Her international training with Rolf Gates, and with School Yoga Institute in Guatemala gives her classes a for any-Body experience.

Amanda is a long-time athlete who has participated in half marathon races and enjoys metabolic strength training.  After experiencing chronic back pain at 24 years old, it was recommended to Amanda that she try yoga as a possible solution.  Amanda immediately started practicing yoga and quickly transformed her body to be pain free and stronger.  She understands how to nurture the body through yoga to bring it back into wholeness.  It isn’t unusual to walk out of Amanda’s classes feeling positively lovely and ready for the day ahead.

In her yoga classes, Amanda brings her smooth cadence and her compassion for others as she teaches others to practice one breath at a time.  She is a certified Sound Healer with the Sound Conservatory in Virginia Beach, as well as, and offers Prenatal Yoga classes in our larger Hampton Roads Community!

Additionally, Ann has a master’s degree in health promotion and education, as well as graduate training in theology and ministry.

Ann’s extensive training includes studying and apprenticing with senior teachers in both the United States and India in the classic hatha yoga style of BKS Iyengar. This foundation has allowed her to develop a strong understanding of alignment, breath, meditation, restorative and therapeutic applications of yoga. Furthermore, Ann’s practice and teaching style continue to deepen and evolve through dedicated practice, training, study, exploration, and experience.

Throughout her career, Ann has taught yoga, meditation, yoga therapy, and yoga-based stress management programs in a variety of healthcare settings, schools (preK-12, higher ed, and for at-risk youth), senior and Alzheimer’s care centers, faith-based settings, and business and secular settings of all kinds. Her extensive experience has equipped her with a diverse range of skills and expertise that she incorporates into her teachings.

In many of her classes, Ann uses singing bowls for students to experience deeper levels of relaxation and rejuvenation through sound. Ann moved to Williamsburg in 2022 with her husband and college-age twins who are attending William & Mary.

Asha brings warmth and an atmosphere of inclusion to the classroom, one where we can show up as our full selves. For Asha, the mat / the practice is a haven and a tool for transformation.

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Growing up, she wanted to be a musician and a teacher. For many years, you could find her in the math classroom teaching algebra or geometry, wishing she was better at playing her instrument or singing so that she could be on stage somewhere. As she continued to teach yoga, she realized that sometimes we don’t fully understand our dreams and how we’ve reached reality with them until we change our perspective.

After leaving the traditional classroom and now using her teaching skills to hold a safe space for people to foster self-care and understanding for their mind and bodies both on and off the mat. She truly finds joy in helping people find where Yoga can fit into their lives and adapting it to themselves. Her desire to meet people where they are keeps her busy teaching all types of yoga from sound meditations to hot and sweaty vinyasas and everything in between including Restorative Yin, Gentle Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Hot Yoga, and more. By continuing to be a student this continues to help her grow as a teacher, therefore you’ll find her practicing frequently on and off the mat, she loves a nice gentle flow or a hot yoga flow to help her come back to herself.

Bunkie currently teaches early morning Hot Flow classes at Body Balance and revels in the opportunity to facilitate classes inclusive of everyone. In addition to her yoga studies, Bunkie has also studied and practiced Buddhist, Hindu and transcendental meditation as well as Mindbody healing practices for many years studying with guru Sri Chinmoy in NYC as well as many other practitioners associated with the Edgar Cayce Institute in Virginia Beach VA.

Bunkie is a great believer that staying on your yoga mat and being in a community of others practicing can foster greater peace and wellbeing for all. When not on her mat or teaching yoga Bunkie loves to hike, cook, create malas and spend loads of time with her large, loving family.

Her yoga style addresses the whole person, focusing on the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of the body.  She feels that yoga is a practice that is accessible to everyone and hopes that students that take her class leave their mats feeling refreshed and stronger in mind, body, and spirit.

Dawn’s yoga journey began when she started taking yoga classes in 2009.  She immediately felt the physical benefits, but quickly understood the healing power of yoga finding inner strength and peace.  Her practice has helped her to grow stronger physically and emotionally, both on and off the mat.  Yoga inspires her to live each moment mindfully and she is grateful to be able to teach something that she is so passionate about.

When Dawn is not practicing yoga, she enjoys playing tennis, being outdoors, and spending time with her husband and two beautiful daughters.

In her classes, Irene loves to combine creative sequencing, a spirit of playfulness and a dose of inspiration to help you deepen your practice.

Irene is also a Holistic Nutritionist, National Board Certified Health Coach, E-RYT200, YACEP and owner of an Integrative Practice, Vlasi.  She obtains a nonclinical and clinical background including training at Duke University’s Integrative Medicine Program receiving extensive knowledge in behavior change, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyle medicine modalities.

In her spare time, Irene enjoys spending time with her four very active children, playing soccer, baking, exercising, traveling and reading.

Jesse is a Williamsburg native who lives here with his wife Tiffany and their two young children. His yoga journey recently took him and his family to Morocco where he and his wife taught various forms of yoga and Stand-Up Paddle Boarding.

Jesse’s unique approach to Hot Yoga has earned him quite a following of yogis at Body Balance, and we invite you to come and enjoy one of his classes

She received her RYT–200 instruction with Cindy Crace at Shanti Garadasana and her RYT–500 training from Asheville Yoga. Katherine believes that, by connecting breath to movement, yoga can strengthen and heal our mind-body connection.

Katherine was a collegiate student-athlete who swam and ran cross country at the University of California, Davis. She took her first yoga class when she was 18, because she thought the stretching would complement her other sports. Her yoga practice continued to grow after college as a support mechanism for her other athletic endeavors (e.g., triathlons and marathons). With motherhood her yoga practice changed and deepened with each pregnancy. In fact, all four of her children have grown up practicing yoga at Body Balance. Because yoga is a family practice, you’ll often see the family at the studio.

