We are honored to share the most inspired yoga teachers in Atlanta & Decatur with you!
Each teacher is encouraged to bring their wisdom, unique style, and gifts to the studio. The result is a dynamic array of expert class offerings, each filled with inspired and authentic teaching.
Mandy Roberts
Mandy Roberts is a yoga teacher, studio owner, retreat leader, and mother, guided by a lived devotion to embodiment—listening for what the body is asking for, and learning how to answer honestly.
Her classes are experiences. Warm, rhythmic, sometimes sweaty, always tender. Breath leads. Music carries. Story slips in where words help sensation land. Mandy teaches in a way that invites people back into themselves—into strength that feels grounded, into play that feels sacred, into the quiet relief of being met exactly where they are.
Yoga found Mandy long before she knew what it would ask of her. In the years that followed, life began to unravel in ways she never could have planned for.
Her marriage of 16 years ended. The life she had organized herself around dissolved. As a stay-at-home mother standing inside grief, uncertainty, and profound identity shift, Mandy leaned into her mat to feel what was true. Breath by breath, yoga became a place where heartbreak, unraveling, and becoming could coexist.
Not long after, she was unexpectedly handed stewardship of a struggling yoga studio—what would become the bustling community of FORM yoga. What felt surreal at the time revealed itself as cosmic alignment. Teaching, holding space, building community—this was the work her body and heart already knew how to do.
Through the years that followed—raising children, shaping a business, dating in midlife (gasp!), navigating the collective strain of the pandemic and a very changed world, getting remarried—yoga remained her anchor. During COVID, Mandy chose community over profit and trust over fear, tending a space where people could stay connected when so much felt fractured. That choice reshaped her from the inside out and continues to form the culture and community she leads.
Mandy teaches with vulnerability, playfulness, and deep presence, letting her own lived experience remain visible. She shares openly—her mistakes, her grief, her growth, her joy—believing that truth spoken with care creates permission for others to lean in.
Her certifications and paths of study span decades and disciplines, weaving together yoga, breathwork, nature reverence, animism, ancestral lineage healing, intuitive development, energy work, embodied inquiry and more. These influences live quietly within her teaching as textures that inform how she sequences, speaks, listens, and pauses.
Mandy’s work is rooted in the understanding that healing happens in relationship. Each class and retreat is part of a living tapestry—of embodiment, stories shared, breaths taken together, and a community shaped by care. What unfolds as a result is the quiet relief of deep acceptance and pure belonging.
Ruan De Jager
Ruan grew up in Thabazimbi, South Africa, a small mining town located in the heart of the bushveld. Surrounded by endless mountain ranges, farms, and wild animals, Ruan spent much of his childhood with bare feet playing out in the bush. Upon entering adulthood Ruan worked his way through college earning an International industrial millwright certification. Using this degree, one of his first jobs was repairing earth moving equipment a couple thousand feet underground. After 6 years working in the dangerous mines, Ruan decided it was time to make a change and follow his heart.
In 2004 Ruan took a bold leap and moved to the US leaving his family and everything he ever knew behind.
Yoga was never in Ruan’s awareness until a doctor recommended yoga to help stabilize his core after suffering with some physical discomfort from years of rugby, weight lifting and running. In January of 2012 Ruan took his first yoga class at a Bikram Yoga studio, he truly had no idea what he was getting himself into. Arriving at his first class late, he walked into a fully packed class. Not seeing a spot, he set up his mat in the only space he saw, diagonally, in the far-right corner. The teacher graciously welcomed him to class (after acknowledging his creative mat setup).
After his rocky start, Ruan still returned to Bikram several times a week. After a year of practice Ruan struck up a casual conversation with another student and learned that there were other styles of yoga that offered more variety than just exploring the same 26 postures in every class. Intrigued, he started seeking out other yoga studios around Atlanta.
In early 2019 Ruan began dating FORM yoga studio owner, Mandy Roberts, who has since become his wife. With a shared love of yoga, Mandy introduced Ruan to the concept of yoga as a path of transformation, not just as exercise. A whole new world was opened to explore!
Ruan opened himself to new ways of practicing and viewing yoga. Just as he was exploring this new found understanding, life threw him a curve ball.
