Encounter our NYC Squad

Kate Davies Durand

STUDIO Manager, TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA, Power YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Hullo! I'chiliad Kate and let me be the commencement to welcome you to YO BK! I'm living my dream every bit an owner of 3 studios in NYC and Miami. Through regular practise, I guarantee yous'll get closer to finding your calling and making an impact in the areas that affair nigh to yous.

I was lucky plenty to find yoga in my teens and accept been practicing for twenty years. I'1000 however best friends with the daughter (at present adult female!) who brought me to my beginning Hot Yoga class. I attended Bikram Yoga Teacher Grooming in Autumn 2011 and am certified in Inferno Hot Pilates Levels ane, 2 and 3 too as Power Yoga. I am honored to co-atomic number 82 instructor trainings hither at YO BK. I love working with new teachers and am very proud of the work nosotros exercise at the studios.

Over the years, I've practiced for concrete health and mental wellbeing. As a mom to a 9 year-sometime, my practice is my sacred fourth dimension. The multifariousness of Bikram, Power Yoga and Hot Pilates will give you everything you need in one astonishing community. Our students take met friends and even pregnant others in grade! The studios introduced me to my best friends, my business concern partner in Miami and my married man, who designed and built the studios.

I'm a native New Yorker and accept lived in Rome, Beijing, Bangkok, Miami and Texas. I hold firm that New York is the all-time place in the world and if you don't beloved it, y'all should exit. In my free fourth dimension (which is non often!) I devour novels and hang with my husband and son.

"No matter how far you travel, yous tin never go away from yourself." - Haruki Murakami, Later the Quake

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Riji Suh

TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA, HOT VINYASA

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Riji is happy to exist function of the growing YO BK yoga family and to exist part of the (r)development of yoga in Brooklyn. As a native Queens-NYC daughter who grew upwardly playing basketball in rival schoolhouse gyms and asphalt courts in BK parks, it is meaningful to render to teach and practice yoga in blossoming Williamsburg. I of her favorite things nearly YO BK is the view of the bridge, always perfectly satiating to the middle, whether during a pinkish sunrise, bluish midday, ruddy reddish dusk, or pitch blackness night.

Riji has been teaching the Bikram Method since Fall of 2006, and she is honored to have been function of the staff for 2 Honolulu Teacher Trainings, learning nether the precise guidance of phenomenal educational activity legends, some gone, some here... She is also thankful to have studied under the compassionate masterful tutelage of Sri Dharma Mittra and has taught his fashion since completing his Teacher Preparation in 2010. Also her work in studios effectually NY, Riji teaches private clients through a language that is always extending and expanding from and inside her personal consciousness and connection: a nonstop flow and weaving of all of her studies, teachings and life experiences on and off the yoga mat. On her off the mat time, Riji is a model and creative spirit working in fashion and media in New York Urban center.

"Eyes High Walk Light": transliterated daily quote from her beautiful and inspiring mother.

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Frank Rex

TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA, YIN YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Frank began practicing Bikram Yoga in January 2009. Out of shape and unhappy with his poor health, he was adamant to plow his life around.

Frank felt a transformation after his get-go class. Bikram Yoga has allowed him to strengthen his body, increase flexibility, and improve rest; while besides calming and focusing his mind. Iv years later, he was awarded a scholarship to attend Bikram'south Instructor Grooming in Spring of 2013.

In addition to teaching full-time, Frank works with "One posture at a Time" education yoga in treatment facilities for individuals in recovery from substance abuse. He is truly grateful to this yoga and believes in its healing abilities.

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Camille Sallette

STUDIO Director. POWER YOGA, YIN YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES, TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA

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Camille is a recent transplant from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. She began practicing hot yoga in 2010 when a friend half-dragged her to a Bikram class. Information technology was hot, hard, and humbling. It felt so good to get to bed the skilful kind of tired and wake upwards the proficient kind of sore. And so the next 24-hour interval she went back, and the next, and 8 years after she tin't live without it.

She participated in a work-trade for gratuitous yoga at her local studio where she began to develop deeper relationships with her fellow students and teachers. The loving community that is the 'yoga globe' inspired Camille to go to teacher training and in 2014 she became a certified Vinyasa instructor by Hot House Yoga in Richmond, VA. She has experience instruction both Barkan and Baptiste methods.

