We are honored to share our incredible array of teachers, from many schools of yoga. Each teacher is encouraged to bring their own unique style and personality to the studio and to teach from an authentic place.
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MEET OUR TEACHERS

Mandy Roberts
Owner/Creative Director/Senior Retreat Leader
Mandy’s passion is to bring an expression of liveliness and authenticity to each of her students in studio, on retreat and out in the world. Leaving dogma at the door, she encourages you to face your fears and to go deep into what moves you. Mandy’s classes are a sweet {and often sweaty} celebration of life expressed through asana, music, and storytelling. She loves to embody sacred playfulness on the mat, gently exploring and encouraging ideas and poses to challenge and empower her students.
You will move to the beat of the music and allow the music to deeply move you. You may cry, you will surely laugh. You will make friends, and build community. You will have fun.
Finding yoga in 2004, Mandy had no idea she was embarking on a life-long journey of personal growth. Her divorce just a few years later was the catalyst for a complete dissolution of her former life and the beginning of what is now FORM yoga. At that point life led her into a new career teaching yoga and owning a yoga studio {yep, it really did happen that way}. During the extremely challenging times surrounding her divorce Mandy found that the teachings of yoga were one of the only things that could help her keep her focus on moving forward and choosing life.
A graduate of the 12 month Urban Priestess movement, Mandy is always looking to deepen her connection with the Divine found in all of creation. A lover of all energies psycho-spiritual and subtle she has studied Pranic Healing with Master Stephen Co, Enneagram with Russ Hudson and Intuitive Development with Janet Raftis. In addition Mandy has studied yoga with numerous accomplished national and international teachers from various traditions. More recently Mandy is honored to be a virtual teacher of online videos through Gatheryoga.com. Mandy is twice a Lululemon Athletica ambassador in Atlanta and represented Atlanta at the 2015 Lululemon Ambassador Summit in Whistler. In addition Mandy is a proud presenter in the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Dirty South Yoga Fest, the 2015 and the 2016 Atlanta Women’s Foundation Yogathon, The 2015 Wigwam Health and Wellness Festival, and a co-chair of the first annual Atlanta Yoga Rave.
You can find her leading Yoga Teacher Trainings along with retreats and soul vacations locally and across the globe with her retreat partner Shari L. Fox through FORM yoga’s sister company, Soul Nourish Retreats. When she is at home you can find Mandy hanging out around Decatur with friends or in studio tending to the garden.

Amanda Burtch
In 2012 Amanda was led to yoga out of her curiosity while in the midst of some big life changes. She was experiencing a great deal of anxiety from these changes and heard that yoga was good for reducing stress. After a year of wobbling around in her living room to beginners DVDs and VHS tapes (remember those?), she landed a job for a wellness-based company that led her down a path to learn more about yoga and to connect with teachers and practitioners...
around the globe. As a job perk, Amanda was fortunate to deepen her practice and learn more about yoga in the workplace through yoga classes and “work trips” that consisted of getting to be a participant on a few international yoga retreats. Through these healing experiences, she knew that yoga was the path for her. She began teaching yoga in the summer of 2017 and has continued to learn and grow through yoga, including her current project, becoming a certified Yoga Therapist.
Curiosity is what led Amanda to the practice of yoga and it is what keeps her invested to learn more. It is a value that is embedded in her practice and in her teachings as she encourages her students to discover the uniqueness of their bodies, breath, and spirit. Amanda is deeply passionate about the mindfulness and gratitude practices that the natural world offers. This sentiment is also woven into Amanda’s individual style of teaching. She believes that the practice of yoga on the mat blends strengthening of body, mind, and spirit that aids in standing strong in life off the mat. Amanda is lighthearted, compassionate, and is always trying to bring a smile to everyone around her, including in her classes. In her own time, she loves making playlists, reading, bike rides, neighborhood walks, and all things outdoors.

