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Instructor – Hot 26 and Buti Yoga
Chelsea took her first Bikram yoga class in 2008 in Chicago and fell in love with the challenge and benefits of this yoga. After playing college soccer and running marathons in her 20’s, she loved finding a similar level of intensity in the 26&2 series without the constant pounding on the body. She later moved to Cincinnati where there was no hot studio, so within the next 2 years, she completed the Bikram training and opened the first hot yoga studio in Cincinnati. Chelsea relocated to Nashville in 2015 with her family (2 kids, husband, and 2 dogs) and is excited to share her passion for this series with the East Nashville yoga community!
Instructor – Hot 26, Power Flow and Buti
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Yoga Experience: First class was at Bikram Yoga Seattle 13 years ago. She reluctantly went with her room mate but was haunted by that first class until she went back again and again, and eventually became a daily hot yoga junkie.
Hobbies: road trips, hiking, cycling, running with girlfriends, and creating new businesses.
Most Daring Thing: Sold off everything I owned, left my friends, family and security to drive to Nashville with the dream of opening a hot yoga studio in the neighborhood of East Nashville.
Instructor – 200-hr RYT, Baptiste-Certified
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Yoga Experience: She started practicing in 2015 on a whim and practices Power Flow, Buti, Yin, and is learning to enjoy Hot 26!
Main Gig: Meghan is a High School English teacher
Loves: One cat and one pug!
Favorite TV Shows: The Office and The Golden Girls
Most Daring Thing: "hanging out" on the edge of a cliff in the Aran Islands
Instructor – 200-hr RYT
Hometown: Memphis TN.
Yoga Experience: 4 years of practice in Vinyasa and Hot 26 yoga. He has recently started sprinkling Bhakti Yoga into his practice.
Main & Side Gigs: Kirk is a payroll specialist by day and waits tables a couple nights a week as another side hustle.
Hobbies: creating and collecting art, discovering amazing music, and exploring realms of consciousness.
Loves: two grown children, and 5 lovely house plants.
Favorite Books: the Codex Seraphinianus, the Bhagavad Gita, and an of Jim Woodring's Frank books
Most Daring Thing: Leaving his hometown to move to San Francisco at 19, after hatching the plan the night before with a girl he barely knew. We abandoned our broken-down car in the middle of Texas to continue our adventure by thumb - dead broke and meeting many colorful characters along the way.
Instructor – 200-hr RYT
Hometown: Haymarket, Virginia
Yoga Experience: over 15 years of practice and currently working on her 500-hr training at the Asheville Yoga Center
Loves: her dog, Sharkey, and her first baby (a girl!) due August, 2020
Hobbies & Life Works: She considers coffee and red wine daily rituals. She has spent most of her adult life traveling on the road as a musician with her old band, Native Run, as well as a background singer and percussionist for various artists, most recently, Hozier.
200 hr RYT
Hometown: Birmingham, AL
Yoga Experience: Koula began practicing yoga in 2006 as a way to restore her body in between high school soccer seasons. Though she was originally drawn to a the restorative practice, she quickly fell in love with vinyasa and has been teaching power vinyasa for the last 5 years. Her classes, while physically challenging, encourage self-care and nourishment.
Full-time Gig: Director of Content at StoryBrand
Hobbies: Running with fellow yogi sisters, Brooke & Chelsea, Traveling, and spending time on the Beach
Loves: madly in love with her tiny fluff of a dog, George (named after George Harrison)
Favorite book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Most Daring thing: Climbed Mt. Rainer
Hometown: Nashville
Yoga Experience: Emily’s journey began 8 years ago. Much like the escape and healing she found through music, she discovered that the benefits of yoga had a similar impact on her life and mental wellness. She decided to dedicate her life to connecting the two, using music and sound as a tool to deepen her students’ yoga experience.
Loves: her friends, her family, and her Cat,
Hobbies: You can find Emily at every concert in Nashville, working for the city's local independent radio station Lightning 100, and running her weekly radio show - Acid Reflux every Tuesday on Acme Radio
Hometown: Springfield, TN
Favorite Food: You can never go wrong with any kind of ice cream as long as it’s made with real cream
Favorite Hobby: Gathering information to keep
Why do you practice Yoga?: I’m a minimalist - yoga is a one stop shop - it exercises my mind and body and helps keep me aware of and grateful for the wonderful Spirit that dwells inside me
Fun fact: My favorite person in the whole wide world is my Mary Frances Trotter, who is in her 95th year on this earth and has the most beautiful way about her
200hr RYT Traditional Hot 26, 200-hr RYT Vinyasa
Yoga Experience: 8 years - I fell in love when I took my first Hot 26 class at HYEN
Hometown: Sunny Central Coast of California
Side Hustle or Main Hustle: Third Man Records
Hobbies: I enjoy music, photography, traveling, thrifting and skateboarding!
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Traveled to 9 different countries
Instructor – Hot 26
Lindsey has been a devoted student of the classic Hot 26 series for the last 7 years. She received her teaching certification at the first Teacher Training at Hot Yoga East! Through teaching, Lindsey continues her own personal evolution and is able to relate her passion for this yoga to her students. Lindsey is also a certified holistic wellness coach and published author. In Lindsey’s personal time she enjoys good music, food, and spending time with her 3 loves – Dani, their crazy cat Opalina, and their Great Dane, Sophie.
Instructor – Hot 26
Claudia started practicing Bikram Yoga in 1998, at first looking to relieve physical pain, she soon found a practice of personal transformation and self-realization. She discovered that by being fully absorbed in the moment of yoga; all worry, stress and disease dissolved. She attended Bikram’s Teacher Training in Hawaii Spring in 2007 and has been teaching ever since, through which she has gained understanding, respect and compassion for each student’s personal journey. “Yoga to me is like the Serenity Prayer…. SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change, COURAGE to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference.
Hometown:
Lebanon, Virginia
Yoga Experience:
Miranda began Iyengar yoga in 2001 to reduce stress and anxiety. A friend invited her to a Power Flow class in 2014, and she was immediately hooked. Miranda enjoys Iyengar’s discipline and foundation, and the freedom and creativity of Power Flow.
Loves:
Yoga and swimming; her husband, Seth; dog, Agent Cooper; art and design
Hobbies:
Singing, live music, forest bathing, sewing, visiting galleries & museums, cooking, gardening, and games with friends & family
Hometown:
North Andover, MA
Yoga Experience:
Steph completed her first Hot Yoga class in 2017 at Hot Yoga East, & has been hooked ever since! She completed her 200-hr RYT in Hot 26 in Spring of 2021!
Hobbies:
When Steph isn’t at the yoga studio, she loves to perform in local Nashville Community Theatre, start a new DIY project, hike or travel!
Hometowns: Born in New Jersey, raised in Memphis, TN
Yoga Experience: Practicing Vinyasa and Hot 26 for 8 years
Main Gig & Hobbies: Fashion and Entertainment lawyer by day (and sometimes nights), Cooking, Being on the water, Live music, & Long walks
Loves: 1 dog, Pepper - an eight-year-old German Shepard/Lab mix who is my whole world AND a Baby boy on the way!
Favorite Book: The Giving Tree
Most Daring Thing: Successfully attempted the 200-year-old Oepfelchammer challenge in Zurich, Switzerland, where I climbed through two ceiling beams and drank a glass of wine hanging upside down from the rafters. No ropes, no support, and I am convinced yoga is the reason I was able to do it!