In the early morning hours of October 6, 2021 Ruan was involved in a pileup on 75 north. Though he walked away from the car accident, Ruan suffered a tremendous blow to his lumbar spine. The accident crippled his life and brought him down to his knees. Movement, and even stillness, caused significant pain and discomfort. Ruan started exploring tools and treatments to help alleviate the pain. As time passed it started to become clear that his lifestyle and career needed to change if he ever wanted to fully heal from his injury and experience life pain free again.
Ruan is a 2023 graduate of FORM yoga’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training under the guidance of Mandy Roberts. In addition, he became a certified mat Pilates and Reformer Teacher in 2025 under the guidance of Eddy Rioseco. Ruan is curious to learn more about how to heal the body. He is most excited to explore methods of creating core stability as well as functional movement along with the healing power of the breath. His classes blend balance and core strength through slow movement with a focus on safety and precise cues. In 2024 Ruan began working with the Dharma Project, a local non-profit that teaches yoga and mindfulness to underserved populations.
You can also catch Ruan at the front desk, tidying the studio blankets, cracking cheesy jokes, and offering big bear hugs.
Tiffany Morgan
Tiffany Morgan is a recovering spandex-queen who has the photos to prove her love and passion for all things 80’s aerobics (mall hair anyone?!?). Over her almost three-decade career as a working actor and voice-over artist she returned again and again to her yoga practice as a place to develop strength, flexibility, and a supportive community. In 2006, she took her passion for yoga to The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA and earned her first 200-hour Teaching Training Certificate. In addition, she earned certificates for Core Power Yoga, Yoga Kids and over 400 hours of Anusara Yoga Teacher Trainings.
She co-created and co-taught some of Atlanta’s most memorable and fun series (Yoga for the Stiff Guy, Ha-Ha Hot and Thank Ganesh It’s Friday) to name a few.
Tiffany strives to help each student stay curious about the practice of yoga, discover ways to move their bodies to create optimal wellness and vibrant living, and ultimately to guide students to live the full and gorgeous lives we are all meant to be living.
Amanda Burtch
Amanda is passionate to offer therapeutic applications of yoga that address the whole human experience from the physical body to the spiritual self. Her inquisitive nature is a value that is embedded in her practice and in her teachings as she encourages others to discover the uniqueness of their bodies, breath, and spirit for ultimate well-being. Amanda takes immense care to provide a safe, healing yoga experience with guidance to cultivate joy in everyday life. Her teachings promote compassion, contentment, and curiosity in every experience to foster a sense of inner and outer harmony.
In need of guidance and healing, Amanda began practicing yoga in 2012. Through years of self-discovery and big life obstacles, she realized how important the practice was to her well-being and wanted to bring that source of peace to others. She started teaching in 2017 and then enrolled in an integrative healthcare graduate program in 2021. Amanda graduated with a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy in 2023. Curiosity led her to her mat and has guided her to further her education so she could be of greater service to others walking the path of healing. Amanda loves to read, listen to podcasts, spend time in nature, and explore the world through travel and adventure.
Hannah Rose Broom
With over 10 years of teaching, Hannah-Rose's certifications include: 200hr E-RYT Ashtanga-Vinyasa Flow, 95hr Grounded Children’s Yoga, and 90hr Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy. She is a seeker and enthusiastic learner and a dynamic and adaptable instructor with a diverse teaching experience. She has taught yoga in studios, Atlanta and Dekalb public schools, trained college athletes, and led therapeutic yoga & art workshops for teens. Regardless of age, ability, or familiarity with yoga, she has a class for you! Mindful movement matters. consistency.
Hannah-Rose will kindly challenge her students but will always follow their body’s lead. Her goal is to help you build a deeper relationship with your body, experience great range of motion, and consistency. In her classes you’ll will build strength for empowerment; increase mobility for flexibility of mind; take deep breaths for grounding and expansion.
Stephanie Bernstein
With over 25 years of experience in yoga, movement, and healing, Stephanie is a certified ERYT-500 yoga instructor who brings a deep understanding of the body and its potential for transformation. Originally certified by Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga Center in New York City in 2001, her training rooted her in Shambhala Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation. Along with a foundation in the Alexander Technique, she has since pursued a passion for yoga therapeutics and the power of proper alignment to support healing. Stephanie specializes in working individually with students to address specific concerns, including injury, illness and trauma.
