Jacoby Ballard

Jacoby Ballard is an author, social justice educator, and yoga teacher who leads workshops and trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, and teaches at conferences. He also runs the Resonance mentorship program for certified yoga teachers to find their niche and calling. 

In 2008, Jacoby co-founded Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, to work at the nexus of healing and social justice. Since 2006, Jacoby has taught Queer and Trans Yoga, a space for queer folks to unfurl and cultivate resilience, and received Yoga Journal’s Game Changer Award in 2014 and Good Karma Award in 2016.

Jacoby has taught in schools, hospitals, nonprofit and business offices, a maximum security prison, a recovery center, a cancer center, LGBT centers, gyms, a veteran’s center, and yoga studios.

He lives with his partner, child, and innumerable plant friends on unceded Goshute, Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, now known as Salt Lake City, Utah. His first book, A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation came out in 2021.

See the calendar below to join Jacoby for an upcoming class or workshop: