Meet the team

Yoga Instructors
Strength Instructors

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2019) | Assistant Studio Manager for Greensboro Power Studios

    1. What is playing in your headphones?  I always seem to have a podcast running - Smartless, Armchair Expert, Wiser Than Me or Handsome

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? My favorite yoga pose is Half Moon - when you really get into it and stay it provides so much opening, power and energy!

    3. Early bird or night owl? I am an early bird.  In bed by 9pm and usually up around 6am (my two dogs help make that happen).

    4. What is your favorite movie? My favorite movie is Terms of Endearment - give me the gut-wrenching, emotional story that makes me cry!!

    5. Summer or winter? I'm a summer girl!  Summer birthday, love the sun and the beach is my happy place!

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2020) | Assistant Director of Teachers at Greensboro Power Studios

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

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Joy Oladokun

    3. What is your favorite movie? Forrest Gump

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Foundation

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

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024)

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Anything from Taylor swift to the latest song my daughter wants me to hear.

    2. What is your favorite movie? The Notebook

    3. What is your favorite yoga pose? Triangle is my reminder to stay grounded

    4. What is your favorite yoga mat? Currently Lululemon but really want to have a Liforme to be more in alignment

    5. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? Greensboro Power Yoga and strength is a place where I have met new friends, the BEST example of being FOR each other and community.

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023)

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Kasey Musgraves, Khalid, Noah Kahan are some favorites. Depends on my mood for sure! 

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? Half moon

    3. Early bird or night owl?  Night owl but I do appreciate a slow early morning

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste yoga? Breath. The practice of being intentional about it on your mat when things get challenging or uncomfortable AND bringing that practice into life off the mat. Game changer, I promise.

    5. Coffee or tea? Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024)

    1. How were you first introduced to yoga? I first started practicing yoga in college as a way to de-stress and find balance. When I moved to North Carolina, GPY’s corporate yoga program came to my workplace and reignited that love. Yoga has always been what grounds me when life feels like it’s pulling me in a thousand directions.

    2. What’s the most surprising lesson yoga has taught you?
      That true strength doesn’t always have to be loud. It can be quiet, steady, and deeply rooted.

    3. What’s something students might be surprised to know about you?
      I’m a bit of a thrill seeker! I love chasing adventures and pushing myself outside of my comfort zone.

    4. What’s a book, song, or podcast that’s inspired you and/or your teaching lately?
      I’m often inspired by the podcasts On Purpose with Jay Shetty and The Mel Robbins Podcast. They always spark new insights about growth, mindset, and living with intention.

    5. What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you?
      To me, GPY is more than a studio, it’s a community that meets you exactly where you are, and encourages you to show up unapologetically as yourself.

    6. What song always gets you moving?
      September by Earth, Wind & Fire. It’s impossible not to smile and dance when that song comes on!

    7. If you could teach a class anywhere in the world, where would it be?
      On the beaches of Mykonos flowing with the sound of the sea, the breeze on my skin and the salt air filling each breath - that would be pure magic!

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024)

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Revivalists or Red Hot Chili Peppers usually always 

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? Lizard and Eagle 

    3. What is your favorite type of yoga mat? Liforme girlie 

    4. What does GPY mean to you? GPY is where I found myself and realized I am capable of doing hard things. It’s where I go when I need to shut the world out and come back to center.

    5. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste yoga? Tapas…. That fiery discipline 

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

    1. Coffee or tea? Coffee, coffee, coffee!

    2. Early bird or night owl? Early bird wannabe

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

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

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

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

    1. 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!

    2. 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.

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

    4. 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.

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

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023)

    1. 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!!

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

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

    4. Early bird or night owl? Night owl for sure!

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

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024)

    1. What is your favorite movie? - Princess Bride

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? - Twisting Triangle or Dancer

    3. What does Greensboro Power Yoga mean to you? - Being part of a community that values presence, positivity, inclusion, and growth. I always feel encouraged, welcome and refreshed whenever I'm at the studio. It's an opportunity to slow down and simply be in the practice alongside amazing people.

    4. Early bird or night owl? - Morning person by practice not by personality.

    5. Coffee or tea? -Coffee

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013)

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Half moon

    2. Early bird or night owl? Neither!!

    3. 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 ️

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

    5. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Vinyasa

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024)

    1. What is your favorite book or movie? Pride and Prejudice 

    2. What is your favorite type of yoga mat?  B- keeps me from slipping!

    3. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? For me, it is a doorway into equilibrium, or sthira and sukha. It is rest and challenge, quietness and laughter, stillness and movement, old friendships and new ones. 

    4. Coffee or tea? Coffee for sure, but tea is sometimes a treat. Best tea ever found at Vida Pour!

    5. Summer or winter? Winter, no contest. Give me warm sweaters and early starlit nights.

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

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

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

    3. Early Bird or Night Owl? Daytime chickadee

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

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

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2021)

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Mountain Climber

    2. What is your favorite type of yoga mat?  BMat

    3. What is playing in your headphones? Podcasts

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

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

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) + Tier 1 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2017)

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Triangle

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Classical while I work

    3. Summer or winter? Winter

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste yoga? Vinyasa

    5. Coffee or tea? Coffee all the way!

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2020)

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

    2. Early bird or night owl? - 10000% night owl

    3. 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).