Misty McClain
Misty found yoga shortly after recovering from an Anterior Cervical Spinal Fusion. After suffering from chronic pain for more than 3 years that left her feeling weak both mentally and physically, she came to yoga for the physical benefits hoping to relieve pain and gain back strength. As her body became healthier and stronger, she soon discovered that her yoga mat was where she found a mind body connection and self-awareness. Inspired to take her practice further...
and share this experience with people of every age, she enrolled in a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training and additionally a 95-hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training as well.

Marck Maroun
Marck has always been a yogi and a geologist at heart. He uses his connection to the Earth to ground down before every practice. Adopting yoga as a way of life, not just the physical practice, is key to his happiness.
Twelve years ago, Marck began his yogic path. His initial gravitation towards yoga was strictly physical wellness. Shortly after, he discovered the bond between mind-body and breath.
Today, his practice consists of meditation coupled with breathing and body flow.
His dedication to the lifestyle of yoga came shortly after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. In a flash, both their lives changed. Using meditation and body flow, he stood by his wife as she recovered from the physical and mental turmoil that comes with treatments, surgery, and diagnosis. Yoga literally saved them both.
Marck’s classes are designed to allow students a sense of unity, wholeness, and a brief yet strong mind-body connection. His meditation coupled with breathing opens the mind and body for a welcoming, challenging, and well-deserved practice. Marck completed his 200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training in early 2018 in the jungles and the beaches of Costa Rica. He has been teaching ever since.

April Black
April found yoga in 2009 at a gym in Washington, DC where she was teaching group fitness classes. What began as "just another physical pursuit to conquer" has turned into a humbling lifelong practice. Yoga led April back to herself during a period of obsessive exercise, anxiety, and self-loathing.
And even though she knew back then that she wanted to share the gift of yoga with others, she also knew she wasn't ready.
In 2017, after years of climbing the corporate ladder, an on-and-off relationship with yoga, and a lot of questions about life, April ended up on a FORM yoga & Soul Nourish Retreat with Mandy Roberts and Shari Fox. She quickly signed up for more retreats and begged them to offer a yoga teacher training (yes, actually begged). April has since quit her corporate job and is one of the first graduates of the 2019 Soul Nourish & FORM yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training program! In addition to her yoga certification April is Usui Reiki Level I & II certified, has studied the Enneagram under Russ Hudson at The Enneagram Institute, and holds a variety of additional fitness certifications.
April’s classes are energetic, playful, thoughtful, and inspiring. She enjoys teaching classes that encourage you to stretch beyond your comfort zone while honoring your body along the way. You can expect to leave judgment and competition at the door, feeling free to be exactly who and where you are in this very moment (in ALL of your messy glory). She promises to not take herself too seriously, to always be a student first & foremost, and to create a safe space for you to show up fully and imperfectly.
When April isn’t at the studio sharing her energy, humor, and heart, she is working as the Happiness Coordinator for Soul Nourish Retreats, nerding out on the Enneagram, and likely on the hunt for dessert.

Rebecca Moulton
Rebecca wandered into her first yoga class in Midtown. What she didn’t know, the studio was just downwind from Krispy Kreme. Coincidentally, the red light came on every morning during savasana, and the room filled with the warm aroma of freshly glazed donuts. She knew it was meant to be.
Fast forward, and her practice led her to the FORM family.

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 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.
When she is not at the studio, Katie loves to read, visit new breweries with her husband and snuggle with her 2 dogs.

