For nearly 30 years, Angela F. Allen, Ph.D., has been a career educator and leads a small Massachusetts Charter District serving most underprivileged students. As a woman of color and certified yoga instructor via Yoga Alliance, Angela is inspired to provide access and equity to yoga to marginalized communities.  About 15 years ago, she began to incorporate yoga into her running routine to enhance stability, flexibility, and strength. As her body matured and prevented more knee damage, Angela hung up her running shoes, but not her insatiable appetite for being grounded and connected to the earth. She commenced her fifth decade with a commitment to being grounded, guided by faith, to continuously learn, grow, and, yes, age gracefully toward an ever-evolving journey.   Subsequently, she became more intentional and invested in yoga in an integrated, holistic way to connect mind, body, and spirit.  For the past several years, she has practiced yoga at Akasha Yoga and has begun to study the discipline. In 2024, she traveled to Bali to practice yoga and deep meditation, earning her 200-hour YTT certification through Breathe For Change along with her Social Emotional Facilitator certification.  She also serves on the Majestic Community Wellness Advisory Board. 

She is excited to warmly invite those new to yoga and curious about it to join her on the mat to get grounded, be present, and in the moment with a beginner's flow in a safe and inclusive environment.  In this beginner flow, you will learn the foundation of yoga, including proper alignment via a sequence of poses linked with breath. This slow flow emphasizes gentle movements, breath awareness, and a focus on building a foundation of body awareness. We will hold the poses longer to allow students to build up stamina and create a strong foundation for the rest of their yoga journey.

Eileen has combined her passion and personal healing journey with the regenerative power of Yoga, Writing, snd Expressive Arts techniques to form her own unique, gentle, warm, and naturalistic style. She has a Master’s in Counseling, an MFA in Writing and has studied Expressive Arts Therapies. She has many influences including Yoga for Life, Phoenix Rising, and most currently Lindsay Gibson at Majestic Yoga. She brings these practices to schools, hospitals, yoga and health centers, retreats, clinics, colleges, and business.

Kayla is a young yogi who recently completed her first 200 hour yoga training and proudly graduated this year 2025. After rediscovering yoga while doing shadow work, she realized its potential to support women in their spiritual healing and reclamation of their wellness. 

While she is still discovering her focus she prioritizes respecting yoga’s cultural background and true origins of in India as a spiritual practice. For this reason she only practices yoga related to Patanjali’s 8 limbs, with a focus on Pranayama and Asana (breath and movement). 

Kayla utilizes an intersectional lens as a teacher and aims first to make each class as accessible and empowering as possible for everyone. This is reflected by the restorative nature and consistent focus on groundedness in most of her yoga flows. She is also inspired by astrology and sometimes connects the energies of current moon phases to her practice. For her day job, Kayla works at Massachusetts Historical Society.

Francesca fell in love with yoga at a time when she was feeling disconnected. Through the practice of asana she began to feel empowered and grateful for her body and this lifetime. Her pursuit of yogic knowledge brought her to the sacred valley of Peru to study ashtanga vinyasa, a Mysore practice in Italy, a Vipassana farm in Hawaii and finally to the foot of the Himalayas. Here she took a 6 month course in India at the Arya Marga Yoga Institute. The main focus of this time was based on a balancing and cleansing Hatha practice. While at this school she began teaching community classes and found that she had a passion for holding this space for others. Since then, she has moved back to the Boston area to be close to family and teaches preschool at a nonprofit in Cambridge. She likes to think of herself as more of a guide than an instructor, hoping students will always stay tapped into their own truth rather than forcing themselves into hers. Her classes range from slow flow, meditation, or yin to a more fiery Hatha or Vinyasa practice. As the motto of her last school states, “experience is soul,” a bit of wisdom she hopes someday she can help lead students to discover through their practice!

Kate Greer Dickson is a student and teacher of Hatha Yoga for twenty years, a committed Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner, and an apprentice Dharma teacher under her teacher, Lama Tsultrim Allione. She is completing her PhD in Depth Psychology, founded by Carl G. Jung, and is a certified Feeding your Demons teacher and facilitator. She is a mother to two sons who rock her world.

After a lifetime of avoiding any sort of physical activity, Ilana re-discovered yoga in 2023, sparked by a pandemic-fueled need for both bodily movement and mental calm. She joined Majestic Yoga Studio as a student in the summer of 2023 and soon after embarked on Majestic Community Wellness’s Yoga Teacher Training program, proudly graduating in 2025.

