Studio Co-Owner/Director

Wendelin is a gifted and seasoned guide whose classes bring together skillful meditation, breath practice, inspired sequencing, and deep, embodied exploration of yoga poses. Her teaching invites students into curiosity and warm-hearted presence, fostering an experience that is peaceful, joyful, and empowering.

As Director of YogaSource and the YogaSource Teacher Training, Wendelin brings over two decades of teaching, mentorship, and community leadership to her work. She teaches the full spectrum of yoga—physical, energetic, philosophical, and devotional—with clarity, creativity, and compassion.

Since 2006, Wendelin has designed and led retreats, workshops, and teacher trainings throughout the world, including Bali, Peru, California, and Washington State. Each retreat is an immersive journey—an opportunity to remember wholeness through practice, nature, and shared human connection.

A Presidential Scholar in the Arts for Poetry, Wendelin holds a Bachelor’s degree from Bard College and a graduate degree in Eastern Classics. Her love of language, inquiry, and embodied being infuses every aspect of her teaching.

Studio Co-Owner/Director

Emily teaches grounded, strong, stretchy classes designed to help students “bring forth what is [already] within” them. In addition to yoga, Emily also teaches strength training as a vital component of staying healthy, resilient, & connected to one’s physical potential.

Her classes focus on making the choice to be mindful: to tune into—& invest in—relationships with body, mind, & breath as opportunities to inquire into deeper levels of awareness & build intimacy with ourselves, each other, & the gift of each moment in this astonishing world. Whether through mindful asana or intentional strength work, her approach centers the holistic integration of strength, mobility, & awareness. Expect welcoming energy, warm community, poems, joy & levity (at least one bad dad joke per class).

Hyland completed her 200-hour certification at Yogamaya in 2012, along with 75 hours of advanced therapeutics training, & has studied Yin yoga with Corina Benner. She’s currently completing her 300-hour certification with Jason Crandell. She is also an ACE certified group fitness instructor & personal trainer.

Her newest poetry collection, My Wise Little Ghost, was published through Trio House Press in July 2026; she is also the author of Divorced Business Partners: A Love Story (2024) & Emily: The Cookbook (2018), with a third collection, BREASTS, forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2027. Hyland is also the co-founder of the international restaurant groups Pizza Loves Emily and Emmy Squared Pizza. Learn more: emilyhyland.com / emmysquaredpizza.com / pizzalovesemily.com

Studio Manager/Teacher

Melissa's classes combine a strong alignment base with flow and mobility, with a goal to bring ease and space into the body. She is a graduate of the YogaSource 200 Hour Teacher Training program, and has been practicing and teaching for over 18 years. She is so grateful for this sangha and considers it and YogaSource a second home.

Melissa is also a choreographer and dance educator with over 25 years of experience, in New York City, across New England, and in New Mexico. She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Sociology/Theater from Smith College. Melissa’s choreography has been presented at venues throughout the New York metropolitan area, in Mexico, and here, both in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. She is fasciated by the intersection of space, design, and storytelling that occurs in site-specific performance work; her most recent projects were created for parking lots and churches. Melissa is currently on dance faculty at UNM and NDI New Mexico.

Front Desk Support

Julie has been a practitioner of yoga for over 30 years and she completed a 500 hour teacher training back in 2001. Julie came to YogaSource about 4 years ago after moving here from Nashville, TN. She began working here almost 2 years ago. She has 2 grown children and a husband and a dog. She is enjoying life here in Santa Fe!

Front Desk Support/Teacher

Chamomile's journey with yoga has been transformative, guiding her to connect deeply with her intuition and discover her most authentic self. Through this practice, she has learned to embrace both strengths and limitations and has built an incredible community along the way! Chamomile received her 200hr yoga teaching certificate from the YogaSource Yoga Teacher Training program and draws inspiration from several yogic traditions, including Iyengar, hatha, yin, restorative and pranayama with alignment being a strong focus. She has a passion for exploring art in all its forms and to seek out and be inspired by the stories and wisdom of the humans, plants and animals she surrounds herself with.

