2024 Teachers & Guides
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We were incredibly lucky to have this incredible blend of styles, missions and spirit join us in 2024! We look forward to the joy and light the new year brings.
Alissa Wallace
Red Tent Sisters
Alissa helps women connect deeper to their inner seasons and their moon changing all aspects of their life. Something that has been so demonized becoming something so profound in womens’ healing journeys is amazing to witness. Her journey has been a difficult one but also a beautiful in so many ways and she wants to share her passion to circle with other women, with her Floyd Fam.
Andrew Alwood
Recovery Dharma
Recovery Dharma groups support people who struggle with alcohol, drugs, or unhealthy behaviors. Come explore freedom from unhealthy attachments and addictions.
There is a lot of fun to be had at Floyd Yoga Jam. It’s more fun to be clean and sober while pursuing a spiritual path than to be reactive, agitated, distracted, and/or adrift with compulsive behaviors and substance abuse.
Ann-Marie's Yoga
Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better. Let’s connect, move, Breathe and PLAY! Anne-Marie is an experienced teacher, practitioner, lover, and traveler of yoga AND Space Holder, Smile Giver, Ball Roller who’s been making yoga really fun since 2010! ~ P.S. Beach Life, Pickleball, her Dog, and FYJ are some of her favorite things!
Zen Steady
During a deep meditation Art felt the call to serve. Triggered by a very intense panic attack of fear and paranoia through this deeper dive he received many messages from his Heart and Spirit. Focusing on the good, and sharing love and wisdom became life priorities. Art’s current favorite life quote. “I cannot add more days to my life, but I can add more life to my days.”
Nature's Love and Wisdom
Briyani Shamanism
Brittany has been sharing energy work in the Healing Oasis for the last 3 years and has felt so much connection, love, and fulfillment. This year, she get to expand her connections and offerings sharing her affinity for spirituality, nature, and learning. These passions branch out into her practice as an energetic/intuitive healing facilitator, yoga instructor, and meditation guide.
Best Life Counseling and Consulting
Cassandra began teacher training to deepen her practice. Taking Yoga classes had helped her survive hard times and recover from substance use disorder and anxiety. Now she gets to share with others what she’s learned along the way and hopefully create just a bit of ease through the practice. Together we will open your Hearts, Slow Down and Breathe!
Chitra McDevitt
Chitra Yoga Therapy
Chitra has been teaching yoga since 2003, a C-IAYT since 2014, and has her MSW focusing on trauma recovery. She uses the playful nature of Thai bodywork as a medium to understand our interconnectedness. Every year Floyd YoJam is like a reset for her system. She loves being on the land and feeling it’s healing and reconnecting with FYJ family she sees once a year. The feeling of love, acceptance and community is something she cherishes.
Bill Price & Tara Jeffers
Bhav Brigade
Danielle (she/they) is a co-founder of Bhav Brigade, a donation platform of inclusive, accessible, and philanthropic yoga, based in Norfolk, Virginia. She teaches slow but strengthening yoga for all bodies. Danielle is trained in trauma-informed yoga, Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, myofascial release, yoga nidra, and yin and restorative styles.
Holistic Dante
Dante has been teaching for 10 years and his holistic health coaching is based on his experience in personal training, nutrition coaching, yoga, Qi gong, reiki, sound healing, and meditation. Since 2007, he has focused on teaching people how they can maintain a healthy lifestyle. I love sharing holistic health tools with others so they can take back the power to heal themselves. Yoga, breathwork, and ecstatic dance are potent ways to connect with one’s essence.
Sri Yoga
Darin (Yogeshwar) has invested deeply in the preservation of the immeasurable world legacy of Yoga. He has been leading the practice of worshipping the Divine Mother for 25 years. He seeks to share in its power, directing it towards creating lasting peace on our world home.
Metta Mats
Dharmatherapies
Harrilyn has been a seeker and a teacher her whole life, from a solo trek cross country at the ripe age of 19 to teaching 41 years in a high school classroom. Yoga found her some years ago after some dark nights / years of the soul and the journey continues. After yoga teacher training and enriching certifications in meditation, yin, restorative, yoga for adolescents, and Yoga for All, she has now embarked on what has been a lifelong interest in astrology. Harrilyn sees the multicolored web of a long life beginning to weave together her ongoing interest in esoteric anatomy and the planets, underscoring the wisdom of interconnectedness.
Down Dog Yoga & Wellness
Detra Bennett is a mom of 2 amazing kiddos and the owner of Down Dog Yoga & Wellness in Denver NC. She has been teaching yoga for 9 years and studio owner for almost 5. She has a gift and passion for teaching yoga and mediation. Detra’s style is vinyasa flow with a fun, creative and spicy flare! She loves incorporating Breathwork and meditation to make the practice full.
In Balance Yoga Studio
Devin began practicing yoga as a college student but didn’t get serious about it until 2014 when she committed to making holistic wellness a focus in her life. Devin currently works as the Studio Manager for In Balance Yoga and she teaches public yoga classes several times a week. She teaches Gentle Flow, Yin Deep Stretch, Hot Yoga and Flow + Yin Deep Stretch weekly.
