Meet our Instructors and Support Staff

  Alexandra "Alex" is a non-profit leader, mental health advocate, and E-RYT200/RYT500 yoga instructor in the South Florida community. 

Since 2017, she has woven her spunky and authentic personality into trauma-sensitive teachings across yoga studios, substance-use treatment centers, schools, homeless shelters, senior centers, and more. 

She’s trained in Trauma-Informed Yoga, Children’s Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Athletes and Adaptive Yoga. She leads with compassion and creatively brings her students back into connection with Mind and Body. Alex’s journey to the mat comes from her own struggles with anxiety, depression, and substance-use, and she has vowed to share the healing tools of the yoga practice as a way tocultivate self love, resilience, and ultimately community.

Allison was introduced to yoga in college and has since been a life-long practitioner. Allison credits yoga with helping her to balance the many “hats” that she is fortunate to wear in her life. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, professional musician, and clergy, who believes that exercise and yoga can help one to balance life and age in a graceful healthy manner.

Along life’s path, Allison had a health challenge that led her to experience and discover the art of energy healing. She is a certified Reiki Master, Karuna Reiki practitioner, and Jewish Energy Healer. She uses many of these techniques in her yoga classes, and her students enjoy and receive the benefits of “chanting and sound healing” through her use of Tibetan and crystal healing bowls.

Upon retiring as a professional musician in 2018, Allison delved into her yoga practice with a passion. She studied and earned her 200 HR RYT Yoga Alliance Teaching Certification in June of 2018 and began to teach yoga privately and in South Florida studios. Allison is certified in Restorative Yoga and T.R.Y. Trauma Recovery yoga. She holds certificates in Face Yoga and Sound healing. She has recently completed her 60-hr Yin Yoga certification with Bodsphere Health and Wellness, teachers Samarthya and PreetikaBhatnagar. Classes that she teaches include Yoga for Beginners, Gentle Flow, Candlelight Yoga, Vinyasa, Happy Hips Yoga, Chair Yoga, Jewish Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Restorative and Reiki (R & R).

Believing in the “he-ART” of Yoga, Allison’s classes combine a creative flowing sequence of poses including Pranayama (breath work) and meditation. Allison pays close attention to the alignment and safety of each student. It is her hope to inspire others to discover their mind, body and soul connection and to feel refreshed, renewed and balanced when they complete class. The benefits of yoga are many including strengthening, toning, flexibility, breathing, mental acuity and stress release. Allison loves teaching yoga and believes its lessons continue when you step off the mat and out into the world.

 Cathie feels blessed to be able to combine her love of teaching (taught in the schools as a Speech Pathologist for 35 years) with her love of Yoga. Although Cathie discovered Yoga “later in life,” she acknowledges that many prior activities- including playing tennis, running, and weight lifting, have led her to this “perfect place!” She was hired to teach “Gentle” Yoga the week that she turned 70, making that “milesetone” birthday all the sweeter!

The skinny on Cathie: nicknamed “Chatty Cathie” for a reason, she loves to talk…… but she’s a great listener as well. Inversions are her passion…. She can even talk while upside down!

Teaching Yoga Since: 2014

Trained in: Hatha yoga

Cathie’s Teachers: Dr. Steve and Darlene Feinzig

Cathie instructs the following: Gentle Yoga & Chair Yoga

Meet Jessica AKA The Foxyogi; Jess completed her first 200 hourTeacher Training with Shayna Palmer (Kelley) in 2018 and has been teaching ever since. In 2024 Jess traveled across the world to Koh Samui, Thailand to Vikasa and completed her 300 Hour Teacher Training with Jonah Kest in the Seven Doorways of Vinyasa Method. In Thailand Jess also trained with Daniel Rama, Kosta Miachin, Heidi Helmer, Mikey Lazano, Niki Lundberg, Alexy Vyazovov and Jovan Tevin. Jess has also co-facilitated 200 Hour Teacher Trainings in this method with Lesley Carney, 500 ERYT YCEP. Jess has advanced training in Anatomy and is a level II Reiki Practitioner as well as a level 1 Animal Flow Instructor. Jess loves sharing yoga with students of all levels; as a teacher but also as a forever student of yoga. Jess is a lawyer by trade and has worked in the field of Child Welfare for nearly 20 years. Being trained in the law taught her to be methodical and precise; yoga makes her feel free and this intersection is where she finds her balance. 