Aarona Leá is an intuitive mentor, somatic hypnotherapist, liminal guide, and yoga teacher with nearly three decades of experience in the healing arts. Her work weaves movement, breath, meditation, somatic awareness, subconscious re-patterning, and intuitive development to support greater self-trust, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection to inner wisdom.

A yoga teacher for 17 years, Aarona’s background spans Vinyasa, Hatha, Kundalini, Ashtanga, Anusara, and Iyengar, with formal training in Forrest Yoga, NYC’s Kula Yoga, and traditional Hatha and Tantric studies in India. Her classes are strong and deep yet accessible — blending intentional alignment, pranayama, nervous system support, and inner inquiry. She approaches movement as more than a physical practice — it is a way of returning to your body, listening more deeply, and feeling at home in yourself.

Rooted in both embodiment and mysticism, Aarona’s broader work explores the meeting place of body, subconscious mind, intuition, and spirit. She has taught internationally, leads retreats and workshops, facilitates and speaks at special events, and works with individuals and groups both online and in person — supporting greater clarity, confidence, and connection.

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Abby’s spiritual journey kicked off at age 15, when her mother brought her to her first yoga class. Since her teens, she has been inspired deeply by the teachings of yoga, and captivated by the inner-workings of the physical, energetic, and emotional bodies. As a long-time yoga practitioner, healer, and energyworker, Abby has a uniquely holistic view of functional anatomy, energetics, and movement that she weaves into her teachings and private sessions. Abby is fascinated by how each individual receives healing, and through her work she gives individuals the tools to lead their most empowered and fulfilled lives.

Abby began teaching yoga in 2008 after completing her first 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training through Forrest Yoga. After that, Abby dove deep and continued with another 200-Hour Training through YogaWorks, and has taken other advanced yoga trainings in Forrest, Rocket, Yin Yoga, and somatic movement. Abby attended Massage School in 2010, and is a Licensed and Nationally Certified bodyworker. She has continued to grow her fascination of the body through multiple bodywork trainings across many modalities, and has recently has been particularly inspired by Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.

A Teacher's Teacher, Abby has written, created, and taught her own 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, and is a Guest Instructor for other 200-Hour and 300-Hour Yoga Trainings. After owning and running her own yoga studio and private bodywork practice in DC for years, Abby migrated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she now practices and teaches.

In addition to her work as a healer, Abby also works one-on-one with empaths, healers, and teachers to offer spiritual guidance and mentorship, particularly around empathic mastery. She runs ceremony for the Solstices, Equinoxes, and Full/New Moons. Outside of her work with yogis, healers, and empaths, Abby is a mom to twin boys, and enjoys reading fantasy novels, swimming in hot springs, and snuggling with her cat Sammy. Learn more at abbydobbs.com

Amy, a seasoned Yoga Alliance-Certified 500-Hour E-RYT Teacher since 2002 and a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, has dedicated her life to exploring the depths of embodiment and movement. She has been a student of yoga since 1995. She has taken multiple 200 and 500 hour teacher trainings as well as completing a 2000 hour training with Aadil Palkhivala in 2005. Amy is a certified Rolfing® Structural Integrator and TA in the Structural Integration UNM Taos program. She teaches public and private yoga classes, leads retreats and is co-director of YogaSource Immersion and Teacher Training.



Fascinated by the intricate interplay of body and mind, Amy has delved into the study of structural and functional anatomy. Amy's community classes are layered with instructions for all levels and students are encouraged to challenge themselves appropriately. With attention to presence in the body her classes invite students to connect, explore, breathe into and embrace the deeper levels of self. This skill has a ripple effect off the mat and into the yoga of life!

More information can be found at amyspurlock.com

Ana began a regular yoga practice in 2014 during a time of great personal transformation, and soon after received her teaching certification through Radiance Power Yoga in Boulder, CO. She has roots in power vinyasa but is deeply called to the slower pace of yin and restorative. All her classes focus on grounding into the body first and foremost, and reflect her appreciation for balance, humility, and a sense of humor.

