About Joan:
Joan Dwyer is the co-creator and owner of All That Matters in Wakefield, RI, New England’s largest non-residential yoga and holistic education center. A student of the healing arts since 1975, she began teaching classes on food and healing in 1982. Joan was coordinator of the East-West Macrobiotic Center in St. Louis and, since opening ATM, has crossed the country lecturing on holistic health. Her enthusiasm for the subject is positively contagious. She co-leads ATM’s “40-Days of Yoga,” a transformative program in which people do the healing work of eating well, meditating, and doing yoga in community.
Joan draws on her decades of holistic education and business experience as strategic consultant, empowering new yoga studios and other clients to succeed. In addition, she shares her expertise on television, in magazine articles, and in workshops on “The Business of Yoga” at Kripalu and elsewhere.
Mother of five “healthy, brilliant, cool children” with husband David Dwyer, Joan is also an active supporter of community life in southern Rhode Island. She has sat on numerous boards – including the South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce and the advisory board for The Thundermidst Health Center – and, through ATM, she supports the local food bank and women’s resource center as well as other non-profit agencies committed to health. She is excited about helping make the world a healthier place, one person and one community at a time. Joan believes that inner peace leads to world peace – and that is all that matter.