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Janina Edwards is a certified yoga teacher (E-RYT-200 Classical Yoga, RYT-300 Kali Natha Yoga, Level 2 Restorative Yoga) based in Georgia. She has taught yoga and meditation since 2012 in a variety of settings including yoga studios, jails, juvenile justice facilities, addiction recovery centers, and domestic violence shelters. She currently teaches yoga with the metropolitan Atlanta YMCA and Tucker Yoga Coop (TYCO). Janina is a kirtan wallah, singing, and playing harmonium, fiddle, and bells.
Janina's writing focuses on memoir and personal essay pieces particularly about= caregiving, yoga, and her experiences in nature. She honed her writing skills in classes at Gotham Writers Workshop, the London Writers Salon, Prose Playground, and through coaching with memoirist Marita Golden. Her work has appeared in The Ethel, Sisters, Nevertheless, She Persisted (Blunder Woman Productions), Paddle Georgia 2022: Chattahoochee Journey Starts Generational Love Affair with Rivers, Happiness Between Tails, National Parks Foundation
website, and NRS Duct Tape Diaries.
As an award-winning audiobook narrator Janina has recorded more than six hundred titles for publishers such as Brilliance Audio, Simon & Schuster, Blackstone, Penguin Random House, and Audible Studios, to name a few. Her narration projects can be found on Audible.com. In 2026, she was inducted into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.
Janina's eclectic background includes managing the Props Department for the Tony Award winning Alliance Theatre, the Southeast's largest regional theatre, for five years. She is also a certified kayak instructor and trip leader. She was a volunteer leader with Outdoor Afro from 2020-2024.
After her experiences as a caregiver Janina became a volunteer community educator and speaker for the Alzheimer's Association (Georgia). She has continued to study brain health and yoga with Love Your Brain, a national nonprofit that empowers people with brain injury and caregivers to feel more resilient, connected, and able to lead fulfilling lives. Also, she is a member of the Threshold Singers/Voices of Love in Georgia that sings acapella at bedside for people transitioning in hospice facilities, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, and private residences.
Originally from Chicago, IL, Janina got her BFA in Acting from New York University. She also has an MFA in Theatre Technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Janina can be contacted at janina@janinaspeaksvolumes.com or Instagram @janinaedwards_writer.