2025 Teachers & Guides
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We are deeply grateful to welcome such a vibrant mix of styles, missions, and energy to Floyd Yoga Jam! As we breath through 2025, we eagerly anticipate the joy, inspiration, and meaningful connections this year will bring. Together, we create a diverse space of growth, creativity, and community—celebrating the magic that makes FYJ so special.
Anannt oorja safar
Aarvika & Ayush combine Reiki-energized yoga to harmonize the 7 chakras and align the 5 elements through asanas and Reiki-infused techniques. This unique practice promotes deep emotional and physical healing, restoring balance and vitality in daily life.
500 YTT, Reiki Healing Master
Alissa Wallace
Red Tent Sisters
Alissa’s life was transformed two years ago at Floyd Yoga Jam. Since then, she has started a homestead, apothecary, and glamping retreat in South Carolina. Her journey has been both challenging and deeply beautiful, and she’s now called to share the wisdom she’s gained with her beloved Floyd Fam.
Red Tent Facilitator, Traditional Naturopathy Herbalist, Authentic Touch Certificate (Essential oils)
Andrew Alwood & Beth Feagan
Recovery Dharma
Recovery Dharma groups support people who struggle with alcohol, drugs, or unhealthy behaviors. Come explore freedom from unhealthy attachments and addictions.
Andrew has been leading Recovery Dharma meetings in Charlottesville for a few years, and at FYJ for the last two years. He teaches philosophy courses at U of Richmond. Beth teaches yoga and writing at Berea College, KY. She found a new purpose in Recovery Dharma at FYJ last year.
Yin Certified
Anjana Yoga
Anjana Yoga’s transformative approach guides students on a journey of physical healing and spiritual awakening. With reverence for the ancient practice and a passion for sharing its wisdom, Anjana Yoga radiates the joy of mindful movement. Yoga is a graceful dance, tailored to the unique needs and abilities for all.
Yoga Trapeze Yoga for Back Pain
Ann-Marie's Yoga
Native North Carolinian, dedicated dog mom, & passionate yoga practitioner with dual certifications, Ann-Marie’s heart belongs to the beach, mountains, and the joy of travel. An eternal student and a devoted advocate for women, she has created sacred spaces and facilitated healing. She is a guide on the journey of wellness, and finds herself perpetually grateful.
RYT 200, RYT 300
iRest Yoga Nidra 40 H Certificate
Brielle Brasil
Brielle Brasil Coaching
Brielle has worked with hundreds of women, through international retreats, in-person events and more. Most of her time spent in her business the past 6 years has been helping humans be better FEELERS, resolve past trauma and feel worthy, expressive and confident in expressing their true selves through breathwork.
Pause Breathwork-Trauma-Informed Breathwork Certification, Life Coaching Certification, Level 1 Trauma Resolution Training
Coach Cody Willets LLC
Cody is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and yogi who integrates primal play, the vibrancy of performing arts, breathwork, and fluid movement to help clients unlock deeper self-connection, transformation, and authentic power.
E-RYT-200, MS – Biological Sciences, MA – Directing Theatrical Productions, NBC-HWC (National Board Health and Wellness Coaching), CLC – Certified Life Coach Educator Licensure (2)
Bill Price & Tara Jeffers
Bill: with 50+ years of experiencing/teaching various flavors of yoga, now emphasizes somatic movement modalities and nondual Śaivic Trantrik maditation practices informed by modern scientific research and yoga sanskrit scholarship. Tara: practicing yoga over 20 years, creates acclaimed live soundscapes for many and diverse yoga classes and workshops
Bill: PhD, ERYT500, YACEP. Recently studied with: Christopher Wallis, Ācārya Sthaneshwar Timalsina,Ben Williams, James Mallinson: Tara: Registered Respiratory Therapy, BS – Music/Therapy
Rising Rose Yoga
Crista Rose is a yoga and meditation teacher, Reiki practitioner, and educator who blends breath, movement, and presence to inspire healing, curiosity, and connection—both on and off the mat. With a background in psychology and a heart rooted in service, she guides others toward rhythm, self-trust, and joy through the sacred practices of yoga, mindfulness, and community care.
E-RYT 200-hour, 100-hour art of teaching (Indonesia), 50-hour yoga for parkinson’s, 1000+ teaching hours, 115+ hours of CEUs
Bhav Brigade
Danielle Stern (she/they) is a co-founder of Bhav Brigade, a mutual aid group of inclusive, donation-based yoga, in Norfolk, Virginia. She teaches slow but strengthening yoga for all bodies. Danielle is trained in trauma-informed yoga, Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, myofascial release, yoga nidra, and yin and restorative styles.
ERYT 200, RYT 500
Ph. D. in Media Studies, Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies
In Balance Yoga Studio
Devin began practicing yoga as a college student but didn’t get serious about it until 2014 when she committed to making holistic wellness a focus in her life. Devin currently works as the Studio Manager for In Balance Yoga and she teaches public yoga classes several times a week. She is known for her playlists and how they connect music with the movement of yoga. She delights in interacting with each student during my class, whether that’s through conversation, or a thoughtful assist during practice.