Shonali Banerjee
Since 1995 Shonali has found solace, strength & expansion through yoga. Shonali was 500 hour certified in 2002 (right after a bicycle accident!) in NYC with Alan Finger's ISHTA yoga program. After moving to Paris, France in 2004, Shonali did further study in India & Europe focusing on therapeutics & women's health with TKV Desikachar and taught yoga full time.
Shonali relocated to Atlanta in 2010 and completed another 500 hour training with the Pranakriya Yoga school and is now a certified Yoga Therapist. Shonali currently teaches privately and at local yoga studios.
Shonali encourages students to listen, to receive, and to nourish from within. Her classes are particularly safe and grounded in breath and alignment allowing steady & safe exploration of postures. You will flow through and hold within unique sequences that encourage you to drop deeply inside. You’ll strengthen, challenge & expand. You soften, play, and nurture. You’ll honor the seasonal changes and what’s happening culturally, as well as the moon cycles. You’ll encounter chanting, pranayama (breath work), mudras (positions of the hands), visualization, chakras awareness, a wide range of music (Bjork, Al Green, Juana Molina, Krishna Das) paired with mindful silence, sacred poetry, and then Shonali will sing you into a blissfully opening final rest to create an impactful experience each time you practice. Shonali loves teaching restorative yoga and meditation, making the most quiet practices accessible to the busiest of folks. With reverence for the unique process of each individual, Shonali encourages students to make the practice their own. Listen, Receive, and Nourish From Within.

DeKeely Atkins
DeKeely’s yoga practice began when her sister-in-law invited her to come along to a hot yoga class to celebrate a friend’s birthday. Once she stepped foot on her mat, she was hooked! With degrees in health and exercise science and public health, she was always engaged in fitness. But DeKeely knew yoga was different.
She enjoyed all the physical aspects of asana but found the true gift of yoga to be the practice’s invitation to PAUSE and tune in, not only to your body but into your breath and your heart.
Over the past decade, DeKeely’s love of yoga has taken her to studios across the country and abroad and has led her to explore various lineages including Hatha, Vinyasa, Iyengar, Bikram, and Ashtanga. Each experience building upon the other and providing another glimpse into the beauty and depth of the practice. After successfully encouraging many to give yoga a try, she knew it was time for her to share the gift of yoga from the seat of the teacher. DeKeely completed a 100-hour YTT in Costa Rica in 2019 and the Soul Nourish & FORM yoga 200-hour YTT in 2020. These trainings allowed her to deepen her practice and prepare to share the rich tradition of yoga with others.
With that spirit, DeKeely offers fun alignment-based flows that build energy and empower each student to tune in a find their own practice. She challenges her students to confidently take up space on their mats, channel their strength, play, breathe, laugh, and find the joy in their yoga. She believes these are the tenets of the yoga the world needs us to practice both on and off our mats.

Kate Smith
Kate’s classes are thoughtful, balanced, playful, and nurturing. She grew up in Macon, GA, home to Otis Redding, James Brown, Little Richard, and the Allman Brothers Band, and her mom (a genealogy wiz) says she’s distantly related to Johnny Cash. How cool is that? With ‘The Man In Black’ literally in her blood, music plays an important role in the tone of Kate’s classes.

Tra Kirkpatrick
Tra was led to yoga in the spring of 1998 when unexpectedly coming upon an open house at a local yoga studio. The timing could not have been more serendipitous for Tra, who had spent her teen years and much of young adulthood hiding from her pain by numbing out with food and drugs. Unhappy, unhealthy, and unbalanced (and damned near completely unhinged), this time of Divine Discontent, as Tra now calls it, introduced her to the practice of yoga.
That very first yoga class gave Tra a glimpse of something different – a peak into a life that was no longer riddled with pain and suffering. Something shifted. Despite a lack of yoga experience and no language to describe that first experience on the mat, Tra was deeply touched by the practice so kept going back. Yoga offered a place where she could tune in, get clear. Each time she went to the mat Tra connected more deeply to her innate value and worth. Yoga was the path for Tra to begin living with passion and purpose.
Inspired by the healing powers of Yoga ~ not just the stuff that is done on the mat, but the deeper, magical qualities that help one unfold ~ Tra eventually let go of a 15-year career to pursue further education and training in yoga and healing arts. In 2005 Tra became certified as a Kripalu Yoga Teacher, studying under Yoganand Michael Carroll, and began sharing the practice of healing and wholeness that comes from one’s willingness to go within. Since then, Tra has continued learning and growing both personally and professionally, becoming certified as a Yoga Therapist and learning the art of Thai Yoga with internationally acclaimed teacher Saul David Raye.
In addition to seeing private yoga therapy clients, Tra is a yoga educator who provides anatomy, pranayama, and meditation training in various 200 and 300-hour Yoga Alliance yoga teacher training programs throughout the southeast. As a certified life coach with a specialty in behavior change, Tra infuses her teaching with practical applications of yoga to inspire passion, purpose, and joy in her students.
Tra’s other passions of travel and writing have led her to host yoga retreats in amazing locations around the globe and contribute articles to Natural Awakenings, Elephant Journal, and Yoga Therapy Today.

