Welcome to a more balanced you.
Meet The Team
Our team offers a variety of experience in not only Yoga, but also Kinesiology, meditation, and nutritional health to name a few. Each instructor brings their own creative style to each class, and are eager to join you on your journey. Our team is excited to meet you!
Sam Usi
Instructor
Sam has been teaching yoga since early 2022. The mat has been a place for her to connect mind, body, and soul, strengthening her relationship with herself and spirituality. Because of this ,she felt called to become a teacher, hoping to create and provide space to others who yearn to connect with who they are, who they've been, and who they want to be. In her classes, you can expect a balance of slow flow with dynamic sequencing and time for restoration and relaxation. This space is provided to build strength and ground down into all that we are capable of. However, don't be surprised when she hits you with some booty builders too!
Kasey Carrel
Instructor
I have always been involved in fitness, playing competitive soccer until I was 18. I began taking Hot Yoga in college. At first it was just another workout for me, but then I started feeling the mental benefits, the connection to myself, and the spiritual aspects of the practice. I was hooked! I've practiced on and off for 8 years, consistently for 4, and have now been teaching for 3 years. I wanted to share my love of yoga with others and began teaching in hopes to provide a welcoming space to explore your creativity and find your joy in your practice. My style is musically driven (ask me about my playlists) and rooted in Vinyasa. With a passion and curiosity for creative movement, you will never take the same class twice with me!
Carolina Santos
Mindfulness Leader
I was born and raised in Brazil. I started to practice yoga in 2015, during the last year of my second University experience. I was on and off with my yoga practice for 5 years. In 2020 I decided to take my first Hatha-Vinyasa training, interested in deeping my practice, but never with the intention of becoming an instructor. I'm now also a certified Yin Yoga instructor and most recently I went on a 3-week YTT in the Big Island of Hawaii. I have been actively teaching Vinyasa, YinYasa and Yin yoga since January 2022. My classes are fun, creative, sweaty, and high vibrational. I like to bring in the spiritual side of this beautiful practice by also including mantras, mudras, chanting and meditation. Outside of the studio you can find me working hard as an Executive Personal Assistant, or spending as much time as possible outdoors with my dog Sadie and friends.
Renee Andreasen
Meditation Guide
Health & Wellness Coach
Renee understands the many demands of life and the toll it can take on our body and happiness. In her own journey of overcoming Autoimmune disease and being bedridden, she dove deep into natural medicine and ancient wisdom to learn the tools of the mind, body and spirit and to become whole and liberated from the traditional binds of society and corporate America. She re-designed a vibrant, adventurous, vital life aligned with her true mission and purpose! Renee is a Certified Holistic Health Coach (CHC) who helps you achieve your optimal health and life through use of modern techniques, natural medicine, and ancient wisdom. Her specialty is in helping people unlock the natural wisdom and healing within, to achieve their mind, body, spirit goals.
Jinnene Foster
Ayurvedic Practitioner
Inclusivity Focused
Jinnene earned her RYT-200 from 8 Limbs Yoga Centers in Seattle and went on to pursue an RYT-100 credential focusing on Ayurveda for yoga teachers with Madhuri Methodin Vancouver, B.C. After 20 years of practice, Jinnene’s yoga teaching is grounded in knowledge of asana across a variety of yogic styles including Hatha, Yin, Bikram, and Baptiste. Adopting a student-centered approach to teaching has allowed Jinnene to empower others to find and express their authentic selves. In Jinnene’s classes, one can expect to focus on lightheartedness, strength building, and dynamic movements to invigorate and intrigue about mind and body boundaries with heart and humor. When Jinnene’s not teaching yoga, she’s probably wall climbing, appreciating nature, or snuggling her dog.