Jess sees yoga as a beautiful practice of discipline and control harmonizing with surrender, flow, and acceptance; it is a blueprint for living where people have space to connect to their higher selves and understand that we are in the driver’s seat as to how we navigate the highs and lows of life. Yoga helps us develop our equanimity; a state of composure and calm no matter the situation. Jess loves teaching all levels; believes yoga is for every body and loves alignment and anatomy. Jess teaches power, vinyasa, Ashtanga, yoga 101, slow flow, restorative and yin. Jess believes in honoring your body and that your practice can look different every day; that learning to breathe consciously in conjunction with intelligent sequencing of poses can help get your body in shape, change your perspective and calm the mind. Connecting with students through their stories and the evolution of their practice is incredibly gratifying. Jess loves that yoga can never be perfected or completed, her mission is to make classes accessible and humorous yet challenging and help students achieve balance in their lives. 

E-RYT 500 & YACEP 

Michele C. is a native New Yorker who loves to cultivate her artistic and creative core with the spiritual and meditative teachings of yoga. Her two top character traits include, “Learner” and “Achiever”, as she truly enjoys being a student, almost as much as teaching and sharing yoga. After twenty years as a media- marketing professional in the corporate sector, Michele opted to use her business savvy and solid interpersonal skills to cross over into the healing realm that yoga provides. She received her RYT 200 certification in “Hatha Mindful Alignment” from Yoga 1 in 2014, with her teachers Dr. Steve and Darlene Feinzig, and her RYT 300 advanced yoga training, as part of “The Alchemy of Flow and Form”, from the San Marcos School of Yoga, with Christina Sell and Gioconda Parker, in 2017. Most recently, she has completed her E-RYT 500 hour accreditation, and has received certifications for: Yoga for First Responders | Kidding Around Yoga (KAY – kidsyoga) | Y Medica - for students undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment | Yoga Nidra | Yin Yoga - with Master Paulie Zink, and later this year will study with Bernie Clark. Her teaching style fosters a safe and supportive class environment for students to develop and practice yoga at any level. She continuously works to provide a class balance that utilizes solid foundation and alignment with modifications and progressions, allowing students to “deepen” their practice, as they see fit. Her goal is for students to leave every class – smiling and feeling great.

Michele holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from New York University – Stern School of Business, and is an avid animal rights advocate, who works with local and national rescue groups.a parle français 

Laura has been teaching yoga since 2008, and is certified in various forms of practice including hatha, hot yoga, vinyasa, yin, mindfulness and meditation. Her love for yoga started as a child, andremains a part of her approach to living mindfully with compassion every day. Laura's other loves include acting, dance, baking, travelling, her family and her two dogs, Kai and Frankie. 

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MusTafa has over 15 years of practice experience, his extensive yoga training started in California and continued in Florida. He completed his 200 YTT at I Love Yoga in 2018.

He is born in Germany, originally from Turkey, living in South Florida for 25 years, He is blessed with a wonderful daughter, Layla. His specialty is Vinyasa and Hot Yoga. He believes in Play Explore Love in Life with harmony.

Feel free to drop into any of his all-levels classes for a unique, balanced yoga experience and connect in Joy. 

MusTafa creates a unique environment for vinyasa which allows for exploration of the body through movement. You will be guided by a dynamic flow sequence in coordination with the breath. 

Hot Yoga- Yoga modality which takes place in a hot room where you can push your body to desire limits through a vinyasa inspired flow. Come in and enjoy the connection with your inner self.

Meet Rachelle. With over 15 years of personal practice, Rachelle is a dedicated, passionate yoga teacher who completed her 200hr YTT Fall of 2024 with SoFlo Yoga School Lead by Lesley Carney and Jessica Boxer. Her training provided in depth teaching in asana, pranayama and meditation which a specialized focus on Vinyasa Yoga (a dynamic and energetic practice that cultivates internal heat to support physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing). Rooted in the principals of the 7 Doorways of Vinyasa Yogaby Johnny Kest and influenced by the Ashtanga Yoga lineage, her classes emphasize creative, breath-linked sequencing. Her Power classes offer a fast-paced, invigorating flow to inspire strength and endurance, while balancing moments of yin to restore and ground. 

In addition to being a yoga teacher, she is a registered nurse with a Masters degree in Nursing Education. She is deeply passionate about teaching and mentoring, both on the yoga mat and in her work as a preceptor training new nurses to thrive in their roles. Her goal is to empower students to explore their unique expression of movement. Through a blend of structure and free-flow, her teaching fosters growth, healing and connection at every level. 

