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  Christina Andrini,  E-RYT, YACEP, has been teaching yoga formally since 2011. She is the founder of Jai Bhakti Yoga Foundation, creator of  JBYF 200hr Adaptive Hatha Yoga School for Accessible Yoga, program pioneer and trainer of Aqua Yoga, field coordinator and trainer for Connected Warriors Yoga for First Responders Veterans and their Families for New Orleans, pioneer for Day of Yoga Fitness and Wellness Festival in New Orleans bringing community wellness partners together to share their services with the public for donation or no cost as a way educating our community of accessible wellness offerings to enrich their lives and is a global yoga teacher leading trainings, classes, workshops, and retreats throughout the globe. Follow Christina on IG @christinaandrini

 Chanell Gautreaux is an IAFP certified Personal Trainer and Zumba instructor with a lifelong passion for dance and fitness. A native New Orleanian, she rediscovered yoga after hurricane Katrina and began deepening her practice in 2016. In  the summer of 2019, she made the transition from student to instructor.  Follow Chanell on IG @cdgautreaux

 Chioma Urama is an artist and educator from Virginia.  She received her 200 hour yoga teaching certification with Lightrail Yoga in Miami Beach and has taught several community classes across South Florida and in New Orleans.  She believes in yoga as a tool to increase contentment, balance, and strength in our everyday lives. 

We are excited to have Chioma join the Jai Bhakti Yoga teaching family to continue sharing her passion and light with our diverse, unique, and creative community of yogis.  Follow Chioma on IG @yogawithchioma

 Asiyah has been working as a social worker since 2003 and has been a licensed clinical social worker since 2011. Her past experiences includes working with adults, child and families systems specializing in mental health; particularly chronic mental illness. She currently works full-time, while balancing her time with her private practice, Asiyah’s Holistic Care. 

Asiyah's practice promotes a holistic approach a persons entire sense of well being, which is now a significant part of her life’s purpose. Asiyah has practiced yoga on and off for the past several years and it has slowly become a practice that helps her in supporting her own self-care. Asiyah is the mother of three extraordinary human beings ranging in ages 12-20 ,and a seven year old chocolate lab named Zoey. When Asiyah is not playing catch up with her children, she enjoys reading, poetry,  learning and exploring new things. Follow Asiyah on IG @asiyahdee

  Lynell is a dedicated yogini and international educator/student who enjoys making the teachings of yoga accessible for students of all ages, on and off the mat. Certified at the child and adults level, she works with students in infancy through adulthood. Much of her time is spent learning and practicing languages, being in nature and developing diverse types of curricula and programming  that infuse yogic philosophies and ideals about life. She is also the founder of RootedU.  Follow Lynell on IG @rooteduyoga

Dwayne "Dreamer" McKee LMT, 200 RYT,  veteran, and body worker and Owner of Dreamer's Touch, Muscular Therapy, father, and husband. 

Dreamer comes with over a decade of  bodywork experience in both water and land.  He is a certified Yoga teacher for adaptive and power hatha yoga as well as Connected Warriors yoga, teaching to first responders and veterans.

Dreamer serves clients from the womb to elderly, disabled to athletes,  working with and through trauma, muscle relaxation therapy, and sound vibration with the "soul" purpose of changing the lives he touches.Follow Dreamer on IG @dreamerstouch