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

    5. 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 500 + Tier 2 Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Leader (2014) | former owner of Dancing Dogs Yoga Greensboro

    1. Early bird or night owl? Early bird

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Perpetual Groove

    3. What is your favorite book? The Great Alone

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Foundation

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

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

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

    2. 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.

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

    4. Summer or winter? summer!!!

    5. 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 Dancing Dogs Yoga (2019) | Director of Teachers at Greensboro Power Studios

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Any opening pose! Half pigeon is the current fave, it’s my go to if I only have a few minutes to stretch out.

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

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

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

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

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Wheel

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

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

    4. What is your favorite book? Me Talk Pretty One Day

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

  • RYT 500 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2018)

    1. What is your favorite movie? Clueless

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Taylor Swift

    3. What is your favorite book? The Four Agreements

    4. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? A place of ease, comfort and connection. It is my happy place. Whether I am teaching or taking a class, regardless of the mood I came in with, I leave the space with a smile on my face.

    5. What is your favorite type of yoga mat?  It's hard to choose just one! Manduka has great products, but BMat and Lifeform are game changers for a hot yoga practice.

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2019)

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Dancer

    2. Coffee or tea? Coffee

    3. What is playing in your headphones? Avett Brothers

    4. What is your favorite TV show? Outlander

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

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

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

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

    3. 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.

    4. What is your favorite TV show? Gilmore Girls

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

  • RYT 500 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013)

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

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

    3. 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

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

    5. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Drishti

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023) 

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

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

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

    4. 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.

    5. Early bird or night owl? Early bird big time

  • RYT 200 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2017)

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Frog Pose

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

    3. What is your favorite book or movie? Harry Potter

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Foundation

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

  • Level 1 USA Weightlifting Coach + Level 2 CrossFit Coach | Strength and Conditioning Coach (2016) 

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Mostly country unless I am working out.

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? Pigeon.

    3. What is your favorite book? Metabolic by Robert Lustig

    4. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? Being able to work out with great people in a great community

    5. Coffee or tea? Coffee!!

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

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Triangle

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Classical while I work

    3. Summer or winter? Winter

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste yoga? Vinyasa

    5. Coffee or tea? Coffee all the way!

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2024) | ***

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Anything from Taylor swift to the latest song my daughter wants me to hear.

    2. What is your favorite movie? The Notebook

    3. What is your favorite yoga pose? Triangle is my reminder to stay grounded

    4. What is your favorite yoga mat? Currently Lululemon but really want to have a Liforme to be more in alignment

    5. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? Greensboro Power Yoga and strength is a place where I have met new friends, the BEST example of being FOR each other and community.

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

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

    2. What is playing in your headphones? Joy Oladokun

    3. What is your favorite movie? Forrest Gump

    4. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Foundation

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

  • ACE certified Group Fitness Instructor, Health Coach, Personal Trainer + Size-Inclusive Specialist (2017) | RYT200 from the Yoga and Ayurveda Center (2021)

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Big Bootie Mixes on Spotify. If you've never listened, this is the universe's sign that you should! 30 second mash ups of the most random variety of songs - the best!

    2. What is your favorite yoga pose? Crow! Specifically because of how much work I had to do (physically and mentally) to work towards this pose. I had to become comfortable with the idea that I might (and definitely did) fall, and now every time I lift my feet off of the ground and balance on my hands, it's a reminder of how important it is to trust the process and to be okay with falling.

    3. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you? Community, support, and respect. I first found GPY when I was newer to fitness, and I was very nervous about walking into a space where I didn't know what to expect and who was working out alongside me. And, even with those nerves, I was able to feel that I was in a place that wasn't judging me. So even though I now have many years and many credentials under my belt, it's important to me that I'm affiliated with organizations that show everyone - no matter their size, ability, or experience - that they are worthy of being in the room and taking up space.

    4. Early bird or night owl? Both! I love getting stuff done first thing in the morning, but I also love having days where I can sleep in :-)  

    5. Coffee or tea? ALL OF THE COFFEE.

  • RYT 200 from Level Above Yoga School (2023) 

    1. Early bird or night owl? Can be both

    2. Coffee or tea? Tea

    3. Favorite book or movie? A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino

    4. What’s playing in your headphones? Any and everything

    5. What lights you up? Community and movement

  • AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor (2001)

    1. Early bird or night owl? Night owl!

    2. Coffee or tea? Coffee

    3. Summer or winter? Summer

    4. What is your favorite book? “The Great Alone”

    5. What is playing in your headphones? Usually podcasts! Politics and true crime

    1. What is playing in your headphones? Flatland Cavalry

    2. What is your favorite movie? Mama Mia

    3. What is your favorite strength exercise? Bicep curls

    4. Early bird or night owl? Early bird

    5. What does Greensboro Power Yoga/Strength mean to you?GPS means community! It is not just a place to workout but a place to connect with people and call home.

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

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

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

    3. 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.

    4. What is your favorite TV show? Gilmore Girls

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

  • RYT 500 from Dancing Dogs Yoga (2013) | NASM Certified Personal Trainer

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

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

    3. 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

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

    5. What is your favorite pillar of Baptiste Yoga? Drishti

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

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

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

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

    4. 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.

    5. 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

    1. What is your favorite yoga pose? Any opening pose! Half pigeon is the current fave, it’s my go to if I only have a few minutes to stretch out.

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

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

    4. 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.

    5. 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.