Becca Gill

Becca Gill

RYT-200

Becca has been practicing yoga for almost two decades, exploring many styles and studios, both near and far. New to Roanoke, Becca, like many of us, found continued peace, community, and solace in yoga during the pandemic and was inspired to complete a 200 hour yoga teacher training.

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Beth Polk

Beth Polk

RYT-500

Beth has been practicing yoga since 2008 and is a graduate of the Uttara 200 & 300hr YTT programs. Her practice and teaching have been transformational in both her work and her life. It has been and continues to be a gift.

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Dawnbee Fair

Dawnbee Fair

CYT-200

Dawnbee began practicing yoga in 2019. Although she had taken classes before, this time was different. Her practice quickly began to deepen as she realized that yoga gave her space to be in awe of the body, and to calm an anxious mind.

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Elizabeth Kolendrianos

Elizabeth Kolendrianos

RYT-500

Elizabeth received her 200 Yoga Teacher Training certification through a comprehensive program at the Marianne Wells Yoga School in Cahuita, Costa Rica. She then went on to pursue her 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training certification through Uttara Yoga Studio. She is currently registered through the Yoga Alliance.

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Gabrielle Kidd

Gabrielle Kidd

RYT-200

Gabrielle began her yoga path 4 years ago after being gifted a mat and DVD from a loved one. She began a gentle home practice and attending classes. Yoga began to unveil a whole new level of gratitude for life, spirit, and the physical body.

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Harrilyn Mills

Harrilyn Mills

Harrilyn Mills started her yoga journey at Uttara in 2009. From her very first yoga class to now, she continues to be uplifted by the soul-warming light of the teachers and students that pass through the studio doors. Harrilyn completed her yoga teacher training in 2014 at Uttara and has since received certifications in restorative yoga, yin yoga, somatic yoga, and meditation.

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Harvey Murdoch

Harvey Murdoch

CYT-200

Harvey has been practicing Yoga since 2019 starting with a Yoga Life Transformation Course and continuing with 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, both at Uttara Yoga Studio. Through the Yoga Teacher Training Program he encountered the teachings of Goswami Kriyananda, whose philosophy continues to form the core of his practice.

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Jeremy Price

Jeremy Price

NFPT-CPT

Jeremy Price is a Fitness Trainer with a studious passion for Functional Training and Intrinsic Well-being. During his 17 year tenure performing with Stomp, Jeremy sustained and recovered from numerous career-threatening injuries. It was during this time that Jeremy’s relationship with recovery became a passion for prevention.

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Kimberly Vest

Kimberly Vest

E-RYT-500, YACEP

Kimberly has been practicing, studying and teaching yoga for the past 35 years. A Salem, VA native, she lived in Seattle, WA for many years where she owned her own yoga studio. Kimberly teaches many different styles of yoga with her foundational training rooted in the Integral Yoga tradition, and she is a direct student of Sri Swami Satchidananda.

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Laura Leonard

Laura Leonard

E-RYT 200, Owner

Laura began her journey on the yogic path over 15 years ago while living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She knew immediately that the practice of yoga would become a consistent thread weaving throughout the fabric of her life.

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Leilani Dibble

Leilani Dibble

Leilani’s first yoga experience was a class that her sister took her to over 20 years ago in San Francisco. She has since been practicing and teaching around the world from Russia to Australia, London to Honolulu. Classically trained as a dancer, Leilani instantly fell in love with the dance that is yoga.

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Marta Regn

Marta Regn

CYT-200

Marta fell in love with meditation and yoga while in an Eastern religions course in college, and after six years of practicing, she completed her teacher training in 2022. As a student of the unified philosophy, she brings elements from all branches into her practice, and her teaching is guided by the belief that yoga is for everyone and all bodies.

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Martha Kastler

Martha Kastler

Martha Kastler is a believer in not giving up no matter what the circumstances! She feels we are drops in the same vast ocean subject to the rise and fall of each unique wave that comes our way. For her yoga practice allows her to ride the waves of life rather than be swallowed by them.

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Natalie Kerschner

Natalie Kerschner

RYT-200

Natalie has been practicing yoga for twelve years, and is a graduate of the 200-Hour Uttara Teacher Training program. She first came to yoga through workout DVDs, approaching it as a way to bring some variety into a workout routine. Several years later while working in a stressful environment, she noticed how yoga helped her to breathe deeply.

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Ninette Carnevale

Ninette Carnevale

Ninette is a graduate of the Uttara Yoga Teacher Training program. During her training she noticed a very distinct difference of what most athletes could do in class versus traditional “yogis”. That is when she knew she wanted to bring yoga to athletes.

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Precious McCullough

Precious McCullough

CYT-200

Precious McCullough has been practicing yoga for eight years and is a graduate of the 200 hr Uttara Yoga Teacher Training Program. She has a background in Microbiology and Immunology, with an undergraduate degree in Clinical Laboratory Science from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

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Sally Wesley

Sally Wesley

E-RYT 500, Ayurvedic Wellness Coach

Sally found inspiration from her very first yoga class. She began a continuous quest for knowledge by completing over 500 hours of yoga teacher training at Uttara, and a 300 hour Ayurvedic Studies Program with Katie Silcox at Shakti School. Her goal was to deepen her understanding of health and wellness from a more holistic viewpoint.

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Steve Hetherington

Steve Hetherington

Steve has been an athlete all his life, and is an All-American distance runner and has been a competitive bicycle road racer, tri-athlete and mountain bike racer. During his years as a personal trainer he was exposed to yoga and added it to his training routine in 2002.

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Vanessa 'Vani' Fassie Moses

Vanessa 'Vani' Fassie Moses

RYT-500

Vani is a Roanoke native and has an extensive background in teaching Dance and the Arts with a B.A. in Dance and an M.A.L.S from Hollins University as well as a M.F.A. in Photo/Film from VCU. In 2008 she graduated from the Richmond, VA Integral Yoga® 200hr teacher training program taught by Nora ‘Vimala’ Pozzi.

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Wendi Wagner

Wendi Wagner

E-RYT 200, YACEP, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Mentor

With a background in dance education, a foundation in somatic practices, and an interest in neuroscience, Wendi contemplates how yoga might offer support for recovering and re-building resilience in the nervous system. Beginning her yoga practice in 1998, she has studied with teachers of ashtanga, jivamukti, yin, and tantra, ayurveda, mudra and mantra.

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