Meet Our Teachers

Our teachers are our foundation. Each builds their classes with creativity, purpose, and the needs of our students at heart. Get to know their philosophy, what calls them to teach, and what they love in yoga and life, and connect with everything they offer our community.

Kira deCoudres

she/her

Kira brings over 10 years of experience to the mat. She studies applications of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Yoga and teaches seasonally inspired classes informed by The Five Elements. She is grateful to her teachers at The Yoga House, Vitality Yoga and Kula Yoga Project and continues training with Kripalu, Sage Academy of Sound, and Lotus Palm Institute of Thai Massage. She is deeply interested in making yoga accessible and enjoyable for all bodies.

Come take our Feel Good Flow with Kira!

Check out Kira’s website: www.kiradecoudres.com

Certifications
– 200hr YTT
– 300hr YTT
– 75hr Advanced Teacher Training
– 100hr Meditation Teacher Training
– Chair & Senior Yoga Teacher Training
– Yoga for Lymphatic Health Training
– End-of-Life Doula Training

Ryan Allen-Parrot

he/him

Ryan began practicing yoga to become more resilient against injuries, and over time, his dedication blossomed into a devotional practice that fosters the spiritual and emotional strength to serve others. He trained in the Bhakti yoga tradition in India with the Supersoul Yoga School and continues to attend retreats and trainings with his empowered teachers. Ryan is devoted to helping students feel present, empowered, and challenged in their practice. He believes yoga is a path that connects individuals to the highest goals of life, deepens self-understanding, and encourages showing up as better people in the world. Outside the yoga studio, Ryan enjoys climbing rocks, running trails, and exploring mountains and local waterfalls.

Certifications

Bkahti 200hr & 300hr

Stephanie Mulinos

She/her

Curious, energetic, and mindful, Stephanie brings a thoughtful and grounded approach to teaching yoga. After beginning her yoga journey ~20 years ago through high-intensity practices focused on strength and flexibility, her relationship with yoga has evolved into a slower, more mindful practice rooted in curiosity, openness, and trust. As a runner and triathlete, she values yoga for its balance, recovery, and self-awareness. Her teaching philosophy centers on helping students feel safe, supported, and connected. She aims to create the conditions for exactly what they need — physically, mentally, and energetically. She encourages students to listen deeply, explore with wonder, and build trust in their own experience and body wisdom. She loves the yoga community for its genuine kindness, presence, and sense of support. One of her favorite things about Ithaca is swimming in Cayuga Lake during the summer, along with enjoying the trails, waterfalls, and vibrant community.

Come take our Feel Good Flow or Feel Good Flow & Meditation with Stephanie!

Check out Stephanie’s website: https://thebalancedpath.life

Certifications

200hr RYT
Certified Mindfulness Teacher

Karen Keeley

she/her

Karen is a playful, caring, and supportive teacher who sees yoga as a practice of quieting the mind and opening the heart. Through mindful movement, stillness, and breath, she encourages students to nourish the Self and to practice choosing love over fear, both on and off the mat. Her classes create space for people to feel seen, supported, and free to express themselves fully, with the hope that each student experiences moments of inner freedom and peace.

After experiencing the healing power of yoga in her own life, and with 25 years of yoga practice, Karen felt called to teach and support others on their paths of growth and self-discovery. She values the yoga community for its willingness to learn, grow, and cultivate loving awareness together. Karen especially loves Ithaca for its fresh local produce, flowing water, and beautiful flora, fauna, and people. Outside the studio, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three grown children and their dog Arlee~ hiking, paddleboarding, gardening, baking, live music, and simply being still in nature.

Come take our Feel Good Flow or Grace & Strength Flow with Karen!

Connect with Karen IG: @karenkeeleyyoga

Certifications

200hr RYT
20hr postnatal YTT
Reiki attunement level 2 Usui

Selena Torrado

She/her

Selena teaches a playful, non-dogmatic, Katonah-inspired practice rooted in breath, structure, and pleasure. Her classes blend intelligent sequencing, esoteric dialogue, and rhythmic movement without rigid adherence to lineage or aesthetic perfection. Practice to have fun and feel good.

Come take Devotion with Selena!

