Anton Mackey is a soulful, passionate, and experienced Vinyasa Yoga teacher based out of Phoenix, Arizona. With a background in anatomy & physiology and a passion for seeking the truth, Anton skillfully bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual, giving students the freedom to experience the beauty of the ever changing divine feminine grace and the grounded inner masculine strength.

He travels around the globe teaching workshops and teacher trainings, presenting at festivals and leading yoga and meditation retreats.

We are, John & Marissa of Intertwined Yoga & Acro. We are 200 hour Yoga, Acro Revolution and YogaSlackers certified teachers.  We enjoy body movement in the form of yoga, slacklining, handstands & acrobatic yoga (Acro). We integrate each practice with mindful progressions & a focus on technique while maintaining a safe space to practice.

Johnny Stowe got into yoga about 8 years ago as a path toward inner peace. Under Bren Schell, his first yoga mentor, he began recognizing and embracing profound parallels between yoga and his life as an ecosopher, author, lecturer and lover of wildlands. Johnny holds a Director postion on the Board of IAWF, is a Certified Wildlife Biologist, SC Registered Forester and Wildland Firelighter specializing in human ecology and restoration of endangered species in longleaf pine savannas and other imperiled ecosystems using human’s oldest tool — prescribed fire. Amsa has been his “home” studio for many years. Many of the pan-disciplinary ideas he shares in his yoga and meditation classes — here in the Southland, in the Canadian Rockies and on the West Coast — sprang into his mind while lying on his mat at Amsa, under the soothing influence of Kimberley Puryear. His sahyinidra yoga involves guided imagery centered on deep-time eco-cycling through sacred landscapes.

Teaching was Tara’s dharma long before she realized it. She grew up with a bow and arrow in her hands, learning to pull back with just enough aim and control to send her arrow into the abyss, knowing and trusting it would hit its intended mark. And so she enters each class, each workshop, each lesson.. Having prepared her body and mind to become that bow – that vessel – that let’s her lesson…letting that arrow fly… Weaving its way into the provided space and landing wherever it is intended.

When you practice with Tara, you get more than a teacher on the mat; you gain guidance for your daily life. Inside the studio, no two classes or workshops are ever the same. Students are not told what to do, they are empowered to listen to their own bodies. Tara recently moved to Asheville from Richmond, VA, and is ERYT200, ERYT500, RCYT, YACEP, self-published author, and a Certified Coach and Mentor.

Narayani (Noelle Whittington): ERYT500, YACEP, is a Spiritual Life Coach, Yoga teacher trainer, Bhakti Yogi, and musician offering service-based Kunga Yoga Lifestyle Teacher Trainings, and mentoring for Yoga studios since 2006. Narayani is the creator of Soul Alchemy Course: an online Group coaching course and community helping people find their Soul’s true expression. Narayani’s offerings are a deeply meaningful and creative combination of breath, dynamic movement,Yogic philosophy, Mantra, Meditation, and Devotion. A former ambassador for Lululemon and Manduka, Narayani’s mission is to help others find freedom in their bodies and voices through creative expression in order to serve in their own way. 

Allé K (they/ he) is a queer, fat, trans masc activist, educator and certified Yoga Instructor. He provides LGBTQIA+ inclusive, trauma-informed, fat positive yoga classes online. Allé is a spaceholder, a connector and a disruptor. 

Allé’s classes center people who are usually left out of the traditional yoga spaces like queer, trans, fat and neurodivergent folks. They’ve been teaching yoga for nearly four years and a weekly Queer/ Trans/ Gender Expansive Yoga class for almost 2 years. 

Allé has also educated over 300 cis-het yoga teachers on Teaching Trans Affirming Yoga through about 16 virtual trainings thus far. Allé is proud to be queer, trans, fat and visible. They advocate for self love, self-acceptance and self-care daily for our lgbtqia+ community through their Instagram @transyogateacher. 

Lastly, Allé believe in wealth redistribution; they offer free spots in every class, with priority given to QTBIPOC and many of his events are sliding scale.

Allé completed their 200-Hour Yoga Teacher in 2017 and his 500-Hour YTT in 2019 with Sri Dharma Mittra at the Dharma Yoga Center of New York City. He’s since completed trainings on Race & Equity in Yoga with Kelley Palmer, on cultural appropriation with Jesal Parikh and Tejal Patel of the Yoga is Dead Podcast and is currently enrolled in a 75-hour Training with Michelle Cassandra Johnson on Dismantling Racism in yoga.

Licensed clinical psychologist since 1999
Hatha yoga teacher since 2014
Practicing human across a lifetime…

Bio

Our birthright is bliss and pure love.  I have a passion for holistic wellness, in helping others become the highest version of themselves and creating a deep-seated balance within the body, mind, and spirit.  May all our thoughts, words, and actions come from a place of love and compassion.