In her time off the mat, Camille works for a arts and crafts beer visitor that sells tasty heady brews. She is also a hoop dance instructor and an experienced vegetarian melt. Camille joined the work-written report plan here at YO BK when she moved to NYC and roughshod in honey with the space, the teachers, and the students. She is so excited to teach ya'll and can't want to see y'all on your mat.

Lillith Fallon

INFERNO HOT PILATES, POWER YOGA

Lillith Fallon ( she/her) is an actor/writer/lover of dogs from North Carolina. She loves to sweat in the hot room under the disco ball with friends and strangers. You can observe her on the schedule pedagogy Inferno Hot Pilates and sometimes a petty flake of Yoga. Let her know if you saw a good play or if you accept an extra iced coffee- she'd honey information technology. Late 90s song requests preferred.

Amanda Krol

INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Amanda was built-in and raised in Greenpoint and hopes to never exit! Equally a immature girl and throughout high school, she loved playing basketball. In college, she focused on her studies and graduated every bit valedictorian of her course. After higher, Amanda became a NYC school instructor. She began experimenting with dissimilar workout styles and was introduced to Inferno Hot Pilates at YO BK in May of 2017. She roughshod in love with this loftier intensity interval training and attended teacher training in February of 2018 in order to bring this amazing workout to others. When deciding to become an instructor, she envisioned herself teaching at a studio like YO BK — dreams come truthful when you work difficult for them!

When Amanda is not on her mat, you lot can find her coaching middle school girls' basketball or teaching her middle school students about Pilates. In her costless time, yous tin can find her taking some blazon of online class considering she really is a nerd at middle.

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HAYLEY GRIFFIN

STUDIO Director. POWER YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Hayley is an energetic inferno pilates and power yoga teacher, as well as our New York studio managing director. Originally from the pacific northwest and raised in the south, she is happy to phone call New York home subsequently living here for ten years.

Hayley discovered YO BK on her quest for the perfect workout. One taste of Inferno Hot Pilates and she was hooked! Hayley believes working out should be simply as fun equally it is effective, as well every bit a moment in your twenty-four hours to connect with your intention and calm your soul.

Off of the mat, Hayley is a style-loving party host. You may find her twirling around a dance floor, or playing tunes at your next party.

Million Pierce

Ability YOGA

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Originally from Philadelphia, Meg has lived all over the Eastern Seaboard, the Midwest, and in Latin America. She discovered yoga in high school, and has practiced regularly since, building potent 26&two, Baptiste, and Vinyasa practices. Meg found YO BK most immediately upon moving to Brooklyn in September 2018, falling head over heels in honey with the Power Yoga and Hot Pilates classes. After working as a karma yogi, Meg completed her 200-hour Teacher Grooming at YO BK in April 2020. She is thrilled to bring together her favorite studio as a teacher! When not taking or pedagogy yoga, One thousand thousand tin can be found walking her French Bulldog in Greenpoint, cooking delicious plant-based nutrient, planning her next international adventure, or peachy the patriarchy.

Erin Eloise

TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA, BAPTISTE POWER YOGA

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Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Erin is a professional dancer, actor and vocalizer. She lives in Brooklyn with her hubby, son and ii Siberian Huskies. She received her Masters in Music Theatre from the Purple Primal School of Oral communication and Drama in London. She's a self-proclaimed yoga and theatre nerd!

Erin'south didactics style comes from a identify of curiosity, dearest, passion, specificity, and play. She'southward been studying the moving body for well-nigh of her life loves looking to the trunk for what is possible and helping guide people to reach new places. She teaches Traditional Hot Yoga and Baptiste Yoga and advises students to come up from "you are ready now".

"We get so wrapped up with how things are supposed to be, look, or feel that sometimes we don't actually permit ourselves actually go for it. And so try things on, play, and see the possibilities are right here and right now. Every day is going to be dissimilar and allow that to happen, don't fight it, be here for it."

Jordan Kolunie

INFERNO HOT PILATES

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After moving from Philadelphia to New York, Jordan searched long and hard for a studio to phone call dwelling. After finding YO BK initially for yoga, she became hooked on inferno hot pilates. She loved the atmosphere in the welcoming studio, and the fast results!. She made information technology a goal to become certified in Inferno Hot Pilates before graduating college because she wanted to give to others what the workout has given to her; A community & countless positive energy. You'll never not see her smiling! When she'south not education she's managing the social media and pre events at Dobbin St.