Ayla Wallace
Instructor
Ayla is a Seattle-based performer and yoga teacher passionate about forming meaningful relationships through creative practice. She was introduced to yoga as a mindfulness practice in 2015 and discovered a whole-self awakening as a result. During the pandemic, she decided to pursue teaching and is RYT-200 and yin yoga certified. She guides students through open-minded exploration for the purpose of healing and growth. Ayla’s classes are gentle and nourishing, while allowing space for emotional processing
Kristen Stevens
Instructor
Kristen began practicing yoga back in Boston in 1999. When she moved to L.A. yoga became an important part of her new life on the west coast. After the birth of her twin boys she realizes she wanted to go deeper with her practice and share the benefits with others. She became a certified teacher in 2013 and continues to learn through trainings and her students. In her classes you will find support and compassion as she invites students to connect body, breath and mind. Kristen offers poses and breathing techniques to help strengthen and energize as well as restore and relax. Kristen strives to meet students where they are by offering gentle guidance and modifications while allowing for safe and supportive exploration of going a bit deeper. There is so much to discover of our Self and the journey there is what drives her to teach. In her spare time, Kristen enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, and spending time outdoors with her family.
Sally Staley
Instructor
My name is Sally and I am a devoted Yoga Instructor. I dedicate my time to create opportunity and reach out to the public and the underserved population for addressing addiction and chronic illness through mindful movement. Yoga has improved my body, mind and spirit before and after battling years of liver disease and alcoholism. Self therapy has been imperative throughout my journey. Yoga has taught me the importance of breathing, relieving stress and finding balance and strength. Using these techniques in my daily life helps me achieve a powerful sense of peace and personal truth. Please join me to find steps and poses to build and improve your own personal practice. My outreach to the recovering and yoga communities is the way I give back and further honor my recovery. Please join me to help build a bigger and better community as we are all in this together.
Taylor Darneille
Reiki practitioner
Trauma informed
Taylor’s classes are reality-based and mess-embracing. All of her classes are trauma-informed (or “human-friendly”, as she likes to call them) with emphasis on full body sovereignty. Taylor especially encourages anyone navigating queerness, disability/chronic illness, PTSD, complicated grief, and/or neurodivergence to join her classes. She has been a registered yoga teacher since 2020, a certified Reiki practitioner since 2021, is currently in the process of obtaining Jungian Shadow Work certification, and has studied Organic Intelligence, Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. A true Halloween baby, she is a lover of all things underworld. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she is now completely mobile, living out of her outback and pet/house-sitting full-time
Delia Veschi
Trauma informed
Emphasis on adaptive movement/meditation
Delia Veschi is a retired disabled military combat veteran. She is a Trauma Informed RYT 200 Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor with emphasis on inclusive and adaptive Movement/Yoga/ Meditation for individuals in the disability community. She has a love of providing others with helpful mindfulness-based practices and is always looking for ways to impart accessible activities in the community. Currently, Delia is finishing her training in the Embody Yoga's Roots YTT 300 training program through Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute. Upon completion, Delia will be a RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor. You can expect Delia to bring a playfulness to her classes that is sure to leaving you feeling renewed and refreshed. As a new resident to Shoreline by way of Pittsburgh, PA she hopes to make meaningful connections with others in the community.
Donte Quinine
Meditation Guide
Breathe work facilitator
Donte Quinine is a dynamic professor, yoga instructor, and speaker. Donte teaches in the moment, combining indigenous wisdom with inspirational insights for modern living. Donte invites students into the process of personal inquiry grounded in spiritual intelligence. Donte has been described by his students as “an ocean of wisdom” and a “modern urban mystic.”
Laura Kessler
Kid's Yoga Instructor
Social/Emotional Learning Facilitator
Laura has been practicing yoga on and off since college. For the past three decades she has been an actor and director in the Puget Sound theatre community and a performing arts teacher for elementary age kids. Working through the pandemic inspired Laura to come up with more creative ways to reach her students and she took the steps to become a certified trauma informed yoga instructor, as well as a social emotional learning facilitator. Laura loves sharing yoga practice with young people and finding ways to make it accessible for every body. Laura’s kids class is filled with fun and play, breath and mindfulness. Her adult class is a gentle flow with options for everyone so you can feel empowered in your practice.