Jo Withey aka 'The PerfleXionist'

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Thank you for taking the time to get to know a bit about me. I love my job and am honoured to be able to share my love of yoga, fitness and flexibility, 

Throughout my life I have always loved to move my body. As a child I joined muay thai classes and started to train my flexibility within classes. When I was seventeen I began practicing yoga. -with the goal of improving my fitness and flexibility for muay thai. At the time I focussed purely on my physical practice and would skip savasana. 

Over the years my yoga practice has evolved with me through the various stages of my life. 

I began training pole dance and aerials almost fifteen years ago, and my yoga practice became focussed on developing strength and flexibility for this. Around the same time I also began teaching womens Muay Thai classes and quickly developed a passion for helping women to gain fitness and confidence. Seeing how fitness has the power to change peoples lives. 

At this time I was working in a job in the fashion industry, in my ten years working my way up from Garment Technologist to Technical Manager. The long hours and stress of the rat race wasn't for me and so I moved into freelance work whilst building my own brands, With Love and Lace . . . Bespoke Bridalwear and PerfeXion Clothing, Lingerie, Polewear and Costumes.

It took a worldwide pandemic for me to realise what I really wanted to be doing was teaching and so during lockdown I completed multiple training courses and the rest, as they say, is history.