Jeani Mackenzie

Jeani Mackenzie is the founder, director, and primary instructor at the Davenport School of Yoga.  She has been practicing and teaching yoga longer than most of the area’s other instructors combined.  For many years she was Quad Cities yoga, keeping the art alive in the “dark ages” before it became fashionable.  Her own practice began in 1974.  Her initial study with B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga, at his institute in Pune, India in 1979 laid the foundation for her classical, Hatha approach.  Other teachers she has attended are too numerous to name, but include Shandor, John Friend, and her current teacher, Diane Long, student of Vanda Scaravelli.

Jeani opened the Davenport School of Yoga in l996. After so many years of teaching and experience, she sets the standard for yoga instruction in the region and at DSY. She continues to instruct nearly 20 classes a week in addition to directing DSY, facilitating teacher trainings, and consulting on all types of health needs in the area.  Her goals remain small: to pass on knowledge of the practice to students in the hope that they may learn something to help with daily challenges, whatever those may be.