kevin lamb
Kevin (he/him/his) began studying and practicing yoga in 2000, and has been certified Yoga Alliance since 2005. On the mat, Kevin discovered the deep healing possible with consistency, mindfulness and dedication, key elements learned and shared on his journey of acceptance and transformation. In his teaching, he weaves alignment cues and philosophy into the framework of movement, to bring to light that which is good and true within each of us.
A consummate student of yoga and seeker of wholehearted living, he achieved his full Reiki Master initiation in 2015 and has been applying this, crystal healing, and other energy modalities to all that he does.
An avid practitioner and seeker of greater learning possibilities, Kevin does his utmost to bring enthusiasm & whole heart into the room, commanding large spaces with professionalism, fun and vibrancy.
Known for his lighthearted approach, clarity and creativity, Kevin’s classes are challenging, inspiring and dedicated to helping people of all ages experience the joys of a yoga practice and conscious living.
Currently Kevin teaches weekly and monthly classes and workshops in New York City, as well as retreats and trainings worldwide.
kyle marshall
Kyle Marshall (he/him) aims to cultivate a practice for his students that teaches them to move with grace, love, and care. He believes many of the answers to our biggest questions lie in the body, if we ask them with gentleness. Kyle guides his students through intelligently sequenced poses, helping them to build a quiet and loving practice rooted in the belief that the way we move on the mat is the way we move through life. He has been teaching yoga since 2011. Originally from Toronto, he moved to NYC in 2015, and currently lives in Bedstuy, Brooklyn.
lara kohn thompson
A licensed massage therapist, perinatal trainer, educator and mentor, Lara (she/her) has been teaching Yoga and involved with women's health since the early 2000s. Building on a successful dance career in her native France, Lara brings her extensive experience with movement and bodywork as well as a French expertise in perinatal care to both her teaching and her bodywork practice.
While maintaining a vibrant private practice, Lara also offers weekly Yoga classes, Yoga teacher trainings and continuing education workshops for both movement and health professionals. She is co-founder of the perinatal program at Bend and Bloom Yoga. She is a contributor and trainer for the Integral Yoga Institute, Kula Yoga Project, Wanderlust and most recently, Shaktiyoga NY in Brooklyn and the Centre de Yoga du Marais in Paris, France. www.larakohnthompson.com
lindsay ashmun
Lindsay (sher/her) teaches the kind of yoga classes that she likes to take: alignment-smart, core-deep, sweaty Vinyasa that synchronizes the body and breath in an athletic and graceful flow. Lindsay has been teaching Yoga since 2002 and Pilates since 2003. Her formal studies in movement began when she was three, as a student of classical ballet and modern dance. Lindsay has toured internationally and taught extensively as a professional dancer since 2000, most of her adult life.
The short version goes like this: In 1994, when Lindsay was 16, she was introduced to Swami Satchidananda and completed her first yoga training at his ashram in Virginia. Seeking deeper application of the creative process and somatic awareness, Lindsay moved to Oakland, CA, where she studied Vinyasa with Rodney Yee, Restorative Yoga with Sarah Means, and Somatic Movement Therapy with pioneer Martha Eddy, PhD at Moving On Center.
After completing her somatic movement therapy training, Lindsay transferred her home to Boulder, CO in 1999. It was there that she received her degree in InterArts within the Buddhist tradition at Naropa University, her yoga teacher certification from Richard Freeman at the Yoga Workshop, and Pilates certification from the renowned Pilates Center. Since living in NYC, she has continued to practice and study with brilliant teachers of movement and stillness, including Irene Dowd, Gerald Casel, Schuyler Grant, Jennifer Elliot, Barbara Mahler, her one year old son Jackson Welch, and NYC herself.
luisanna tejada
Luisanna (she/her) started practicing yoga in the year of 2010. She was always trying to find love outside of herself when the most important love of all is within. Yoga changed her life. It has allowed her to apply the lessons of patience, endurance and acceptance to everyday life. When she teaches, her goal is to create an experience for you. Whether it be through the music she plays or the sound of your own breath. At the end of the day this is your practice. When teaching, she focuses her energy on creating a learning environment that supports you while nourishing your spirit--not just helping you find ‘the perfect pose’ because no one knows your body quite like YOU. And that was one of the many lessons she gained through yoga. Now, she is ready to hand you this gift.
margaret mann
Margaret (she/her) has had many careers: child actor, dancer, puppeteer, dish washer, restaurant manager, stylist, producer, photo agent, yoga teacher, instagram fitness enthusiast …and again, yoga teacher. A lifelong tenet of hers has always been to live a life embodied, at one with movement and occasional muscle soreness, and breath. In 2002, after spending a a childhood in gymnastic classes, an adolescence in ballet classes and an early adult life training and auditioning for dance rolls, she skeptically took her first yoga class, and was pleasantly surprised. There were no mirrors, no competition, no expectations and there were no rewards. She was immediately drawn to the symmetry, detail, intelligence, sweaty physicality, and the anonymity of the vinyasa practice. To this day she thanks Jeremy Fahey, aka Pure Jai, for that steady and selfless introduction.
Margaret was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Indiana and lives her adult life in New York. She completed her yoga training with Isaac Pena and Jude English at Sankalpah Yoga in 2009, she was a mentor and a course specific module instructor in the Kula Yoga Teacher Training program from 2015-2020, and celebrated many budding yoga teachers.
