Dante Baker has been a native to the Washington DC area his entire life, growing up in Reston, VA. Since his childhood years, Dante has always had a fascination with the human anatomy and all of its abilities to heal, move, and process. This interest led Dante to studying and receiving a variety of personal training and massage therapy certifications. Through Dante’s own personal life experience and the influence of family and peers, he embarked on a journey that would ultimately move him in the direction of providing health on a more holistic level. In 2011, Dante was introduced to transcendental meditation by Dr. Mahapatra Gyanendra one of the personal physicians of the Mararishi meditation course. This practice shined a light on his own inner stillness that he never experienced before at that time.

 Dante was fascinated by the Eastern philosophies such as Chinese medicine and enrolled in a nine month Qi Gong and Tai Chi Ball certification with Master Nianzu Li (L.Ac) in 2013. He went on to strengthen his Qi Gong practice and began to teach personal clients as well as larger classes at various health studios.  The passion to discover different modalities of holistic health lead him to discover Singing Bowls and Tibetan bowl in 2013. By linking up with different yoga instructors like Atticus Mooley, he integrated singing bowls into yoga classes as a unique way to allow students to find deeper levels of meditation during savasana.  Being a part of many different yoga classes inspired him to take a 200-hour Yoga certification from SOYA(Canada) in January of 2016. As a E-RYT 200 Yoga Instructor, Dante holds CEU courses around the D.C Metropolitan area teaching other yoga instructors how to play sacred instruments and use their voice to create vibratory frequencies that promotes wellness.

For Dante, Yoga is much more than just a form of exercise; it is a path that opens the doors to explore the mind, body and spirit. Students in Dante’s class are directed to stay focus on creating proper alignment within the asana and to consciously relax into each posture. Challenging asanas are suggested but never forced upon anyone, and modifications are always demonstrated to ensure that everyone can participant no matter what level they are at. At the end of class, students leave feeling physically restored and mentally rejuvenated.   

Daniela completed her 200 & 300-hour teacher training at Beloved Yoga under the mentorship of Maryam Ovissi & Heather Hagaman. She is a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Daniela believes in the transformational process of rediscovering yourself through yoga. She views yoga as a tool to create greater harmony within ourselves and the world. Daniela is inspired by the science of movement & creates a safe space to encourage playful exploration of breath and movements. Her classes are centered around the cultivation of self-awareness and compassion.

Aly believes that yoga wakes us up! Yoga invites us to embrace ourselves as whole beings while encouraging us to refine; always. It is the way we engage with everything that informs and empowers the way we live. She also believes deeply in the medicine inherent in the natural world that is accessible by simply paying attention.

Aly received her 200 hour certification through Frog Lotus International Yoga School under Vidya Heisel. She completed a 72 hour anatomy intensive from the Anatomy School for Yoga Teachers in New York under Jason Brown. Aly will always consider herself first and foremost a student of yoga and of being a teacher of yoga. She attends classes, workshops, intensives, and trainings whenever possible. Her teaching continues to be influenced by teachers like Marni Sclaroff, Tara Judelle, Elena Brower, Tiffany Cruikshank, and Darren Rhodes.

As a teacher, Aly intends to create a safe space that encourages practitioners to have an experience of themselves. Her classes are intelligently sequenced and infused with intention, breath awareness, body alignment, and lots of smiles.

You will most likely find Aly in the woods, dancing, studying “green witcheries”, meditating, or being a goofball with her son, Tommy. Visit Aly online at www.gratefullyrooted.com.

When Kristina first took a yoga class in 2011, she felt that yoga was what she had been looking for all her life. She loves the calm, focus, and strength that she gains from yoga. Drawn to the balance between effort and ease, challenge and rest, she loves how yoga has taught her to be compassionately present both on the mat and in the world. In 2018 she completed her RYT-200 training at Red Brick Yoga in Greensburg, PA. In her class, yogis will  be encouraged to focus on the breath and its ability to allow us to encounter the present moment. Kristina is dedicated to deepening her personal practice and to accompanying her students on their own yoga journey. 

