Mentee Directory

Hola, mi gente! I have a Ph.D. in Adult and Higher Education which informs the way I center BIPOC women+ to hold space for collective liberation through individual and community healing. Additionally, I am a published author on Latinx students in higher education, hold a 200 hour RTY, am completing my 500 hour yoga teacher training, and a mindfulness coaching certificate. Decolonize Your Teaching: Round 7 changed my life giving me the focus on how I hope to contribute to the world through comunidad and healing.

Focuses: Restorative, Yin, Meditation, Wellness Equity Workshops

I make wellness practices accessible to Black women and WOC to harmonize their mind, movement, and breath to heal and create a lifestyle rooted in joy and authenticity. I started my yoga journey many years ago. I was fresh out of a relationship and attempting to manage anxious and depressive thoughts. During this time, I thought that I would give yoga a try and see if it would help me. After taking that one class, I didn’t find my way back to my mat for years. During this period, I became increasingly more aware that when life gets difficult and you become overwhelmed it can be hard to roll out your mat to practice and find your “center.” Further, the very thing that we can use to help us get through what we are experiencing can be incredibly hard to locate. An important lesson I have learned over the past few months is that you can show up through all of the chaos. While chaos can exist around you, you can show up and stand firmly within yourself just as you are.

Part of my goal as a yoga teacher is to create a healing space for Black women, men and children. It is important for me to co-create a space where people can be nurtured, a space wherein they do not have to worry about being too much, too loud, or too much of anything. I want to create a space where Black people can be reflected without any qualifiers. Where there is no mold that they have to fit into. They can show up as themselves; whomever that person may be at that given place and time.

Focuses: Vinyasa Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga for Beginners

Laia Bové (she/her) is an Afro-Catalan yoga and meditation teacher (E-RYT 500 / YACEP) and freelance writer based in Tampa, FL. With her experience as a professional figure skater and coach, she brings yoga, meditation, and wellness practices to Olympic and Paralympic and other high performance athletes to enhance their efficacy as well as help them find balance in their lives.

Laia is also a trauma-informed teacher and creates accessible spaces for BIPOC, disabled folks, and other underserved communities where they can safely explore yoga, meditation, and wellness tools to enhance their lives. Laia writes and teaches in English, Spanish, and Catalan, and through yoga, meditation, breath, journaling & music, she invites people to tap into their authentic and creative truth.

Focuses: Accessible Yoga, Adaptive Yoga, Trauma Informed, Vinyasa, Hatha, meditation,Chronic Illness, Adaptive athletes, elite athletes, BIPOC, bilingual yoga, yoga en español, vinyasa, hatha, restorative, meditation

Shawna Davis is a 200-hr registered yoga instructor that has been teaching vinyasa, power, and restorative yoga since 2017. She first discovered yoga when she took her first class in 2006 and returned consistently to the practice in 2014 as a way to help relax and relieve stress after relocating to a new city. Since earning her 200-hr certification, she has found so much joy sharing this practice with everyone and showing others how they can connect with their true selves through yoga. Off the mat, she is a wellness and lifestyle journalist that loves spending time with her husband and family, especially outdoors. As both a yoga instructor and wellness journalist, her goal is to create space both on and off the mat for those who feel unheard, not seen, or underrepresented within the wellness community.

Focuses: Vinyasa, Power, Restorative

Stephanie began running in 2012 and has since participated in over 100 racing events covering distances from 5K to 50K, with the half marathon being her favorite distance. She attended her first yoga class in 2013 as a way to complement her running. She quickly fell in love with yoga and its ability to quiet the mind through breath and movement. She completed her yoga teacher training in 2015 at Om Beats Studio in Miami, FL and is currently a registered yoga teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. Stephanie is also a certified Yogalete instructor, mat Pilates instructor, and RRCA run coach. Stephanie teaches classes that are meant to condition and strengthen the body while bringing peace to the mind and empowerment to the soul.

Focuses: Yoga, Pilates, Run Coaching

As a mom, wife, scientist, educator and founder of Nkyinkyim Yoga, Letimicia wears many hats. She has to be intentional about creating harmony in life. In September 2020, Letimicia became a certified yoga teacher and began sharing her yoga and meditation journey with the community. She loves to invite other busy, passionate, multi-hyphenate people to the practice of connecting to and nurturing themselves to help them navigate the many roles and responsibilities of their lives. Through hatha yoga, affirmations and meditation, she aims to help her community reconnect to themselves and what's important to them. With this knowledge, Letimicia believes people can find and walk in their purpose.

