Annie (she/her) is the founder of Mudita Yoga and Therapy. She is deeply committed to helping students and clients reveal their strengths. She provides compassionate support as folks physically, mentally, and emotionally recognize unhelpful patterns and create new practices and pathways. Her first yoga teacher training in 2013 was with an organization called Street Yoga, which no longer exists. Still, it was designed to help teachers provide classes for unhoused and incarcerated humans. Since then, she has engaged in continuing education and training in the Iyengar tradition. She loves alignment and laughter in her classes. She brings a playful spirit and integrity to her students and clients.

Arturo has spent over 30 years inspiring and educating through trainings in Therapeutic Yoga, Anatomy, and Kinesiology. He holds a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and has extensive clinical experience working with injuries and limitations. Arturo is the Chief Instructor at Aikido of New Orleans, and since 1998, he has co-led the Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training with Cheri Clampett Borda. Arturo has a unique gift for translating complex scientific concepts into practical, applicable teachings for his students.

Jonathan began the adventure of yoga in 1997 at the old BKS Iyengar Institute of New Orleans. He studied with many of the senior students of BKS Iyengar and was certified in 2001. He has taken many trips to study with Prashant Iyengar in India, as well as continuing study with expert teacher Ramanand Patel and spiritual teachers from other lineages. He was also co-founder and owner of Yoga Bywater. Although his teaching points towards the classical, he believes that each individual has to find the interests and fire that will drive their personal practice and that yoga offers something for every seeker regardless of background or perceived limitations.

Born in New Orleans and raised in St. James Parish, Julie started her yoga and Pilates journey as a professional dancer for the NFL and NBA (New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Hawks), and has been teaching Pilates for nearly 22 years. Although she is comprehensively certified to teach on all Pilates apparatus through Power Pilates in NYC, she particularly loves teaching mat classes, since they’re accessible to everyone. Her specialty is diving into the technique, truly teaching the genius of the method, as opposed to simply instructing it. She loves teaching everyone from true beginners to advanced practitioners and teachers, and she accredits Iyengar training with complimenting her Pilates-based focus on alignment and precision. She can also be found many nights playing upright bass on Frenchmen Street and beyond.

T.T. (they/them) is a genderqueer parent, somatic coach, bodyworker, Qigong practitioner, Aikido black-belt, dancer, writer, performer, and more. Their 1-on-1 work is focused on creative and collaborative ways of building awareness and cultivating transformation through embodied practice. T.T. emphasizes a beyond-binary process, focusing on movement, play, and interdependence, working primarily with Queer and Gender Non-conforming folks, creatives and artists, as well as parents on their path of Embodied Parenting. They are committed to moving beyond our exclusively-human and culturally-located ways of defining ourselves and towards something wider, deeper, and more liberated.

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Adam's yoga journey began with an ankle injury that led him to seek low-impact practices. He found healing in rehabilitative flow yoga that strengthens, stretches, and connects breath with movement. Adam completed his training at Anaturra Ashram, a heart-centered Tantra school with a trauma-informed, inclusive philosophy. His welcoming classes create a playful space to release tension and relax areas of pain or tightness. Adam specializes in guiding beginners and seniors to find empowering movements suited to their bodies and abilities. Students can expect a nurturing environment to build strength, increase mobility, and cultivate mind-body awareness.

DePhilana first turned to yoga in 2012 to improve her physical health. She has stuck with the practices since then because of how they also support the mental and spiritual aspects of our being. Her favorite teaching is that divinity lives within each of us. 

Kundalini Yoga for self care with Cara: All levels of experience, all bodytypes and all genders welcome. This is about you healing you through Asana, Pranayama, meditiation, and mantra. Using these tools we can connect deeper into ourselves and find new ways of expressing, experiencing, and expanding. Lets embrace our divine birthright and find the strength and energy to go forth with radical loving intent.