Marni Sclaroff has been teaching and practicing yoga since 1996.  She has a vast experience, and she has completed thousands of hours of in-depth training in Jivamukti Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Ansuara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Thai Massage, Ayurveda, and Tantra. She spent 3 years in deep apprenticeship with her mentor and teacher Sianna Sherman.  She was also a professional belly dancer for many years, which awakened in her the power of the sacred feminine as a force of embodied wisdom, beauty, and creative inspiration.

In all of her offerings, you will experience the woven threads of mythology, soulful journeying, intelligent rhythmic unfolding, the power of aligned action, energetic wisdom from a deep and true lineage, embodied transmission, and a light-hearted sense of wonder and curiosity.

Marni leads workshops, retreats, mentoring programs, and teacher trainings throughout the US and abroad. She is also a writer and speaker on the transformative power of living yoga and embodying soul.  You can find out more about her on her website, www.marnisclaroff.com

At the start, Yoga was a purely physical practice for Stephanie. It wasn't until she found Beloved Yoga in 2009 that she began to know the full depth of the practice. She completed her 200HR teacher training at Beloved in 2016. She mentored with Alyson MacLatchy and discovered the joy of sharing her Yoga practice with fellow practitioners. Maryam Ovissi continues to be a major influence on her teaching style and an inspiration in general.

Stephanie teaches a strenuous flow style of Yoga where the focus is on aligning breath with slow movements, holding asanas and moving with awareness. She truly believes that there is a Yoga class that will suit every person and that Yoga can help each practitioner find the tools they need to live in harmony with their body, their mind and their emotions. She often counsels practitioners to try multiple styles of Yoga until they find the one that resonates deeply in them.

Yoga is not a practice for the flexible, it is a practice to gain flexibility in the body and resiliency in the mind.

Stephanie also loves exploring the world with her family through travel, food, hiking, books and film.

Kate Finkelstein began practicing yoga after an injury prevented her from pursuing her passion for distance-running. Kate was first attracted to the seemingly endless challenges a physical yoga practice offers and soon became aware that a regular yoga practice also offers concrete mental and emotional direction and support. She believes that her yoga practice helps her be a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, and whole person.

Kate completed her 200-hour certification at Beloved Yoga with Jafar Alexander, Sharra Cielo, and Maryam Ovissi. In her classes, Kate offers practitioners the opportunity to explore the strengths they already have and to become curious about all the possibilities they carry within themselves.

Carmen believes yoga is a system that invites us to walk with clarity and attention to that inner place we call home. This way, we can experience a state of being and presence. Yoga offers us the opportunity to sense a peaceful and quiet mind through tools that will empower our will, attention, and goals in life, guiding us always to the liberation of the mind from its fluctuations.

Her first encounter with yoga was in her late teens, in the Andes of her native Venezuela at the Universal Great Brotherhood. She received her 200-hr Certificate in 2012 in Orlando, Florida at the Yoga Teacher Training of Central Florida, School of Hatha Yoga. She began to teach at studios, wellness centers, senior living communities, summer camp programs, and gyms. She also received training in Kids Yoga by Kidding Around Yoga, and also trained in the method of Creative Relaxation for Children with Special Needs. In 2019, she received her 300-hr Certification from Beloved Yoga Sanctuary. She also attended Beloved Yoga’s Trauma-Informed Yoga training, as well as Pranayama and Yin Yoga Training.

In 2017 she participated as a yoga instructor for adults and kids at the Floyd Yoga Jam Festival in Willis, Virginia. She also had the opportunity to lead one-week retreats in the Dominican Republic at Caribe Yoga in 2017 and 2018.

Carmen’s approach and orientation is friendly and welcoming, where participants are provided with practical and accessible tools to be able to experience wellness, but most importantly, a calm and peaceful mind.

Carmen is also a former professional contemporary dancer with more than 15 years of experience. She was a resident member at the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Venezuela, and she had the opportunity to participate in several international festivals around the world.

Carmen also holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing.