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Joelle Danant

Credit Continuing Education Instructor; SCPS Lecturer

Department
Continuing & Professional Studies
School
Continuing & Professional Studies
Email
jdanant@pratt.edu
Phone
718.636.3712
Websites
www.joelledanant.com
Link to Joelle Danant's music album "Sacred Union"
Joelle Danant's Music Video "Creative Expression: Flow Through Presence"
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers

Educator, Minister, Singer/Musician, Writer, Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher (Chopra Wellness Center), Certified Music Improvisation Teacher (Music for People), Certified Integral Yoga Teacher, Level 1, 200 Hours (Integral Yoga Institute).
Recipient, Pratt Faculty Development Fund Award, Pratt Institute, 2016.
CD “Sacred Union” released in 2017.
Recipient, Music Ambassador Award, Music for People, 2013.
Developed and teach 1) the first 2 sections of the All Institute Elective, 1-credit “Yoga of Meditation course” — meditation for wellness, creativity and sustainability — since 2013; and 2) the All-Institute Elective, 1-credit “Intermediate Meditation” course for the Integrative Mind and Body Program (since Spring 2021), Pratt SCPS (School of Continuing and Professional Studies).

Developed course for faculty professional development through Pratt’s Center for Teaching & Learning on Integrating Mindfulness into the Curriculum for Concentration & Resilience (Fall 2020). Program Director-Credit Concentration, Pratt SCPS.
Leads Meditation, Soundbaths and Chanting events for wholeness, including for Pratt Earth Action Week, Wellness Day, and Family Day.
Studying and living with art since childhood, mostly under the guidance and inspiration of visual artist Mother.

Master’s Degree in International Administration (Program in Inter-Cultural Management), School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT.
License Degree (Bachelors Equivalent) in Foreign Languages (English and German) Applied to International Business, Universite de Paris XII, Paris, France.
Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher, Chopra Wellness Center, Carlsbad, CA.
Certified Integral Yoga Teacher, level 1 (200 Hours), Integral Yoga Institute, New York, NY.
Certified Instructor in Music Improvisation, Music for People, Goshen, CT.
Ordained Interfaith Minister, One Spirit Seminary, New York, NY.