After living nomadically with her young family for much of 2022, Ana happily landed in Santa Fe. When she’s not rearing children you can find her arranging flowers and van camping.

Anna is a movement instructor and Wellness Architect who brings together yoga, functional movement, Pilates, and dance to create intelligent, embodied classes that strengthen, lengthen, and tone the body.

Her teaching is rooted in alignment, awareness, and flow, guiding students to move with intention while building strength, stability, and ease. Anna’s classes emphasize functional strength, mobility, and fluidity — helping the body feel both powerful and supple.

With a deep respect for the body’s natural design, Anna invites students to connect breath with movement, refine alignment, and cultivate a strong, graceful relationship with their body. Each class is designed to support balance, confidence, and radiance — on and off the board.

Carrie has over a decade of experience as a movement teacher. She’s worked as a yoga teacher, bodyworker, and fitness instructor and has dedicated her life to helping people live their most fulfilling, joyful lives. Her classes are dynamic and challenging but welcoming for every kind of body. She is passionate about helping people build functional strength safely. She is so grateful to be part of the YogaSource community and looks forward to moving with you!

Edie came to yoga by way of healing sports injuries. She draws from her practices as an artist, writer, and athlete to cultivate classes full of creativity, curiosity, and intimacy for well being and deep healing. Her classes combine subtle attunement and alignment in ground-based work, along with dynamic and balancing asana. Edie holds a 500 hr and SATYA (Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga Awareness) certifications from Prajna Yoga, where she has studied with Tias and Surya Little and others since 2008. She has taught classes, individual sessions, workshops, and retreats since 2012.

Emma began practicing yoga at a young age as a complement to competitive gymnastics and ballet. Since then, she's explored a wide range of styles—from strong vinyasa flow to slower, more introspective kundalini—and completed her 200-hour teacher training at Sangha Studio in Burlington, Vermont in 2018. Emma’s classes are rooted in the idea that how you move your body is deeply connected to how you experience your life. She weaves together strength, flexibility, and breath with simple, intentional themes—designed to help you shift patterns, build awareness, and feel more at home in your body. Her flows are both grounding and challenging, with an emphasis on helping students step out of their heads and into a more embodied experience. You can expect to leave class feeling clearer, steadier, and more connected.

Outside the studio, Emma is also a health and mindfulness writer who loves exploring the connection between movement, energy, and everyday life.

Erin Doerwald, LCSW, CMT-P, RYT-200 is a holistic psychotherapist and certified mindfulness + yoga teacher. She leads classes, workshops, presentations, and retreats that cultivate wellbeing in support of individual and collective healing. Erin has been practicing Vipassana style meditation since 2009 and teaching mindful awareness practices in clinical and educational settings since 2012. She is an affiliated teacher for UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and members of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (2017) and Yoga Alliance (2023). A yoga practitioner since 1999, Erin’s teaching style is informed by her foundations in the Iyengar method, vinyasa flow, and restorative asana practices. Her intention is to be of compassionate service and to cultivate wellbeing through mindfulness, yoga, and compassion practices both in the YogaSource studio and in her business, Hello Wellness.

Grushenka is a Level 1 certified Iyengar teacher. Throughout her life Grushenka has been an active person, initially with dance classes, then as a competitive ice skater, ice skating coach, and more recently as a yoga practitioner and teacher. As someone with a career in the sciences, she was drawn to the precision-based teaching of traditional alignment-based yoga as well as the experimental aspects of Iyengar yoga. Grushenka was introduced to yoga in 2012 and after completing teacher training with Ray Madigan (CIYT Level 3), she began teaching in 2017. Grushenka has a BS in Biology, an MS in Pharmacology and Toxicology and a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology; and is a board-certified toxicologist. Grushenka believes yoga is for everyone and is committed to sharing the many benefits of yoga with students.

Hana is a devoted student and teacher of yoga who has been on this path of inner deepening since her early teens. Her relationship with the practice has taken her around the world to study yoga as well as yoga's sister sciences, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology (Jyotisha). She feels grateful to have studied with many teachers from varying yogic lineages, including Radhanath Swami, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dana Flynn, and Steven Highburger. Her path is deeply rooted in embodiment, authenticity, and in living the teachings of yoga off the mat.

