Level I classes are designed for those who have had little exposure to yoga, but are eager to learn and start experiencing the amazing benefits of a yoga practice. The beginner student needs slow-paced direction and a great level of detail so they can become familiar with basic yoga poses and proper alignment.

Level II – III classes are designed for more experienced yogis with a very solid understanding of basic yoga postures who are comfortable performing more advanced poses. The advanced-intermediate student practices yoga regularly and has begun to master connection of breath with movement. These classes are meant to challenge.

Level I – II classes considered to be for the experienced beginner are designed for those who have had exposure to yoga, including an introduction to basic yoga poses and proper alignment. The experienced beginner student would like to explore their practice and begin becoming more familiar with poses, alignment, and use of breath.

Level III classes are designed for the dedicated and very experience yogi. These classes are the most physically challenging including more complex arm balances, inversions, and deeper yoga postures. Your use of breath is key!

Elena has been teaching yoga for 10 years now and 200 RTY certified, as well as 300 RTY, and Aerial certified. At first, she was more focused on the physical fitness benefits. As time went on, she deepened her practice through meditation, breath, and discovering the connection between the mind and body. Through her own personal journey, she has found a new outlook on life. Having a full time job, teaching yoga, and having two small children, life can be challenging and rushed. Yoga has taught her to slow down, enjoy, appreciate, and cherish the good moments while learning and growing from the not so pleasant moments.

Yoga is great for your body, but it also teaches us patience, gratitude, and the joy of living. In today’s busy world, living in the moment is key, even it is just for the hour on your mat. In her class, her main focus is safety and proper alignment, keeping you present in the moment (mind and body) and leaving feeling balanced from a well-rounded class. She has a very strong and dedicated self-practice. Through her continuing yoga education, she is able to provide new ideas to keep her classes fresh and engaging, sprinkled with fun and good music!

Shelley Onderdonk has been a devoted practitioner of yoga since 1997. She views yoga as a vehicle for the exploration of the infinitely fascinating relationship between the body and the mind. Through her Hatha yoga practice, she has become accustomed to using the breath to meld the physical and mental aspects of the asanas, and to meeting stress with equanimity. She reminds herself daily that the best measure of progress in yoga is how much peace you are experiencing in your life.

Shelley is certified by the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA, and has been teaching since 2010. She was inspired to start teaching in order to expose people to what her own yoga practice fosters in herself: feelings of calm, gratitude, and self-empowerment. She hopes to give her students a glimpse of how settling one’s mind on the present time/space continuum, as is practiced in Vinyasa flow yoga, can exert a profound positive impact not only on their own well-being but also upon all those with whom they come into contact. Creativity and variety are key to Shelley’s teaching style; she endeavors to deliver fresh flows, ideas, and impromptu responses to her students’ needs in every class she teaches. Mindfulness practices are taught in order to develop focus and recognize that what we think, how we feel, and how we use our bodies truly create who we are.

Above all, safety is accomplished through proper form, alignment, and self-awareness. Through teaching, Shelley has benefitted from the bliss of teacher and students joining together on a path towards self-transformation and health. Yoga practice and teaching has integrated well with many of Shelley’s life-long interests: in healing (she is a practicing holistic veterinarian); in neuroscience (which was her undergraduate major); and in movement (she was trained as a modern and classical dancer). Shelley lives with her family on their horse farm in Aiken, SC.

At the age of 15, Cate Dopson was introduced to hot yoga and immediately captivated. Yoga serving Cate well in the most challenging teenage-years led this native South Carolinian to turn a hobby and a passion into a career. Cate is a certified Pranakriya Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), a Pranakriya Prenatal Teacher and an energy/body healer with a background in Thai Yoga Therapy and Bio Energy Healing. She is currently continuing her education, pursuing a Pranakriya Professional Yoga Certification (RYT 500).

Cate has been teaching yoga since 2012. Her gentle spirit, nurturing touch and helpful language guides Cate’s students through a yogic experience that’s one of a kind. Move your body with love and respect, finding your true meaning of being happy with oneself in Cate’s inspirational and fun classes.

Enthusiasm to love your life and to explore your inner depths is contagious around Krissy Dopson.  Her yoga passion helps people achieve bliss while on one’s journey.  Krissy loves life in such a big way that you can’t help but leave her classes, workshops and sessions joyful, spiritually uplifted, and connected to your inner self!

Born in South Carolina and raised traveling around the globe, she is an wholehearted citizen of the world and spiritual adventurer. Krissy is a Parankriya Experienced Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), a Pranakriya Yoga Therapist, Pranakriya Prenatal Yoga Teacher, and an energy/body healer with a background in Thai Yoga Therapy and Bio Energy Healing.  Krissy has been teaching and practicing yoga since 2008.

Through yoga, she became more connected to her inner self — spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically.   Krissy found teaching yoga to be the vehicle through which she can share the exhilaration and positivity of her experience.  She leads transformational classes, one-on-one private sessions and workshops with practical ways to promote inner happiness and experience a glowing sensation.

Krissy’s intentions are to positively impact every person she encounters and make the world a better place, one yoga practice at a time.