Outside of yoga, Katherine has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. As a professor at William & Mary, she has spent the last two decades teaching finance. When not teaching or practicing yoga, Katherine spends time with her family. She is also a WJCC Master Gardener and loves to be in the garden studying the medicinal properties of herbs.

While in college, she found yoga and has practiced ever since. Mary has been teaching yoga since 2014 and lives in Williamsburg with her husband, 3 young children, and dog. Beyond yoga, she loves to read, bake and spend time outside.

Mary considers herself a lifelong student. She loves to learn and is eternally grateful for countless life lessons found on her mat. She aims to infuse her classes with the same joy, compassion, and healing that she has found through yoga. Find her on Instagram @maryrobinsonyoga.

Michele took her first yoga class over 30 years ago as a college elective and has been practicing ever since! After college she moved to New York City where she lived for the next 20 years, exploring the numerous yoga studios, experiencing the various styles, and taking workshops in Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga. She has taught both large group classes and private yoga sessions.In 2014 she enrolled in a 300-hour certification in therapeutic yoga with Lisa Bennett-Matkin taking place in upstate New York. Halfway through this training, life presented a different path, and she followed her husband to his new job in Virginia.

Since settling in Williamsburg, Michele has discovered the joy of paddleboarding. She is also the owner of Massage & Movement, offering both mobile and in-studio massage sessions. Learn more information at www.mrosemassage.com.

After retiring from his position as Executive Manager of the Williamsburg Inn and Director of Special Events, Richard began his second career teaching Tai Chi and Qigong in several venues including the Spa of Colonial Williamsburg, Riverside Wellness & Fitness, and CNU’s Life Long Learning Society.  Richard teaches classes that consist of gentle stretches and graceful movements developed from the ancient Chinese traditions of Tai Chi and Qigong in which the movements are slow, circular, and performed from a stationary posture.  The practice of Tai Chi and Qigong is low impact but still highly aerobic and offers many health benefits. One of Richard’s favorite quotes is “You can pay for medical treatment. You must EARN your health” by Dr. Dilip Sarkar (author of “Yoga Therapy and Western Medicine”).

Richard and his wife Margie practice yoga regularly at Body Balance. When he is not following his passion for Tai Chi, Richard enjoys traveling with Margie, tending to his Koi pond, nurturing his Bonsai, working in his gardens, and reading about history and current events.

Recently Shaye discovered the power of therapeutic narrative and loves to combine stories with the latest discoveries in quantum physics, neuroscience and epigenetics to empower yoga teachers to better articulate how yoga works to ease suffering and to bring more people to the banquet table of healing that yoga practices offer.

In addition to her client work and group teaching, Shaye is both the Corporate Education Director and Creator/Director of the Warriors and Warriors Kids Certificate of Enhanced Qualification 140-hour and 100-hour Programs at YogaFit Worldwide®. These curricula are trauma-informed yoga protocols designed to help and empower anyone struggling with PTSD or with unresolved physical and emotional trauma to include yoga teachers, mental health workers, educators, veterans, their families, first responders and those who help and support them. In addition, within YogaFit Worldwide®, Shaye serves as a Senior Master Trainer and as a mentor and faculty member of its Healthcare Yoga Therapy Program.

Shaye is a 28-year Air Force veteran, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She earned her Master’s in Counseling from the University of Maryland in 2003 while she was in the military and spent a year working directly with veterans returning from the Iraq war on the in-patient psychiatric ward at Landstuhl base Germany. In 2012, she combined her military and counseling experience with her love of yoga in creating the trauma-sensitive yoga programs she is in charge of today at YogaFit Worldwide®.

Shaye remains committed and passionate about bridging the related fields of somatic based psychotherapies and trauma-informed yoga and recently completed the HearthMath® Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety, and Self-Regulation providing clients with tools to use Heart Rate Variability monitoring for daily stress management.

A little over three years later, in 2009, much to his family’s surprise and delight, Shomer became an accredited RYT-200 yoga teacher–receiving his initial teacher training at Body Balance too—and ever since, he continues to learn, grow and flourish on this thoroughly unexpected yoga journey.

With an emphasis on overall well-being—most especially, attunement to mind-body experience without any self-criticism or judgment, simply a lighthearted awareness and curiosity while practicing—Shomer enjoys teaching Gentle Flow and Restorative Yin classes.

She began her study and practice of yoga in 2010 going on to get certified with Faith Hunter at Embrace Yoga in Washington DC. At the time, she was living in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and an avid runner. She was looking for ways to help improve her running and overall well-being and was instantly drawn to the practice of yoga. After completing her teacher training in Washington DC , she went on to teach at the Marriott, private gyms, and Yacht Haven Grande in St. Thomas, as well as several locations in Williamsburg. She currently has over 8 years  & over 2,000 hours of teaching experience with additional training in yin yoga & sound. She teaches vinyasa flow, yoga sculpt, hot 26, gentle yoga, sound baths, and yin.

Trisha’s teaching style is creative and dynamic, with a focus on linking breath to movement. Her classes are designed to challenge and inspire her students, while also promoting relaxation and inner peace. Her favorite things to do in her free time are spending time with her family, 2 dogs, yoga, and running. She has completed several marathons and half marathons and has seen the benefits that her own yoga practice brings to her fitness, life, and well being. She believes that yoga is a powerful tool for improving physical and mental well-being, and is passionate about sharing this with her students.

You can follow her on Instagram for yoga tips and tutorials @trishameachamyoga