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JACQUI BURNETT IS AN ADVENTURER – both in
journeys of the Spirit and in the world of financial
strategy. Raised in South Africa, she is qualified in
business studies, which has enabled her to help
numerous businesses achieve their strategic and
financial goals.
However, Jacqui has always pursued a parallel
interest in
spirituality, which has guided her into her writing
career.
Jacqui wrote her memoir, Life’s Not Yoga, in a quest
to make spiritual sense of the traumatic life events
she has experienced. Inspired by her discoveries on
her life journey, Jacqui created the Dare to Be Love
platform, which quickly attracted an audience of over
43,000 followers also seeking answers on how to
deal with life’s challenges and trauma. The Dare to
Be Love platform is a space for readers to share and
learn how this connection is made through Love.
Here, she also shares her inspirational thoughts,
poetry and personal life stories told through the lens
of her unique Dare to Be Love self-enquiry practices.
As an impassioned student of life, Jacqui continues
to practise and promote living a Spirit-led life of
courage, kindness, compassion and Love.
Jacqui has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from
the
University of South Africa in Industrial Psychology
and
Economics, and a MBA from the University of
Witwatersrand, including a semester abroad at
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus.
Jacqui is also a certified Integral Coach through New
Ventures West, and trained as a yoga teacher with
Yoga Tree, acquiring both these certifications in San
Francisco, California.
This memoir, Life’s Not Yoga, is Jacqui’s first
published
book.

“What I found amazing about Life’s Not Yoga, is that
many people write a memoir and tend to sugarcoat
their role in the story, while painting other people
with a bit of a tar brush. Jacqui Burnett does not do
this and is open and honest about the times in her
life when she does not come across looking so
great.” – Janice Leibowitz – 101.9 ChaiFM

“Life’s Not Yoga bounces between stream-of-
consciousness and the exasperation of ‘moving-on’

and honest to goodness declarations of frustration at
her own life choices. Burnett opens to her readers in
the most admirable and courageous of ways, and I
would be remiss as an empathetic reader if I did not
acknowledge how difficult that must have been.

Jacqui Burnett is a superb storyteller. Her life has
not been easy, and it is an honor to read the prose
of an incessantly curious and deeply courageous
human being who seems to have made a lot of
sacrifices to pursue her dreams. – Meg Orton,For
the Love of MEGBook Reviews
“Equal to the power of Jacqui’s circumstances is the
power of her voice (her written word). It is one of the
most commanding voices of any memoir I have
read, filled with clever observations that ring true.
Thank you, Jacqui Burnett, for being so courageous
to share and thus providing ‘an educational tool for
readers also wanting to live a life of joy’. – Natalie
Wittwen, Stillness in Motion

“It’s Jacqui’s engagingly frank voice and fierce self-
enquiry that drives this fast-paced gripping tale

through all its spirited twists and turns.” – Nina
Geraghty, Writer and Developmental Editor
“On one level, this is a tale of looking for love in all
the wrong places, but on a deeper level, it’s a story
of how adversity, viewed through the lens of insight
and wisdom, leads to hope and redemption. The
miracle is that she comes out the other side alive –
and willing to use her life story to inspire others to
survive and flourish.”- Giles Griffin, Writer and
Writing Guide