About Janice

Janice Liou

is a 700hr+ certified international and online yoga teacher and business-mindset coach. Dedicated to yoga and wellness, she created Om Life Living and Om Life Coaching to help empower both beginner and experienced yogis to achieve their goals and defy their inner dialogue of doubt.

Based in New Jersey, Janice earned her double-honor B.S degrees in Cell Biology Neuroscience and Nutritional Biochemistry, which she uses to educate and explore the field of wellness today. She believes in balance, moderation and living life happy and healthy, which she expresses by traveling all over the world teaching and hosting retreats that center around mindfulness, wellness, self-love and yoga.
As a teacher and coach, her goal is to provide insight and tools to bridge the can't to CAN, effectively binging out each students' fullest potential. 

As a Yoga Teacher

Janice strongly believes that the physical practice of asana translates into practices of mental and emotional wellbeing. As a teacher, her goal is to empower her students with intelligent and creatively sequenced classes designed to progressively bridge the gap from can't to CAN, and to illuminate the fact that everything they need has always been within.

Her classes facilitate the students' mind-body-spirit connection through breath and mindful movement, providing space for students to explore the inner-self on a deeper level. She specializes in: providing hands-on assists, private sessions for students with previous injuries/concerns, flexibility training, and inversions/strength conditioning.

My Yoga Journey

by Janice Liou

My reasons for walking into my first yoga class back in 2007 were primarily for physical reasons. Upon taking my first class, I found myself confused by all the loud breathing, and flustered from holding Warrior II (a lunge position with arms T’d out), never mind all the people I thought were human pretzels when they easily folded over their thighs in paschimotonasana - seated hands-to-toes forward fold (back then my goals of flexibility were to just touch my toes). I walked out thinking, “Well, I’m definitely not going back.” Luckily (or what I thought back then to be unfortunately) I had signed up for a one week unlimited period, and had a friend who urged me to give it another shot. My mind was mostly unchanged until about halfway through the class when the instructor provided an assist (for paschimotonasana) to fold me deeper. It was the first time I felt a sort of muscular release, tension that I had not even known I was holding. That was all it took for me to be curious and to want to explore more.
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For me (and I would argue, most practitioners of yoga), it’s much more than just the performance of poses; it’s what happens within the pose. It’s the experience of transcendence, empowerment, and discovery that makes the practice of yoga so unique in the world of fitness. You might wonder "how can yoga lead you to transcendence, empowerment, and discovery" – well, there are a few different ways it happens; one of which is when a pose you once thought to be physically impossible all of a sudden becomes possible. It's a moment of pure elation and surprise – empowerment – when you realized that possibility existed within you all along. Couple that with the myriad of physical benefits (strength, flexibility, and balance) it really is a practice that can create for change – in perspective (mental), happiness (emotional), and health (physical).
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No matter if you are a new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, it is not only my mission, but also my passion to act as a guide towards your continual deepening of inner awareness and empowerment. Especially if you are new, I invite you to join me for class to experience the transformation that occurs – a shift from physical aspirations to higher aspirations of living a happier, healthier, empowered life.
Yoga has given me SO much light and life, it's what I hope I can share with others.
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with love & light,
Janice Liou