A lifelong seeker, she has had the privilege of studying with many master teachers and teaching in diverse locations, including New York, Boulder, Maui, and San Francisco.
While living in the Bay Area, she also ran her company, To-Go Ware, and collaborated with Yoga Journal as both a yoga model and sustainability blogger. Now based in Atlanta, Stephanie balances teaching with the joys of raising three children.
Alexis Rainey
Alexis began dabbling in yoga at a young age, starting with her mom’s “Beginner Yoga” DVDs she’d stumbled upon in their family’s TV console. But it wasn’t until her 20s that yoga made a home in her life in an irreversible way. In her early college years, Alexis was battling bouts of depression and mania, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In many ways, she felt lost in her own mind. Desperate to regain a sense of stability, it was then that she dove into yoga head first. Attending classes at the sweetest hot yoga studio, Five Points Yoga (Athens, GA), often twice a day, yoga truly felt like the only thing that could keep her grounded.
It kept her centered as she navigated not only the insanity that is young adulthood, but the complexities of undiagnosed to diagnosed mental illness and embarking on the long, unforgiving journey toward emotional wellness.
Since then, the depth of Alexis’ practice has had its peaks and valleys. But the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was the catalyst to a new level of commitment to her practice, and it’s been deepening more and more over the course of the last several years. The culmination of those years led to Alexis taking on 200-hour yoga teacher training with Mandy Roberts of FORM {yoga} – she graduated in October of 2023.
As a yoga practitioner, Alexis has learned that, while yoga can be a lot of things, the only thing it should be is exactly what you need it to be. This is what she hopes to offer her students through her teaching. Alexis strives to create a warm, inviting, safe, and not-so-serious environment for yogis of all walks of life to find whatever they may be looking for in their practice. As a human and a yoga teacher, Alexis is a fierce advocate for taking what you need and leaving the rest (both on and off the mat), she encourages self-exploration and curiosity, and is a big believer that yoga is still yoga even if there’s more laughter than there is stoicism. If you like intentionally syncing movement to breath, set to the backdrop of a pretty kick ass and meticulously crafted playlists, gently guided by someone who’s often been described as having “Mama Bear Energy” (oh, and you don’t mind your yoga teacher cursing… potentially a lot?) … then you just might want to check out one of her classes.
Alisa Lewis
When Alisa found yoga, she discovered a spark that quickly lit her up. At the age of forty-two she was astonished that at yoga class, people her own age were busting out backbends and headstands like it was no big deal.
They were moving and flowing with the simple beauty of dancers. But they did not seem to be there just for the cool poses. They seemed to KNOW things.
There seemed to be something beyond the physical rigors of the practice which drew them there.
Alisa wanted to know things too. So, she kept going and practicing. It was a turning point when she discovered that yoga poses are merely a means of understanding yourself and your connection in the universe. Fast-forward eight years and she is still going and practicing and still discovering. In 2020 Alisa put discovery into warp speed and completed a 200-hour alignment-based yoga teacher training course with Mandy Roberts and Shari L Fox at FORM {yoga}.
Alisa comes from years of experience designing interiors for Fortune 500 companies, designing and rolling out retail banking establishments, and various hospitality and workplace venues. As much as art and design are a part of her life, so now is yoga. It is the creativity, personal connection, and fulfillment of offering her unique gifts in teaching that feeds her soul. As an Enneagram 9 (AKA The Peacemaker), she is constantly seeking harmony. This carries over into her teaching style just as it does in her design work. She is receptive to what her students may need and safely and gently guides them. She is known to create balanced classes that integrate heart, mind, body, and breath.
Marck Maroun
Marck has always been both a yogi and a geologist at heart—deeply connected to the Earth and grounded in its energy before every practice. For him, yoga is not just physical discipline but a way of life, a philosophy that sustains his sense of balance and happiness.
Fifteen years ago, Marck began his yogic journey, initially drawn to yoga for its physical benefits. Over time, he discovered the profound connection between mind, body, and breath—a realization that transformed his practice into a holistic path of self-awareness and inner peace.
His continued dedication to the yogic lifestyle shines through his teachings, which weave together meditation, breathwork, and mindful movement. In his classes, students are guided toward a sense of unity, wholeness, and presence—cultivating a deep mind-body connection that is both grounding and expansive.