PranaScience Institute LLC
Feel the vibrations of the drums as you connect breath, heartbeat, mind & body to your practice. As featured by The Washington Times, CBS, and Washington’s WTOP news, Brad Ellsworth of Druminyasa® has been playing drums and percussion for over 25 years. Brad is a yoga teacher and founded Druminyasa by connecting his love for rhythm, drums and movement.
I-TAL Acres
Ed has a Master’s from VT in Political Sociology. Maya has Master’s from Northern Arizona University in Health, Nutrition, Food, & Exercise. They established I-TAL Acres Medicinal Herb Farm & Apothecary in 2010 immersed in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the past 14 years, cultivating over 115 species of medicinal plants.
Elisha's Graceful Hands
Elisha Reygle is a Qi Gong Master with over 30 years of practice and play in the realm of Chi and healing arts. Elisha began teaching from her love for this ancient movement wisdom. As her teachers leave the earth, she feel a responsibility not only to keep the internal arts alive, but to help others find the whole life perspective of balance that she has been so generously lucky to have been taught.
Lila Creations, Inc.
Erica teaches yoga because she has experienced the life transforming benefits of Pranayama and Asana since she was a child in Jerusalem. Decades later, through living, teaching and practicing in the states and India, she has developed a unique philosophy of motion that motivates and inspires her everyday to share with others.
eat.YOGA.drink.
Erin Sonn, M.Ed., E-RYT, YACEP, owns eat.YOGA.drink., which offers traditional yoga and mindfulness experiences in nontraditional spaces. Erin makes the practice accessible and fun EVERYbody. Her mindful movement experiences have been featured in various podcasts and publications, including the Wall Street Journal, WTOP, and the Washingtonian. Namaste & Cheers!
Gina Hart-Smith is an ERYT500. AHC, YACEP, student, teacher, minister, dancer, kombucha brewer, and Ayurvedic Health Counselor from West Virginia studied Hatha yoga, Kundalini, Tantra & Ayurveda with Judith Hanson Lasater, Katie Silcox, Lilias Folan, Marni Sclaroff, & Anna Pittman.Welcoming, inclusive, trauma-aware, compassionate, joyful, funny, respectful of practice origins, believing that yoga is for everyone.
Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg have more than four decades of practice, teaching, and experience between them in yogic arts and bhakti bliss, and began collaborating in 2022. Together, they commit their body, mind, heart, breath, and voice in service to the Most High and the majesty of its manifest expressions. In their offerings of yoga, music, meditation, kirtan, and satsang, they invite others into the grounding, elevating, and ever-expanding process of tuning their own divine instruments, and to come together in transformational alchemy, joyful communion, sacred embodiment, and ecstatic celebration.
Grace & Zen Within
Heartfelt Wellbeing LLC
Hannah is a lover of life, learning, and healing. She believes we are all here to fully live into our potential. She also believes in our infinite, innate ability to heal (when given the right conditions). Her dharma (life purpose) is helping women be the healthiest and happiest beings they can be so all those they connect with thrive too. Since 2013, she has dedicated her life to learning and teaching about healing through Ayurveda, Yoga, Mindset, Creativity, and Habit Evolution.
Hannah brings this integrated knowledge to my clients as individuals on a unique healing path. She lives on a beautiful homestead in Floyd, Virginia with her partner David, her two bonus children, a dog, and ducks.
Livewell Physical Therapy and Wellness
Heather is a Physical Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master & Sound Healer. She was introduced to yoga while she was attending college at VCU in 1996 by her meditation instructor as a way to help her focus and sit still for meditation. Heather has been practicing both yoga and meditation ever since. Yoga has had a profound impact on her life.
Astrology for the Revolution
Hummingbird is an astrologer, activist, somatics facilitator and healer. Her work lies at the intersection of culture, bodies, trauma and spirituality. With 15+ years of experience working with both private clients and groups, Hummingbird brings a unique perspective that grounds abstract spirituality into somatic knowing.
Maha Vira Yoga
J Miles has been dancing to the rhythm of life since childhood. His style has been crafted by experience, humor, philosophy, and the importance of breath as a guide. His classes aim to create for each person a fluid and sustainable practice that proves to be beneficial over a lifetime.
Jade Norris & Shannon Lavery
Jade is a 500-hour RYT based in Virginia Beach, known for her intuitive approach and exploratory perspective on yoga. Jade is recognized for her creative transitions, playful energy, and inviting voice. Students who attend her classes receive spirited guidance and leave feeling inspired, empowered, and spacious.
Jagadisha & Sarah McCarthy
Radiant Heart Yoga
Jagadisha is a disciple of of Swami Nadabrahmananda of Rishikesh, India, a master of Nada Yoga, specifically North Indian Classical Music. Nada Yoga uses Raga (melody form) and Tal (rhythmic cycle) to help the mind be steady and the senses quiet. Jagadisha’s music is accompanied by harmonium, tablas, and tanpura.
Jagadisha believes when we teach there are moments when subtle awakening happen spontaneously. This reaffirms that everything is already inside everyone. It inspires him to see people wake up. Sarah is a yoga and mindfulness teacher, Soto Zen student, potter, cyclist. She loves drinking tea in wild places.