200 Hour YT, Aerial YTT, 300 Hour Barkan Method of Hot Yoga Yin Yoga: The Functional Approach, Kunga 300 Hour Yoga & Lifestyle YTT
The Executive Shaman
Dr. Krystal White is a board-certified psychologist and leadership expert with 25+ years’ experience in change leadership, team performance, and community building. A 5-time published author and nonprofit founder, she integrates psychology, spirituality, and education to foster relational resilience, civic engagement, and conscious communities. She is certified in Buhti Movement.
PhD Clinical Psychology -Masters In Education: Mind, Brain and Learning, Masters in the Integration of Spirituality & Psychology, Master’s in Christian Leadership: Community Development, Buhti Movement
PranaScience Institute, LLC
C-IAYT, ERYT 500
As featured by The Washington Times, CBS, and Washington’s WTOP news, Brad Ellsworth of Druminyasa® has been playing drums and percussion for over 25 years. Brad is a yoga teacher and founded Druminyasa by connecting his love for rhythm, drums and movement
Bandcamp
I-TAL Acres
Ed has a Master’s from VT in Political Sociology. Maya has Master’s from Northern Arizona University in Health, Nutrition, Food, & Exercise. They established I-TAL Acres Medicinal Herb Farm & Apothecary in 2010 immersed in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the past 14 years, cultivating over 115 species of medicinal plants.
MS, Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism Online, Ras Touzah Jah Bash-Mentor
Elisha Reygle has been playing in the realm of chi for over 30 years. Her teachers are many; teachings full of ancestral wisdom, healthy vitality, graceful balance. Elisha teaches chi and mindfulness practices, is a massage therapist, kayak guide, artist, birth doula, and focusing professional in the New River valley.
Mentors include Qi Gong Master Teachers: Grandmaster Effie Chow, Master Jou, Jason Redinbo, Lieven VerKruisen, Mark Small, Jerry Diamond, Robin Murphy
Lila Creations, Inc.
Erica, visionary founder of Lila Yoga, is a renowned vinyasa instructor leading trainings & retreats globally, including India where she presents at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh. She has taught at University of Denver and Penn State University, and has collaborated with Pennsylvania Sheriffs Department to bring yoga to deputies.
E-RYT 500
Eat.Yoga.Drink.
and accessible yoga and mindfulness experiences in nontraditional spaces in DMV area and through international retreats.
ERYT 6000+ teaching hours -Yin Yoga & Yoga for Athletes 50 hr certification, YACEP, M.Ed.
The Sit-Down Comic
Gina, from Huntington, WV, has attended every FYJ since the 2nd Jam!
A yoga practitioner since age 7, a passionate teacher since age 40 and more recently, a creative known as the Sit-Down Comic blending humorous yoga dharma chats and storytelling in her signature “sit-down” comedy style.
ERYT500, YACEP Level II Relax and Renew ® Restorative Yoga Teacher Ayurveda Health Counselor & 1008Hr Yogini Mentorship Program Shakti School
Grace & Zen Within
ERYT 500, YACEP, LMBT, Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor
Heartfelt Wellbeing, LLC
Hannah Elizabeth Levin, founder of Heartfelt Wellbeing LLC, is an Ayurveda Practitioner, yoga teacher, and artist who also holds a masters degree in teaching. Her mission is to alleviate unnecessary suffering through making the teachings of yoga and Ayurveda applicable to our modern lives. She teaches in person and online.
E-RYT 500, YACEP, AP, MAT
Maha Vira Yoga
Yogi J Miles is a space holder, yogi, healer, fire keeper, seed sower, and connector who has been dancing to the rhythm of life since childhood. His teaching style has been crafted over the years by real life experience, self study, and learning from many teachers on the path.
ERYT 500, YACEP
Jack Howard
Maha Vira Yoga
Jack is a nomadic practitioner of life. He is eager to converse with you over a pot of tea, lead you on a Cacao-infused shamanic journey, envelop you in a cloud of sonic vibration, hold space for you as you release inner trauma through the breath, or facilitate your transformation in a fire ceremony. He lives simply and naturally, close to Mother Earth and Spirit. His passion is “Helping others reach their highest potential.”
Jason Clemons
Jason (he/they) Sober. Stable. Seeker. LGBTQIAA+ 200/300YTT with the Kunga Yoga School based in Blacksburg, VA. His teachings include the a focus on compressed evolution, a vinyasa style informed by Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and reclaiming wholeness, autonomy, and splendor. He celebrates diversity, teachability, and beginning again and again.
150+ hr Sutra study Bhavani Maki, 80 hr Advanced Barkan method, 200YTT + 9/10, 300YTT modules KYS Nicole LaFon/Noelle Whittington YA-CEU three-year-cycle: 236 contact, 152 non-contact.
Jagadisha & Sarah
Radiant Heart Yoga
Jagadisha studied with Swami Nadabrahmananda, a master of North Indian Classical Music in the U.S and Rishikesh, India. He has been carrying on his master’s tradition of Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound, for more than 40 years: practicing, giving concerts, and teaching.