Marck received his 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in early 2018 in the jungles and the beaches of Costa Rica.
Additionally, he traveled to an ashram in Mysore, India in 2022 to complete his 300 hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training.
Jenn Green
Jenn believes that mindfulness, presence, compassion, laughter, and playfulness are essential to living life more fully. In her classes, you can expect a healthy dose of "fun" core work, a focus on alignment & mobility, cool sound effects, and chances to celebrate and challenge yourself during your practice. She stays inspired and delighted by travel, good food & drink, watching movies, and gathering with loved ones.
Jenn has been teaching yoga since 2013 and has additional certifications and trainings in Thai Yoga Bodywork, meditation, Reiki, Breath Coaching, Ayurveda, and tarot. A recent highlight was traveling to Thailand to study with Master Pichet and his son Aon at the Boonthumme Thai Massage School. She also makes one of a kind handcrafted jewelry.
BECKY SHANKS
Becky Shanks is a super-sensitive human who is passionate about sharing her gifts with the world for the purposes of empowerment, embodiment, and healing. Becky lives in Atlanta with one senior kitty, two growing kittens, and a 30-year old African grey parrot named George. She is a healing artist, student of the stars, and explorer of cosmic consciousness; heavily focused on balancing light and dark, conscious and unconscious, masculine and feminine -- the magical state of mind known as THETA. Becky makes a living facilitating quantum healing sessions, singing crystal alchemy bowls, creating sacred space.
Over 10 years ago, Becky used clinical hypnotherapy to quit smoking cigarettes. Upon returning to full, waking consciousness, she thought to herself, “Hmmm… I could do that!,” and never smoked again. In June 2013, Becky used hypnosis to release binge drinking, recognized she wanted to help people, and decided train in hypnotherapy. Six months later, she began studying hypnosis and regression therapy, then opened her hypnotic healing practice, Presents of Mind. Becky started studying Reiki later that year, and quickly realized the Japanese energy healing practice is completely hypnotic.
In early 2016, Becky began practicing Delores Cannon’s Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, past life regression, theta healing. At the same time, crystal singing alchemy bowls literally started coming to her. Becky could sense the bowls had everything to do with her evolving practice, and also had no clue what that was…. She instantly fell in love with a Celestite singing bowl and began exploring how tone, frequency, sound, vibration, metaphysical properties and intention of crystals; how singing alchemy bowls could effortlessly relax people into deepened, hypnotic states of mind (theta), activate emotion, and liberate stuck energy. Becky has been hosting alchemical sound meditations in, and around Atlanta, ever since.
Becky is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and Sound Alchemist currently studying Bioacoustics and Sound Alchemy with pioneering Ani Williams; Embodied Astrology with Galactic Priestess, Emily Trinkaus; Archetypal and Holotropic Astrology with astrologer Renn Butler; Energy Astrology with Dr. Lea Imsiragic. Becky facilitates a process whereby, in applying inherent, creative potential of mind and energy, humans are empowered to heal themselves; it is her purpose and joy to liberate stinky energy, love shadows into the light, guide humans into the here and now. When Becky isn’t practicing hypnosis, playing crystal bowls, studying starstuff, she is likely singing mantra and contemplating the birth of the Universe. Becky loves animals, travel, trees, all things crystalline, as well as reading 12ish books at one time. She also enjoys live music, singing, dancing, one-on-one time with close friends and beloveds.
Katie May
Although she had taken yoga classes in the past, Katie did not truly discover her passion for yoga until 2014 when her husband suffered a spinal cord injury and they started taking classes together as a part of his recovery. She quickly fell in love with the physical benefits of strength and flexibility that came with the practice. But she soon began to understand and appreciate the deeper mental and emotional benefits yoga offered and this is when her yoga journey truly started.
Eager to learn more and deepen her practice, Katie completed her 200 hour Yoga Teaching Training with Mandy Roberts at FORM Yoga in 2019.
Katie’s approach to teaching is alignment based and precise, with a healthy dose of play and fun. In addition to playing with inversions and arm balances, she loves the moving meditation aspect of vinyasa flow classes and will offer plenty of opportunity to move, breathe and challenge yourself on the mat.