Awitching up her vibe and adding her new music to her yoga classes, more coming soon.

Jack is the proprietor of Tea & Jam in Blacksburg, Va, a tea-inspired healthy adventure of a restaurant where food is medicine and good vibes fill the air.    The tea house serves a plant-based food menu, smoothies, fresh cold-pressed juices, and of course high quality tea.   

He is an avid ambassador of cacao and facilitates Cacao Ceremonies at Tea & Jam and it’s neighbor In Balance Yoga Studio.  He is also a practitioner of Shamanic Energy Medicine and incorporates reflexology, breathwork, sound and movement into his sessions.  He will be presenting a program on the speaker stage on the benefits of cacao and how it is used in Ceremony.

Stop by and see Jack “Chill Land,” embark on a sacred cacao ceremonial journey, and bask in the sweet bliss of plant-based vegan treats. Jack is also available for Shamanic healing sessions.

Enjoy BEing …

Kendall and Monica opened The Elements Hot Yoga & Wellness in Charlottesville, VA. in 2016 and together they have accumulated over 10,000 hours of multi-level classes, workshops, and teacher trainings. They have extensive training and experience in physical yoga, meditation, and Reiki.

Their classes are sprinkled with wisdom teachings, raw life expression, and humor that reflect their life journey and passion for teaching.

David Newman’s greatest gift is his willingness to listen to his inner voice and open his heart to be of service to others. David guides and inspires fellow travelers on their paths, through his uplifting music and the valuable insights that he shares through his writings and teachings.

David’s life took a dramatic change in direction when after graduating law school in 1992, he decided to open a yoga center in his hometown of Philadelphia. The center, Yoga on Main, was one of the first of its kind, and created a new awareness of Yoga in his community. Shortly thereafter, David, a lifelong musician, discovered an ancient form of healing chant music known as kirtan and began to apply his musical gifts to this powerful practice and to share it with others.

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Marni Sclaroff is an author, life coach, inspired storyteller, and yoga and meditation teacher, with over twenty five years of experience in the healing arts. She leads workshops, retreats, online courses, mentoring programs, and teacher trainings in support of radiant health and vibrantly creative living.  She is a devotee of earth based spirituality, and a forever student of the mystery.

 Leia is an artist, dancer and yoga teacher. She has her 200 hr in Hatha Yoga from the Breathing Space and a 300hr certification in Therapeutic yoga from the Wilmington Yoga Center; as well as a degree in Dance and Choreography from Hollins University. Her movement practice is inspired by observing our deep connection to all things on a fundamental level. Her unique soulful teaching approach combines an emphasis on breath, heart alignment and intention. Leia hopes to inspire more joy, freedom and peace through the healing practices of yoga, dance, song and meditation.  

Grace Wood walked with Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village during 3 workshops  over a 20 year timeframe.  Personal practice is recommended for highest benefits.  Have used mindful walking in workshops many years.  Offer guidance in walking monthly at Unity of Roanoke Valley.  Enhance your inner journey—and a feeder for the outer journey.  Practice is only requirement for maximum benefit.

Jagadisha  had the good fortune of spending time with the great meditation master, Swami Muktananda who started him on the path of yoga and meditation. From meeting him he was led to the great master  of North Indian Classical Music  Swami  Nadabrahmananda  ,whom he studied  extensively  with in the U.S and India.

Jagadisha has been carrying on his master’s tradition of Nada Yoga , the yoga of sound  for more than 35 years: practicing, giving concerts, and teaching.  Swamiji  taught from a lineage in the oral tradition that goes back  thousands of years.  The songs Swamiji passed  down have many influences. Many  are from traditional Sanskrit texts, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, and old Hindi (influenced by Islamic music).

Nada Yoga uses Raga (melody form) and Tal (rhythmic cycle) to help the mind be steady and the senses quiet.  It is listening to the inner sounds that brings us back to the source.

Katherine Chantal is walking into her elder years with wonder and curiosity.  Some of her time has been spent as an herbalist, spiritual guide, priestess and life ceremonialist; offering ways and means to experience life’s sacred passages.

As a passionate writer, a philosopher after a fashion, she spends her time playing with all the above, as well as, exploring and navigating the days yet remaining.

