Meet Our Family

Bernelle strives to come up with creative and challenging yoga flows that encourage growth by helping students feel inspired. Yoga helped her find both power and peace, and she is committed to sharing this healing through practice. Bernelle believes strongly in being authentic and finding strength in surrender.

Beth brings a light, infectious zest for connecting.  She is deeply warm and energetic and her laugh is super contagious.  She enjoys sharing the practice with our community and is deeply committed to her own practice.

Bri has a profound gentleness that makes her magic when she plays sound healing instruments.  Her joy for the path comes through with every strike of the gong.  She brings an open comforting energy into the room that makes all tension melt away.

Casey loves finding new ways to take yoga far beyond the mat and into everyday life.  She is an advocate for creating a practice that is welcoming and embraces people's unique needs.  She shares belief in our mission that yoga is for everyone and creates classes rooted in this belief, offering options for all.

Cierra's classes offer a warm, welcoming space to become more present and explore interconnectedness of breath, body and mind.  Her principle intention is to share the practice in a way that is accessible to all, to meet people where they are, as they are.

A breast cancer survivor, she utilized the message of cancer, and her unique background with Asian healing arts as an opportunity to radically change her life and to redefine her life purpose. Teaching qigong presents a perfect amalgamation of Dr. Ho's background, interests, and life passion in supporting the human journey towards greater physical, emotional and spiritual wholeness.

Janelle deeply enjoys blending her dancer background into her yoga classes to provide students with a fun approach to movement on their mat.  She is committed to providing comprehensive education and holistic health service to ALL with a focus on the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. 

Our proud & passionate owner, Jessie loves being the guardian of the mission here at SHIFT.  She has an impressive amount of knowledge that she shares everyday with love.  She is a profoundly skilled Yoga Therapist and highly sought after educator in the field of Yoga. 

Kia has been teaching for 20 years and loves sharing this path with all and showing others what a profound tool yoga is to help you breathe through life's challenges.  She put this wisdom to use in her own life after the tragic death of her son.  Yoga helped her discover peace again and it has lead her to be of service more deeply now and she finds personal healing and gratitude in every moment on the mat.

Latonya has the warmest heart of all.  Her passionate guidance on the mat allows students to arrive into a deep sense of belonging within themselves.

Leah has a profound joy for a making yoga accessible for ever body type.  Yoga Philosophy, intentional movement and radical self-acceptance are always present in her classes.  She has a deep passion for sharing the power of rest and stillness and hold space in class for students to connect with their whole authentic selves.

Leading with the breath, Lisa guides us through a practice filled with inquiry.  Lisa believes in yoga as a life practice, one that helps us both physically and mentally to move through life with a greater sense of ease and peace.

Margaret has been an athlete all her life, making her a huge advocate for recovery.  She is passionate about myofascial release and loves sharing the practice with our community.  She has found yoga to be profound to help her body maintain ease and she find immense joy in helping others find that ease within themselves.

Maya, an Army Veteran lives with PTSD and Buff has been instrumental in her healing.  Buff is trained by Warrior Canine Connection and supports Maja with things like nightmare interruption, trigger interruption and offers mobility support for Maja.  If you are lucky enough to enjoy a class with them, Maja will guide you with gentleness and love while Buff rests by her side on her yoga mat for the duration of class.

Nancy brings such positivity to each and every class.  In addition to teaching breath-focused yoga classes, she serves as the volunteer coordinator for the Prison Yoga Project of Maryland.

Taylor strives to create gentle and inclusive yoga flows She aims to empower students with a self care practice they can cultivate on and off the mat, using wellness that taps into their inner strength and wisdom.  One of the things we love most about her, is her natural comedic timing - she is hilarious and the ham of our teaching family.

Tess has a deep passion for yoga and loves being a student of the practice.  She has a fondness and a skill for teaching many different styles of yoga.  She has a deep appreciation for the power of a good hot yoga class and loves guiding students to discover a sense of purpose and ease in each posture.