TEACHERS
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Faith Marie
Faith is the founder of the Heart Center. You can find her teaching yoga classes, leading teacher trainings, and mingling with her beloved 'heart-centered' community. She is a visionary, an energy worker, and a mother. Faith first found yoga in college, when she discovered that her time on the mat empowered her to heal from trauma and become more present with life. She found that yoga was a form of energy work, and continued to study reiki, tantra, and shamanism to hone her craft. She now teaches classes to impart tools for healing based on breakthroughs and awakening experiences from her journey to self-love.
Faith enjoys DJ'ing yoga playlists and choreographing inspiring flows for her students. She travels as often as possible, whether to lead retreats, stoke her sense of freedom, or spend quality time with her little family.
Faith loves to create and contain courses for learning and healing. Join her for Usui Holy Fire Reiki levels 1&2 training, Reiki Mastery, Moon Village Women's Circle, The Heart Center 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training and 50-hour Yin Teacher Training.
Jonathan Resuello
Ever since Jonathan incorporated yoga into his life, his physical health has flourished. He values yoga over all other forms of physical discipline, as a personal trainer who has benefited from all types of exercise. The most alluring element of yoga is that it evolves into so much more. Cliches notwithstanding, there are spiritual and mental gains that become accessible as one progresses through their personal journey and examinations of the practice. For LJ, it was the meditation component that completely transformed his life. He hopes to bring to the community the same enthusiasm and prosperity that yoga has brought to him. His class will build on your physical strength and push your mental resilience to a better you!
Ki Imperial
Kristina (aka Ki) first began her Yoga Journey in Philadelphia in 2014 with the goal of losing weight. The practice quickly changed her whole understanding of the human experience and the majestic design of the human body. She quit her job as a chemist to pursue spiritual work and has been studying various forms of healing energy modalities since. In NYC, Kristina became a 200H RYT under the lineage of Iyengar, Baptiste, Cyndi Lee, and more. She studied the Chakras in Rishikesh, India where she found healing and began studies in Mysticism. She began in the yoga room as an assistant, using hands-on assistance to help students with form and alignment. Now, she continues to study the body and different massage forms, such as CFT and Thai massage. Kristina utilizes healing arts through mediums like touch, sound, and food. She loves cooking mindful meals for retreats, practicing Qi Gong in the forest, and co-creating music for joy and healing.
Caleb Knox
Caleb connected with yoga cross-training for surfing, noticing the postures of wave-riding evoked what he experienced in his first vinyasa flow. The mental/spiritual benefits of these practices also felt similar. Realizing yoga was a freely available source of spiritual energy, yoga evolved into a steady practice, and eventually into a fully committed love after being introduced to the Rocket sequence, and an eclectic community of its devotees in San Francisco. This free-spirited, rebellious family was instrumental in providing Caleb a safe space to truly be himself, having nearly quit yoga in initial distaste of not feeling a sense of belonging within the cliches of yoga-studio culture.
The steady practice provided gradual and profound healing of emotional patterns, depression, and anxiety. The more yoga, the more clarity, and intuition came.
Caleb began to teach after 5 years and channeled the insights he continued to receive from yoga into other healing arts such as reiki, sound healing, plant medicine, and breathwork.
Caleb also discovered Kundalini yoga and experienced a lightning bolt of increased healing and vitality. Yoga became more dynamic, and sustainable, through integrating and balancing kundalini and Astanga, both of which showed the same common medicine of removing stagnation. In 2019 Caleb went on an extended pilgrimage to India, studying kundalini and Astanga as well as Ayurveda and meditation.
Caleb's goals as a teacher are to create a welcoming and supportive community that encourages steady growth for all. He aims to honor the roots of yoga by teaching the breath as the most important aspect, along with bandha and dristi. His classes reference Patanjali's yoga sutras in order for yoga to be liberating not only physically but mental-spiritually through deconditioning of trauma and societal programming.
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DRE PAVELA
In Andrea's classes, expect to move slow and work hard with focused inquiries that welcome you as you are and invite the teacher within to lead. She uses physical anatomy, actions & sensations as a gateway to presence, self compassion, and growth. Her style is most influenced by Annie Carpenter’s SmartFLOW methodology, complimented by studies with many other respected educators of movement and mindfulness since 2012. Through teaching, Andrea intends to amplify the nourishing effects these practices have on our experiences as individuals, parents, partners, and friends.
