MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Animalia Asana® is run as a co-operative and all roles listed below are 100% voluntary in nature; we need more members of the management committee to be able to fulfill ‘co-operative’ and ‘committee’!
Jenny Mace, MSc AWSEL, FHEA – Animalia Asana® Founder, Trainer
Jenny completed her initial yoga teacher training in 2014 in Sussex with Wenche Krag Beard. She has led around 12 retreats through the renewably-powered Rustic Retreats (which always featured Animalia Asana® practices). Jenny has added to her yoga training through extensive independent self-led study that has culminated in the creation of the library on this website; through courses with yoga academics/researchers such as Dr Jason Birch, Jacqueline Hargreaves, Dr Mark Singleton and Dr Theo Wildcroft; through training in anti-oppression yoga with Sophia Ansari and Susanna Barkataki; through training in cult dynamics with Matthew Remski; through a Rainbow Kids training; and through introduction-to-Sanskrit workshops. She is also certified in Voice Leadership (with Frankie Armstrong) and Ecstatic Awakening Dance; therefore, these wider explorative and expressive practices are often weaved into any longer events she offers.
Jenny formed the charitable Animalia Asana initiative as a means of drawing on the potential within yoga to positively shape how practitioners perceive our species’ relationship with other species in the animal kingdom. She believes that, one day, animals shall be free from human dominion over them and the suffering that often comes with this. She wishes to help this shift on its way and knows she is not the only yoga practitioner/teacher with a fierce respect for animals out there. Thus, together with other yoga teachers who share her vision, she endeavours to help to raise the profile of the animal element in yoga (on and off the mat) for the benefit of all animal species, including Homo-sapiens.
Alongside Animalia Asana, Jenny is a remote associate lecturer with the Animal Welfare Research Group at the University of Winchester. She is also an independent researcher via Mace Animal Welfare. Her portfolio includes papers on connections between yoga and plant-based diets. She lives with her husband in Fife, UK, and cares for various rescued animals.
Dr Jennifer Duvillers, Chief Animal Officer with OSTA – General Supporting Trustee
Dr Peter Madill – General Supporting Trustee
Get in touch if you are interested in joining the Animalia Asana Management Committee; you need to be able to demonstrate your understanding of and support for Animalia Asana’s remit, but you do not need to be a yoga teacher. Please detail what you can bring to the management team. These are 100% voluntary positions. If you end up holding any AA workshops or training, then 50% of funds are donated to animal charity.
= ahimsa (non-harming to all living beings)
one of the yogic teachings that Animalia Asana® is based on
= dānam (charity)
one of the yogic teachings that Animalia Asana® is based on