Jason Clemons
Jason (he/they) Sober. Stable. Seeker. LGBTQIAA+ 200YTT with the Kunga Yoga School based in Blacksburg, VA. Continue 300YTT Kunga Yoga School. Barkin Hot Vinyasa graduate. Aerial Fly dog Yoga graduate. Yoga Sutra Bhavani Maki His teachings include the non-dogmatic Kunga Yoga School, a vinyasa style informed by Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Barkin Method Hot Vinyasa, Yin, and Kids Yoga.
Jeff Tiebout
Sanctuary of the light
In True Nature
Jenn first found the mat when work called for a nomadic lifestyle yoga became her anchor.She’s had the honor of sharing the practice for over a decade, offering seasonally-aligned experiences. Her and her partner offer body, energy and earthwork from their wellness sanctuary & tended lands in the Blue Ridge.
The Grateful Yoga
Student, Teacher, and Teacher of Teachers. Jesse has been teaching yoga since 2002, and has certified hundreds of teachers around the world since 2012. A dedicated student, earnest practitioner, and masterful guide in yogic learning and living, Jesse offers sincere and heartfelt mindfulness experiences for all-levels on all-levels.
Free Range Yoga VA
Jill Love Phoenix
Jill Phoenix Wellness
Jill first completed a 200 hour teacher training program in 2016, a Level One Kundalini training in 2019, a 500 hour training program in 2020, and became a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach in 2020, working towards a Functional Medicine Coaching certification. Guiding people to health is her dharma!
Joe Klein
Joe Klein, is the creator of a mindfulness-based addiction treatment program called Recovery Dojo. Joe also co-founded Inward Bound Mindfulness which teaches meditation retreats for teens and professionals. He teaches a graduate course on mindfulness meditation for counselors and teachers at Radford University. Joe has been practicing meditation since 2000.
Sahyinidra
Johnny Stowe is a Gaiaist yoga teacher, human ecologist, critical thinker, ecosopher, preserve manager and private landowner whose career has centered on restoring fire-dependent ecosystems with human’s oldest landscape management tool–prescribed fire. He writes and lectures on these things, and they are the center of his Sahyinidra Yoga.
Conscious Coaching
OneTone Sonic Alchemy
Joseph is an Osteopath and teacher of holistic medicine, including the yoga of sound & vibration.
He frequently leads, retreats, workshops, and trainings around the world.
He is also part of OneTone sonic alchemy, and several creative arts projects, including Sonic Universe Now (SUN) and Primordium.
Upward Inertia
Kaelyn has been teaching hand-balancing, partner-acrobatics, acroyoga, gymnastics, and yoga for 11 years. Additionally, Kaelyn is a yoga therapist and the founder of Upward Inertia. She believes that through movement, we have the power to break down self-imposed limits and barriers, introducing ourselves to all that we are capable of.
Love the shit out of yourself
Katherine Chantal & Colleen Redman
Colleen Redman is a Floyd County blogger who contracted and freelanced news stories, features and photographs for The Floyd Press from 2006 – 2021. Her poetry has most recently been published in Artemis Journal and Floyd County Moonshine. She is the author of several books of poetry, available on Amazon, and The Jim and Dan Stories, a memoir, which was used in Radford University classes for counselors that chronicles the grief process after the deaths of two of her brothers.
Katherine Chantal has been navigating her life through relationship and transitions. Being Mother, herbalist, healer, creator of life passage ceremonies and evolutionary workshops for decades, she comes to her elder years as an author of five books. She is a philosopher poet inclusive of depth psychology, spirituality and neuroscience. Her poems have appeared in Artemis Journal and other regional publications and she is the author of several books, available on Amazon, including two poetry collections.
Zen Within Academy
Katie Sutton and Josh Vogt of Zen Within Academy are a husband and wife musical duo from Charlotte, NC who combine meditation with sound and energy healing to support participants in finding their own ZenWithin. They are the founders of Zen Within Academy, a community supporting awakening souls.
Interweave Conscious Movement
Kelly Blevins is a yoga teacher; exercise science grad; and US Air Force veteran living in Abingdon, Virginia. She is a sun-seeking adventurer looking to empower her students to discover their authentic self through movement and meditation. She teaches several weekly group classes at Whitetop Yoga.
Unity Haven LLC
Kelly Hayes is enthusiastic about being a guide and facilitator for others. She believes the truth lies within ourselves and it is up to us to have the courage and curiosity to explore what our truth is and to take action for positive change.
Kelly Little
Green Pure Health
Kelly’s years as a National Board Certified Teacher guides her in curating creative, trauma-informed, and well-balanced experiences that are accessible to all. She will guide you to listen to your body and explore connections to the self and beyond through movement, breath, & stillness… with a little touch of magic.
Kristin Leung Wellness
Kristin is a seasoned yoga instructor, SEL facilitator, and fitness professional with over two decades of expertise in movement and mindfulness. With a diverse array of certifications, Kristin offers a holistic approach to yoga, emphasizing the integration of physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