Julia Karp

MIAMI STUDIO MANAGER. POWER YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Jules began her journey with YO BK in 2018 as a Karma yogi and was instantly fatigued to the warm and welcoming disposition of the staff. She went on to participate in the studio'due south inaugural Ability Yoga Teacher Training and is now ecstatic to bring together the teaching squad!

Jules knew right away that she wanted to teach yoga and received her starting time 200-hour certification when she was eighteen. She and then completed additional training at the Hari Om School of Yoga in Costa Rica and skilful at the Sivananda Ashram in India. Jules'south manner of teaching focuses on the relationship between forcefulness, residuum, and inner focus, with a light-hearted approach! She believes in Yoga Asana equally a meditation and a run a risk to bank check in with your listen and body. She enjoys artistic sequencing, arm-balancing, inversions - whatever chance to flip the perspective! She loves the challenge that hot yoga brings her, to push button past her boundaries and exit her comfort zone. She hopes to share the same passion for yoga and help y'all find the grinning amongst the struggle.

Jules is an enthusiastic traveler but e'er returns to her habitation in Brooklyn. Outside of the studio, take hold of her behind the bar in Bushwick, biking effectually the urban center, or curating themed playlists.

Brigid Judge

POWER YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Brigid is from a modest town in Central New York. Growing upward she was agile in various sports, violin, and Irish gaelic Dancing, just didn't observe her truthful honey for yoga until she moved to NYC in 2014. After billowy around trying to find the nearly ideal fettle routine she gravitated towards diverse yoga classes offered in her neighborhood. She joined the YO BK family in 2018 every bit a Karma Yogi and has been hooked on Power Yoga ever since.
Brigid received her 200-60 minutes RYT certification in Power Vinyasa Yoga through YO BK in April 2020 and completed a 25 hour Trauma-Informed training in Oct 2020. YO BK has always felt like a second home to her, to help her learn and grow equally a student and to be a role of a vibrant community of practitioners. She is absolutely thrilled to bring together the education team at YO BK.

Outside of her yoga practice and pedagogy, she works full time in podcast ad tech. In her gratis fourth dimension, she'southward reading, singing, and spending time with her friends and family unit.

Ashleigh Bello

Ability YOGA

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Ashleigh first discovered yoga in Republic of korea while she was working as an English teacher in 2012. Everything was in Korean, so she didn't retain much more than 'Hana, Dul, Set' and a lifelong yogi friend. She found YO BK some years later in her search for a way to have control of her health for the long-term; what kept her coming back to the hot room was that 'after glow' and the supportive community. Even on her worst days, a exercise always left her feeling amend than she did before. Ashleigh went on to earn her 200-hr RYT certification in Ability Vinyasa Yoga through the studio (virtually) during the pandemic. Her yoga journey has come full circle at present as a new instructor with YO BK, and she'southward so excited to share it with yous! In her class y'all tin can always await good beats, some laughs, and a playful, welcoming environment. When she's not dreaming of pigeon pose, she'south planning her next adventure, working in the world of marketing, and writing fantasy books.

Nina Chavez-Booth

Ability YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Nina was built-in NY and raised in Colorado. She spent numerous years soaking upward the sun and in California, afterward she was stationed there with the United states of america Marine Corps (ooorahh!).

Nina plant YOBK later learning about the "killer" Inferno Hot Pilates classes from a coworker. Later on trying just one grade, she was completely diddled away! These workouts were difficult, fun and so rewarding! She was besides really drawn to the empowering community that surrounded the studio. She later went on to get a Karma Yogi, and just completed her 200-hour RYT certification in Power Vinyasa Yoga through YO BK in December 2020.

Outside of the studio, Nina works as a Tech Designer for a way company and loves to stone climb, surf, and run. She embraces exciting new adventures and can't wait to share this 1 with you!

Whitney Berger

INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Whitney believes workouts should be both challenging and fun! It wasn't until she took her offset Inferno Hot Pilates class at YO BK that she found a conditioning that  truly combined both ethics. In the years since that beginning form, Whitney has been a faithful and dedicated Inferno Hot Pilates Student. Teacher preparation felt like a natural next step, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to teach at her second dwelling, YO BK.