Kate Wright
Kate has been a yoga practitioner on and off since high school, but became more committed in college as she began to connect spiritually with the process and experienced more profound personal growth through consistency. She began her teaching journey in 2018 at REI in Atlanta for the outdoor schools program and completed her RYT-200 training at Asheville Yoga Center in January of 2020. Kate sees yoga as a practice of eternal discovery of self. It's the perfect compliment to every other physical activity or sport, honing sensitivity and proprioception, exercising both discipline and release.
But more meaningfully, it’s a way of living. The philosophy of yoga guides one to their truest form—uncovering one’s intrinsic nature, becoming one’s own healer, which is both empowering and humbling.
Off the mat, Kate is an avid outdoors enthusiast, roller skater, and musical performer. She can’t wait to help you nourish and grow your practice.
Kat Jones
Kat is a yoga teacher, a small business owner, animal lover, and a grandma! Family and community are most important to her and she loves building connection through her work, both on and off the mat. After taking a class at her local YMCA in 2008, she was immediately hooked and quickly found a studio to cultivate her practice. Kat started to spend more and more time in the studio, working at the check in desk, volunteering for events, getting involved in any way she could. About a year in, the owner of the studio asked if she had ever considered YTT, and suggested she sign up the the upcoming training.
The thought of being in front of a class leading a practice terrified her, so it was an easy “no thanks’. After a few conversations she decided to give it a go, knowing there was no pressure to teach.
Fun fact, she was offered a spot on the schedule and started teaching before she even graduated, and hasn’t looked back. She has since assisted with YTT’s, and has been a mentor for students going through the process. Beyond her initial training, Kat has experience and training across a wide range of populations, ages, abilities and settings. Kat has taught Baby and me, Toddler and me classes, she has worked with neurodivergent children, older folks and chair yoga, and just before the world shut down, she was teaching people suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries and Spinal Cord Injuries at the Shepherd Center.
Through the years Kat has continued to learn and grow through yoga. What she loves most is the flow of the practice and the way way it connects her to herself, something she didn’t realize was missing. Kat’s favorite class to teach is a strong, but accessible for all, vinyasa flow, with plenty of time to wind down and settle in for a deep Savasana. Kat is also a Level 2 Reiki practitioner, and loves to work with sound so you may experience some singing bowls, bells and chimes at the end of practice.
Through teaching Kat hopes to build a deeper connection to Self, and community. All in all, Kat always invites you to show up as you are, and enjoy your practice.
Grace Allerdice
Grace Allerdice has been moving her whole life. She grew up dancing, which led her into teaching and facilitating movement for all ages starting in 2007.
After stepping back from pursuing dance full time, she became a Balanced Body certified comprehensive Pilates instructor in 2013 specializing in helping people recover from injuries and experience new strength and possibility in their bodies.
She's completed two 200-hour alignment-based yoga teacher certifications—with Gina Minyard in 2016 and yogahour in 2018. Her invitation is always this: that your body is not an obstacle, but a doorway to your healing, presence and freedom.
In her classes you can expect creative sequencing, thoughtful cues, a dose of laughter and an opening for soul. She will help you work coherently and land in the present moment with power and peace.
In addition to yoga and Pilates, Grace is an erotic healer, death doula, and ceremonialist.
Claudia Utesch
Claudia began practicing yoga in 2017 while studying for her Registered Dietitian exam. What started as a break from the stress of studying quickly became a grounding and transformative part of her life. Yoga supported her through anxiety, self-doubt, and major life transitions—and it’s remained a steady presence ever since.
In 2021, while working in a hospital setting, Claudia deepened her commitment to yoga by earning her RYT-200 through Dancing Dogs Yoga. She’s currently continuing her training with a 300-hour certification through YogaRenew.
Her background in healthcare fuels her passion for empowering students to listen deeply to their bodies and minds as they arrive on their mats. Teaching not only enriches her own practice but also allows her to explore the many ways yoga supports overall well-being. In her classes, students are invited to meet themselves with curiosity, compassion, and the freedom to choose—both on and off the mat.
When Claudia’s not teaching, she’s out walking her two pups, Cleo and Toby, working on her roller skating skills, or discovering a new thrift spot around Atlanta.
