Meet our Instructors and Support Staff

MS in Yoga Therapy & Certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

 Alexandra "Alex" is a non-profit leader, mental health advocate, and E-RYT200/RYT500 yoga instructor in the South Florida community. 

Since 2017, she has woven her spunky and authentic personality into trauma-sensitive teachings across yoga studios, substance-use treatment centers, schools, homeless shelters, senior centers, and more. 

She’s trained in Trauma-Informed Yoga, Children’s Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Athletes and Adaptive Yoga. She leads with compassion and creatively brings her students back into connection with Mind and Body. Alex’s journey to the mat comes from her own struggles with anxiety, depression, and substance-use, and she has vowed to share the healing tools of the yoga practice as a way to cultivate self love, resilience, and ultimately community.

ERYT 200, YACEP

Allison was introduced to yoga in college and has since been a life-long practitioner. Allison credits yoga with helping her to balance the many “hats” that she is fortunate to wear in her life. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, professional musician, and clergy, who believes that exercise and yoga can help one to balance life and age in a graceful healthy manner.

Along life’s path, Allison had a health challenge that led her to experience and discover the art of energy healing. She is a certified Reiki Master, Karuna Reiki practitioner, and Jewish Energy Healer. She uses many of these techniques in her yoga classes, and her students enjoy and receive the benefits of “chanting and sound healing” through her use of Tibetan and crystal healing bowls.

Upon retiring as a professional musician in 2018, Allison delved into her yoga practice with a passion. She studied and earned her 200 HR RYT Yoga Alliance Teaching Certification in June of 2018 and began to teach yoga privately and in South Florida studios. Allison is certified in Restorative Yoga and T.R.Y. Trauma Recovery yoga. She holds certificates in Face Yoga and Sound healing. She has recently completed her 60-hr Yin Yoga certification with Bodsphere Health and Wellness, teachers Samarthya and PreetikaBhatnagar. Classes that she teaches include Yoga for Beginners, Gentle Flow, Candlelight Yoga, Vinyasa, Happy Hips Yoga, Chair Yoga, Jewish Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Restorative and Reiki (R & R).

Believing in the “he-ART” of Yoga, Allison’s classes combine a creative flowing sequence of poses including Pranayama (breath work) and meditation. Allison pays close attention to the alignment and safety of each student. It is her hope to inspire others to discover their mind, body and soul connection and to feel refreshed, renewed and balanced when they complete class. The benefits of yoga are many including strengthening, toning, flexibility, breathing, mental acuity and stress release. Allison loves teaching yoga and believes its lessons continue when you step off the mat and out into the world.

 Cathie feels blessed to be able to combine her love of teaching (taught in the schools as a Speech Pathologist for 35 years) with her love of Yoga. Although Cathie discovered Yoga “later in life,” she acknowledges that many prior activities- including playing tennis, running, and weight lifting, have led her to this “perfect place!” She was hired to teach “Gentle” Yoga the week that she turned 70, making that “milesetone” birthday all the sweeter!

The skinny on Cathie: nicknamed “Chatty Cathie” for a reason, she loves to talk…… but she’s a great listener as well. Inversions are her passion…. She can even talk while upside down!

Teaching Yoga Since: 2014

Trained in: Hatha yoga

Cathie’s Teachers: Dr. Steve and Darlene Feinzig

Cathie instructs the following: Gentle Yoga & Chair Yoga

 Chloe is our social media specialist with a passion for creating authentic and engaging content that reflects the heart of the studio. She focuses on connecting with the community in a meaningful way. From strategy to execution, she ensures everything shared captures the energy, values, and overall experience of the Yoga 1 space.

Chloe recently graduated from Florida State University with an Undergraduate degree in Media Communication Studies, and will be starting a Masters degree in Strategic Communications. 

Whether it’s developing campaigns, managing our social presence, or building relationships with clients, her goal is to make every interaction with our brand feel welcoming, inspiring, and impactful. 

E-RYT 500 & YACEP 

Michele C. is a native New Yorker who loves to cultivate her artistic and creative core with the spiritual and meditative teachings of yoga. Her two top character traits include, “Learner” and “Achiever”, as she truly enjoys being a student, almost as much as teaching and sharing yoga. After twenty years as a media- marketing professional in the corporate sector, Michele opted to use her business savvy and solid interpersonal skills to cross over into the healing realm that yoga provides. She received her RYT 200 certification in “Hatha Mindful Alignment” from Yoga 1 in 2014, with her teachers Dr. Steve and Darlene Feinzig, and her RYT 300 advanced yoga training, as part of “The Alchemy of Flow and Form”, from the San Marcos School of Yoga, with Christina Sell and Gioconda Parker, in 2017. Most recently, she has completed her E-RYT 500 hour accreditation, and has received certifications for: Yoga for First Responders | Kidding Around Yoga (KAY – kidsyoga) | Y Medica - for students undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment | Yoga Nidra | Yin Yoga - with Master Paulie Zink, and later this year will study with Bernie Clark. Her teaching style fosters a safe and supportive class environment for students to develop and practice yoga at any level. She continuously works to provide a class balance that utilizes solid foundation and alignment with modifications and progressions, allowing students to “deepen” their practice, as they see fit. Her goal is for students to leave every class – smiling and feeling great.

Michele holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from New York University – Stern School of Business, and is an avid animal rights advocate, who works with local and national rescue groups.

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MusTafa has over 15 years of practice experience, his extensive yoga training started in California and continued in Florida. He completed his 200 YTT at I Love Yoga in 2018.

He is born in Germany, originally from Turkey, living in South Florida for 25 years, He is blessed with a wonderful daughter, Layla. His specialty is Vinyasa and Hot Yoga. He believes in Play Explore Love in Life with harmony.

Feel free to drop into any of his all-levels classes for a unique, balanced yoga experience and connect in Joy. 

MusTafa creates a unique environment for vinyasa which allows for exploration of the body through movement. You will be guided by a dynamic flow sequence in coordination with the breath. 

Hot Yoga- Yoga modality which takes place in a hot room where you can push your body to desire limits through a vinyasa inspired flow. Come in and enjoy the connection with your inner self.

Rita has been teaching yoga since 2012 after completing her teacher training at Yogaworks in New York City. She continued her education by completing a 100 hour Restorative training with Jillian Pransky. Rita is a native New Yorker, and moved to South Florida in 2014 to live a life with more sunshine and less stress. She teaches vinyasa flow with a strong focus on alignment and breath. While she loves teaching all levels of yoga, Rita has a special place in her heart for those just starting on their yoga journey. Yoga has the power to transform us on many levels and Rita feels that watching this process in her students is one of the greatest gifts of teaching.