Jessie Wigh, co-founder of Belize Yoga, certified yoga  instructor since 2007

In 2008, Jessie and her husband moved to Belize to start their dream  of offering yoga retreats in Belize and opening a yoga studio on the  little island of Caye Caulker. For 15 years Jessie taught classes six days a week in the open air at her by-donation studio. Those years were magical, rustic, hot, wondrous, maddening, life-changing, real. They returned to the US in 2022 when their oldest child was ready for high school. Jessie currently leads retreats in Belize, Italy and the Azores (and has pre-scouted Slovenia--amazing!) and is the author of three children's books about Belize. As an artist, she enjoys many mediums, including watercolor, acrylic and found objects from the forest. 

Jessie’s retreats are spiritual, healing, and just plain fun. Having  taught almost exclusively outdoors, she finds that connection to  environment helps to cultivate connection within. Jessie’s retreats are very much about the WHOLE body (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional).  With a focus on the chakras, each day of the retreat will focus on a  different area of the body and mind. The nature of travel–changing one’s  physical location–sets the stage perfectly for beginning the bigger  journey. Jessie  truly feels like she is living the dream by sharing yoga and seeing how  it can change the lives of retreat students.