Ilana brings to her teaching a deep curiosity about the body, the mind, and the practice of yoga itself. She is passionate about making yoga accessible, welcoming, and meaningful—believing wholeheartedly that yoga is for every body.

Originally from West Virginia, Ilana came to Boston for college and never left. She has lived in Watertown for 25 years. In her day job, she works at the Center for Continuing Education at Boston University School of Medicine, where she develops educational programs for practicing clinicians across the country.ription goes here

Rachel has been practicing yoga for 8 years, first stepping onto the mat in 2014. Rachel has a significant movement background, with 16 years of ballet training. In addition, she also holds an Associates of Science degree for Physical Therapist Assistant as well as a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science and Sport Performance. After several years of clinical PT practice, she completed both her 200-Hour and 300-Hour teacher training at Down Under School of Yoga in Brookline, MA. Rachel is able to combine her clinical knowledge of the body with yoga asana: leading her students through a practice of purposeful movement patterns. Her Slow Flow classes include Iyengar alignment within a Vinyasa flow, offering a multitude of variations and modifications. Her classes include the use of props to help support and sustain a healthy yoga practice, allowing time to mindfully move in and out of postures.

When she is not on her mat, Rachel enjoys spending time in the wild. With a passion for hiking and rock climbing, she has found steadiness of mind, even in physically and mentally challenging scenarios. She attributes her mental strength as she scales 300-foot rock walls to her yoga practice, which has both humbled and informed her on and off the mat.

A yoga practitioner in the Hatha yoga tradition, co Founder of Legendary Yoga & Wellness , E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and certified Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, she runs 200/500 Yoga Trainings. She has more than a decade of Meditation, Ayurveda, Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa training from masters in India as well as 500 hour Ayurvedic Certification from Kerala.

Ali grew up attending yoga classes. For her, practicing yoga brought her comfort. During college when Ali decided to take her practice mostly off the mat, sometimes she would forget how to tap into the comfort feeling of mind-body-soul harmony. After graduating college, she decided to take a much-needed break from the go-go-go world in which she lived, and focus on yoga to help lead her in the right direction. In the course of this detour period, Ali earned her 200 hour Kripalu yoga teaching certification at Kripalu School of Yoga and Health. In choosing to take this detour to slow down, it helped her to fully come into her true self. Ali came back home to herself - her body being in alignment with her mind and soul. During this chapter, Ali's teachers became Larissa Hall Carlson, Kari Harendorf, Marilyn Whalen, Sally Millice, and Maggie Fiorella Winter. Since this chapter in her life felt so good, she wrote the chapters after to have the same character lead her life in this same feel-good way. Ali has dedicated her life to learning about all things yoga. When Ali is not teaching, she is taking science courses to learn more about anatomy and physiology to help in her teaching and personal practice. Ali's style is slow and steady. Some describe her practice as being very water-based, involving experimental free-flowing movements and breath. Her soft voice and gentle presence help to create a peaceful practice for students to genuinely turn inwards. Ali's goal is to share the wisdom and power of yoga with all people. Through this, she aims to support students in their healing journeys to discover their true, soulFUL, and loveable selves.

Tara Rachel’s journey into yoga and mindfulness began in 1991, while studying to become a Montessori Educator. Maria Montessori stated that the “inner life” of the teacher was the key ingredient to human-education. While writing her thesis on Peace and Education, Tara Rachel encountered the profound benefits of mind-body practices. As an Educator, Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainer, Parent Coach, Zen Shiatsu Practitioner and Adult Yoga Teacher, her path and style of instruction, weaves the wisdom of ancient teachings, with present day mindful awareness. She has completed multiple yoga teacher training courses since 1996. Tara Rachel’s teaching is known in the Boston area, as she was both a student, and teacher, under Boston’s Master Teachers, Baron Baptiste, Barbara Benagh and Arthur Kilmurray. Her passion and interest in embodied anatomy and yoga led her to study infant developmental movement and somatic anatomy/yoga with the founder of The School for Body Mind Centering, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, who’s work remains a central axis in her approach with students of all ages. She has studied extensively (since 2000) with Prajna Yoga, founded by Tias and Surya Little, and continues ongoing trainings with them. Tara Rachel’s classes are unique and flowing, yet, formed and detailed in postural alignment with breath. Rooted with inspiration of her studies, Tara Rachel guides a practice rich in subtle depth, and tailored to meet the student’s needs individually, and collectively, as a class.

