Meet Jo and Pepi from Yoga Grooves

 Founder of Yoga Grooves, Mother of 2, born in Perth Western Australia. With a keen passion for movement and dance background, Jo Camponovo became a fitness instructor at age 15 and was introduced to yoga 4 years later. She has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and teaching yoga and kids yoga for 18. Jo has also been teaching partner yoga, which later transitioned to acroyoga for over 15 years. She became more immersed into the world of yoga during her two pregnancies and births where she found Yoga helped her through these magical journeys. Yoga helped create positive journeys for these special experiences.  Jo was first introduced to partner yoga in 1999. After  exploring the world of yoga,  and becoming a yoga teacher, Jo began to delve deeper into  learning the art of partner balancing, practicing acro yoga / partner yoga and acro balance. Jo introduced acroyoga to Perth and became the first fully certified acroyoga teacher in Perth Western Australia completing her 200 hour AcroYoga teacher training in Montreal with Eugene Poko and Jessica Goldberg.  

She is forever grateful to her main wonderful teachers :  Simon Borg Olivier and The Late Sam Weinstein,  and (as mentioned) acroyoga teachers from Acroyoga Montreal: Eugene Poko and Jessica Goldberg who continue to keep inspiring  Jo.  Another inspiring yoga teacher, Paddy McGrath has also been highly influential to both Jo's teaching and her own practice. As she forever learns, she gathers from her own creative style combining the knowledge of her training with an experiential spirit in the love of creating new things in her exploration of yoga and acroyoga.  Jo continues to teach and constantly learn more as she enjoys unravelling  this incredible journey. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to train closely with talented circus performers, trainers, dancers and acrobats such as Chris Mayhew  (The Circus Centre) and Jeff Von Schmauder (Union Yoga). She is of course very grateful to be able to practice and teach with her husband Pepi. Jo has taught partner yoga/AcroYoga locally in numerous locations in Perth and other areas of  Western Australia, interstate and internationally in Indonesia, Malaysia and Switzerland.  

Let your spirit fly!     

 Born in  Mendrisio Switzerland, Pepi grew up with a background in Gymnastics and ice hockey so was quick to pick up the art of AcroYoga and yoga.  Although married to Jo for  25 years, it wasn’t until 2010 when Jo took their kids to Bali for a 4 month trip that he really solidly began his yoga for beginners journey. During this trip, Pepi came to visit his family and began practicing yoga and flying yoga/acroyoga with Jo and the kids yoga together overlooking the rice paddies for one month. On his return back to Perth, Fremantle (family still in Bali) he felt a massive shift and has not looked back since. During his family's absence, he felt cleansed from yoga and somehow wanted to clean more and be free of ‘stuff’ and so cleared out all the furniture in the lounge room/living room to feel ‘space’. When Jo and the kids returned, the first thing Jo said when she saw this space was ‘awesome! You made us a yoga studio!’ and she had been teaching in that space consistently since then with Pepi joining and assisting  AcroYoga  and other yoga classes. They both recently moved out of that space and now running classes in Canning Vale, Perth Western Australia.  Pepi is consistently immersing himself deeper into yoga. He previously practiced Ashtanga Mysore daily and has studied an Ashtanga based teacher training mentorship with renowned yoga teacher

 Dana Longton from Sage Yoga. Pepi and Jo bathe in bliss as they create acroyoga flows for their own play and to share with others.