Meet our Instructors

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After dabbling in yoga off and on for years, Alex dove into a consistent practice in 2016 and has only sought to deepen her knowledge ever since. She received her 200 hour YTT at The Breathing Room via Maine Yoga School in South Portland in 2019. The draw to teach came from her own experience finding a life of peace and joy through yoga and her interest in sharing that with the world. Alex enjoys grounding, mindful practices that help students build skills around living a more purposeful life. Through meditation and intention-setting in her themed classes, she strives to give students a space to work through internal challenges in an external way. 

Outside of the gym, Alex works at the University of Southern Maine and lives in Windham. She loves spending time with friends and family – preferably outdoors – enjoying all the wonders that life in Maine has to offer.

Classes:
Vinyasa Yoga

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Lizzy began practicing yoga in college after growing up as a gymnast and diver. She completed her 200-hr yoga teacher training in Costa Rica while traveling Central America and furthered her education with a certification in teaching trauma-informed yoga. Believing that all people can benefit from the practice of yoga, Lizzy’s classes are designed to be approachable yet challenging to all levels. She places importance on alignment cues to ensure safety but also encourages playful movement and time spent getting to know one’s own body. Her goal as an instructor is to help cultivate curiosity, mindfulness, and gentle resolve both on and off the mat.

Aside from yoga, Lizzy enjoys spending time exploring Maine’s coastlines and mountains, reading a good book on her porch with her pup close by, and searching greater Portland for her next favorite restaurant.

Classes:
Warm Vinyasa

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Jess started yoga as a way to stretch and prevent injury while playing athletics in high school. She continued to find her way to the mat for the community and playful aspects that yoga provides. Jess practiced in Los Angeles for close to a decade before completing the 200-Hr Teacher Training at Prajna yoga with Tias and Surya Little in New Mexico.

Jess’s classes are a mixture of alignment focus, fun, and balance. Jess enjoys getting to provide a space for folks to connect with their bodies and find strength in getting to tune inward.

Outside of teaching, Jess works with families and young adults as a therapist and counselor, and enjoys spending time in the ocean and woods, traveling, and being with friends and family.

Classes:
Vinyasa Yoga
Slow Flow & Restorative

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Mona is a motivated and engaging Yoga Instructor with the passion to share and connect with students of any background. She strives to design classes that are approachable while maintaining the core principles of a traditional yoga practice. Mona’s classes will bring a variety of vinyasa-hatha inspired sequences. The classes adapt in intensity depending on the class
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Beyond yoga, Mona draws inspiration from many forms of movement and activity including rock climbing, running, hiking, paddle boarding, as well as art and music.

Classes:
Momentum Yoga

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Logan believes that his main role as a yoga teacher is to hold a safe space and remind his students to breathe and listen to their bodies. He believes that yoga is a way to connect with the Self, to quiet the mind, and to experience the inherent goodness with which life is infused. Teaching yoga and feeding thru hikers are among his favorite ways of giving back to the world.

He completed his 200 hour training in 2018 and traces his teachers’ lineage back to Swami Kripalu. He moved to Westbrook in February from RI after thru hiking the Appalachian Trail and tries his best to get into the mountains every weekend. His hope is that everyone leaves his class feeling better than they felt when they walked in.

Classes:
Vinyasa Yoga

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Kalli recently completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with the Portland Yoga Project. Her passion lies in nurturing both the body and the mind through yoga and mediation. With a background in teaching gymnastics and diving, her classes aim to blend dynamic vinyasa flows, weaving strength, flexibility, and a little play into each practice!

Kalli believes that yoga can be a powerful tool for self-discovery and self-care. Through conscious breath, mindful movement, and introspection, we can cultivate a profound sense of connection to ourselves and the worlds around us.

Classes:
Vinyasa Yoga

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Delaney is a yoga instructor who has a passion for movement, whether it be yoga, climbing, hiking, weightlifting, or anything active. Her classes draw inspiration from all forms of yoga, including Vinyasa, Hatha, Ashtanga, and Yin. She completed her 200 hour training through Lila in Portland Maine.

All levels welcome! Classes are designed with climbing in mind. Think stabilization, breath synchronized with movement, core strength, counterbalancing muscles, and much more.

Classes:
Foundations of Yoga

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Eddie is a technique-oriented vinyasa yoga teacher. His classes will help you explore movement safely and with intention. Students can expect clear guidance on alignment and an emphasis on moving with intelligence, informed by his athletic background and experience with several schools of yoga. The classes often include light breath work or meditation.

Classes:
Vinyasa Yoga

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Samantha loves to be active, whether it’s outdoors hiking or indoors doing yoga or barre. She became more passionate about the balance yoga brought to her life the more she practiced. She decided to deepen her practice by taking a 200 hour yoga teacher training at Trimurti Yoga in Goa, India. She has a calm presence about her and she enjoys teaching gentle flows and hatha yoga. She encourages you to listen to your body and move in a way that feels good to you. She incorporates gentle flows, meditation, and breath work in her classes.

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Hale completed their RYT200hr in 2017, and has since supplemented that education with coursework in meditation, and nervous system regulation. Hale’s teaching draws inspiration from the intersections of yogic philosophy and liberation movements.  They love to teach slow flows with a focus on breath and facilitating self-curiosity and attention. They believe in yoga as a tool to connect with ourselves and our community, and they offer options throughout class for folks to access the practice that is right for each person. Hale can often be found climbing before or after teaching class. Outside of the Evo community, Hale teaches trauma-sensitive classes through Sea Change Yoga and is a working artist based out of the Space studios.

