Jyll

Jyll Hubbard-Salk, a yoga practitioner for 30 years and certified in various traditions, opened Urban Asanas in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2009.  She aimed to create an inclusive studio reflecting her diverse training and personal style, specifically welcoming Black women who felt marginalized elsewhere.  In 2018, Urban Asanas moved to a larger location, expanding into a wellness center in 2019.  Jyll offers free community classes for local tradeswomen and has taught extensively outside the studio, including kid's yoga and serving as a Lululemon Ambassador. Beyond yoga, she is a certified doula and holds a third-degree reiki certification. Her work has been featured in Essence, Ebony, and Yoga Bodies, among other media.

jitka

Jitka is a 300hrs+ yoga teacher in the hatha yoga and Tibetan heart yoga tradition. Her passion is in the so-called “household yogi” tradition rather than monastic lineages, a philosophy inviting yoga into everybody’s life, lifestyle, and pace of life. 

She specializes in a combination of yoga with TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), where knowledge of energy pathways in the body as well as acupressure are used to deepen the practice and the feeling of the inseparable connection of the body, mind, and spirit. 

Jitka is an Acupuncture Detoxification and holistic health specialist, involving simple and safe modalities such as acupressure, cupping, moxa, guacha, massage ball therapy, and Qi Gong. She is a certified shiatsu practitioner (200 hrs+) and believes from the deepest depth of her heart that community, togetherness, and love are the means to heal ourselves and the world. 

She holds community healing events, teaches self-healing, and volunteers at harm reduction facilities and anywhere else where compassion, love, and being human with all its ups and downs are needed. One love.

katie

A yogi of over 25 years, Katie is a radical creative hailing from the blessed coast. She received her 200-hour yoga and reiki certification in 2011 with Deborah Hanekamp @Mamamedicine and has led classes in studios, gardens, women’s shelters and arts venues throughout the US, UK and Asia. In 2019, she complete a Trauma-Sensitive YTT with the Lineage Project. A long-time student of Siri Rishi, her practice fuses Hatha-Vinyasa with selected Kundalini techniques; encompassing the sacred alchemy of asana, mantra and pranayama breath work. A pioneer of Hip Hop Yoga, Katie’s transformational work lies under a sacred canopy of co-created ritual and magic to align with higher consciousness. 

Follow her on instagram @parvati_slice

margo

Margo L Terry aka luxlun (250 RYT) is a yogi and multimedia artist born and based in Brooklyn. Margo offers dynamic yoga classes inspired by Hatha and Vinyasa traditions. She guides her students through a sequence of breath work, intentional movement, and meditation to ease and strengthen the mind, body, and spirit.

tamara

Tamara Thomas is an educator, performing artist and choreographer. After receiving her undergraduate degree, she toured with Chuck Davis' African American Dance Ensemble. While completing her Master in Fine Arts in Dance at Temple University, she served as a member of Kariamu and Company Traditions and Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble.  In addition to being a performing artist, as a choreographer, she has shown her works at events and venues such as World Café Live, the Temple Black Alumni Arts Showcase, the Black Women's Arts Festival, the International African Arts Festival, the American College Dance Association Regional Conference, the Chale Wote Arts festival in Accra, Ghana and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 

Her artistic vision involves the integration of arts and community development. This focus has been shared with various community based organizations both nationally and internationally and drove the creation of The Nkonsonkonson Afrikan Youth Ensemble in Kingston, Jamaica. She has provided instruction in various capacities at Temple University, the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts in the School of Dance, the University of Georgia, Goucher College, and Medgar Evers College.  She is currently a Health and Nutrition Life Coach, Doula and Yogi and has founded Sola’s Wellness Garden – Health Nutrition Coaching and Doula Services.

MORGAN

Morgan is a physical therapist assistant and yoga teacher who has been practicing yoga for over a decade and teaching since 2017. She loves to create athletic classes that challenge participants to move their bodies in creative ways to build strength, balance, and mobility that can translate to other activities they enjoy off the mat. Her goal is to make everyone who takes her classes feel like yoga is accessible for them by providing a fun and non-judgmental space for people to grow in their practice and try new things.

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