Jo Anne's Background
Jo Anne P. Crouse is the founder of Wholistic Harmony, a health and lifestyle coaching practice dedicated to cultivating wellness through nutrition, exercise and transpersonal development. She is a certified Holistic Health Coach and also holds a certificate to teach yoga through universalmovement yoga studio, a studio she created in 2000.
Jo Anne is more than a health coach, she is your personal advocate for living an energized and passionate life.
Embracing yoga as an eightfold path, Jo Anne’s studio offered an experiential curriculum and teaching methodology based on the understanding that man is a trinity of body, mind and spirit. Programs were designed not only to teach yoga, but also to enhance the personal and spiritual growth of every student. universalmovement’s innovative approach and ability to attract some of the world’s greatest masters made it one of the most successful studios in Virginia Beach.
In 2005, a personal health crisis challenged Jo Anne to expand her commitment to the concept of holistic healing. Working with an internist and her own intuition, she developed a treatment program that focuses on food sensitivities, nutrition, and exercise. Her conviction to bridge Eastern and Western philosophies was critical.
As part of your Wholistic journey, you'll be encouraged, as Jo Anne was, to face your challenges head on and deal with them.
She closed her studio in 2007 to take a restorative time out and to deepen her studies in holistic healing. What began as a journey of self-healing has evolved into a renewed commitment to the education and support of those seeking a drug free path to health and well-being. Her story is one of courage and perseverance often taking the road less traveled in the quest for truth, harmony and wholeness.
I have had the privilege of working with Jo Anne Crouse for over 4 years. I have never met a more disciplined, motivated, determined person in my life. Jo Anne exhibits a harmony about her that is reached through peace, balance, and leading a life of moderation. She exudes empathy, warmth and genuineness to every person she comes in contact with and is a joy to be around. Finding "Real" people in this world is hard to come by and Jo Anne is the most down to earth person I have ever met.
-Jim White, OWNER OF JIM WHITE FITNESS & NUTRITION STUDIOS