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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...