Community

Kyle Michaud
200HR Yoga Instructor
Experience Expositions, CEO and Founder
Charlotte, North Carolina

Yoga has given me the ability to connect my mind and body, and also helped me to make it a priority to focus on my wellness routine each and every day. My yoga practice has had a tremendous impact on my business and entrepreneurial spirit. Being able to grow my businesses is connected to the fact that I set aside time to shut the rest of the world out and think clearer. Work in general can be very hectic and stressful – if we allow ourselves to get swallowed up in it all, we’ll actually be less productive. Yoga keeps me on track and provides a great escape from work, which actually leads to better overall productivity.

Marjorie Nass   
ERYT-500
Yoga and Lifestyle Coach
La Jolla, California

After over a decade working in the stressful environment of the NYC corporate world, I had a forced hiatus when I lost my job. Finally, I had time to take more yoga. My health and my whole life began to shift for the better, and I couldn’t imagine going back to a work environment in which I was so unhappy and unhealthy. I felt such gratitude for yoga, the community, and my teachers that I wanted to become a teacher myself.

Madeline Hickman
200hr E-RYT, Yin Yoga
Studio Manager, CorePower Yoga
Brooklyn, NY

I got into yoga when I was performing in a show in Arizona and I was the youngest person in the cast by 20 years. After rehearsal they would go home to their families, and since I was from out of town I didn't have anywhere to go so I found a yoga studio. I realized how much the practice was impacting my life off the mat and knew when I returned to NYC that I needed to be more consistent and diligent in my practice. Which led to me becoming a studio manager, teacher, and teacher training facilitator.

Jacquie Smith
Barre Certification through Exhale
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training through Poe Yoga + Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Certification through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Little Adapts By Jax, Founder
New York, NY

Yoga has always been the most helpful to me at the points in my life where I'm emotionally exhausted + stressed. It gives me clarity + strength to get me through whatever is going on. It's the only thing besides running that allows me to just focus on my breath + the movement and nothing else for the duration of the class. 

Julia Chan 
NASM CPT + Corrective Exercise Specialist, 500 hour RYT, PN1 Nutrition Coach 
Fitness + Wellness Coach, President of JSC Fitness JSC Fitness
New York City, NY

Specifically speaking, my yoga practice started off as a strictly Vinyasa Flow, learning from Lauren Hanna from Sonic Yoga but have evolved tremendously since I have worked with teachers like Nevine Michaan, Abbie Galvin, Nikki Vallella, Ariel Karass, Phillip Askew, and David Regellin. I don't teach as much flow but do have a sequence that is much more focused on alignment and breathwork and fully understand the poses and the anatomy of each pose.

Tiffany Desouza
RYT200, NSCA-CPT, NASM-CPT
Yoga Instructor, Personal Trainer
Enerzy Exchange Yoga, Founder
Boca Raton, FL

Yoga physically helped me create more space in my body, find more physical extension and flexibility, enhance my endurance, learn how root down to balance, and develop more strength. Yoga also helped become more aware of my actions, identify negative patterns of thought and improve my mind-body connection.