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About Dr. Jacqueline
Dr. Jacqueline
Yun.
Founder and lead instructor. E-RYT 200, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, twenty years of personal yoga practice. I help people understand and heal their own body — through movement that respects how the body actually works.
Story I started yoga for a split.
I started yoga for a split.
I stayed because the body makes sense.
I came to yoga at 18 wanting to touch my toes. I left a research career at Nanyang Technological University to teach it. What happened in between is that I started asking the same questions I had asked as a mechanical engineer: why does one body adapt under load while another breaks down doing the exact same thing?
2004First yoga practice
I started yoga at 18 for a very ordinary reason: I wanted a split. Flexibility was the goal, nothing more. What I did not expect was that the longer I practised, the harder I found it to stop asking why.
Why could one person drop into a pose on their first try while another worked at it for months? Why did the same practice clear up one student's pain and leave another's exactly where it was? These are not easy questions, and I had been trained to sit with that kind of discomfort. As a mechanical engineer, that is most of what the work is.
2013PhD, Mechanical Engineering
I completed my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at NTU in 2013 and stayed on as a Research Fellow. The field is about how forces move through structures and why things fail under certain conditions. The first time I applied that lens to a yoga pose, something settled into place: the body responds to load, it compensates, and it has failure modes. Once I understood it that way, every practice became a different kind of problem to read.
The body responds to load, it compensates, and it has failure modes. Once I understood it that way, every practice became a different kind of problem to read.
Then pregnancy changed the frame entirely. After months of reduced practice, I felt cut off from my own body in a way I had never experienced before. My back and shoulders ached constantly. I had numbness in my fingers and joint inflammation that made ordinary things hard. That kind of weakness is difficult to describe until you have lived inside it, and for the first time, I understood from the inside what many of my students had been telling me.
2015Certified yoga teacher · RYT-200
What I found in that period was not a new technique. It was a clearer understanding of what yoga is actually for. Recovery. Strength that rebuilds slowly and then holds. The body learning to work with itself again rather than against itself.
I am still getting older. I still do not enjoy exercise for its own sake. What keeps me practising is how I feel when I step off the mat: less braced, more certain, more at home in a body I once felt I was just managing. That shift did not come from pushing harder.
2023Founded Inner Heal Transformation
I eventually left research to teach full-time. Not because teaching was a calling I could no longer ignore, but because I kept watching yoga reach things that nothing else had: chronic pain that had not shifted in years, posture written off as permanent, the quiet confidence of someone who has finally stopped fighting their own body. I had lived one version of that story myself. I kept seeing it repeat in people I worked with. That was reason enough.
The most significant changes didn't come from pushing harder. They came from learning how to work with the body you have.
2026Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200
If you feel stiff, or weak, or like your body has become something you manage rather than something you inhabit, that is a starting point, not a verdict. You do not need to be flexible to begin. You do not need to be pain-free. The most significant changes I have seen, in myself and in the people I work with, did not come from doing more or pushing harder. They came from learning how to work with the body you have, one practice at a time.
Mission
"To educate and empower people to understand their bodies, so they no longer rely on painkillers or quick fixes — but can heal themselves naturally through awareness and mindful movement."
— Dr. Jacqueline Yun, on why she does this
What I've built so far.
Over the years I have developed and delivered a wide range of workshops, challenges, courses, and live training programmes — each built to help students understand their body and grow a practice that lasts.
Therapeutic & Recovery
Scoliosis care · Post-partum recovery · Back & neck relief · Post-physio continuation
21-Day Guided Challenges
Split · Hip Opening · Shoulder Opening · Beginner Yoga
Specialty Workshops
Split Training · Pigeon Pose · Shoulder Opening · Moon Salutation · Sun Salutation Deep Dive
Strength & Inversions
Headstand · Forearm Stand · Handstand · Core & Balance Training
Ongoing Online Classes
Weekly live classes focused on mobility, flexibility, strength, movement education, and body awareness.