Rita has been teaching yoga since 2012 after completing her teacher training at Yogaworks in New York City. She continued her education by completing a 100 hourRestorative training with Jillian Pransky. Rita is a native New Yorker, andmoved to South Florida in 2014 to live a life with more sunshine and less stress. She teaches vinyasa flow with a strong focus on alignment and breath. While she loves teaching all levels of yoga, Rita has a special place in her heart for those just starting on their yoga journey. Yoga has the power to transform us on many levels and Rita feels that watching this process in her students is one of the greatest gifts of teaching.  

 Owner of Yoga 1 

RYT 500, CGFI

Rosie’s fitness career began as a young teenager instructing an assortment of dance classes in high school and continued through college while earning her AA specializing in Modern Dance and a BSBM from the University of Phoenix. She spent over 20 years in leadership roles in commercial aviation. Rosie holds the Certified Group Fitness Instructor designation through AFAA, the RYT 500 designation from Yoga Alliance.  Rosie is also Yin and Restorative certified, and has a variety of Zumba licenses to include: CirclMobility™, Zumba®, Zumba Gold® and Zumba Toning®

Rosie is laser focused and committed to bringing joy, happiness and mindfulness for those she interacts with and is the proud owner of Yoga 1.

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Semone was drawn to the practice of yoga over 15 years ago as a way of dealing with the stress of her corporate job and international travel. Falling in love with the alignment techniques and teachings of both Iyengar and Anusara yoga styles, Semone completed her 200 hr teacher training at Yoga 1 in 2017 while living in Florida and started teaching immediately. With a strong passion for learning, she then went on to complete her 500 RYT with Trace Bonner at Holy Cow Yoga studio in Charleston, SC. 

Now semi-retired from her Corporate world, Semone splits her time between corporate consulting, yoga and travel, and is excited to be back in the South Florida sunshine!

Semone is also certified in Pre-Natal, Yin, and Gentle/Restorative yoga disciplines and sits on the Board of Yoga4Change, a non-profit focused on providing trauma-informed yoga to the incarcerated and those struggling with addiction and PTSD.

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Sophie aspires to help those around her in a more balanced lifestyle, bring peacefulness and inner harmony in our busy life and challenging times. She has the enthusiasm and desire to share some of her tools: Sound and vibrational therapy and Qigong Flow practice.

Her path in energy work started 17 years ago with a strong foundation in Ayurveda (Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coaching and Ayurvedic Dietetics) she also received the 200 hour certification in Kundalini Yoga in 2012. 

Suffering from a neck injury she started to look for gentle therapies and softer practices. She discovered the sound and vibrational therapy using tuning forks on acupuncture points and experienced their profound effects. Shortly after she became a practitioner (Acutonics) and combined this therapy with a variety of sound healing instruments. She has been leading private and group sound journeys since 2015.

Naturally she expanded her knowledge in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and energy work practicing Qigong: a safe practice for all, combining gentle movements with conscious breath to cultivate our life force energy (Qi) and allow it to circulate smoothly throughout our body and energy fields. She discovered Qigong in 2019 and “fell in love” with the practice. Since then she has been practicing on a daily basis, studying and teaching it, to become certified in 2022. Qigong flow has become her core practice as she has experienced its benefits in her daily life. She is excited to share with others this practice that is becoming more and more popular but that is not yet well-known. Truly a practice to discover and experience!

Besides her knowledge in yogic breathing techniques, Sophie learned Buddhism and Daoist breathwork, and was also certified as a Conscious Connected Breath (CCB) facilitator in 2023. CCB is a specific breathing technique to help release energies that no longer serve us and connect with our True Self, our inner wisdom.

Sophie is inviting you to a journey of learning, practicing and experiencing through sound healing therapy and Qigong practice: When balance and harmony set in, it results in a sense of well-being and peacefulness, it enables our self healing abilities!

Level 3 Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT) & Certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

 Yogarosa is made in Brazil with Mexican ingredients, Rosa Lopez Santana, is recognized internationally as a voice on the healing powers of Iyengar Yoga since 1995. She is the Founder of Yogarosa, based in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami Area. Suffering from back and neck pain and depression for years after numerous accidents, she discovered a pain free and hopeful life in the ancient practice and teachings of BKS Iyengar.

She mentors and empowers others to embark on the pursuit of peace in body and mind. She continues her quest for understanding in her own practice, andcontinues her studies with teachers from The Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune. 

The Iyengar class will be taught by a rotation of Yogarosa Iyengar Certified Teachers. 

These instructors have all endured a rigorous mentorship training program, which guarantees that the teachers are highly trained and qualified to teach this method of yoga in a safe and systematic manner to all levels of pupils.