linkId=77cc72720efe4d660c5b19fb296f68b8" target="_blank">He Never Liked Cake</a></em>, a coming of age memoir that tells the story of growing up with her father’s traumatic brain injury. Three years later she moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to continue her writing and yoga career and publish her second book, <em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Move-Feel-Think-Injury-Trauma-ebook/dp/B01HHMOJFK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1468374644&sr=8-1&keywords=move+feel+think&linkCode=ll1&tag=goharfit-20&linkId=b809a077603957237a42cf6d6d775792" target="_blank">Move Feel Think: Yoga for Brain Injury, PTSD, and Other Forms of Trauma.</a></em></p> <p>Janna is the owner of Inhale Pittsburgh, a yoga studio located in downtown Pittsburgh. She also represents her community as a lululemon ambassador with a passion to bring the physical and mental benefits of yoga to the brain injury, PTSD, veteran, and trauma population on both local and national levels. When she is not on her mat, she works as a freelance writer, her works appearing in magazines such as Time Out New York and SELF and websites such as mindbodygreen.com, brainline.org, and NEXT Pittsburgh. She is an influential advocate for traumatic brain injury awareness and is frequently is a guest speaker at TBI confere