Abdias Castro
Abdias Castro is a passionate yoga instructor, creative spirit, and wellness advocate rooted in community and intention. With a background in experiential marketing and social media strategy, Abdias blends mindful movement with storytelling to create yoga experiences that are grounding, liberating, and deeply human.
His classes are known for their soulful playlists, inclusive language, and gentle yet empowering flows. Whether guiding students through a slow flow or an energizing vinyasa, Abdias creates space for self-reflection, joy, and healing—on and off the mat.
Trained in various modalities including vinyasa, yin, hatha, and meditation, Abdias teaches across Atlanta and holds space for people of all identities, bodies, and levels. His work is rooted in equity, authenticity, and the belief that yoga is for everyone.
When he’s not teaching, Abdias works as a creative producer for BET, BET+, and VH1, and leads projects that celebrate Black culture and amplify marginalized voices.
Daryn Jackson
A Nashville native and brand new Atlanta resident, Daryn's path to teaching yoga winds through life as a theater artist, community organizer, facilitator, and injury-prone adventure lover. She began practicing as a high school student and dove into vinyasa in earnest in college. After a decade of steady practice, she earned her 200 hour certification under Johnna Smith through Grow Yoga School in Nashville in 2012. A hip injury that year, which required surgery to repair, prompted her surgeon to say, "Your hips were not designed for yoga, you should try swimming." She decided to open a yoga studio, instead.
It was there, at Unity Yoga Room in Mount Juliet, TN, that Daryn learned how a yoga studio can become a sacred home for connection and growth; where you can bring your most honest self, drop into your practice, and find your way back home in a room full of others doing the same. During those transformative years, she went on to pursue training and certifications in trauma-informed yoga nidra and meditation, adaptive yoga for seniors and injuries, yoga philosophy and neuroscience, restorative yoga, yin yoga, and studied under such notable teachers as Michael Johnson, Bryan Kest, and Gillian St. Clair.
In addition to opening and leading Unity Yoga Room, Daryn has led retreats, built and facilitated dozens of workshops- including a fully accredited 200 hour yoga teacher training, taught yoga and meditation in women’s prisons and elementary schools, emceed Nashville’s annual Music City Yoga Festival, developed wellness initiatives for corporations, and traveled to Kenya to serve, train, and practice with peer instructors at Africa Yoga Center. As a yoga instructor with a parallel life as a writer, theater artist, and comedian, Daryn brings a sense of playfulness and curiosity to her classes. You can expect a steady, safe practice with creative sequencing, carefully curated playlists, time to sit and meditate, and likely a poem or two in her classes. She borrows this mantra from activist and movement strategist, adrienne maree brown: “Trust the small. The small is all. Move at the speed of trust.”
Lisa Wolff
Lisa is a creator, advocate, and dedicated learner. Two beloved friends separately introduced Lisa to yoga at a time when Lisa was a very stressed public defender representing individuals facing the death penalty throughout Georgia. Yoga proved to be a profoundly healing and transformative practice that has helped Lisa live with more integrity, mutuality, and reverence for our interconnectedness. A student first, Lisa is honored to share what they have learned from their many incredible teachers. Lisa's mission in life, and as a teacher, is to move the needle toward collective liberation.
Part of this mission is a strongly held belief that there is no “right” way to do just about anything, including practice yoga. Lisa aspires to create a class environment in which students feel safe to explore and honor whatever their bodies/minds/spirits need each time they show up to practice. Each class is intelligently sequenced with specific intention on breath, making space, and accessibility.
Lisa earned a 200hr certification in Hatha Yoga with Tough Love Yoga in 2020, a 200hr certificate in Integrative Vinyasa Yoga in 2023, a Jivamukti 75hr Spiritual Warrior Certification in 2024, and a 300hr Jivamukti Certification in 2025. Lisa will complete an additional 300hr advanced teacher certification in March 2026! Outside of teaching yoga, they love to dance, paint, knit/crochet, read, play board games, race time with their rubik’s cube, hike, and bike around town. Lisa is true to most stereo-types about a cancer sun/Capricorn moon and is equal parts playful and serious. Above all, Lisa loves to spend time with their family, especially their wife and two dogs: Rico and Professor Fernando.
