teachers – FORM yoga

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.

"I had a wonderful experience! The space is cozy. The teacher’s voice was great, very comforting and a beautiful tone! My body felt great after the recharge and restore class!"

"I came to yoga hoping to learn how to illuminate areas for personal expansion both on and off the mat. Your studio allows me to do that in a myriad of ways and I discover what I need through the thoughtful teachings of your instructors. I’ve become more self aware in my roles of daughter, wife, mother, friend."

"This place is AMAZING. Recommend to anyone. I am a beginner and it’s really challenging me but I am also very comfortable being a newbie. "

Mandy Roberts

FORM Yoga & Soul Nourish Retreats
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.

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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.

Rose Moro

Teacher

Rose believes that she has personally experienced the transformative power of yoga and that it has set her on a fun-filled journey of self-discovery. After 10 years of on and off practice, yoga officially took root in her life in 2013 after she underwent bilateral hip replacement surgeries. While the physical practice helped to rehabilitate her body, she found that it also guided her in finding the emotional, energetic and spiritual balance she was craving.

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She quickly realized that yoga is not just something that you do – it is part of who you are, and that a quiet mind and an open heart serves us both on and off the mat.

Rose’s classes are powerful, playful, alignment-based and intention filled. She encourages students to go deep within and embrace whatever shows up on the mat in each moment. She artfully combines both pranayama (breath work) and meditation into her classes. Rose completed both her 200 RYT and 500 RYT under Sheila McVay of Johns Creek Yoga. She completed her Yin Yoga training with Kathy and Dennis Lang.

Rose is also a Registered Nurse with 30-plus years of cardiac care and pediatric experience. She enjoys blending her medical knowledge of anatomy and physiology with the mindfulness of yoga to create a unique and energetic experience for her students.

Katie May

Teacher

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.

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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

Teacher

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.

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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

Teacher

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.

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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.

April Black

Teacher

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.

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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.

Madison Best

Teacher

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.

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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.

Misty McClain

Teacher

Misty came to 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.

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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.

Misty has a strong interest in the movement arts. Growing up she was a dancer and has been practicing acroyoga for the past two years. She adds a creative and playful quality to her classes.

She feels that yoga, in many ways, changes lives, and believes that her first time on her mat was her beginning to becoming her most authentic self. She wants her students to experience something new each and every time they are on their mat. Whether that is their first downward dog or their first hand balance. She loves when students find something within themselves that empowers them.

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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