Meet OuR Certified Yoga Teacher Trainers

Jen McCarter, RYT 500, E-RYT 200, RPYT, YACEP

Jen began practicing at Hot Yoga of East Nashville in 2013, and has been teaching full time since 2017. She loves experiencing and teaching all types of yoga, including Vinyasa, Yin, Prenatal, and she especially leading Yoga Nidra + sound bath. She hails from from Hendersonville but spent 5 years Iowa, which felt like 50 years. ☺

Her yoga practice helps ground her and give her the strength to serve her community on both the PTO board and her JDRF involvement (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with her son who is Type 1). She enjoys cooking, oil painting, and jello wrestling (ask her for that story later 😀).

Brooke Allison, E-RYT 200

Brooke’s stepped into her first hot yoga class on a rainy Seattle day in 2007. She was exclusively a marathoner at that time but found herself haunted by how she felt during and after that 26-posture, 104-degree class. She practiced regularly from that day forward and began teaching at that same studio about 5 years later just prior to opening her own studio in Nashville, Tennessee in 2012. Over the last 8 years as a teacher and studio owner, Brooke has built a yoga community in Nashville that is recognized for its diversity, warm welcome, and strong foundation in both teachers and students. Brooke teaches a variety of yoga classes, from Bikram to Buti and everything in between. Through her teaching, she seeks to inspire students to find their inner calm and to connect with the strength and intuition of their true self. She is currently working on building her adventure yoga retreat, the Rising Wolf, in Glacier, Montana.

Sarah Grace, E-RYT 500, E-RYT 200

Sarah has spent 20 years practicing and studying yoga. She began teaching in 2003 and has sought training and education in various yoga styles, including Bikram Yoga (2003), and vinyasa-based Samarya Yoga, completing the Samarya 200hr YTT in 2013. She also practices Ashtanga Yoga at Troy Lucero's Acme Yoga Project in Seattle, where she has taught and apprenticed since 2014. Sarah currently teaches a variety of yoga classes, private students, workshops and teacher training programs, both in Seattle and in cities around the U.S. She is inspired by the natural intelligence, ease, insight and sense of personal and community connection brought forth by a consistent yoga practice and seeks to help cultivate these qualities in students of every age, experience level and ability with her skillful, patient, and thoughtful teaching style.