Meet the team

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2020)

    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Revolving half moon.

    • Early bird or night owl?
      10000% night owl

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      At this very moment, DuoLingo is trying to teach me Italian. Music-wise it’s a mix of Mt. Joy, SZA, Ian Asher, Odesza, Surfaces, and Third Eye Blind (my all-time favorite).

    • Salty or sweet?
      Yes. The answer to this question is yes.

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      Possibility. My yoga practice and community have been a catalyst for personal transformation, and I cannot wait to see how GPY offers all sorts of possibility for our members and the surrounding community

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2017) | AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor (2014)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Triangle

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Classical while I work

    • Summer or winter?
      Winter

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste yoga?
      Vinyasa

    • Coffee or tea?
      Coffee all the way!

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose? Half moon

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Neither!!

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      What isn’t?! Everything from Kendrick Lamar to Fleetwood Mac to Rufus duSol to Taylor Swift to Genesis to OutKast to My Morning Jacket… my love language ️

    • What is your favorite book?
      The Secret History by Donna Tart

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Vinyasa

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2020) + NASM Certified Personal Trainer (2024) | Assistant Director of Teachers at Greensboro Power Studios

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Early bird during the week. Night owl on the weekends.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Joy Oladokun

    • What is your favorite movie?
      Forrest Gump

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Foundation

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      Opportunity to create space for something new.

  • RYT-200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) and Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2020)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Sun Salutation A (haha)! I know that is cheating a little but nothing is better than moving through a few (or more) Sun A’s. They have everything my body loves - some stretch, some strength, big ujjayi breathing… everything!

    • Coffee or Tea?
      Both! Vida Pour Tea down the street has made me a convert and I love my teas just as much as my morning coffee.

    • What is your favorite style yoga mat?
      I adore my lululemon mats!

    • What is your favorite book?
      How does one pick just one?! Harry Potter holds a special place in my heart… but more recently, so does the Court Thorns and Roses series. I also love The Four Agreements - it changed my life, along with Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection.

    • Summer or Winter?
      Summer but make it Florida summer by the water.

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2014) + Baptiste Yoga Institute Advanced Art of Assisting (2015)


    • Coffee or tea?
      Coffee, coffee, coffee!

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Early bird wannabe

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      I'm a music-by-mood kinda person, so it depends on my vibe at the moment

    • What is your favorite book?
      And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

    • Summer or winter?
      Winter until I get too cold, Summer until I get too hot.

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2019)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Dancer

    • Coffee or tea?
      Coffee

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Avett Brothers

    • What is your favorite TV show?
      Outlander

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      A community that makes me feel like my best self.

  • RYT 500 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013)


    • Coffee or tea?
      Coffee but not the fancy kind.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      The mixed-tape vibe! Too many artists to name.

    • What is your favorite book or movie?
      Book:
      The Outsiders- I read it 13 times in a row as a preteen until my mom said “that was enough” Movie:
      Devil Wears Prada

    • Summer or winter?
      Neither, I’m fall all the way.

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Drishti

  • RYT 500 + Tier 2 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2014) | former owner of Dancing Dogs Yoga Greensboro


    • Early bird or night owl?
      Early bird

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Perpetual Groove

    • What is your favorite book?
      The Great Alone

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Foundation

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      GPY means community and fun to me - and the next chapter of DDYG!

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2018)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Right now it is probably extended side angle.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Smartless and a variety of music including (but not limited to) The Avett Brothers, The Wood Brothers, Lumineers, Langhorne Slim, Drew Holcomb and more! Lots more.

    • What is your favorite book?
      Atlas of the Heart Brene Brown

    • Summer or winter?
      summer!!!

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Like my yoga pose it changes all the time. Right now, it is Drishti

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2021)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Mountain Climber

    • What is your favorite type of yoga mat?
      BMat

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Podcasts

    • What is your favorite book?
      Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      Space to let go of my worries and just breathe and be myself.

  • ERYT 500 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2014) | Owner of Level Above Yoga School


    • Coffee or tea?
      Coffee (with vanilla almond milk & cinnamon)

    • What is your favorite type of yoga mat?
      Liforme (with rainbow alignment markers!)

    • Early Bird or Night Owl?
      Daytime chickadee

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      90's grunge... or Pink!

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Tapas ("Fiery" makes discipline sound sexy)

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023)


    • Winter or Summer?
      Winter… Ugg boots, flannel shirts, fire pits, need I say more? I don’t go in water intentionally anymore (but love to look at it!) so summer is just loud and hot. Lol!!

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Lately an odd mix of Taylor Swift, James Taylor, Paul Simon, and Athenaeum

    • What is your favorite book or movie?
      The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Movie is The Princess Bride or Jurassic Park

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Night owl for sure!

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      acceptance, authenticity, and doing better by yourself!

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023) + NASM certified personal trainer specializing in women’s strength building and pre/postnatal fitness (2017)


    • Coffee or tea?
      I am a green tea fanatic.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      You can catch me listening to any and all hip hop & R&B.

    • What is your favorite movie?
      My favorite movie is 1994 The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen.

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      To me, GPY is like what home feels like. A place where you are safe and sound, a place you are free to be and express yourself however you choose, a place where you can recharge and reset after or before being a part of the outside world.

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Early bird big time

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2019) + NASM certified Personal Trainer + Group X Instructor (2012) | Director of Teachers at Greensboro Power Studios


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Any opening pose! Half pigeon is the current fave, it usually requires me to deal with things that I ignore, which reminds me to breathe into discomfort – on and off my mat.

    • Early bird or night owl?
      Early bird. I’m lucky to see the end of jeopardy.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Currently, neuroscience podcasts or any Maggie Rogers-esque jams

    • What is your favorite book or movie?
      Hard to pick! Brene Brown makes me feel unstoppable and Andy Weir has some great page turners. For movies, I’ll never turn down an opportunity to watch Practical Magic.

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Tapas, not only do I love a good sweat session, being disciplined is a core value that seeps into all parts of life. As someone who stayed in my comfort zone for far too long, the discipline and this practice get me out of it which is a life hack like no other

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2017) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2020) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2020) | NASM Certified Group + Barre Instructor | Owner of Greensboro Power Studios


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Any arm balance or inversion

    • Coffee or tea?
      A decaf dirty chai from Vida Pour Tea.

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Either a vibe-y playlist I made on Spotify, the latest Lazy Genius Podcast episode, or my Book Club's current audiobook pick.

    • What is your favorite TV show?
      Gilmore Girls

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      A fun, powerful, connected, and convivial community. Oh, and a really good workout.

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2017)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Frog Pose

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      Worship Music (and Nursery Lullabies for Ginny of course!)

    • What is your favorite book or movie?
      Harry Potter

    • What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga?
      Foundation

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      Community, Love and Strength

  • ERYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2014) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2017)


    • What is your favorite yoga pose?
      Wheel

    • Coffee or tea?
      Both?! but coffee only first thing in the morning

    • What is playing in your headphones?
      The Avett Brothers or a new book

    • What is your favorite book?
      Me Talk Pretty One Day

    • What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      A community where I practice cultivating my learning zones.