Letimicia has partnered with National Society for Black Engineers, NIA House Montessori School, MADE Fitness, Jefferson Street Sound Museum, Threads by Dreads Foundation, Carrie Mae Williams Center, Zuriful Beads, Royal Massage & Yoga Lounge, One Drop Ink Tattoo and Vanderbilt University with other collaborations in the works. Her most well-attended community events are Yoga in the Park and Yoga + Jollof.

Focuses: Community and Corporate Yoga Events, Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Multi-hyphenates and Entrepreneurs, Kids Yoga

Naomi Hutchinson is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher living in Los Angeles, California. In addition to being a yoga teacher, Naomi is also a trained dancer and owner of holistic health and wellness company, Healthy+Well. Helping people live healthier lives is her passion and she likes to say that the gateway for healthier living starts with yoga. Naomi believes that yoga has the power to transform lives because she has experienced it firsthand. Practicing yoga helped her to release relationships that were no longer serving her and to prioritize self care and wellness. When she shares this sacred practice with her students and clients, she offers them that same transformation by holding space for them to feel, to heal and to be empowered in a loving and nurturing environment. Whether you're looking to create sustainable self-care routines or bring mindfulness into the workplace, Naomi is eager to help you accomplish your holistic wellness goals.

Focuses: Vinyasa, Restorative & Trauma-Informed Yoga, Sustainable Self-Care and Mindfulness

Jennifer trained as a vinyasa yoga teacher. She creates inclusive energetic well-being experiences that allow beginners and confirmed practitioners to reconnect with their bodies, regain confidence and fully blossom on their life path.

Focuses: Vinyasa yoga, sonotherapy

Erin Julianna is a wellness practitioner helping families “Be Great on Purpose” through meditation, mindfulness and movement. Erin is certified in meditation and specializes in serving community school districts including parents, children, teachers and facility. “If you can breathe, you can meditate”

Focuses: School districts; parents, students, staff, teachers, and faculty

Soraya (she/her) is a yoga teacher from Trinidad and Tobago and based in Denver, CO. She completed her RYT 200 studying ashtanga and learning to teach vinyasa, was a part of Angie's DYT fall 2020 cohort, and is currently completing a 30-hour mobility programming and sequencing training. She leads a youth-civic engagement and organizing non-profit and co-teaches two courses on social justice and education as a tool for social change at CU Boulder. Her work includes storytelling for social change and how to align our values with the work that we do. She is also the founder and owner of Empathy Grown and is currently pursuing an MPA with a focus on Environmental Policy and Law.

Focuses: Grounding, Meditation, Active Vinyasa, Social Justice and Healing Justice through Yoga and Meditation

Ivory Levert is a certified yoga guide; infusing meditation, breathwork, and restorative postures through her vinyasa flow. She focuses on empowering individuals to reconnect their mind + body both on and off the yoga mat, helping folks learn their bodies, know when to challenge themselves and when to seek rest. Ivory teaches a beginner friendly class and aims to make her classes accessible and welcome to all body types, backgrounds and experiences. Ivory is inspired by the quote; “when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously allow others to do the same” and strives to be a light for herself and others in all aspects of her life.

Focuses: Slow Flow Vinyasa

Paige Mayes is a yoga instructor, actor, wellness coach and entrepreneur. Currently becoming certified with Yogi Beans in order to teach yoga to children. As well as becoming certified to guide prenatal vinyasa yoga for pregnant women. She is up for the challenge of blending all of her practices in order to uplift the Black community. Wellness is a way of life and unlocking the path to get there is going to take time but Paige knows with time, consistency and constantly showing up all thing are possible.

Focuses: Kids Yoga, Vinyasa Prenatal Yoga, Therapeutic movement, Sensual movement

Erin McIntire (she/they) is a Black certified yoga instructor (RYT-200), dancer/mover, lawyer, + activist. Erin is the Founder and Wellness Leader of erin floris flows, an online wellness community that offers sisters of color yoga to heal racial trauma + reclaim our wellness so that we collectively transform into liberated, empowered, and thriving communities.

Focuses: Yoga Nidra for Healing Racial Trauma, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Flow

I help Black Women reimagine wellness and unleash the freest version of themselves. My approach is inspired by the collective wisdom of Black women and informed by my experiences as a social worker and sexual health educator. Know Full Well coaching prioritizes intuitive knowledge, body respect, and pleasure.

Focuses: Radical self-care, Weight Neutral, Body Mindfulness

My name is Denisha and I am the owner and founder of Yoga Nisha, a wellness space where all are welcome and encouraged to embrace self. I am a proud Mama of 5. My goal is to create spaces that my children and future generations can connect with. Spaces where we are seen and heard. My mission is to provide a diverse group of individuals a safe space to have unique experiences that promote mindfulness, empowerment, and self-exploration. I believe that everyone should make time for themselves. Connection to one's mind, body and soul is the key to self-healing. Creating diverse wellness spaces is important to me as current wellness spaces lack diversity and resources to promote inclusivity. It’s time to shift wellness spaces, to promote mental and physical well-being for all. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Masters degree in Special Education.