Whitney grew up in Connecticut, and athletics have always been a big part of her life.  She played Lacrosse in College, and was also a Cheerleader.  She even was able to walk onto her higher'southward Women's Volleyball team for a season never having played before! Off the field, y'all may see her dancing in a Rap Music Video or two (only she'll never say which ones)! These days, Whitney loves to spend her free time in Rhode Island with her husband, and be a DogMomager to her Dachshund Dog-Model Oscar Ketchup.

When you work out with Whitney, you're sure to have a blast while she thank you yous on, so sign up for her class today!

Kaileigh Flynn

Ability YOGA, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Kaileigh institute YO BK in 2019 while searching for a Brooklyn studio to telephone call home. She had practiced Pilates and yoga for the majority of her adult life, and wanted to find a studio that offered both. YO BK offered that and so much more: a welcoming environs, a judgement-gratis community, and HEAT. She was instantly hooked and has been a member always since.

In December of 2020, she completed her 200 hour RYT certification in Baptiste Power Yoga through the studio. Teacher training was easily the highlight of her twelvemonth, and she is and then excited to share the practise with you lot. Get gear up to sweat!

Exterior the studio, you can find Kaileigh traveling, cooking, enjoying live music with friends, and doing all of the bounding main-related activities you can recollect of.

She can't wait to run across you lot on the mat!


Sheri Celentano

VINYASA YOGA

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Brooklyn born and raised in Brooklyn , Sheri began pedagogy movement in 1989 and never looked back. From public schools to yoga centers , creating curriculum to mentorship, Sheri puts her eye and soul into sharing the practices that tin serve to uplift , strengthen and connect u.s.a. to ourselves and each other. Sheri has taught Yoga Instructor Trainings since 2009 , creating trainings and guiding teachers at all levels and places in their studies and careers. She has taught basic to advanced , restorative to wing as well equally prenatal yoga and love all of it! She believes the practice is bachelor to all people at all stages of life.

Her classes infuse all of her Vinyasa Flow and Iyengar Yoga studies to create a deep, bold, playful, existent feel of yoga. I eye on alignment the other on your vibes , she holds a safe and nourishing infinite to sweat , move and find yourself .

Christine Oakes

FRONT DESK, INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Christine found YO BK in 2017 later moving to Brooklyn post-college at FIT. She had never tried Inferno Pilates but quickly became a regular at the studio, and today is spending more fourth dimension on her Power Yoga and Traditional Hot Yoga do.

Pre-Covid, Christine spent a twelvemonth as a Karma Yogi at YO BK. During the Pandemic, she participated in an online Inferno Pilates teacher training, and is thrilled to be dorsum in the studio learning more nigh the exercise from YO BK teachers.

Outside of the studio, Christine loves making playlists for friends, cooking NYTimes recipes, and getting to know the local bodega cats.

She is so excited to be joining the staff after years of being a part of the community! :)

Sasha Paulava

FRONT Desk-bound, INFERNO HOT PILATES

Born and raised in a small country Belarus, Sasha e'er dreamed of life in the big urban center. She now proudly calls New York abode and the best city in the world. She found YO BK in 2020 to practice yoga, but Inferno Hot Pilates blew her mind and she discovered a true calling to teach this modality.

Sasha strives to be the best version of herself and hope to inspire students to exist the same. She is committed to helping people to find their inner power and believes that the YO BK community is a perfect place to start your journey. Her classes are challenging, energetic and always fun, you can count on a juicy 2000'south song to sing along to while doing burpees!

Mia Kavensky

FRONT DESK

Hey! I'chiliad Mia, a New York transplant originally from the adept ole' Midwest. I love yoga considering living in New York I'm always on the go, but with Yoga I'm able to center myself and live a happier lifestyle. I'm super excited to be function of the YO BK community!!

Charlotte Bagwell

FRONT DESK

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Hey everyone, I'm Charlotte! I'yard from Dallas, TX and I've lived in NYC for virtually 3 years. I only moved to Brooklyn a few months ago, and I'm so excited to accept constitute a customs in YO-BK. I've been practicing yoga for almost 10 years and beloved the inner stillness that comes from forging a mind-trunk connection. My favorite way to get-go the day includes a cup of coffee, snuggles from my dog Louis, and a good sweat sesh on the mat. I can't await to run across you in the studio!