Connect with Selena

IG: @selenatorrado_

Substack: spiritatallcosts.substack.com

Certifications

200hr from Sky Ting Yoga

Ryley Uerkvitz

she/her

Ryley brings a warm, nurturing, and enthusiastic presence to every class she teaches. A smooth, flowing vinyasa-style practice emphasizes adaptability, mindful movement, and personal exploration, encouraging students to honor their bodies exactly as they are each day. Ryley creates classes that feel supportive, empowering, and accessible, inviting students to modify, explore, and move in ways that feel true for them. Ryley began teaching yoga after experiencing how transformative the practice could be in her own life. What started as a personal journey toward healing and understanding evolved into a desire to share that same sense of support, growth, and connection with others. She believes yoga helps us move beyond the mind’s noise and return home to ourselves, fostering a greater sense of self-awareness, and community. Outside the studio, she is also a ceramics artist and teacher, participating in local art shows and teaching children’s ceramics classes.

Come take our Feel Good Flow with Ryley!

Certifications

200hr YTT
Prison Yoga Project Certification (in progress)

Erica Shockley

She/her

Erica invites you to explore yoga in a curious, playful, and supportive space where you are welcomed exactly as you are. Knowing that the practice will meet you where you are, it offers a grounding path to build strength, focus the mind, and navigate life’s transitions with skillfulness and ease. Erica offers movement classes that emphasize intentional transitions and breath-centered balance, aligning meditation experiences, along with restorative practices that incorporate Yoga Nidra and Reiki.

Finding yoga while seeking balance for her overstimulated mind and stressed body. This embodied practice supported Erica through several health challenges and welcomed her as a queer person seeking self-belonging. She says that, “Holding intentional space for seekers to discern their own truth through the physical and subtle practices of yoga is a great joy. The resiliency, power, and grace found through intentional effort are transformative – rippling into our relationships with all living beings.”

A lifelong seeker, Erica honors the roots of yoga and holds deep gratitude for her teachers and the students with whom she has the privilege to practice and grow.

Come take our Restorative Flow, Grow your Flow, or Grace & Strength Flow with Erica!

Connect with Erica IG: @open.flow.yoga

Certifications

200 hr Vinyasa Yoga
300 hr Skill In Action
108 hr Empowered Yoga Nidra
6 month Yoga Sutra Sangha
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500hr
Level 2 Usui Holy Fire Reiki

Ilana Berman

she/her

Ilana brings a thoughtful, compassionate, and embodied approach to yoga, blending functional anatomy with mindful and accessible movement. Her teaching is rooted in the belief that the body and breath are always communicating, and that yoga is a practice of learning how to listen. Through a balance of flowing sequences, precise movement exploration, and non-competitive encouragement, Ilana guides students toward greater awareness of their own movement patterns, tension, support, and ease. Her classes emphasize skillful (not perfect) alignment, inviting students to meet themselves with clarity, curiosity, and compassion while cultivating resilience, softness, and connection in both body and mind.

Yoga entered Ilana’s life in 2008 as a refuge from the intensity of corporate life in New York City. What began as a way to reconnect with breath and body soon became a catalyst for profound personal change and a deeper sense of purpose. After teaching her first class at Sunrise Yoga Center in 2011, she quickly fell in love with sharing the practice with others. Over the years, her teaching has evolved through experiences in massage therapy, restorative yoga, breath anatomy, meditation, pelvic health training, and motherhood, all of which continue to shape her grounded and sustainable approach to movement and healing. Ilana hopes students leave class feeling safe, supported, spacious, and more at home in themselves, with permission to rest, modify, explore, and honor the truth of each moment. She loves Ithaca for its abundance of water, beautiful landscape, and peaceful lake views.

Come take our Feel Good Flow or Feel Good Flow & Meditation with Ilana!

Connect with Ilana: www.ilanahata.com

Certifications

200hr E-RYT

LMT – Licensed Massage Therapist

Sarah Jefferis, PhD

She/her

In addition to offering private Reiki sessions, Sarah believes the yoga mat is a place to honor the creative being within, and that when we can practice peace on the mat, we can intentionally create peace in the world. Her gentle teaching style incorporates poetry, silence, anatomy, meditations, and neuroscience, along with bird sounds or ocean waves. In other words, she follows the words from Rumi, who said: “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

Moreover, yoga is for her, “an ongoing participatory experiment in which the world and every part of our life becomes our laboratory,” (Adele, Deborah). Sarah loves the idea of life on the mat as a laboratory to explore possibilities, a place of play where one can return to the body with compassion. Adele continues, “Yoga is a technology for removing the illusionary veil that stands between us and the animating force of life.” The force of life, or Source as one might call it- name it whatever you please—is what she reaches for/longs for in meditation and in her slow flow Vinyasa and Yin practice. Her classes are informed by the yes, and mantra of improv, the ethics of The Yamas and Niyamas, as well as the Koshas, and how these five bodies of consciousness influence breath. Sarah wants to encourage people to offer loving-kindness to their own skin and bones. Yoga has also helped her find harmony between her creative work as a writer, owning her own editing business called Write.Now. and solo motherhood. Off the mat, you can find her writing poems, dancing, on the stage at improv, practicing Reiki, or catching flights to the ocean, where she feels most at home. She is also the author of three poetry books: “Forgetting the Salt” (Foothills Press, 2008), “What Enters the Mouth” (Standing Stone Books, 2016), and “Lucky to Find You” (Finishing Line Press, 2026).