Doris Vanderhyde
Doris discovered the transformative power of yoga 25 years ago at a small Kripalu yoga studioin New York City and immediately fell in love with the practice. The profound connection she felt to her body and spirit ignited a deep passion that eventually led to her completion of the Heart Centers YTT program in 2022.
Doris is also a clinical social worker and EMDR therapist specializing in trauma and anxiety.Her background in therapy brings a unique perspective to her yoga teaching, allowing her tocreate a safe and supportive space for her students to embark on their own paths of self-discovery, healing and empowerment through the practice.
In her classes, Doris will incorporate elements that go beyond the physical asanas. She
emphasizes pranayama, meditation and the teachings of yogic philosophy. Through her
compassionate guidance students are encouraged to explore the depths of their being, fostering a sense of balance and well-being. With her extensive background as a therapist, Doris creates a safe and nurturing environment for her students to support their practice and growth both on and off the mat.
Rachel Rawlings
Rachel’s yoga journey began in 2000, shortly after her youngest was born. Since then, yoga has been a constant in her life — it is the thread she holds on to, guiding her through times of darkness and uncertainty, celebrations and purpose, and everything in between. It is her joy to serve others in the community who may desire to discover the deep wisdom and healing yoga offers.
Rachel’s style is influenced by her teachers, committed practice, and dedicated studies. In her classes, she weaves in ancient wisdom teachings, intuitive and functional movements, and inspiration from the stars. She completed her 200-hour YTT in 2020, Yin training in 2023, and continues regular studies of yogic philosophies, sacred texts, pranayama, and meditation with her yoga mentor. Rachel is a lifelong PNW’er and mom to three kids, who are now adulting on their own. Beyond the mat, her yard beckons but it competes for her time that's spent with other diversions, including moonlighting as a consulting astrologer, reiki practitioner, editor, and writer.
Jasmine McCarthy
Jasmine is a licensed somatic-based clinical mental therapist, hatha-vinyasa-kundalini yoga instructor, and tantric philosophy and meditation teacher. She is an advocate for decolonized holistic sovereignty and believes in the importance of grounding the nervous system, cultivating life force energy, exonerating one's being, and sending loving compassion to all living beings for the purpose of liberating unity consciousness. Honoring indigenous practices and marginalized perspectives, she assists others in utilizing their body to bridge eastern wisdom with western science through her signature offerings of Nervous System Reset, Shakti Maitri, Cyclical Embodiment, Shamanic Soundbath, Ceremonial Yoga, 1:1 work, other astrology-related workshops, Women's Circles, and Mental Health Boxes.
KATEY PECK
Katey Peck (she/her) is a space holder, storyteller, and dreamer. A white-bodied settler ally raised on the southern banks of the Patawomeck (Potomac) River, she is grateful to call Virginia, O'ahu, and now Seattle home. A seeker and forever student, Katey treasures and transmits the teachings of several schools, including yoga (yin and vinyasa), circle facilitation, public health, and ʻāina (n. land, that which feeds). Her calling is to weave welcoming and courageous containers to support the healing of our bodies, lands, and communities.
Katey was introduced to the physical practice of yoga in high school and over the past 15 years has expanded her understanding of the different lineages shaping this Indigenous knowledge system. Her approach to space-holding is rooted in and guided by land, embraces a trauma-informed praxis, and strives to be inclusive and responsive to as many bodies as possible. Her hopes for teaching are for all to feel welcomed and witnessed, attuned to their bodies, and connected to the collective.
ARIEL JUNE
Ariel June is a mystic, writer, psychedelic guide, and yoga & meditation teacher. All of her offerings are prayerfully crafted to connect us more deeply to our own innate, inner wisdom and guidance. Her yoga classes are informed by her love of freeform embodiment, modern dance, primal movements, and ashtanga. She aims to guide students into ritual sequencing that ushers the collective heart into an embodied flow state, ultimately bringing us back to post-exertion stillness that allows us to make contact with pure awareness and our true essence.
Maytrelli Diaz
Maytrelli Diaz is an energy healer, a yoga instructor by Tantra Agama Yoga, Diksha Yoga and Sivananda Yoga and she has explored dance as a somatic practice for emotional balance for over 15 years.
An Aztec native, Maytrelli is a member of the International Council of Yoga, she is part of the Rainbow Kids Yoga.
She created this practice based on music and sound healing, a fusion with asana, pranayama and somatic movement that will strip the ego down, where only healing and joy will dress the spirit.