Jabari Bell

INFERNO HOT PILATES

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Hey I'm Jabari. I first came to YO BK after moving to Williamsburg in 2017. I was working a stressful tech job and found the effects of yoga to exist very healing. I had done traditional hot yoga on and off for 5 years, and I found the caliber of teachers to be on a completely different level.

I started to come to all of the classes and instantly vicious in love with Inferno Hot Pilates. I found information technology to be an excellent complement to Muay Thai; I've practiced since the early 2010's and institute IHP to exist helpful in building the explosiveness, stamina, and forcefulness to fight.

I honey owls, well crafted sentences, and waking up at 5am for no good reason. I am so glad to be a function of the YO BK crew!

Tess Jonas

Power Yoga

Tess (she/her) is then excited to teach at YO BK! Originally from Boston, she has been practicing yoga for over a decade and holds a 500 hour instruction certification. She has taught in studios and gyms, at big outdoor events, for private clients and small groups, in-person and virtually.

Her instruction fashion is influenced by her background both as an artist and an athlete: she is an actor and singer who played competitive sports for 15 years. She focuses on active, functional mobility through artistic, modifiable sequencing with an overarching sense of musicality. Her flows pull movement vocabulary from HIIT, trip the light fantastic, forcefulness training, sports, or whatsoever else she'due south vibing with. You tin can look to proceeds strength, flexibility, and confidence and listen to a whole lot of funk and disco when y'all take her grade. Outside of teaching, Tess is a multi-hyphenate creative (player-singer-dancer-writer) and loves astrology, avocados, and alligators.

Karen Patterson

AERIAL YOGA

Hi, my name is Karen. I am a yoga therapist and teacher in the laboratory of life. When I am not hanging from my silks instructing aerial yoga, you lot can discover me in the classroom guiding mindful move, and meditation in NYC public schools. Pedagogy yoga for the past vii years has brought me to many different places, a John Hopkins Hospital, corporate offices, a school in Nepal, Nunnery in Myanmar and a yoga retreat center tucked abroad in the West Virginia foothills, but I love that I have a new Brooklyn home at Yo BK.

I believe our entire life flows out of our relationship with ourselves. Our outer situation is a reflection of our inner world. Yoga gives the tools to build awareness of concrete sensation, breath, psych-emotional state, intuition, and connection as essential dimensions of the human being experience. My passion is creating a brave space for students to explore themselves and their practice in new means utilizing aeriform silks.

Sophie Parker

YOGA SCULPT

Sophie is then excited to join the YO BK Community as a new Williamsburg resident! Originally from the Bay Area, Sophie has been practicing yoga for over 8 years in California, North Carolina, Nicaragua, Boston and now NYC! She has been teaching for over 2 years, and is looking forward to bringing Yoga Sculpt to the YO BK Community for students to try a new challenge (both mentally and physically) using a combo of yoga & pilates (with weights) equally a unique way to stretch and sculpt the body. Off of the mat, Sophie works in sales for a solar visitor, aiming to produce more than solar to the existing energy grids. Exterior of work, she enjoys exploring NYC through biking and running. Hit her up with whatever biking destinations, or great java shop recommendations in the area. Sophie brings energy, positivity, and upbeat vibes to every class she teaches, and hopes every student leaves feeling a little more alive. See you in the hot room!

Allison Fazio

POWER YOGA

Built-in and raised in Manhattan, Ali has made S Williamsburg her home since 2007.  When YO BK first opened their doors, she was dragged by her friends to her commencement-ever Bikram grade and was instantly hooked. She completed her 200-hour Power Vinyasa Teacher Grooming at YO BK in April 2020.

A full time Public School teacher for the past twenty-v years, Ali completed her Children's, Teen and Trauma-Informed Teacher Grooming through Yoga Ed in June 2021.  She is the luckiest person on earth to now serve as the full-time Yoga teacher to the students at her Public School. Ali is honored to join her YO BK family as a teacher!

Elise Armani

FRONT Desk

Elise Armani (She/Her) is an Fine art Historian and wearer of many hats from Minneapolis, MN. She has lived in New York for four years and has been practicing Bikram yoga on and off for 10 years. In addition to teaching Art History and working at YOBK, Elise is often hanging out with her dogs, visiting art exhibitions around the city, and selling vintage apparel.