I have been teaching Special education for 12 years. In addition to being an Intervention Specialist, I have been a Barre3 Instructor for the past 5 ½ years. In April of 2020 I became 200HR certified as a Vinyasa and slow flow teacher. In November of 2020, I became certified in Yin receiving an additional 50HR certification. Needless to say, I love to teach on many different levels. Teaching is my calling. To teach is to learn twice.

Focuses: Vinyasa, Yinyasa, Slow flow, and Yin

I am a Registered Nurse with 8 years of healthcare experience. Over the past 8 years in the healthcare setting, I have seen many people, specifically Black Women be diagnosed and suffer with Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Seeing my people struggle like this, including my own mom, I decided to become a Certified Yoga Instructor. I am passionate about showing Black Women how yoga can be used as a preventative measure to overcoming these chronic diseases. With my healthcare and yoga experience I have transformed Black Womens lives for the better.

Focuses: Vinyasa Yoga, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga

Danielle is dedicated to taking her practice on and off the mat, Danielle is a student and yoga teacher in the Vinyasa style. She remains vigilant to the daily tasks of mindfulness, embracing imperfections and residing in the gentle strength of self-inquiry. She weaves in thought provoking meditations, and encourages growth of the physical and spiritual self, while citing the common threads that connect us all to each other, to the world, and the universe at large.

Focuses: Yoga, Training and Retreat Specialist

Shakeelah Sutton is a yoga teacher and founder of the calm/cool collective, a wellness platform that offers healing through holistic wellness practices for BIPOC facing stress and trauma from their lived experiences, so that they can strengthen self-awareness, resiliency, and the ability to feel at ease in any given moment. Known for her calm yet edge-pushing teaching style, Shakeelah thoughtfully designs wellness experiences rooted in internal observation, breath awareness, and self-reclamation. With a master’s degree in exercise physiology and additional training in yin yoga, restorative yoga, trauma-informed yoga and pranayama, she artfully weaves yogic philosophy with science to provide students with a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of body and mind.

Focuses: Yin, Restorative, Slow Flow Vinyasa, Kids Yoga, Trauma-Informed

Melody is a board certified behavior analyst & yoga teacher who is passionate about making mental health resources more accessible for people of color. She has received training in behavior change strategies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and is focused on using this science together with yoga to help others improve their quality of living.

Focuses: Mindfulness, Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga

Sade Taylor is the founder of Kaya Therapeutic. A native of Sacramento, California, the City of Trees! Offering cannabis friendly yoga classes, pop up events, retreats and education. While aiming to serve the BIPOC and cannabis community. After recognizing there was a need for cannabis education and how infusing this precious plant into the yoga practice was beneficial for both the mind and body. It is imperative to spread knowledge about the cannabis plant while breaking the stigma on cannabis consumption in marginalized communities. She currently works in the cannabis industry and is a registered yoga instructor that specializes in accessible yoga for all bodies and race and equity.

Focuses: Accessible Yoga and Cannabis Wellness

Lonnie Webb, RYT 200, discovered yoga while navigating a difficult time in her life. She was introduced to yoga as an opportunity to manage her depression and now, over 13 years later, she continues to practice yoga to grow stronger both mentally and emotionally. An important lesson she has learned through her yoga practice is that even when life is at its messiest, you can show up on your mat and walk away feeling renewed. She started to see that the more time she found time to practice yoga, the more it became a powerful act of self care. As a yoga instructor, Lonnie’s goal is to create a safe space for all people, but in particular women of color and new yogis.

Her yoga offerings are all rooted in joy while incorporating breath exercises, affirmations, and meditation. In her class you will be motivated to tap into your inner power while learning to listen to what your body needs. Yoga is not about being able to do bendy and flexible moves–it is about showing up your most authentic self, listening to what your body needs and allowing your strength to show up in different aspects of your life off the mat. Lonnie’s hope is for her students to walk away feeling a sense of release and regained power.

Focuses: Beginner Vinyasa Flow, Gentle Yoga, Restorative, Kids Yoga

Paige is a Chicago-based yoga teacher dedicated to expanding the definition of who wellness is for. As the founder of Undone, a pop-up yoga and meditation experience for mind-body regeneration, she believes that the key to healing the world starts with inner work. Paige combines her experience as an athlete, writer, musician, and yoga instructor to help you find a sense of renewal that sticks.

Focuses: Teens Yoga, Yoga for Athletes, Yoga for Creatives, Yoga for Stress Relief