Yoga is for everyone and every class should be a safe place to practice without fear of judgement, believes Rebecca Elsen. This “Space Holder” owns pranapiloga in Culpeper, Virginia, a studio that offers a wide variety of classes. I focus on commUNITY and encourage students to create and hold space in their yoga journey. Rebecca has taught over 30 years and opened Pranapiloga in 2015. She was named the Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year; and Best Yoga Instructor and Best Yoga Studio for the Culpeper Times “Best of the Best.” Rebecca is tree hugger nature lover. ERYT500, YACEP

Jennifer Turman Bayliss, E-RYT 500, RCYT, RPYT, YACEP, has practiced yoga for over 25 years. She has presented at The Floyd Yoga Jam, the Radiant Child Teacher Training and for many health fairs. Jennifer has created space for wellness circles, Reiki shares, vision board parties and energy camps for children, and adults, of all levels, and abilities. 

Turman Bayliss is the director of the Sunshine Studio and the Winchester Montessori School’s Young Yogi program. She is part of the faculty at Vostrikovs Academy of Ballet and adjunct faculty for Shenandoah University. Her style of gentle yoga encourages students to remember the special light within.

Lucas’ passion is to connect people with their breath and enjoy a more embodied way of life. As an event organizer, he loves bringing people together to share yoga, breathwork, dance, music, and meditation.

Martha believes your future is brighter than your past and in this luminous vibration there is breadth and depth of heart for true healing. She rediscovered the lost vehicle of innate breath as a way to return to wholeness in 2009. Through steady yoga sadhana, Restorative Breathwork® and training with master teachers she gradually let go of debilitating chronic pain, anxiety, and 18 years of overuse of prescription stimulants for the treatment of Narcolepsy. Through meditative breathwork and conscious inquiry she met the song of truth that flows in the river of self acceptance and love within. She now leads private and group breathwork experiences sharing a most gentle yet transformative approach to healing through conscious breathing.  In addition to passionately providing Insight breathwork sessions Martha is currently leading Rejuvenate You, a collective of practical visionaries focused on aligning to thrive through rhythmic living based in habit science, yoga, and Ayurveda. Learn more about her unique group coaching opportunity here: https://www.insightbreathwork.com/vision-rejuvination

Erin Sonn, M.Ed., ERYT, owns eat.YOGA.drink.®, offering yoga and mindfulness experiences in nontraditional spaces. She loves teaching yin yoga as a complement to a typical, frenetic yang lifestyle, and as a way to settle into the natural loving presence of your whole body. Love the skin you’re YIN!

Jessica has been teaching Buti Yoga for over four years and has a knack for getting people to come out of their shells. You won’t be holding poses or counting your breaths. Her dynamic movement instruction and creative music choices allow for crescendos and valleys in which you are able to release what you need to and also replenish.

J Miles is yoga teacher who has been dancing to the rhythm of life since childhood. Yogi, martial artist, body worker, retired breakdancer, community activist, and the son of a Baptist minister, J Miles been learning and studying eastern arts and philosophy for nearly two decades. But movement, creativity and exploration of the self through movement has always been a constant source of curiosity and confidence. Over the years J has crafted a style tempered by real life and humor, and relies on the importance of breath as a guide and a source of strength. His classes aim to create for each person a fluid, sustainable and enjoyable practice, that hopefully will prove to be beneficial over a lifetime. And even as this ancient practice continues to evolve, the mantra continues to be “practice is effort toward steadiness of mind”.

Amah Devi is a Bhakti yoga teacher from Asheville, NC known for her frank and
authentic approach to eastern philosophy. From teaching mantra-infused hatha-yoga classes, harmonium and mantra workshops, to leading spirited Kirtans in yoga studios & on festival stages, she has been all over the world sharing the power of mantra as medicine since 2011.

Katie Wells guides movement experiences for authentic expression, embodied love, unknotting the psyche, and collective unity. Katie Wells MFA is a dance artist, embodiment facilitator, professor, and founder of Interweave Conscious Movement®. She offers seven unique courses, and seasonal Goddess Retreats to move more love through the people. www.Interweave.Love

Darin Somma (Yogeshwar) has been teaching meditation and yoga for two decades in the Nation’s Capitol of Washington D.C.  He is a certified yoga therapist by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and is an advisor on the board of Taksha University’s Institue of Yoga Therapy and Meditation (IYTM).  He is also a yoga therapist and member of the teaching faculty for Vedic Health, Inc., based out of Rockville, MD.

I began practicing yoga as a way to make peace with my body after childbirth. My practice evolved and is still evolving into a daily way of living and being in the World. I strive for my spiritual life and my Earthly life to be one. I was trained as both a yoga teacher and an astrologer through The Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago, and I am humbly grateful for the teachings of Goswami Kriyananda, Shelly Trimmer, and other teachers in the lineage. My personal growth through astrology comes from study through the Temple, as well as work with Mary Whitney, George Tripodi and continued self-study.