Jessica Perez

FRONT Desk-bound

Jessica Perez is a Puerto Rican native who moved to New York Metropolis at the age of xiii.  Jessica was surrounded by music and the arts from an early age.  Latin rhythms from the house side by side door to the telenovela and Latino variety talent shows on Television set sparked aspirations in her to exist part of information technology all. She experienced her kickoff taste of this life at the Abrons Art Center in the lower E side, non far from where she lived. She continued her path at New York'south La Guardia H.Due south of the performing arts, where she was accustomed as a student and majored in dance.  After La Guardia, Jessica received full scholarships to Alvin Ailey, Ballet Hispanico where she trained intensively in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Flamenco, Point work, Partnering and more.  Jessica performed with the Urban Ballet Theater for over 10 years every bit well every bit working every bit an actress in various Tv and  commercial opportunities.

While Jessica is not filming or working various events she is the proud female parent of 2, which has become her almost important and fulfilling job of her life. Jessica has e'er enjoyed yoga and pilates as a class to stay fit but in the last year Jessica discovered her passion for hot traditional Yoga and Inferno hot pilates classes (to name a few) offered at Yo BK..  It has opened a new drive and motivation for Jessica to one twenty-four hour period become a teacher in the practice! She is a firm believer that taking the best intendance of herself, her mind, and her body makes her an even amend role model to her children and loved ones.

Audrey Maxson

INFERNO HOT PILATES

Hey, I'grand Audrey! I found YO BK in 2018 while looking for a Traditional Hot Yoga studio after moving across the river to Williamsburg. I signed up for an Inferno class on a whim and have been obsessed ever since! I moved to NYC in 2013 from Illinois, and have besides lived in Minnesota, Indiana, California, and Connecticut. When I'm non in the studio, I love running and biking around the city, going to concerts, and cooking. I've loved being a role of the YO BK customs for the last few years and I'm so excited to be joining the team!

Leah Wetzel

YOGA SCULPT

Leah has been obsessed with yoga sculpt for almost 15 years. She is passionate about music and sweating and feels Yoga Sculpt is the perfect combination of both. Await to have fun, sculpt your muscles, and get a good sweat in her class!

Maisie Breit

INFERNO HOT PILATES

Maisie's best friend start dragged her to a hot yoga class in the summertime of 2007. Maisie immediately hated information technology and didn't try again until Jan of 2011. It went much meliorate that time, and Maisie started work-study for the studio a few months later. By the spring, she was a full-time studio director and held that function for two years. She's since worked in international education, gender-based violence, and lived abroad for many years, and her practice followed her everywhere. She fifty-fifty worked at the hot yoga studios in Paris while getting her master's degree in that location! When she returned to NYC in 2018 she quickly got addicted to Hot HIIT Pilates and knew she would love to teach it. She's been an instructor since June 2018, teaching over zoom throughout the pandemic, but she is and then happy to be back in the studio and with the YOBK family unit in Brooklyn! When Maisie isn't at the studio she is working full-time building partnerships at a non-profit that serves the LES, seeing her family unit in her native Manhattan, and running and biking around Brooklyn!

Kyla McCarthy

TRADITIONAL HOT YOGA, VINYASA, YIN

Kyla took her start yoga course when she was xv years old afterward her mom enrolled her in teen yoga at a neighborhood studio in New Bailiwick of jersey. Kyla grew upwards playing soccer and idea yoga was a flake boring and ended up falling asleep for most of the class. Kyla enjoyed sleeping in yoga then much that she received a C in her high school gym yoga class.

Kyla attended Marymount Manhattan Higher where she received her BA in Theater Performance. Kyla first stepped into the hot room at historic period nineteen to give yoga one more shot. She was immediately hooked and found it was the one identify where she could focus, deal with the challenge of staring at herself in the mirror, and gain discipline. The exercise helped her boxing anxiety, depression, learn to love herself and gave her a sense of purpose.

Vi years into her exercise she found herself in the hot room more than than the audition room. She knew she wanted to be a teacher when it became less about her ain exercise and more than about sharing her passion for yoga with others. Kyla attended Bikram training Spring 2015 in Thailand and has been teaching consistently ever since. Kyla received her 200 hour Vinyasa grooming and 25 hour Restorative Training at Yoga Vida. She loves to teach students the foundation and alignment of the poses so they can have a sustainable and good for you practice.

In her spare fourth dimension she is usually taking a class, seeing friends, cooking and spending fourth dimension with her husband and their dog Dixie.