Meet Our Amazing Team!
We pride ourselves on empowering teachers to lead a practice that is unique and true to their own style, providing a multitude of experiences for every yogi. Coming from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, our teachers are the heart and soul of Bend and Zen. Bend and Zen is blessed with an abundance of wildly talented instructors that are simply the best Louisville has to offer! We are united through our shared love of yoga and can't wait to share that love with all our students.
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Instructor - 200 E-RYT, 300 RYT
Signature Style:
- I want to make every class fun and accessible for all levels, with core work that packs a punch
- With an emphasis on body awareness and innovative movement, I design classes that inspire curiosity and keep students coming back
- Even after teaching yoga for over a decade, I still manage to deliver fresh inspiration and new ideas, week after week
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Empowering students to find whatever unique alignment works best for them
- Witnessing that "ahhhh" moment when student finds the perfect stretch
- I love the creative outlet teaching yoga provides
- The incredible people yoga has brought to my life
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Final Savasana...when I was new to yoga it was so hard for me to be still. Over the years I have come to deeply appreciate stillness. For me, these sacred minutes at the end of class gives me a calm and a peace like no other pose.
- Final Savasana...when I was new to yoga it was so hard for me to be still. Over the years I have come to deeply appreciate stillness. For me, these sacred minutes at the end of class gives me a calm and a peace like no other pose.
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- Expect to have fun
- My teaching style is light-hearted & conversational, aiming to put students at ease
- Inventive and energizing flows that keep you on your toes - literally and figuratively
- My teaching style is light-hearted & conversational, aiming to put students at ease
- Inventive and energizing flows that keep you on your toes - literally and figuratively
- My diverse background in fitness brings noticeable depth and variety to my yoga teaching
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- I deeply value the community yoga creates, and I'm honored to help foster that connection
- It’s so rewarding witness the "lightbulb" moments when a client conquers a pose they’ve been working towards
- Enjoying the journey!
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- I find this evolves over time, but right now, it’s Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) with its equal parts of balance, strength, and stretch
- I deeply value the community yoga creates, and I'm honored to help foster that connection
- It’s so rewarding witness the "lightbulb" moments when a client conquers a pose they’ve been working towards
- Enjoying the journey!
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- I find this evolves over time, but right now, it’s Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) with its equal parts of balance, strength, and stretch
Instructor - 300 RYT
Signature Style:
- Unique and creative flows
- Core work every time!
- Energetic and welcoming
- Playlists with great music to enhance your yoga flow
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Sharing my love for yoga with others
- Being a part of my students transformation, wether that is physical or spiritual
- I love getting to see people in this community every week - I love our BZHY clients!
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Warrior 2....it’s a strong and powerful pose that can often be taken for granted for its relative simplicity, but it's a damn beautiful pose!
- Warrior 2....it’s a strong and powerful pose that can often be taken for granted for its relative simplicity, but it's a damn beautiful pose!
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- I love incorporating repetitive movements reminiscent of Kundalini yoga
- I emphasize awareness around the breath & energy flow as it moves through the body
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- I get to live my dharma and improve my practice while simultaneously sharing it with others
- Teaching yoga allows me to be of service to others and promote well-being within my community
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- King Pigeon or Wheel pose
Instructor - 200 RYT
Chelsey discovered yoga as a healing practice for the body and mind in 2013 while living in Africa. The connection of breath and movement was life changing. Since then, time on her yoga mat has been an essential component of her life. She received her RYT 200-hr certification early in 2018 and considers it a joy and an honor to share what she loves with others. Chelsey believes in grace and laughter and slowing down to the speed of listening.
When not on her mat, you will find her dancing, since she is a full-time professional Salsa/Bachata dancer,
instructor and choreographer.
instructor and choreographer.
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- Drawing on my physical therapy background and deep understanding of biomechanics, I guide students with a focus on alignment and functional movement
- One-on-one adjustments are offered to facilitate proper positioning
- I ask students to hold postures for several breaths (often single-leg standing balance poses) to cultivate strength
- Props such as blocks, straps, and resistance bands are often incorporated
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Everything!
