Paula Walker

@handstandpaula

Better known as Handstand Paula, is a beloved yoga teacher at greenmonkey® Miami Beach for the past 10 years. You’ll often catch her flying up into inversions and she’s passionate about teaching + uplifting her students to do the same!  Yogis love Paula’s classes for their strong sequencing, motivational + uplifting messages, fabulous playlists, challenging workout, core work and positivity + inspiration.

Kata Bilanchone

@miamiyogagirl

Kata was first introduced to Eastern philosophy in college about 7 years ago. It was then that she fell fiercely in love with yoga and everything it encompasses. At 21 she became certified to teach, shortly after she went on to study philosophy in India amongst the Jains. There she really immersed herself in deep meditation training and everything else that came with temple life.

Upon returning she completed her second certification and became a 500 Hour certified teacher.

Everything from being the teacher of teachers, to working with athletes, leading mass meditations, and conscious book clubs have brought her, as she says, insurmountable joy!

Chris Byford

@chrisbyfordyoga

Chris is a RYT 500, E-RYT 200, YACEP and a Baptiste Yoga certified teacher. He also holds numerous other specialized certifications for teaching to specific populations and has over 3000 teaching hours in the last 7 years, teaching at studios, festivals, and events all over the country. He enjoys volunteering to teach for under-served populations and those that would greatly benefit from the powerful results of yoga, meditation, and pranayama practices. He has worked closely with active duty military and veterans, children, prisoners, people in recovery, and homeless communities. He has been a large contributor to several yoga non-profits, including Joined Forces Yoga, where I was a founding board member, and Small World Yoga, where he was the lead facilitator, Teacher Development Coordinator and helped to create and build the processes for our work with the Metro Nashville Public Schools, including training to incorporate yoga in the classroom. 

Liana Simone Ponce

@lianasimoneyoga

Has been practicing yoga for over 10 years and has a passion for the practice. She has a dedicated Ashtanga practice over nine years and has her 500-hour Yoga certification in Gentle Therapeutics from Master Teacher Allaine Stricklen, who is also Liana’s mentor and dear friend. Liana has trainings under Manju Jois as well, the son of Pattabhi Jois who started Ashtanga Yoga. These trainings are in Ashtanga Primary Series, and Yoga Therapy. Liana believes that yoga is for everybody that is open to learn. 

Christine Kelly

@ckelly808

A devoted and passionate student of yoga, Christine has been teaching since 2013 after receiving her 200hr YTT through an immersion course in Fiji.  From teaching on resort beaches while living in Hawai’i to leading events and classes in Arizona, she now shares her practice in Miami.  Christine’s classes provide a safe space for students to explore their practice, body, mind and breath.  Through intuitive movement and challenging sequences, Christine safely guides students to dive deeper, softly push their boundaries, shatter self-limiting beliefs and discover new strengths.

Nicole Stalker

@nicoles811

Nicole is a 200 hour certified yoga teacher and a professional ballet dancer with the Miami City Ballet. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Florida. Nicole started dancing at age 3 and never stopped, training intensely throughout her childhood with the dream of becoming a professional. After starting her professional ballet career in 2008, she came to yoga during her off season as a form of cross training. She fell in love with the practice for its mind-body connection, as well as the artistic sequencing and flow of movement created in a class. Yoga combines her two passions, the mind and movement! Nicole uses her extensive body awareness from ballet to focus on alignment in her classes. She encourages you to adapt postures to fit your own unique abilities and offers variations to suit all levels. 

Asher Lafond

@asher_lafond

Asher was first introduced to yoga in high school as a means of deepening her dance skills. She quickly fell in love with the movement and saw the ways that yoga could also contribute to her spiritual practice. Asher received her 200hr certification in 2018 and has been actively sharing ever since. 

To her, yoga is about becoming more aware of all the subtleties that contribute to each moment. Within the body, so much is happening at once. As we connect to the depths of the body, we see how much more we are and the potential we hold. Outside of the body, there are relationships, work, ways of connecting that all require this awareness in order to grow into who we are here to be. Yoga brings this and this is what she is here to share. 

Bryan Mora

@four20fighter