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.

Madison Best
Madison Best is an E-RYT 500 who first started yoga after graduating college when she was feeling a bit lost. After that first class, she knew she would continue with it for the rest of her life. For Madison, yoga was more than just physical exercise. It was a means of empowerment through outward expression and inner awareness. It helped her reconnect to herself through honesty, self-reflection, sometimes struggle, but above all, love.
She dedicated herself to her practice and received her 200 Hour Certification in 2014 with Gina Minyard.
Madison shares her passion for alignment and anatomy in her classes, creating a safe space for connecting with your mind/body/spirit, moving from a place of strength, and pushing past boundaries with a bit of playfulness. She will always be a student first and foremost. She continued her studies with Noah Mazé and Rocky Heron, completing her 500 Hour Certification in 2017. She hopes to help her students find the empowerment within themselves that yoga has provided for her.

Leah Gilbert
Leah discovered yoga in 2003, just before she started medical school, and it quickly became her release. While she was initially attracted to the movement of yoga as a dancer in her younger days, she quickly grew to love the philosophy of yoga as a tool for living well. She found a wonderful studio in Chapel Hill, NC where she could practice Vinyasa, Anusara, Ashtanga, and Power Yoga.
What drew Leah most to FORM {yoga} is the emphasis on making yoga accessible to all practitioners. Although Leah is new to teaching, thus still finding her voice, her goal is for students to have a magical hour of self-care, solace, and nourishment during her classes. Leah infuses into her classes the philosophical elements of yoga, the ability to find stillness, and the meditative power of breath as tools students can take with them outside the studio. When off the mat, you can find her playing with her young toddler, dabbling in photography and jewelry making, and studying something new (her goal is to be a lifelong student).

Gina Minyard
Gina weaves yoga’s wisdom with life’s ever-unfolding process, bringing it alive and experientially embodied through breath, muscle, and bone, creating a rich and magically alchemical experience through her teaching. Dynamic alignment principles, intelligent sequencing, and thematic metaphor infuse her engaging instruction, with a presence that is weighty, compassionate, and inviting.
A “pillar of Grace” in the Atlanta yoga community, she is sought out for her charisma and passion, breadth of knowledge, and mastery of alignment-based methodology. For Gina, yoga is a radical practice to bring our truest Self – its steadiness, freedom, truth, and love – into full manifestation. Practicing and teaching yoga since 1999, she is committed to disciplined work infused with laughter and light-heartedness. Gina is an E-RYT 500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance, an Authorized Teacher of Neelakantha Meditation as taught in Blue Throat Yoga, and leads workshops and trainings in Atlanta and beyond. Visit www.ginaminyard.com for more info.

Heather Freiman
Heather enjoys teaching dynamic alignment-based Hatha yoga classes. She integrates longer holds with flowing movement to challenge, re-energize, and balance the body and mind. She is a versatile instructor with classes designed to be accessible to all levels - students are invited to go deeper with skillful alignment cues, props, and other modifications. She asks students to harness their inner strength and push the edge of what they thought was possible, while staying mindful and compassionate to themselves!
Yoga is transformational: For Heather, it continues to be a guide to self-exploration of innate potential, confidence, and strength. Heather took her first yoga class in 1997, seeking relief from physical stress and she truly fell in love when it also calmed and cleared her busy mind – she’s been hooked ever since! She truly believes that to teach well, you also must do, and she draws inspiration from her teachers and own exploration of the practice.