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Warrior 3
Instructor - 300 RYT
Signature Style:
- I lead the only Hot 26 class offered at Bend and Zen and I love it!
- Your cardiovascular endurance will be challenged in each class
- I believe "every back bend heals the spine"
- I integrate my certifications in Hot 26 (Hatha), Vinyasa, Barkan Vinyasa, and HIIT to inform the structure and intention behind each sequence I teach
- Your cardiovascular endurance will be challenged in each class
- I believe "every back bend heals the spine"
- I integrate my certifications in Hot 26 (Hatha), Vinyasa, Barkan Vinyasa, and HIIT to inform the structure and intention behind each sequence I teach
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- The discipline
- The discipline
- The stillness
- The breath
- The breath
- Spreading love and compassion
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Standing Bow (Dancer’s), all day, every time
- Standing Bow (Dancer’s), all day, every time
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- Coming soon
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
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Favorite Pose:
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Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- Coming soon
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Coming soon
Favorite Yoga Pose:
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Signature Style:
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What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Coming soon
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Coming soon
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- My classes are informed by my training and experience in Hatha and Barkan Vinyasa traditions
- I work to blend fluid movements with held postures to offer a balanced and intentional class experience
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- The community
- Empowering others
- Continuously learning and growing
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Camel pose because it keeps me honest and humble
- Continuously learning and growing
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Camel pose because it keeps me honest and humble
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
Signature Style:
- Strength focused while maintaining seamless flow
- Fun transitions to cultivate deeper body awareness
- Emphasis on connection between mind and body with the breath
- Creative, playful energy and expression
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- The community yoga builds
- The physical and emotional strength we build within the self
- Practice of mindfulness with movement that carries into our daily lives
- The community yoga builds
- The physical and emotional strength we build within the self
- Practice of mindfulness with movement that carries into our daily lives
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Half Moon because it requires strength, balance, and deep focus
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
- Coming soon
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
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Favorite Yoga Pose:
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Signature Style:
- Coming soon
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Coming soon
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Coming soon
Instructor - 200 RYT
Signature Style:
⁃ My view is that going slow is more difficult than moving quickly, my classes challenge you to move with intention and watch your strength take root
⁃ Through alignment-based flows, I aim to create a powerful and accessible practice for all
⁃ I focus on the fundamentals to build strength, positive muscle memory, and prevent injury
⁃ I focus on the fundamentals to build strength, positive muscle memory, and prevent injury
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- The gratification I receive from helping people find peace through movement and breath
- The space created for students to process their human experiences
- Reuniting people with their physical bodies by being fully present in their practice
- The space created for students to process their human experiences
- Reuniting people with their physical bodies by being fully present in their practice
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Depends on the day - I love Triangle, Half Moon, and deep lunges
Instructor - 500 RYT, 200 E-RYT
Signature Style:
- Coming soon!
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- I love seeing students progress in their practice - gaining strength, confidence and mobility, especially the look on a student’s face when they land a pose for the first time - it fills me with such joy!
- I love to sequence and as a former dancer and choreographer, designing yoga flows has become my creative outlet
- When students tell me when my classes give them physical, mental or emotional benefits - I love hearing have that yoga has improved their life
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- I love Headstand and practice it daily as I find it meditative and balancing for my whole body
- I love seeing students progress in their practice - gaining strength, confidence and mobility, especially the look on a student’s face when they land a pose for the first time - it fills me with such joy!
- I love to sequence and as a former dancer and choreographer, designing yoga flows has become my creative outlet
- When students tell me when my classes give them physical, mental or emotional benefits - I love hearing have that yoga has improved their life
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- I love Headstand and practice it daily as I find it meditative and balancing for my whole body
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Unused Content:
Signature Style:
- Being improvisational and intuitive allows me the space to adapt to students’ needs in the moment
- I invite you to "play to your edge" while staying rooted in joy and ease
What I Love Most About Teaching Yoga:
- Sharing the calm and clarity yoga brings into peoples' lives- Being a bright spot in someone's day, by offering them the space to pause, breath, and connect
- Watching students' grow - not just in strength and flexibility, but in self-awareness and inner contentment
Favorite Yoga Pose:
- Savasana, every time