Jacqueline Frederick’s teaching is strongly influenced and inspired by the Anusara Yoga tradition, as founded by John Friend. She has been studying and practicing Yoga for over 4 years with an emphasis on Anusara.

She is a certified yoga instructor and a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance, a governing body of Hatha yoga teachers. She has studied under many renowned Anusara teachers including John Friend, Mitchel Bleier, and Sianna Sherman. She most recently completed a weeklong teacher training with John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga, in May of 2004. She continues to  develop her own practice and her teaching by attending workshops and training intensives several times a year.

Theresa Barnett has been practicing Hatha Yoga since the mid 1980s and serving as a teacher since 1994. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and yoga therapist. Theresa helps students access the innate wisdom and intelligence of the body through movement and awareness cultivated from her own practice. She assists her students in experiencing greater strength, spaciousness and trust of their own bodies through the practice of “movement as meditation.” She has studied with Erich Schiffmann, Rodney Yee, John Friend, and continues to be in apprenticeship with Diane Long. Theresa utilizes the body’s own healing properties as a certified Neuro-Muscular therapist and Cranio-Sacral therapist as well. Her classes cultivate wellness of the body and guide her student’s focus naturally toward their own inner landscapes for a sense of wholeness.

Amber Barry practices and teaches yoga with the deepest gratitude for the tradition.  She shares her enthusiasm for the yogic arts with her students, and teaches with great warmth and compassion. Amber has a unique talent for engaging students of all levels to deepen their practice through asana, pranayama and mindfulness.  Her greatest guidance is to “practice with awareness” and “honor your body”.  She earned her yoga teacher certification through Atlanta Yoga Fellowship, and has completed John Friend’s Level I Anusara Immersion.  She has also studied with Tias Little, Bryan Kest, and Doug Keller.  Amber holds a B.S in Marketing from the University of Virginia, and has been teaching in the Atlanta area since 2001.

Marty Erwin was introduced to yoga through the Ashtanga practice in 1999. Amazed at the benefits of a regular yoga practice, Marty took the opportunity to deepen his practice by attending a month long Ashtanga teacher training at
It's Yoga of San Francisco in 2000. After returning to Chattanooga, Marty began teaching yoga part-time. A year later, he left his position as a Eighth grade English teacher to devote himself to the study and teaching of yoga. Marty has continued his studies with numerous local and national
teachers, as well as completing additional teacher trainings: a 50 hour 5 day Vinyassa teacher training with Stephanie Keach of Asheville Yoga, and a 200 hour Kripalu Yoga teacher training with Deva Parnell of Discovery Yoga in St. Augustine. Marty encourages students to allow their practice to be an exploration without ambition, cultivating contentment with each breath.

Lori Sugarman, a Greensboro, N.C. native, has lived in metro Atlanta since 1987raising 3 children (now teenagers) with her husband, Barry.  In 1994, Lori started a preschool program in Marietta that today serves about 100 children.  She has been active starting community programs, including children's drama, youth creative writing clubs, a community youth chorus, and at the other age spectrum, director and developer of a senior center.  In 2006 she received her training from Helen Garabedian, creator of Itsy Bitsy Yoga.  Lori’s mommy and me classes will give parents active tools using yoga poses that encourages playfulness, touch, movement and bonding with babies as well as providing a nurturing environment through contact with other moms and children.  Please contact Lori to register at      Ph. 678.778.0707 or email itsybitsyoga@gmail.com