She has been teaching group yoga classes in NYC for 12+ years at Sankalpah Yoga, Park Slope Yoga, Pure Yoga, Kula Yoga Project and Bend + Bloom Yoga. She has lead repeat retreats in The Catskills, Costa Rica, and Miami. You can expect her classes to be challenging, disciplined, forgiving, on time, and always with good music.
oceana baity
Oceana teaches a precise and challenging class that is rooted in creative and intelligent sequencing, breath-centered movement and finding still points to land. You can expect to flow, breathe, work out the kinks, reconnect to yourself, and have space to do your own thing in her class. Great playlists are also guaranteed. Her goal is to create a road map to hone her student's attention and cultivate their energy so that they can step off the mat and back into life more centered, conscientious and content. She believes yoga offers a unique path to self inquiry, embodiment and alignment (both physical and energetic) and hopes her classes help others cultivate and connect more deeply to themselves and their human experience.
Oceana (she/her) has been teaching yoga for over two decades. After taking her first yoga class in college, the northern California-native immediately fell in love with the practice and completed her first teacher training in 2001 at Om Yoga Center. Although she thought she would continue to pursue a career in publishing, literature and books, she switched course and began teaching immediately and the rest... is, well, history. As well as being a senior teacher at Kula Yoga, she has taught for over 2 decades at Park Slope Yoga and has led workshops and retreats in the Catskills, Miami, Italy, and Costa Rica. In 2011 she graduated from the Tri-State College of Acupuncture. She has a private practice in Soho and Park Slope where she specializes in trigger point release for pain conditions and sport's injuries, cosmetic acupuncture and women's health. You can learn more about her here: https://oceanabaityacupuncture.com/
ross erin martineau
Ross (she/her) discovered yoga in college after being a dancer for most of her young life. She felt yoga had what dance didn’t: A whole-body approach, a focus on breathing, and the use of movement as relief. She became deeply connected to the practice. In 2018, Ross completed her 200 hour YTT at New Love City in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Then in 2020, inspired by her own pregnancy and a desire to connect with kids, teens, and beginners, Ross completed Kids YTT through OmSchooled.
As a teacher, Ross prioritizes making movement and breath work accessible to kids, teens, and adults alike. She strives to assist people in finding freedom in their bodies through movement. Her classes are constructed with the beginner in mind while offering challenges to those who are interested. Connecting mind, body, and spirit while encouraging self discovery and compassion, Ross hopes to help people of all ages to realize their potential to be their own best teacher.
shamina rao
Born in India, and growing up in the Far East and parts of Africa, Shamina (she/her) brings what she has absorbed from the teachings of these different cultures over the years to her classes and believes in the benefits of yoga for ALL people. She has been teaching yoga for over 13 years in Brooklyn studios. She has taught workshops for teens and young adults at NYC Schools and Pratt Institute that encompass asana, pranayama and meditation to build self-confidence, self-awareness and mostly, self-love at an early age. She is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, birth doula, and teaches yoga for pregnancy and labor. Her teaching is grounded in the hatha tradition and her classes are a blend of mindful sequencing with pranayam, meditation, mudra and a focus on finding balance within oneself, on and off the mat.
thai james
Thai James (he/him) is originally from Kansas and has been in New York for 15 years now. Thai discovered yoga in college, while studying dance and music. As a classically trained cellist, Thai completed a minor in music performance and continues to play with a community orchestra and choir. He found yoga fulfilling and more accessible than dance and wanted to know more, and received his 200-hr certification with Julie Dohrman at Bend + Bloom Yoga. Thai is a cheerleader for his community and loves connecting with others fitness professionals by taking classes, workshops and traveling abroad for retreats. Inspired by Heather Seagraves while in Italy, Thai completed his 300-hr with her and YogaWorks in New York City. Spontaneously, in Costa Rica, Thai added an equine yoga certification in 2022, focusing on the harmony of human and horses, with Kindred Spirits Wellness. He continues to inspire others through movement by finding a flow that is authentic and inclusive.
tina goldstein
After performing professionally as a modern dancer for over 20 years, Tina (she/her) began her training with Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga and practiced at Laughing Lotus as well as with many other teachers. She received her 200 hour certification at Brooklyn Yoga School and while pregnant, received her prenatal certification from Beth Donnelly Caban and Lara Thompson Kohn at Integral Yoga. Later, she received her postpartum certification from Beth and Lara at Integral Yoga as well, which led her to become a certified postpartum doula and breastfeeding counselor. She also facilitates the New Mothers Support Group at Bend + Bloom and is a New Parent Educator -in- training.
Her motivation for teaching prenatal and postpartum yoga is to provide support to help mothers develop their physical strength, their breathing practice, as well as a sense of well-being while providing a space to come together as a community. Tina supports mothers in order to enrich their lives; offering tools for better health, self-awareness and to gain confidence in their bodies, as well as themselves as parents, during the perinatal time. www.motherher.com
tracy balzano
In her teaching of Yoga, Tracy (she/her) is focused on inclusivity. Regardless of experience, shape, age, level of fitness, perceived flexibility or lack thereof she will make the practice yours. Studying with her, you can expect an open flow practice with adjustments for varying experience levels. She approaches her classes holistically, and includes opportunities for the physical practice, breath work, meditation and joy.
The modern yoga practice is fraught with interpretation and for today’s instructor, taking all the available information and personalizing it comes with responsibility to the practice. Tracy works hard to continue her studies, integrate complementary elements and deliver classes that instill a sense of curiosity about our bodies, minds and spirits.
Tracy earned her initial 200 hour certification studying with Heidi Fokine at The Giving Room in Southold, New York where she also served as a mentor for subsequent teacher trainings. Tracy holds an additional 500 hour certification from ISHTA Yoga where she studied with Alan Finger, Sarah Finger, Mona Anand, Peter Ferko, Kelly Eudailey and Kristin Leal. Other teachers she credits with assisting her on her journey include Chrissy Carter, Julie Dohrman and so many others. She approaches every class, as a teacher or student, as an opportunity to learn something new and looks forward to continuing her Yoga education daily.
E-RYT 200