Flossie Park E-RYT 500 YACEP

Always considering herself as a student of life, Flossie has studied with numerous teachers throughout her lifetime. Flossie has dedicated her life to empowering herself and others through yoga, meditations, workshops, retreats, Crystal Bowl sound therapy and numerous other modalities. She has been actively involved in the wellness field for over 25 years developing programs that reach out to all walks of life. For ten years Flossie owned a yoga studio on the east coast where she developed and directed a successful School of Yoga. Through her Yoga Teacher Training programs and certifications, she has lovingly guided hundreds of students to step into living their passions and enriching their lives and the lives of others with the experience, wisdom and love of yoga.

Stacy McCarthy E-RYT 500 YACEP

An award-winning health & fitness leader, accomplished businesswomen, captivating speaker, and respected educator. For her contributions to the field of health and wellness as a seasoned mindful movement educator and integrative wellness thought leader, Stacy was honored as the 2021 IDEA World Fitness Instructor of the Year, a prestigious award recognizing superior instructional abilities and positive influence within the global health and fitness industry. Stacy’s recognized for her health and wellness coaching, yoga and mindfulness practices, positive psychology interventions, culinary whole food, plant-based medicine in the treatment of various chronic disease and conditions.

Infused with humor and soul, Stacy is a storyteller with a devotion to philosophy. Her classes are physically balanced, energetically empowering, mentally focusing and spiritually up-lifting. They are designed to transform lives. Stacy’s yoga journey began almost three decades ago in the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya. She is known for intelligent sequencing that meets her students where they are in their own practice in a system that inspires beginners and experienced students alike. Her teaching is holistic and embraces periods of time both past and present, as well as the fluctuations of life, including age, seasons, and transitions. At the core of her teachings there is a celebration for the human capacity to expand, love and live more fabulously.

Joe Barnett E-RYT 500

Joe has been practicing and teaching many forms of yoga for 20 years. For 10 years, he has been traveling nationally and internationally offering lectures, workshops and teacher trainings on specifically Yin Yoga and Chakra Meditation. Joe is a senior student and primary teaching assistant of Paul Grilley, a true Yoga Scientist and founder of Yin Yoga. After several years of apprenticing under Paul, Joe began roaming the globe to spread the word of his teacher’s work.  “Joe Barnett has been our friend and assistant for many years. He has two qualities that make him an excellent presenter: he knows the anatomical principles and he relates to people in a sympathetic manner. His presentations are unhurried, hands on demonstrations, this is the easiest way to absorb these ideas.” ~ Paul and Suzee Grilley

Monique Lonner, RYT-E 500, Yoga Therapist

Monique has been teaching yoga for more than 13 years both in New York and California. She is the founder and Director of both the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy programs at Soul of Yoga. She has a deep reverence for the beautiful miracle of the human body and loves teaching Anatomy and Physiology in 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program.

Monique’s most profound teaching gifts lie in her ability to apply asana as a therapeutic tool for healing. She is especially intuitive with students who have movement restrictions or injuries and has helped many people move out of their pain and into the enjoyment of life again.

All of her classes, be they gentle or vinyasa flow, are designed to help your body feel better, be stronger and move more freely. She is a devoted student of Yogic Philosophy and delights in weaving the wisdom of the teachings into her classes so that it feels relevant, supportive and inspiring to her students through life’s challenges and joys.

Monique has more than 2000 hours of training; a dedicated student of some of the best therapeutic teachers in the field including Brian Dorfman, Leslie Kaminoff, Nischala Joy Devi and Mukunda Styles.

Her Teaching Style: Leaning most closely towards the therapeutic philosophy of T.K.V Desikchar’s Viniyoga, Monique’s teaching style is ultimately a “yogic quilt” woven by all the varied and wonderful teachers she’s studied with and can best be described as a flowing breath-centered vinyasa married to anatomical alignment principles.

Michael Brian Baker

Founder of The Breath Center. Michael is a student of compassion and humility, and approaches life with a curiosity and humor. He is devoted to supporting people in their own growth, freedom, and discovery of the body’s innate intelligence to heal from within. For nearly 20 years, Michael has skillfully blended Western Medical Science, Eastern Vedic Philosophy, and Southern & Northern American Spiritual Theory and Practice. He has been a featured Keynote speaker at Bastyr University, The Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders, UCLA’s Psychedelic Science Symposium, Holistic Veterans Foundation and Nationally Accredited Substance Abuse Treatment Centers.

Dr. Alexandra Crosswell, PhD

Alexandra  is a national expert in stress science. She spent 15+ years conducting NIH-funded research studies studying the effects of stress on the body at Duke University, UCLA, and most recently UCSF, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her scientific areas of expertise include the biology of stress, measurement of stress, the impact of contemplative practices like yoga, meditation, and prayer on biological functioning, and research study design.

