STEP ONTO THE MAT

Explore beginner-friendly and advanced classes that move energy and release what you carry

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.

Jyll teaches Urban Power Monday and Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 9:30am. She teaches Urban Unwind on Tuesdays at 7pm, Urban Mixer on Thursdays at 9:30am and Super Soul Sunday on Sundays at 10am.

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.

Jikta teaches Urban Community on Wednesdays at 7am.

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.

Katie teaches Urban Community on Mondays at 9:30am.

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.

Tamara teaches Release, Regain, Cultivate on Mondays at 12:30pm.

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.

Margo teaches Urban Community Wednesdays and Fridays at 12pm.

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.

Morgan teaches Urban Community on Wednesdays at 6:30pm.

LAITH

Laith Ayogu is an ashtanga yoga practitioner, aspirant, writer and artist of Igbo descent working and living in Lenapehoking "Brooklyn, New York." Raised in post-Apartheid South Africa, their multidisciplinary practice traces technologies of homecoming, resistance, decolonisation and liberation by returning to the self, the sangha and earth. Work that feels urgent in the wake of dislocation, grief and illness across the Black Atlantic and Global South.

Utilising the indigenous Science of Yoga as somatic syllabus, their pedagogy synchronises mind, body and breath to calm the nervous system, produce a sense of peace and bring students into present awareness. The method draws upon classical Hatha Yoga practices (asana, pranayama, kriyas), Ashtanga Yoga philosophy of Maharishi Patanjali, in the lineage of Shri T. Krishnamacharya, the wisdom of The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita and the Tattva Bodha of Sankracharaya.

A certified Pranayama Instructor (Level I: Yoga Education College, NYC) and Yoga Teacher (300hr: Yoga Institute est. 1918 Mumbai, India) Ayogu is under the tutelage of Eddie Stern at the Broome Street Ganesha temple and maintains a daily Ashtanga practice in the Mysore tradition under the caring facility of Michael Guio and supervision of Shraddha Jois.

Laith teaches Urban Mysore-Ashtanga Yoga on Mondays and Fridays at 7 am and Urban Sangraha on Sundays at 6pm.

OLUWAKEMI

Oluwakemi Aladesuyi is a yoga instructor, journalist and ceramicist. In the past decade practicing yoga, she has found a path to presence and a deeper connection to her intuition.

As a teacher, she is committed to creating warm, inviting spaces where students can focus on breath, alignment and their own inner strength and confidence. She believes that yoga is a homecoming, a practice that brings us back to ourselves when so much of the world seeks to pull us away. It is this transformative power that drives her passion for sharing yoga with others. 

In 2025 she completed her 200-hour Teacher Training at The Shala in Fort Greene. She is grateful for the mentorship of Annie Piper and Barbara Verrochi in her teaching journey and continues her studies in the Mysore Ashtanga tradition with Maria Rubinate.

200-hr Yoga Teacher Training ,Y oga Alliance Certified.

Oluwakemi teaches Urban Community classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 am.

Simon

Simon teaches Urban Community classes on Thursdays at 12:30 pm, Fridays at 6:30pm , and Saturdays at 12:30pm.

MONSTAH

Monstah ’s teaches Urban Pulse: Mindful Movement + Barefoot Expression on Wednesdays at 8 pm.

ADVAITHA

Advaitha Bhavanasi is a Hatha Yoga teacher. The ethos of their teaching style is to mirror truth in people and support students as their bodies uncover truth within themselves - helping people connect deeper to themselves and others. As a South Asian teacher they are trying to bring more of my holistic perspective of yoga to the co-opted white yoga industry that focuses on yoga for the soul.

 Advaitha teaches Urban Community classes on Tuesdays at 7am and 12:30 pm.