I founded and was the owner of Uttara Yoga Studio in Roanoke, Virginia from 2008 to 2021. That thriving yoga community helped me to branch out from yoga into more esoteric studies and teachings including meditation and mindfulness; restorative breathwork; astrology; and herbalism. I am Adjunct Faculty at Roanoke College teaching yoga. I have been the area coordinator for Seven Springs Farm, a local organic cooperative farm, since 2002. I am a certified Barratt Breathwork Restorative Breathwork Facilitator in both individual and group work. I’m a graduate of Asia Suler’s Intuitive Plant Medicine Course. And I have a podcast with a friend, Moon Sister Sessions, a modern twist on astrology and the spiritual search. I am currently enrolled in the Seminary at the Temple of Kriya Yoga and am working to become an ordained yoga priest in the Kriya lineage.

My own 200 hour yoga teacher training at The Breathing Project, in NYC, in 2008, followed mentorship years with Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga in the 90’s, when I also practiced sitting meditation and week-long meditation retreats at Chung Yen Monastery, Carmel, NY.  In addition to working 4 years as rehab assistant for in-hospital and outpatient physical therapy, 4 years as ICU nursing assistant, I studied a 2 year Respiratory Therapy program and 1 year EMT certification.

As a teenager studying Buddhist philosophy, Sri Chinmoy, a living spiritual saint, taught me meditation. I continue to learn a better understanding of body and mind through movement and mindfulness.

Owner of Yoga Energy Therapy & Peaceful Powerful Living

Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher (CLYT), E-RYT 500

Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)

Holistic Health & Life Coach

Lindsey owns and manages Global Breath Studio, in Durham, NC, together with Bart Westdorp.
Her practice and motivation in sharing yoga is rooted in making these powerful practices
accessible to all. Her teaching style is inviting to beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. As
a teacher and practitioner, she focuses on awareness of the breath, gives reminders to stay in
the present moment, and encourages students to challenge themselves from a place of curiosity
and compassion. She believes that nurturing the mind-body connection is one of yoga’s
greatest gifts and is enthusiastic about sharing the many tools that yoga has to offer. Her
intention for her students as they practice and learn is to stay centered in their wholeness and
happiness, and to emanate that out, everywhere they go, making the world a better place.
Lindsey began practicing yoga in 2005. After playing basketball and competing through sports
growing up, she was excited to find something that challenged her not only physically and
mentally, but also spiritually and emotionally. Over the years she explored and practiced many
different styles of yoga and studied Buddhism and Vipassana Meditation. Almost 10 years later,
she felt the calling to go deeper with her practice and enter into a teacher training.
In March of 2016 she completed Yoga District’s 200 Hour Teacher Training Program in
Washington, DC. In September of 2019 she completed 500 Hour Life of a Yogi Teacher Training
with Sri Dharma Mittra in New York. She continues to learn and grow through yoga and
meditation, and strives to apply their principles in all areas of her life.

Salicrow is a published author and presenter.  She is a Witch, Druid, and natural psychic medium who weaves the traditions of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical techniques. With over 30 years of professional experience in the psychic arts as a spirit channel and seer, she offers readings for individual groups and teaches workshops throughout the United States and Internationally. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

I have been practicing yoga for nearly 2 decades, and have approximately 4 years cumulative teaching experience. I taught meditation and yoga at Asheville Community Yoga for about a year. I taught private clients while traveling in 2017.  I have been teaching at festivals for about 2 years, and have been doing Youtube Yoga Videos for almost a year now.  

I often teach a dynamic flow of yoga linking the breath and movement. I have taught Shakti Flow Yoga, as a fun fluid dance inspired type of yoga with lots of juicy circular movements.  I can also teach other types of yoga if there is a need for a substitute teacher. I also teach meditation and enjoy connecting breath with the body and the elements.  

Jameson comes from a long line of pastors. Growing up as the preachers only son, he was presented with a responsibility of continuing the family tradition. Dropping out of bible college after just a year, his relationship with faith became a rollercoaster of choices.
Having found a “reconciled” pathway towards healing, the goal is to help others find peace within their process as well.

The Color Project TM presents a kinetic art experience of projective, refractive, reflective and absorptive light. We offer a fun approach to exploring color — printing colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) and TV colors (red, green and blue). Our public art installations allow participants to explore a surprising and compelling environment, and what they find may be unexpected and delightful.

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River and Julia McDowell

Embrace your child-like learning nature and come play! See how movement and flow can increase your mental and physical stamina as well as happiness and attitude towards life. The Flow Zone is an interactive free-form play ground where you can try out a flow-prop like a Hoop, Staff, or Poi without time restraints, pressure or obligation. We can also offer on-the-spot free-form beginner instruction that is fun, exciting, and informative because it’s customized to you. So let go of your hesitation and come enjoy how good it can feel to dance and play in the Flow Zone.