Maggie Beker
Maggie has been teaching yoga since 2018. After dealing with a literal pain in her ass (glute), Maggie dove deeper into anatomy and proprioception, which helped her learn to engage muscles differently and support her practice better.
Her focus in classes is intentional awareness of the body and its mechanisms. She likes to adapt classes to meet the needs of her students in the room at that moment and often takes requests at the top of class.
Savy Roberts
Savy's relationship with yoga wasn't love at first sight. Growing up, it was "her mom's thing," and naturally she wanted nothing to do with it. It wasn't until her mid-20s, during a high-stress season of life, that she allowed herself permission to return to the mat and found it was exactly the anchor she needed to reconnect with herself. In many ways, yoga is in her blood: her mother, Mandy, owns FORM yoga (yes, a Yoga nepo baby!) and remains Savy's greatest teacher and inspiration.
Savy completed her 200 hr YTT at FORM yoga and remains a student in every aspect of her life. By day, she's in real estate, a career that keeps her on her toes and occasionally tests her patience.
She’ll be the first to admit she doesn’t always get the balance right, but the philosophy Savy brings to her yoga teaching helps her stay grounded when negotiations get intense and life gets loud. Maybe that’s why her classes feel less like a lecture and more like companionship; she’s figuring it out right alongside you.
Outside the studio, Savy is a devoted dog mom (and yes, she absolutely wants to see photos of your dog after class) and likely has a million tabs open planning her next trip.
In her classes, Savy hopes students find room to play, explore, introspect, and sweat leaving with a little more space for themselves than they came in with.
Taliesin (Tally) Boghiu
Taliesin (pronounced Tah-LIE-sin) or Tally, holds his 200-hour certification from FORM yoga under the guidance of Mandy Roberts. While he may be newer to teaching, yoga has been part of his life since childhood. It wasn't until his twenties that he returned to embrace the practice with a more open mind; ready to see yoga not just as something familiar, but as something transformative.
That transformation came, in part, through healing. Taliesin has leaned on his yoga practice to recover from injuries of the mind, body, and spirit, and that experience of restoration now shapes everything he offers as a yoga teacher.
He knows firsthand what it feels like to rebuild trust in your own body, and he wants to help others find that same sense of possibility.
In his classes, Taliesin creates a safe, calm space to explore movement without judgment or pressure. His goal is simple: for students to leave feeling rejuvenated, and to walk out believing in themselves just a little more than when they walked in. Whether you’re recovering from something, working through something, or simply looking to reconnect with your body, Taliesin’s classes offer room to move, breathe, and to grow at your own pace.
Aya Cassaday
Aya's love of movement began at the age of two, when she started recreational ballet. As the oldest of 13 grandchildren, she grew up with a natural sense of responsibility and a desire to set a good example for those around her. Her early years in dance taught her lessons that continue to shape her life and teaching: the value of constancy, the importance of showing up, and the joy of the process of becoming.
At eleven, Aya auditioned for her studio's competitive dance team and didn't make it. Instead, she spent the following season training alongside the team, guided by mentors who helped her discover that nothing worthwhile comes easily. When she made the team the next year, she was awarded the Heart of the Studio scholarship for embodying the values of sportsmanship, kindness, and constancy. These experiences, along with her first teaching opportunities under the guidance of Tia Birdsong, laid the foundation for the teacher she would become.
After moving from her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, to Georgia, Aya found her way back to a consistent movement practice through yoga. During her yoga teacher training with Kim Saunders and the YTT Collective, she discovered a deeper appreciation for the relationship between movement, breath, and presence. She was especially inspired by Jody Struminger, whose teachings on direct language and presence in the classroom continue to influence her approach.
Aya’s teaching journey has come full circle through both dance and yoga. She taught contemporary dance to students ages 6–18 at Hickory Flat Dance Academy, where she is continually reminded of the teachers and mentors who poured into her. After graduating from yoga teacher training in December 2024, she began teaching at Joiful Yoga in Sandy Springs and is over the moon to now be part of the FORM yoga community.
Aya’s intention as a yoga teacher is to meet her students where they are, offering presence, humility, and encouragement. She believes in celebrating the small wins, finding joy in the process, and showing up with constancy. Her hope is to create a practice where students feel supported in their own process of becoming, just as her teachers and mentors have supported her.