Hana is inspired by the Ayurvedic concept of swāstha—to be fully established in the Self at the level of mind, body, and spirit. Her classes offer a welcoming space for students to slow down, journey inward, and cultivate deeper presence and inner freedom. She does this by weaving together yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, breathwork, and somatic awareness, creating classes that are soothing for the nervous system and deeply nourishing for the soul. Hana loves nothing more than sharing this beautiful practice with others.

Jim Benvenuto has been teaching yoga for over 30 years. He feels fortunate to have studied under the guidance of Faeq Biria and with the Iyengar family on numerous occasions in India. Jim has a strong, methodical teaching style, preparing his students to make poses more accessible. He seeks to find how asana relates to and is resonant with our journey through life. Asana is a seat for exploration into the spectrum of consciousness.

Kylie Strijek is a Certified Pilates Instructor based in Santa Fe, NM. She is a lifelong athlete, finding success as a D1 Collegiate Golfer at Siena College (now Siena University). After competing for nearly 15 years, she was left with several chronic injuries, including joint pain and sensitivity, as well as tendonitis in several places. Shortly after moving back to Santa Fe in 2014, she was introduced to Pilates as a way to heal herself. Within six months of practice, she was pain free, and after a year found a much deeper and stronger connection to her body. This change inspired her to complete the Core Dynamics Teacher Training in 2017. Classes with Kylie blend classical and contemporary Pilates styles, along with other functional training patterns to deepen the mind-body connection. Kylie is passionate about sharing these tools with her clients and putting them back in control of their bodies to live a pain-free life and continue to do the things they love. Outside of the studio, Kylie loves to spend her time outside hiking, paddle boarding, and gardening.

Working with diverse metaphysical and somatic modalities, Lauren is a space holder, facilitator, and guide. She invites you to journey deep into your inner landscape and explore the depths of your being while staying held and grounded. Her capacity to weave breath, ancestral medicine, and botanical wisdom into her work facilitates holistic, transformative, and integrative experiences.

Lauren holds certifications in Therapeutic Breathwork, Transformations USA // Yoga RYT 200, Yoga Alliance // Herbalist, Samara School of Community Herbalism // NADA Ear Acupuncture, NADANola // Ancestral Lineage Healing, Ancestral Medicine.

Lisa, MBA, RYT-500, E-RYT-200, incorporates many traditions into her practices. She has certifications in Hatha, Hatha Flow, Kundalini, and I-rest Yoga Nidra. She has had the opportunity to study with Donna Farhi, Sean Corne, Sarah Powers, Anodea Judith, Beth Shaw, Amy Weintraub, Gary Kraftsow, and Richard Miller. She recently completed her iRest certification, so that she can help people more deeply tune in to their true nature and find peace, calm, and relaxation.

Lisa’s approach is balanced, and she likes to bring mindfulness, humor, challenge, and deep relaxation into all her practices. She considers herself a “practical yogini” focused on how students can take Yoga off the mat and into their lives.

Lisa is especially interested in helping students find a yoga practice that really works for them, and she believes that yoga can provide more ease and comfort to all. Lisa loves helping people explore how to incorporate mindful habits and practices into their daily lives in a fun and sustainable way. Her favorite thing is hearing about the positive changes her participants make for themselves.

Mariela weaves 20 years of yoga experience with Kinstretch coaching, strength training, nutrition, and yoga teaching. Her dynamic classes integrate mobility, alignment, mindful movement, breathwork, and ahimsa. Mariela fosters a fun, supportive environment where students can discover their strength, cultivae resilience, and thrive.