Come take our Feel Good Flow or Yoga For Vitality with Sarah!

Certifications

200 hr YTT
50 hr Yin Training
Level 2 Usui Holy Fire Reiki
LIsa Nichols Certified Facilitator Program

Connect with Sarah:

Website: www.sarahjefferis.com

IG: dr.jefferis.write.now

FB: sarah.jefferis.

LN: drsarahjefferis

YT: SarahJefferisTedX

Vraja Lila (Vraj)

she/her

Vraja brings a deep, intuitive, and warm presence to her teaching, blending mindful movement with the wisdom and devotional roots of yoga. She received her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Eco Yoga in Cusco, Peru, at 18 years old, and her physical practice is rooted in Anusara alignment principles while encouraging intuitive movement and self-awareness. Vraja is a devoted practitioner within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Bhakti Yoga and a brahmin-initiated disciple of His Holiness Bir Krishna Goswami. For Vraja, teaching is about serving others and sharing the knowledge she has received from her own teachers. She hopes students feel safe, supported, and able to fully drop into themselves during class.. She regularly studies Sanskrit and Vedic scriptures, including the Bhagavad Gita, Isopanisad, and Srimad Bhagavatam. Outside the studio, Vraja works as a vegan chef at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen and loves spending time near Cayuga Lake.

Come take our Grace & Strength Flow or Ignite Your Flow with Vraja!

Connect with Vraja on Facebook: @VrajaLilaDeviDasi

Or by email: vedareeves@gmail.com

Certification

200hr YTT

Liza Gabriel

She/her

Liza Gabriel brings a committed, loving, and earthy approach to her teaching, designing classes that balance strength, softness, creativity, and trust. She began practicing yoga in 2003 to help alleviate chronic back pain and was initially drawn to the discipline and physical strength of the practice. Over time, and through multiple surgeries and health challenges, yoga became something deeper, a way to embrace openness, adaptability, and compassion toward herself on and off the mat. Today, Liza teaches with an emphasis on honoring the whole self, encouraging students to feel grounded in who they are while remaining open to growth and possibility. Liza teaches a progressive vinyasa flow, where poses gradually build in intensity and complexity as they link breath and movement. Her classes are creative, intentional, and attentive to alignment and each individual’s needs, helping students feel empowered, embodied, graceful, and strong. Outside the studio, Liza manages Wellspring Forest Farm with her partner Steve in Trumansburg, works in nonprofit equity and antiracism consulting, and serves as editor of NOFA’s The Natural Farmer Magazine. She also loves lake swimming, gorge hikes, and spending time with her two children and dog, Reishi.

Come Take Mondays with Love or Grace & Ignite with Liza!

Learn more about Liza’s farm wellspringforestfarm.com and visit them at the Ithaca Farmers Market every Saturday!

Certifications

200 Hour Vinyasa Flow Certification, Tranquil Space (2007)
200 Hour Ashtanga Yoga Certification, It’s Yoga (2012)
50 Hour Rocket Yoga Teacher Training with David Kyle
50 Hour Inversions Teacher Training, Laughing Lotus NYC

Jenni Cunningham (Jenni Sol Yoga)

she/her

Jenni brings a strong, grounded, and passionate approach to her teaching, creating classes where students feel powerful, confident, and deeply connected to themselves. As a yoga teacher, personal trainer, holistic health coach, yoga teacher mentor, and lifelong seeker, she believes yoga is a path of reconnecting with inner strength, quieting the noise, and feeling more at home in the body and mind.

Her classes blend intentional movement, functional strength, yoga drills, breath, encouragement, and humor, creating a supportive and empowering space for students to explore their potential both on and off the mat. Outside the studio, Jenni enjoys Ithaca’s natural beauty and spending time with her family.

Come take Yoga Power & Sculpt or Yoga Strength with Jenni!

