Jayne holds a Masters of Arts in Dance Education from Columbia University and is an E-RYT-500. She’s been a leader in the field of post-modern dance and yoga for more than 38 years and has been seen flying through the air throughout the country with her aerial dance company, Air Dance Bernasconi. Jayne loves to write as creative expression and inspiration and writes with a collection of yoga and dance friends she’s known for over 29 years. She’s the author of three books on yoga, aerial dance, and aerial yoga. With a love for movement, Jayne cross-pollinated aerial dance and yoga to invent Aerial Yoga in 2002. Aerial Yoga was piloted and introduced at the International Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado.

Jayne is the owner of Yoga On York in Baltimore, MD, where she raised two beautiful daughters, Stacey and Talia, and has been adjunct faculty in the Department of Dance at Towson University since 1999 teaching yoga, aerial and modern dance. She is initiated into Sri Vidya, a living tradition of the Himalayan Masters, and is a Vishoka Meditation teacher with the Himalayan Institute.