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Emily has been a lover and student of yoga for almost a decade. In 2023 she completed 250 hours of yoga teacher training including a 50 hour Creative & Intelligent Sequencing Intensive through The Portland Yoga Project.

In teaching, she aims to create an environment that invites student to explore themselves through playful and intuitive inquiry. Creative sequences intentionally designed for embodied movement, building relation to the breath, and release.

When Emily is not on her mat, find her in the mountains or on a beach, with a book in hand, or tending to her houseplants.

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For Hannah, yoga is a collection of several practices that serve a balanced and happy life: play, movement, breath, devotion, surrender, connection, and celebration!

Yoga became a part of her life around 2008 as a means of healing from injuries sustained from years of dancing. Over the past decade, Hannah has trained with teachers from many lineages and styles including power vinyasa, hatha, yin, restorative, and aerial yoga. She describes herself as a forever student, and is grateful to share a practice that she has found to be rehabilitative. Hannah’s vinyasa classes are powerful and challenging, yet playful and nurturing. Her restorative classes are nourishing and sweet, with a focus on inward connection. In addition to teaching yoga, Hannah spends her time as a professional counselor and an amateur outdoor fun seeker.

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Alex has been practicing yoga steadily since 2014 and has been climbing off and on since 2016. She loves the balance that yoga and climbing bring to the body through strength and flexibility, as well as the ease they bring to the mind through pin-pointed focus and necessary internal awareness and proprioception.

Alex received her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training in May 2023 with Portland Yoga Project. Since then, she has been teaching Vinyasa and Yin yoga classes to a wide range of people with varying experience and mobility.

Join Alex for an energetic vinyasa flow focused on lengthening the muscles most commonly used in climbing. Walk away with a sense of grounded, centeredness.

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When she’s not in the air, you’ll likely find Amanda at Willard or Higgins Beach with her two dogs, Willa and Murphy.

Classes:
Intro to Aerial Silks Teaser
Aerial Silks Level 1
Aerial Silks Level 2
Aerial Silks Individual Practice

aerialarts@evorock.com

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Madison (Madi) grew up in San Francisco training at Circus Center and AcroSports. She specialized in aerial silks and performed with City Circus. After receiving a BA in Theater from UCLA, Madi returned to San Francisco and co-founded Bow & Arrow Circus Theater Collective, which continues to produce and perform original works in SF and on the road. She is thrilled to be able to share her passion for the art and sport of aerial silks that has been a lifelong creative and athletic pursuit. Madi has been teaching silks at EVO since 2022 and holds an Aerial Yoga Instructor certification from Forever Wild Yoga in Brunswick, ME.

Classes:
Intro to Aerial Silks Teaser
Aerial Silks Level 1
Aerial Silks Level 2
Aerial Silks Individual Practice

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CJ has bounced around the U.S., never feeling completely “at home” until she moved to Maine in 2018 to be closer to family. CJ’s sense of adventure led her to take an outdoor rock climbing lesson in North Carolina in 2012 and she has been climbing ever since.  

After quitting competitive gymnastics in college, CJ felt a flipping void – that is until she discovered her first aerial fitness class. She immediately fell in love with the community and the fun, yet intense, workout. As a member of EVO, she has seen the aerial silk hung unused in the yoga studio for years. Disappointed that she could not find any aerial fitness program in Maine, she decided to make it happen. In March 2022, CJ got an aerial fitness teaching certification from AIR®. She is looking forward to building a community of like-minded fitness enthusiasts and those just looking to have fun on the silks; she hopes you will join her!

Classes:
Aerial Fitness
Intro to Aerial Silks Teaser

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Hannah grew up up in South Portland, but it wasn’t until moving back to Portland in 2021 that she joined EVO and started climbing.

Hannah discovered aerial silks in 2023 when she decided to try an aerial class at EVO, and the moment she was upside down on silks she knew she was obsessed. She has practiced aerial silks multiple times a week since that day, continuing to climb in between (silks makes you a stronger climber!). In Hannah’s intro class you can expect a lot of energy, time upside down and poses, and a focus on inclusivity and understanding and respecting your body and different pathways into aerial silks. She’d love to have you in a class!

Classes:
Aerial Fitness
Intro to Aerial Silks Teaser

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Hi I’m Gabby and I teach Acro at EVO! I bring 10 years of teaching experience into my classroom, and I make skills accessible by breaking them down into manageable steps. In Acro, we have this concept of “eating your vegetables” which means refining the small skills, doing the reps, and building progressively toward bigger skills – this is what I love to do and teach. I believe acrobats at all levels benefit from the humble work!

Inclusivity and good vibes are at the top of my priorities list when I am hosting classes and workshops (second only to safety!). No matter your background or skill level, we foster a safe and supportive atmosphere where everyone can feel comfortable exploring new challenges. Nothing is too serious (aside from safe spotting!), and we are all here to try and fail and then try again until we succeed.

When I am not teaching, you can find me tending my garden or my latest fermentation project, devoting hours to an elaborate meal (homemade pasta or dumplings anyone?), doing handstands wherever I can place my hands, or working on house projects. I also climb from time to time 🙂

I love talking about Acro and movement! If you’re ever interested in experiencing an Acro class first-hand, but you’re not sure what to expect or you’re feeling intimidated, come talk to me. Acro is for everyone!

Classes:
All Levels Acro