Our teachers

are the heart of us

  • Shelly Yang Founder of Form + Flow

    Shelly Yang

    FOUNDER

    A creator at heart, Shelly loves to give back to her community, takes joy in nurturing the souls that surround her. Having traversed diverse corners of the globe, she's gathered inspiration from every culture and landscape, fueling her passion for elevating consciousness and fostering deep connections among communities.

  • Michael Hewett

    YOGA / MEDITATION

    His classes, workshops & retreats weave together dharma, asana, meditation, and live music to guide participants along their paths with scholarship and artistry.

    Michael has over 2,000 hours of Yoga trainings in Tibetan Buddhist Sutra & Tantra (open & secret traditions), Vinyasa, Ashtanga, ISHTA & Shamatha (mind training). Michael has completed four 30-day solitary Tantric retreats, countless vipassana retreats & guides people on their individual paths of growth & evolution.

  • Donna Mcgregor

    YOGA

    Chemistry professor by day, yogi instructor by night, what can’t Donna do? She teaches a hatha inspired vinyasa flow class where she aims to bring a fluid connection between prana and asana into each one of her classes and help the yogis she leadd discover their own inner peace and uniqueness on the mat.

  • Josh Mathew-Meier

    YOGA

    Performing since a young age means Josh has always been a mover. His classes weave together ancient philosophy with modern movements to cultivate awareness through play.

  • Victoria Greene

    YOGA / MEDITATION

    The way she teaches is best described as art. Victoria’s classes continually evolve to meet the demands of modern-day seekers while fostering a true sense of unshakable peace.

  • Nancy Tomlinson

    YOGA

    Finding yoga later in life helped Nancy learn how to manage her own stress and anxiety. She left the fashion industry to focus on teaching yoga, breathwork, stillness, and meditation.

  • Nicole M.

    YOGA

    If you can be sure of anything it’s that you’ll leave Nicole’s classes feeling energized. Her intention is to uplift her students both on and off the mat.

  • Kat Chen

    YOGA

    Kat is a fashion designer, illustrator, and travel enthusiast with a knack for mindfulness. Her classes bridge the gap between body, emotion, spirit, and awareness.

  • Sarah Vera

    YOGA

    Her approach to yoga is deeply influenced by the wisdom of the body. Her teaching is an integration of pain science, breath function, supporting the nervous system, increasing movement options, and our body's innate ability to heal.

    Sarah has over 800 hours of yoga teacher training and is a certified postpartum corrective exercise specialist.

    When she’s not teaching or practicing, you can find Sarah visiting a city park or pizzeria with her husband and son.

  • Juan Gamboa

    Juan Gamboa

    YOGA

    Juan has been an NYC-based yoga teacher since 2009. He is the Founder of the P.A.R.C. (Practice And ReCover) Initiative, a grassroots movement launched in June 2020. In the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when all the yoga studios closed, the Initiative offered donations-based, community yoga classes all over New York City - Harlem, Tribeca, Upper East Side, Central Park and Fidi. He even hosted classes in his back yard. The P.A.R.C. Initiative continues to serve New York City today.

    He continues to guide communities and lead retreats across the world.

  • Joy Chen

    YOGA

    Joy is the founder Cosmic Fit Club, and a LIC local who teaches outdoor sunset yoga classes each summer for the Hunters Point Park South Conservancy.

    With a playful voice and a creative touch, Joy's yoga classes combine the alignment based approach of Iyengar with a focus on core work and functional movement training to build lightness, strength, and flexibility throughout the whole body.

  • Christina Ionno

    YOGA / MEDITATION

    She weaves her extensive dharma wisdom into empowering teachings. Her approach is relatable and fresh, designed to help others unlock their ultimate potential and discover the true nature of their mind.

  • Cheryl Lemone

    YOGA

    Cheryl is known for her playful and inviting classes. With over a decade of personal yoga practice, Cheryl felt the transformative impact of yoga to manage stress and anxiety in her adult life. Motivated by her own experiences, she left her career in marketing to pursue teaching yoga. She continues to deepen her understanding of anatomy, breath work, and meditation. Cheryl strives to empower individuals along their movement journey toward self-love and well-being.

  • Ilana Lieberman

    YOGA

    Her greatest passion?Teaching how to merge mind, breath, and body. Take her classes to see the value of slowing down and bringing awareness into the body and your practice.

  • Manavi M. Persaud

    YOGA

    At an early age, Manavi discovered yoga through her parents learning about Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, and exploring yoga as a dynamic meditation. Her real transformation in the devotion to the practice came with pregnancy and motherhood. Her style of teaching is born from the gratitude she has towards the practice and she incorporates elements of chakra balancing, meditation and breath in each class.

  • Serena Grace

    SOUND / CACAO CEREMONY

    She is a curator of sacred spaces and a practiced ceremonialist. Her sessions weave an intricate palette of sensorial pleasure and healing that is unique to her ritual.

  • Hannah Cohen

    BREATHWORK / BODYWORK

    Working through a variety of lenses, Hannah combines a decade of identity exploration with gentle hands-on healing to help clients with anxiety, PTSD, depression, and creative stagnation.

  • Jo-Anne Suriel

    REIKI / SOUND

    Jo-Anne brings a sense of deep compassion, ancestral groundedness, and non-judgmental curiosity to her healing practice. Her goal is to help you return to dynamic balance by creating space for you connect to your own innate healing energy.

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