2025 Teachers & Guides
A-K
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.
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
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
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
PranaScience Institute, LLC
C-IAYT, ERYT 500
Metta Mats
200 HR CYT: In Balance Yoga, 200 HR CYT: Maha Vira Yoga, Aerial Cert: Fly
Dog Yoga, Skillful Facilitation w/ Michelle Cassandra Johnson
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
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
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
Grace & Zen Within
ERYT 500, YACEP, LMBT, Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
