Kamila Hasana Ahmad’s message is affirmative love and creating space. An avid student of the human experience, and self-proclaimed melomaniac, Kamila infuses her traditional foundation of education with her spiritual practices into her life’s work. She completed her...

Morgan Andrews joined Studio 34’s arts team when we first opened in 2008 and began teaching yoga here in 2009. His first studies were in Netra Vyayamam (eye yoga) before moving onto Asana (yoga poses) to relieve chronic pain. After seeing change from a self-led yoga...

Alicia started practicing yoga in 2013 after sustaining a few too many concussions on the rugby and soccer fields. She found the movement to be healing, energizing, and grounding. That inspired her to complete her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification at Studio...

A culmination of experience from the homes she made in Amston, Connecticut; Greensboro, North Carolina; Charleston, West Virginia; and now Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jena is a freelance movement artist who choreographs, performs, and teaches throughout the...

Megan began teaching yoga in 2014 with a grounded enthusiasm for the healing properties of yoga and meditation. She was certified in Yin Yoga in 2013 through Corina Benner, and began the formal study of yoga therapy with the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies...

After a long relationship with dance, Anisha came to yoga in 2010 and reveled in its benefits – physical and mental. She dove into completing a 200 hour Ashtanga-Vinyasa based teacher training followed by an additional 200-hour Anusara/Alignment-based training in...

Craig (pronouns: they/them) is a Black nonbinary queer femme brought to yoga as means of restorative love, support and discovery for the self and the community. Craig grew into their practice since 2013, learning from amazing inclusive practitioners like Jessamyn...

Georgiana's life radically shifted after she began practicing yoga at Studio 34. She noticed a newfound energetic freedom within her soul, and signed up for the studio's 2018 Yoga Teacher Training with the intention of deepening her personal practice. As time passed...

Sophia Rose (she/her) first felt what it was like to exist in her body when she took a yoga class at 9 years old. Since then, she has been drawn to the healing arts in all of its forms. Sophia began her journey as a professional healing practitioner in 2020 when she...

Monica first began practicing yoga in 2008 at Studio 34. Also a Licensed Acupuncturist, she loves helping people become more embodied, more connected to their own inner wisdom. With a playful, gentle style, Monica creates an environment of comfort and calm in which...

jean-jacques is a Haitian-born artist, father, and teacher living in Philadelphia. He started painting in his father’s studio, before he could walk, and later studied at the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. jean-jacques found yoga...

Annielille Gavino, affectionately known as Ani (meaning "Harvest" in Hiligaynon), is a Filipinx movement artist, choreographer, educator, writer, cultural worker, yoga instructor, and multidisciplinary storyteller native to the island of Panay, Philippines. Since...

Rikki Harley (she/her) is a lover of people, pets and plants. She first stumbled upon yoga by watching Wai Lana on PBS,she was 4 or 5 years old and has been intrigued by yoga since. Rikki would rent yoga videos on VHS and led her friends through sun salutations during...

Hanae Victoria Mason is a West Philly based, Southern raised Black queer femme creator, community organizer, and facilitator. She works in the intersections of social justice; healing and wellness; and Black arts, culture, and media. Her main medium is love, of the...

Neha has been practicing and teaching yoga since her teens. For her, yoga was an opportunity to understand herself and the choices she wanted to make to support her wellness. Yoga led her to look at emotions, thoughts, and environmental factors that affected her...

Nicole began practicing yoga over 13 years ago as a way of bonding with her mom. Little did she imagine how profound an experience it would become, renewing her perspective on life, love, career and everything in between. Yoga makes Nicole feel good – physically,...

Nicole Pollard came to yoga in 2015, after recognizing the absence of presence and movement in her life, and how that correlated with her mood and emotions. Nicole graduated from the Yoga Teacher Training Program at Studio 34 Yoga in December 2021, and obtained the...

Kathy Revelle developed an immediate attraction to yoga thirteen years ago, when she picked up her first yoga book from the library. Over the years she kept up her own practice of yoga until naturally, accompanied by her desire to teach, she was lead to a 200hr yoga...

Justin discovered yoga and tai chi at a point where his physical body was considered to be "without muscle mass" and reveled in the transformation and freedom of pushing his mind and body back to wellness and even further beyond. After years of occasional practice and...

Anssumane Sillá began his dancing career at the tender age of 11. He has since danced professionally for over 18 years with the National Ballet of Guinea Bissau. His career has lead him to perform for Dignitaries, Ambassadors and Presidents from around the world....

Sheena Sood, PhD (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based activist, educator, sociologist, and healing justice visionary of South Asian descent and southern roots. Sheena has studied yoga, Ayurvedic Kundalini Massage therapy, Reiki, and sound healing traditions at Kailash...

Greg completed his 200-hour yoga teacher training at Studio 34 in March 2023 after taking classes and doing work study at Studio 34 since 2016. Greg credits Studio 34 and yoga with helping him to break out of his shell and take his first steps back into the world...

Kari uses breath as the central rhythm from which all movement stems, encouraging each student to find their unique flow. Kari pauses at each key pose allowing time to explore proper alignment, a deeper stretch, and more subtle sensations. Kari began practicing yoga...

honey walker (she/they) is an educator with a passion for centering the heart in all the places it's most needed. As a community-oriented Aquarian and loving eldest sibling, Kay has spent most of the last decade co-creating communities of care with students of color...

Brett Zweiman is an artist and musician with a passion for incorporating meditation and electronic music into his work. After attending a silent meditation retreat in 2015, Brett was inspired to start hosting psychedelic electronic sound baths under the name Audiohm...