CYA Graduates

Emma Bourgeaux

Emma started teaching in Nicaragua during a big trip in South & Central America in December 2019, then in Colombia. She has been back home in France since March 2020 and been teaching the local communities around her homeplace. You can catch her on Zoom, in a park in South of France or in one of her local teaching spots. You can also book her for private classes at your home and/or company place. Contact for booking!

Bettina Frank

Bettina focusses on small groups and private classes for anyone interested in a practice that goes beyond Asana, all her classes include meditations, pranayama and Yoga philosophy. She specialized in prenatal and post natal Yoga. Bettina also offers workshops focused on stress and anxiety managent for schools, companies and groups. Online as well as in person Paris ou south Brazil depending on the season.

Emmanuelle De Vigne Blanchet

Emmanuelle is passionate about accompanying others in their path towards physical, emotional and mental health. She has worked as a Physical Education teacher and has a Masters in Health Promotion. Her current offerings vary from group classes (online & in person), private sessions as well as stress management and prevention coaching. Her approach to teaching is creative, safe and puts strong emphasis on self study and personal growth!

Chloe Clarkson

Chloe (she/her) is certified Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, Yoga Teacher, and Functional Movement Specialist living in on the territory of the Haida Nation. She is motivated by authentic connection with self, with community, and with the body through joyful movement and passionate about creating brave and inclusive spaces for people of all experiences to move, groove, and sweat it out.

Megan Williams

Megan has worked as a public school educator since 2009 and has coached a variety of sports to student athletes along the way. In 2018, she completed her Yoga Teacher Training certification with Avani in Costa Rica, and in 2019, completed her Trapeze Yoga Certification through Yoga Body. Megan is most often found providing outdoor yoga classes on her back patio in Kennewick, WA. She also provides private instruction online, and hosts immersive yoga events throughout the Pacific Northwest. Contact Meg for booking or subscribe to her monthly newsletter to stay in the loop!

Selma van der Graaf

Selma discovered the beauty of yoga in 2017. In December 2020 she started to learn more about the world of yoga during a 50 hr Yin Teacher Training. In spring 2021, she attended the 200hr Foundational Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training in Costa Rica. She is passionate about making people reconnect themselves with their own body in a compassionate way. Her focus areas for the future are ayurveda, functional anatomy and yogic mythology.

Lauriane Izorche

Lauriane discovered yoga when she was 20 years old and the love never stopped expanding. She took her foundational 250hrs YTT at Caribe Yoga Academy in Februrary 2019 with initally no plan to teach, but ended up turning her HR career around to become a yoga teacher and retreat planner. She founded Zen Escapes in October 2019 with the goal of organizing yoga & wellness holidays with a twist of good food, good company and fun nature activities to do between yoga classes. She teaches her 4 favorite styles of yoga on these escapes : vinyasa, hatha, yin and nidra.

Marielle Kort

Olivia Josephine Schneider

Olivia has studied and worked in the wellness field for 10+ years, and once ran her own business making and selling herbal remedies and botanical beauty products. She is passionate about uplifting human and planetary health and well-being and has learned to express this love via practicing holistic herbal medicine (including nutrition), energy healing, yoga, and environmental activism. She is adept at recognizing patterns of imbalance (that lead to dis-ease) and in using her extensive knowledge, experience and refined intuition to offer personalized insights, remedies, and corrections to support positive transformation and encourage wholeness. Contact to book classes, workshops (like making herbal remedies and natural beauty products) or for one on one consultations!

Dani Holley

Dani began her yoga practice at 15 years old, in 2015. Not long after, Dani found that not only is yoga a great exercise for her body, but an even greater exercise for her mind and mental health; aiding in her struggles with anxiety. At 19 years old, Dani began to wonder what she wanted to do with her life and felt stuck at a stand-still, which is when she decided to complete a 250-hr teaching training with Avani GIlbert.. Challenging, invigorating and absolutely life-changing is how Dani would describe her training with Avani, and trip to Costa Rica. Dani is a strong believer of breath-work and constantly reminds her students that a strong connection with their breath can power them throughout their entire practice. “Change your breath, change your life”. In Northeast Ohio, you can find Dani teaching hot Power Vinyasa classes in-studio; All-Levels classes at multiple outdoor locations; or even tune in from home (from anywhere around the world!).

Rachel Frank

Rachel is a Certified Nutrition Coach, Yoga Teacher and animal activist. Rachel was introduced to yoga in 2018 and her passion for it never stopped growing. A year later in the summer of 2019, she completed her 250hr YTT at Caribe Yoga Academy. Overcoming mental and physical challenges in her own life, Rachel is motivated to introduce yoga to her community in the hopes that this practice can have a positive impact on their life as it did for her. She is passionate about sharing the practice of movement, breath-work and aromatherapy. She integrates essential oils, pranayama and yoga philosophy in her small group yoga classes.

Eva Linauer

Eva started her journey as a Socialworker with the mission to help people in need. Always with the knowledge there must be something more to help as the physical/ material needs. While traveling the world, her ability to feel and connect to energys developed more and more over the years. With 24yrs she discoverd her ability to channel and started her journey as a psychic medium, again to help people in need. Years later life sent her on the journey to become a YTT 250hr yogateacher. Another path opend up, when she attendet a course of Shamanic Arts of healing in Hawaii, where she refind her abilities in energyhealing. Since than she teaches yoga in Austria and Bali and offers Energyhealing/Channeling sessions /workshops personal and online.

Federica Fedrigo

Federica took her foundational 250hr YTT at Caribe Yoga Academy in 2018. Upon her return to Italy, she achieved the 50hr Yin Teacher Training and graduated as Mindfulness and Meditation teacher for children. Federica is part of a non-profit organization founded with the goal of sharing with the local communities yoga, mindful movement and meditation. She believes in the value of continuing education to always remain a “student before a teacher”. She follows her heart when it comes to exploring and studying. In and off the mat. Her style and teachings go along with the inner listening of the body and the Nature.

Kelli Farris

Hi, I am Kelli! I am a traveling yoga instructor. I eventually took a leap of faith and in 2013, I began my journey in Central America, where I discovered I wanted to live between the America’s – North and Central. Ashtanga yoga is important to me because it connects to the traditional Indian philosophy, pranayama, and meditation practices of yoga. This past link gratefully connects us to the present moment. Although I prefer Yin at the moment but I am also developing as a student of yoga. Fitness is my lifelong passion, as I trained everyday from a very young age. I soon realized that the breath and body connection stimulates mental awareness and mindfulness. This blissfulness brings peace within oneself. I believe that through balance of fitness and yoga, you can come back to you – not just your strength, but your inner light of awareness. My goal is to help you find a healthy lifestyle that works for you and your schedule. Together we will work together to find a balance – through the practice of yoga. I want to work with you to look within, to find yourself, to pursue your dreams, all in a balanced and mindful way

Alexandra Hünnekens

Alex is a passionate Yoga Teacher, professional Womb Worker and entrepreneur. Her love and passion lies in creating supportive spaces for her students to claim their personal growth and healing. She’s dedicated to her own spiritual journey, and the transformations she’s experienced in her life inspire and motive her to share these teachings with her students. As a digital nomad and traveler, Alex is available for yoga classes, workshops, retreats and yoga teacher trainings globally.