She now serves as an advisor for companies working on wellness products and services in addition to coaching leaders in high stress jobs, facilitating workshops, and giving corporate keynote talks. Dr. Crosswell received her Ph.D. in Health Psychology from UCLA, and her B.A. in Psychology from Duke University. She is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and received training as an interfaith Spiritual Director from the The Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley, CA.

Richard C. Miller, PhD.

Richard is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and spiritual teacher. For over 40 years, Richard Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Among his mentors were Jean Klein, T.K.V. Desikachar and Stephen Chang.

Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology and a senior advisor for the Baumann Foundation for the study of Awareness and its impact on well-being.

Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol that he has developed (Integrative Restoration ~ iRest, a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual meditation practice of Yoga Nidra) researching its efficacy on health, healing and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, the incarcerated, and people experiencing issues such as sleep disorders, PTSD, chemical dependency, chronic pain, and related disorders.

Mark Whitwell

Mark is interested in developing an authentic yoga practice for the individual, based on the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar, with whom he enjoyed a relationship for more than twenty years. Mark’s teachings clarify the profound passion and relevance of ancient wisdom to contemporary life.

Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar’s book The Heart of Yoga.

Rosalind Atkinson

Rosalind works alongside her partner, Yoga teacher Mark Whitwell, helping make the practices of the Heart of Yoga available to people around the world. She is the founder of Silver Snake Press, an independent press dedicated to books that nurture the heart of humanity, and online magazine thedirt.media. Rosalind is custodian of the Heart of Yoga Ashram on Taveuni Island, Fiji, and Trustee of the Heart of Yoga Foundation, dedicated to making a Yoga education accessible to all.

She holds a Master’s degree in the illuminated mystic poetry of William Blake and has presented on Blake at conferences and events around the world. Previously she worked as an oceans activist on sailing ships; her activism now takes the form of sharing the tools of yoga, that help us each become intimate with our own life and capable of deep love and care for the earth and each other.

Visvambhar Sheth

Vish is an internationally recognized kirtan singer, multi-instrumentalist, and inspirational speaker with a deep-rooted connection to India’s spiritual traditions. A master of the Mridanga drum, he began leading kirtan at the age of five and has since performed at renowned venues like BhaktiFest, Omega Institute, Wanderlust, and all over India. As the lead singer of The Mayapuris and a member of The Hanumen, Vish has brought the transformative power of kirtan to audiences worldwide. He collaborates with artists like Jai Uttal and Gaura Vani, composes original music, and performs alongside his wife, Vrinda Sheth. Fluent in Hindi and well-versed in Eastern and Western traditions, Vish also leads pilgrimages to sacred sites in India. He holds a B.A. in Religion from the University of Florida. He lives in Florida with his wife and three children after just recently returning from living in Mayapur, India for the past 3 years.

Sita Severson, C-IAYT, YACEP, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Director of Kundalini Studies

Sita is a lifelong clairvoyant whose love of working with people led her into the world of Yoga & Ayurveda in 2005. She started her Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coaching practice in 2007 and later became an Ayurvedic Practitioner. In that time, she has led classes on Meditation and Yoga to the professors at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as the Department of Aging for Baltimore, County where she wrote curriculum and taught at 18 different centers over a 5 year time span.
Since the establishment of her practice, Sita has become a published author, a beloved teacher on The Shift Network and Wisdom from North (the Scandinavian version of MindValley). She has worked with thousands of individuals as their Vedic counselor, supporting their health in mind, body and spirit.

She has taken her love of food and applied Ayurvedic cooking and meal planning to many of her clients over the years. Her heartfelt love is to support people in the simplification process of bringing the Ayurvedic Lifestyle and health into their lives with ease.

Ryan Stanley

Ryan became an owner of the Soul of Yoga in early 2017, but has been dabbling in Yoga at the Soul since 2010. He has gained important learnings from his teachers Trisha Kelly, Tom Kelly, Flossie Park, and Monique Lonner, including participating in and becoming certified in Soul of Yoga’s Hatha teacher training program.

As an owner Ryan has had the opportunity to be exposed to many worldwide master teachers, but has connected the deepest so far with the teachings of Mark Whitwell’s Heart of Yoga personal practice. While he continues to work with his Soul of Yoga teachers, he has been working with Mark online and every time he visits the US. Ryan has experienced so many benefits from this simple practice he is inspired to share it with as many people as possible.

Jonathan Richard

Jonathan started his yoga journey in 2005, exploring meditation and basic asana. His passion for his practice, tapas, was rekindled when moving back to California in 2012 and has maintained a daily practice since. The universe lovingly led him to Lisette Hart’s Teacher Training through Roots and Wings, where his practice blossomed into a desire to teach. He strives to bring his passion for yoga into every class. Jonathan firmly believes that yoga is accessible to everyone, no matter what age or physical capability.

Whether through a strong vinyasa flow or a gentle restorative practice, Jonathan wants every one of his students to feel better leaving their practice than when they walked in; feeling free and open, both empowered and relaxed.

In addition, The Soul Institute 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is enriched by qualified visiting presenters who share their expertise.