Connect with Jenni Sol through her website: jennisolyoga.com

IG: @jennisolyoga, @theyogateacherlab

FB: Jenni Sol Yoga, The Yoga Teacher Lab

Certifications

E-RYT 500
YACEP
Certified Personal Trainer & Strength Coach
Health & Nutrition Coach
Certified Life Coach
Behavior Change Management Coach
First Aid/CPR/AED

Jessica Caporizzo

She/her

Energetic, curious, and introspective. Jessica brings a deep and thoughtful approach to her teaching. For her, yoga is much more than physical poses. It’s an ongoing practice of studying the mind so we can better know ourselves, so that we can navigate every season of life — joy or hardship, strength or pain — and honor the body as the vessel we live in.

After two spinal surgeries her first year of college, Jessica turned to yoga during recovery. What began as a search for physical relief gradually became something much deeper. That journey shaped everything she brings to her teaching: a space where students feel empowered, educated, and inspired to build both strength and self-awareness on and off the mat.

When she’s not on the mat, Jessica is a musician, teaching classical piano and performing as a singer-songwriter with the local band Jenny Stockdale & the Wax Matches. She loves Ithaca for its open-minded community and abundance of nature.

Come Take Grace & Strength Flow with Jessica!

Certifications

Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500hr
200hr Hatha Yoga, 2014
200hr Vinyasa, 2018
YOGABODY Yoga Trapeze Certification, 2020
300hr Advanced Teacher Training, 2023

Lindsay Graham

she/her

Adventurous, intuitive, and reflective. Lindsay inspires her students to explore their practice with curiosity rather than expectation or judgment (just like any relationship). Yoga flourishes when approached with openness. In her classes, students feel peaceful, relaxed, safe, and always have the freedom to choose their own level of challenge. Lindsay believes your practice is yours to define. She began teaching out of a deep love for yoga and a desire to share it with anyone interested. That passion remains unwavering.

Lindsay is proud to be part of the Ithaca community and to be actively building it. She loves bumping into people she knows from yoga or elsewhere at the farmers market, and never tires of the beautiful nature and waterfalls Ithaca has to offer. She has too many favorite poses to name, but heart- and hip-openers are always at the top of the list.

Come take Feel Good Flow or Ignite Your Flow with Lindsay!

Connect with Lindsay on Instagram: @yoga_with_lindsay.

Certifications

200hr RYT

Danny Kelly

She/her

Danny Kelly brings a warm, humorous, and effervescent energy to every class she teaches. As an early childhood educator, yogi, dancer, and musician, Danny is passionate about creating joyful spaces where children can move, explore, and build confidence in their bodies. Her teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that yoga is for everyone, all bodies, all ages, and all people. In her classes, children are encouraged to be playful, curious, and proud of what they accomplish while feeling supported in a safe and loving environment.

After nearly 20 years working with children in schools and daycare settings, Danny was inspired to begin teaching yoga after recognizing the importance of movement and kinesthetic learning for young children. She loves the kindness of Ithaca and the connections yoga creates,through movement, laughter, or the post-practice glow that reminds us to appreciate our bodies.

Come take Feel Good Flow or Yoga for Kids with Danny!

Certifications

MS in Childhood Education, Ithaca College
30 Hour Karma Kids Yoga Certification
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (2018)

Dani Katz Bartholomew

she/her

Dani brings a caring, receptive, and thoughtful presence to her teaching, offering grounding, meditative classes. Since 2011, Dani has taught vinyasa, hatha, and kundalini yoga, guiding students to achieve physical and energetic alignment. Her teaching fosters transformation in students: opening hearts, quieting minds, and deepening awareness. Students leave class feeling more present, calm, and supported in their practice.

Her path to teaching began with personal transformation in her yoga practice, motivating her to help others access positive change. Dani’s supportive, intentional, and accessible approach helps students feel empowered and connected. Through prenatal and postnatal yoga and her work as a doula, she fosters growth for new and expecting parents. Dani helps create a sense of kindness and connection in the Ithaca community, and her teaching encourages connection within oneself and among others.

Come take Grace & Ignite with Dani!

Rachael Gardner

She/her

Rachael practices yoga not only for the physical benefits, but for the mental and emotional benefits as well. She has seen from her own experiences, and from 15 years of teaching, that the mind-body connection is powerful and can be quite meaningful. Rachael has 500 hours of training from The Yoga Center of Columbia, MD, and another 200 hour training with Todd Norian at Ashaya Yoga. She taught for many years in Baltimore, MD, and some of her favorite classes were Yoga for Seniors and Yoga & Art. Rachael believes that yoga should be fun and uplifting, all while being alignment-based and steady. In her spare time, Rachael has been taking sailing lessons and you can often find her at the lake.

Come take Feel Good Flow & Meditation or Yoga for Vitality with Rachael!

Certifications

500hr YTT
200hr YTT