Sarah is a RYT 200 and mindfulness teacher and Soto Zen student with Great Tree Zen Temple.
Jeff Tiebout
Sanctuary of the light
Trained to teach Ashtanga yoga by Dee Silvers, Monju Jois, and David Swenson. Studied with David Williams, Gary Kraftsow, Gregor Maehle, and many others.
Jenn Hooper
In True Nature
enn landed on the mat while leading a nomadic lifestyle, and yoga became her anchor. She’s had the honor of sharing Ayurvedic-inspired practices- yoga, body and energy work, in and out of doors- for over a decade. She’s passionate about supporting humans in connecting to nature and their true nature!
500 Hr YTT Uttara Yoga, 200 HR YTT Om Place, Yoga for Resiliency and Trauma Recovery, Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga, Aerial Yoga
The Grateful Yoga
Having graduated from dozens of YTT’s and apprenticeships, and lead more than thirty YTT’s through his School, The Grateful Yoga, Jesse continues to approach his practice with a beginner’s mindset, grounded in traditional Yogic and Zen Buddhist belief systems. An awarded facilitator of dynamic movement, Jesse is forever grateful. Metta.
ERYT 500, YACEP, RYS 200, graduated from over 20 different trainings and apprenticeships over 20+ years. Mentors include Jonny Kest, Swami Satchidananda, Leah Cullis, and Jane James
Free Range Yoga VA
200hr Om Yoga and 8hr Restorative with Cyndi Lee, 30hr Yin with Liza Dousson, and 300hr with Juliana Larochelle (graduate in March 2025)
Jill Love Phoenix
Jill Phoenix Wellness
Jill has taught yoga for over nine years, blending movement, breath, and mindfulness to create a transformative practice. As a certified Integrative Nutrition and Functional Medicine Health Coach, she takes a holistic approach to well-being. Her inclusive classes support healing, resilience, and balance, both on and off the mat.
E-RYT 500, YACEP, Level One Kundalini Instructor, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Functional Medicine Health Coach
Joe Klein
Be Well Now
Joe leads retreats on mindfulness practice for helping professionals, veterans and elders through his nonprofit Be Well Now. He is also lead teacher for Instill Mindfulness & Inward Bound Mindfulness. Joe brings playfulness, Earth connection and whole person engagement to his ways of teaching and embodying mindfulness practice.
Licensed Professional Counselor, Teaching Meditation on Teen and Young Adult Retreats around the country.
Sahyinidra Yoga
Conscious Coaching
Sonic Universe Now
Osteopath Degree, Massage Degree, Yoga Alliance Certified
Upward Inertia
Kaelyn Rogers is an occupational therapist, yoga therapist, and acro teacher. She is the founder of the yoga therapy nonprofit, Upward Inertia. Kaelyn has taught in more than 35 states and 10countries.
Kaelyn uses her knowledge of kinesiology and movement to ensure classes are safe, fun, and full of success.
Acro Revolution Teacher, Bossy Flyer Teacher Training (2015), YTT 200 Holistic Yoga Therapy Institute, Gymnastics coach
Love the Shit Out of Yourself
RYT 500, YTT 300, Reiki, Aerial Yoga
Katherine Chantal has been navigating her life through mothering, healing, creating life passage ceremonies and evolutionary workshops for decades. She is a philosopher poet inclusive of depth psychology, spirituality and neuroscience. Her poems have appeared in Artemis Journal and other regional publications and she is the author of six books.
Colleen Redman is a Floyd County blogger who contributed news stories, features and photographs for The Floyd Press from 2006 – 2022. Her poetry has most recently been published in Artemis Journal and Floyd County Moonshine. She is the author of several books of poetry and has been a featured reader at Floyd’s Little River Poetry Festival.
MSW, MSFR, Somatic Soul-based Trauma Training, Nature-based Parts Work & Wilderness Therapy Training, Permaculture Design Certification – Art of Healing Graduate (three-year in-depth energy medicine program)
Zen Within Academy
Katie Sutton & Josh Vogt are a husband and wife duo who combine meditation with sound & energy healing to support participants in finding their own Zen Within. They founded Zen Within Academy, an online and in person community supporting awakening souls through retreats, 1:1 sessions, online classes and workshops.
Aerial Yoga Instructor, Wellness Coach from World Coach Institute, Graduate Psychic Studies from Boulder Psychic Institute, Graduate Eagle Condor Council of Shamanic Studies
Interweave Conscious Movement
Teaching for over 25 years, Katie is devoted to embodied experiences for love towards ourselves and the world.
Kelly Blevins
Kelly Blevins is a yoga teacher; exercise science grad; and US Air Force veteran living in Abingdon, Virginia. She is a sun-seeking adventurer looking to empower her students to discover their authentic self through movement and meditation. She teaches several weekly group classes at Whitetop Yoga.
Bachelor’s of Science in Exercise Science Former Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist RYT 200
Kimna Didi
200 Hr RYT , Thai Massage Training , Chair Yoga & Ageless Grace Training, Nia Dance teacher , white and blue belt , Kirtan singer, Trauma Informed Yoga Training
