Jeannie O'Neill
M.Ed., E-RYT 500
Founding Executive Director and Lead Educator, Yoga Farm Ithaca
About Jeannie
Jeannie O'Neill is the founding Executive Director and Lead Educator at Yoga Farm Ithaca, a nonprofit teacher training and yoga education center in Ithaca, NY. She built YFI on a straightforward conviction: rigorous yoga teacher training should be accessible, lineage-rooted, and structurally honest about how learning actually works.
Her background spans both deep contemplative practice and formal academic research in adult education. She holds a Master of Education specializing in contemplative pedagogy and transformative curriculum design, and is currently a doctoral student in Transformational Leadership and Coaching. Her doctoral research focuses on Leadership Consciousness in adult education, examining how shared leadership, relational trust, and contemplative practice cultivate participatory and transformative learning environments.
Jeannie is a 500E-RYT certified in both Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga, a Mindfulness Meditation instructor, and an Ayurvedic health practitioner. She serves on the advisory committee for the American Yoga Council.
Her Approach to Teaching
At Yoga Farm Ithaca, she created and leads the Kundalini Warrior 200-hour certification, the Spiritual Warrior 300-hour certification integrating Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, and the Enneagram, and the Radiant Warrior 200-hour Hatha/Vinyasa program. Each program reflects her core teaching position: depth and accessibility are not competing values. Authentic lineage transmission and contemporary teaching practice reinforce each other. The teacher's role is to build agency in the student.
Her approach to curriculum design treats the learning environment itself as a subject of study. Practices are offered with options. Participation is consent-based. The programs she builds are structured so that students develop the capacity to think independently within a tradition, not merely to replicate what they were taught.
Programs Created and Led by Jeannie O'Neill
Jeannie teaches across Yoga Farm Ithaca's certification programs, both online and in person. If you are considering a training, her programs are a strong starting point.