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 – Animalia Asana® Founder, Trainer
Jenny completed her initial yoga teacher training in 2014. 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; courses with yoga academics/researchers such as Dr Jason Birch, Jacqueline Hargreaves, Dr Mark Singleton and Dr Theo Wildcroft; training in anti-oppression yoga with Sophia Ansari and Susanna Barkataki; training in cult dynamics with Matthew Remski; a Rainbow Kids training; and introduction-to-Sanskrit workshops. She is also certified in Voice Leadership 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 Centre for Animal Welfare at the University of Winchester. She has co-published two papers concerning the animal element in yoga; the first is entitled UK yoga teachers’ attitudes towards plant-based diets and beliefs about the moral status of farmed animals. In January 2023, she will be delivering a non-prescriptive 3-hr online public workshop about yoga’s affinity to animal welfare and veganism through Loyola Marymount University (more details coming soon!). Jenny continues as an independent researcher/consultant in animal welfare and ethics both in relation to yoga and more broadly.
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.
= 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