Sahaj offers Kundalini yoga workshops and workshops centered around creativity, as well as energy healing sessions, private yoga instruction, and Akashic Record Readings. With over 20 years of experience, she is certified in JivAtma Energy Healing, Meridian Yoga, Sat Nam Rasayan, Ayurvedic Healing Yoga, and is a Reiki Master Teacher. Sahaj has studied Hatha Yoga with Tias Little and Bob Cooley and incorporates both Hatha and Kundalini Yoga into her practice and teachings.

In her private work with clients, Sahaj incorporates controlled articular rotations to support in-depth practices for joint health and overall well-being. As a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer, she has thousands of hours of teaching experience, including leading teacher trainings in New England and New York. She also provides Akashic Record Readings, helping clients release blocks and align with their highest potential.

With a fine arts background from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she blends creativity, depth, and insight into all her offerings.

The practice of yoga is not about the picture perfect poses on the mat, but more about how we interact with the world (and ourselves) off the mat and how we allow our practice to change and deepen with age, allowing us more access to what’s inside. Alignment within each asana is crucial to keeping aging bodies safe and this allows a sense of freedom, in both body and mind. Jennifer's classes are different each week but usually include some sitting, standing and balancing poses, with some core thrown in here and there. Jen holds a Masters in Education from Lesley University, both 200 & 300 hour Certifications from Down Under Yoga, trained by Natasha Rizopoulos, Jen’s mentor. In her spare time, Jen enjoys walking her dogs at Fresh Pond and volunteering for the Hydrocephalus Association and the Cambridge Tennis Club.

Lyv Norris, MPH is a public health practitioner whose work is rooted in the belief that wellness is a fundamental human right. With a background in reproductive justice, health equity, and community care, Lyv brings a trauma-informed, invitational approach to their classes, creating spaces where people can reconnect with their bodies on their own terms.

Lyv first came to yoga as a grounding practice during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and has since cultivated a relationship with yoga as a way of returning to themselves-- again and again, in all ways. For Lyv, yoga is not about perfection or performance, but about presence, curiosity, and care. Their teaching is shaped by the values of bodily autonomy, compassionate inquiry, and community connection. They believe yoga can be a tool for collective healing and liberation, and aim to offer practices that nourish, empower, and honor the wholeness of every person who shows up on the mat.

Linda is a writer, editor, speaker, and mentor in holistic healing, with a special emphasis on women’s health. She is the former editor-in-chief of Yoga International magazine and past managing editor of Yoga Journal, as such she has been instrumental in bringing the authentic voice of yoga to thousands of practitioners and teachers. Linda is also on the advisory board of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. Linda co-leads the Courageous Women, Fearless Living retreats for women touched by cancer. She also gives talks and provides workshops for women who are facing any number of challenges, including body issues, pregnancy, anxiety, depression, menopause and more.escription goes here

Sarah has recently moved to Cambridge from Rockport, Maine where she lived for twenty five years. She has a deep connection with the natural world and weaves this into her yoga practice and teaching. She completed her 200 hour certification in 2001 with Patricia Brown, founder of Rolling Meadows Retreat. Over the years, she has danced back and forth between teaching in a Waldorf School, instructing yoga classes and care-giving for her elderly parents. Their passing was a profound experience and sparked her interest in grief yoga. Sarah was drawn to exploring new ways of processing her grief. In the spring of 2022, Sarah completed a grief yoga teacher training with Paul Denniston, founder of Grief Yoga in CA. Sarah’s classes are gentle, meditative and calming for the nervous system.

Merline Sylvain-Williams, a free spirit, she takes most pride in being a nurturing mama of 3 amazing children. She’s also a “Glamma” A.KA grandma to her two sweet grandchildren whom she’s head over heels for. Mrs. Williams being in love with babies her whole life, and leading with her passion to support children and families, have led her on this path to wholeheartedly support all families for over 25 years in the Cambridge and Boston area. She’s a creative Entrepreneur with a background in Early Childhood Development and Human Services. Not only it is her passion supporting families, she says “ it’s her calling.” 

Mrs. Williams also loves and enjoys being a Birth-Postpartum Doula: supporting women, people and families during pregnancy, labor, birth, delivery and postpartum. Attending to their needs during their most precious and vulnerable moments. A Certified Infant Massage Instructor, fierce Black Maternal Health Advocate, with a strong commitment in improving Black Maternal Health and infant outcomes.

Most recently, Merline became a Certified Yoga Instructor—a natural extension of her nurturing spirit and dedication to holistic wellness. She empowers women, mamas, papas, and individuals to prioritize self-care through mindful movement, breath, and presence. Her yoga classes reflect her belief that healing happens in community and that wellness should be joyful, inclusive, and accessible to all. Whether on the mat or in everyday life, Merline holds space with love, wisdom, and deep intention.