Jo is the founder and director of Garden of Yoga, and runs the studio with her husband Rane Bowen. They cohost The Flow Artists Podcast and she is in the process of writing a book on aerial yoga which will be published in 2026.

Jo Stewart has found that practicing yoga helps her to enjoy art and life, and live to her full potential. Her background in art encourages a unique approach to respectfully reinterpreting yoga, ensuring her classes are never dull. Combining art and asana (physical yoga) helps to free blocked creative energy, and bring a meditative mindfulness to art and life, creating a fun, fresh and creative approach to beginning or revitalising a yoga practice.

Jo balances a respect of the traditions of yoga with a fresh reinterpretation. She considers it a joy and privilege to share her knowledge with others. She discovered yoga while studying her BA Fine Art (Printmaking RMIT) in 1998, and fell in love with the practice. She has been teaching yoga and pilates for over 10 years and has completed over 2000 hours of teacher training including Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching (CAE/Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy), Studio Pilates certification with Taube Pilates, SomaChi yoga certification with Lianne Metcalfe, and Yin Yoga teacher training with Jo Phee. She is a registered Level 3, Senior Teacher with Yoga Australia.

She is also one of the most experienced Antigravity Aerial Yoga teachers in Australia, completing the original Australian teacher training with it’s creator Christopher Harrison in 2011 and is now a level 5 Instructor, with Antigravity Aerial Yoga 1&2, Flying Fitness, Pilates and Restorative certification, as well as advanced aerial yoga and Aerial Yoga Therapeutics certification with Renae Stevens.

She is excited to share the whole spectrum of yogic experience with her students- from high flying fun in the aerial hammock, to calm meditation in the quiet of a yin style practice.