Melissa Smith, MA, LMHC, and Yoga Alliance ERYT® 500 educator in Yoga Therapeutics, Restorative and Sustainable Yoga, and Mindfulness Educator. International yoga retreat coordinator, Alzheimer's and other Dementias caregiver advocate, and trauma-informed yoga teacher, her teaching style lends itself toward mindful, sustainable functional movement and strength. Her desire is for students to connect within and integrate their own intuition in practice offering each student the opportunity to deeply listen to their own body’s needs. With more than 30 years in the health and wellness field, she credits her teachers Leeann Carey, Jules Mitchell, Stephanie Adams, Nicolai Bachman, Donna Farhi, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Lance Schuler and her first mentor, Carie Garrett for her foundations and continued growth.

Olga Boggio, a native of Russia – is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. Her teaching is dynamic, full of gratitude to the Iyengar yoga traditions and infused with poetry. She studied with teachers both in the US and abroad. Her first Iyengar yoga teacher was Dona Holleman. Here in the US she has been mentored by Rebecca Lerner.

Rebecca Hooper is a Level 3 Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and a Certified Yoga Therapist in the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has studied directly with the Iyengars on many occasions, undertaking the journey to Pune India for month~long immersions of study and practice. Rebecca also practices seated meditation in the Sanbo Zen lineage.

Originally from London, England, Rebecca holds a BA Honors degree in Fine Art. She is now based in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, Santa Fe New Mexico.

Serina completed her BA in counseling, is a certified health coach and Feldenkrais practitioner. She loves learning about human development and healing, and is dedicated to helping people discover their innate capacity for healing. Serina came to the Feldenkrais Method because of persistent pain that started at the age of 14. Since then, Feldenkrais has not only transformed how she feels in her body and movement, but expanded her way of thinking, feeling, and being. In her free time she loves developing as an Argentine tango dancer.

Shawn, LMHC, E-RYT 500, has been a teacher of embodiment since 2002 and is known for creating intuitive space for awakening, regeneration, and healing. She teaches traditional and natural pathways of movement distilled from the instinctual unfolding of an evolutionary practice. Her primary influences include Krishnamacharya’s heritage, classical philosophy, Insight Meditation, Ayurveda, and myriad lineages of modern yoga including, most resonantly, Prana Flow: an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying yoga as life-presence. Shawn has served as a presenter at venues like Kripalu and Wanderlust, and her work has been featured in publications ranging from Yoga Journal and OmYoga to SHAPE Magazine. She maintains a private practice in holistic psychotherapy, contributes to YogaSource’s teacher training curriculum, and provides programs and immersions in the art of wellbeing. Learn more and connect with Shawn at www.shawnparell.com.

Shawn Paulazzo, E-RYT 500, CIAYT began practicing in 1996 has been teaching yoga since 2000. Her teaching foundation was originally structured through the many trainings of such esteemed teachers as Erich Schiffmann, Tias and Surya Little and Aadil Palkhivala. In 2006 she was introduced to Sonia Nelson. The privilege and joy of the weekly study of the yoga sutras with Sonia expanded the practice into a further refined understanding of yoga and a delightfully reflective way of being. This only inspired her studies with Sonia to span from yoga sutra to pranayama to vedic chanting. Shawn soon stepped into the study of yoga as therapy completing trainings with the school of Integrative Yoga Therapy, Functional Yoga Therapy and Integrative Restoration and soon after gaining certification with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Her classes hold an intention of meeting and nourishing the many layers of the individual in a group setting.

Tatyana has studied BKS Iyengar methodology for over 25 years and is a certified teacher with more than 20 years of experience, having trained extensively with senior Iyengar teachers George Purvis, Patricia Walden, Geeta Iyengar and other senior teachers globally.

Rooted in the belief that yoga is a transformative therapeutic physical discipline for everyone, Tatyana uses the Iyengar method to safely adapt practices for students of all ages and mobility levels. With a warm, attentive approach and a keen focus on anatomy and precise alignment, she helps students build strength and flexibility while preventing injury. Her classes offer a supportive, practical environment where every body can thrive.

WalkingStar has led individuals and groups on Sound Healing Journeys for over a decade. His work weaves a symphony of sound frequencies incorporating a variety of instruments including Native American flutes, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, didgeridoo, rattles and other sound instrument. WalkingStar has been playing Native American flutes for 22 years and has facilitated Sound Healing Journeys for the last 10 years.