Meet Our Team

Jyll

As the creator of Urban Asanas, Jyll seeks to diversify the yoga community with classes that cater to every ethnicity, gender, and budget. She bows down to her greatest teachers of all: her children Sierra, Cypress, and Indigo for all their inspiration and love. In line with her dedication to sharing the many benefits of yoga, Jyll has taught students of both public and independent New York City schools. Additionally, Jyll has taught at the YWCA, numerous sports clubs, and select private students. Jyll is a certified Thai Yoga practitioner and a doula.

ERICA

Erica is a native New Yorker and graduate of Howard University in Washington D.C., with a B.S. in Psychology, and will hold a M.S. in Education from Sarah Lawrence College. She is also a graduate of Laughing Lotus Yoga School and Kane School of Core Integration in NYC. She has studied with many great Vinyasa, Iyengar and Pilates teachers over the years which has helped to shape and inspire her own practice and teaching style.

Erica teaches a dynamic vinyasa practice where she carefully instructs the integral alignment of each pose, while using creative sequencing and focusing on the breath. In this intelligent vinyasa class, geometry and architecture of each asana are a big part of her instruction, yet there is still time to find the flow and moving meditation often set to a curated musical playlist. Although this class can be challenging, it can also be modified for beginners. Students strengthen the ability to focus and sharpen the mind, while fine tuning awareness, proprioception, intuition, and attention. There is often a fun and philosophical approach. It is always advised that you go at your pace, honor your capabilities, and listen to your body.

jitka

Jitka is a 300hrs+ yoga teacher in the hatha yoga and Tibetan heart yoga tradition. Her passion is in the so-called “household yogi” tradition rather than monastic lineages, a philosophy inviting yoga into everybody’s life, lifestyle, and pace of life. 

She specializes in a combination of yoga with TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), where knowledge of energy pathways in the body as well as acupressure are used to deepen the practice and the feeling of the inseparable connection of the body, mind, and spirit. 

Jitka is an Acupuncture Detoxification and holistic health specialist, involving simple and safe modalities such as acupressure, cupping, moxa, guacha, massage ball therapy, and Qi Gong. She is a certified shiatsu practitioner (200 hrs+) and believes from the deepest depth of her heart that community, togetherness, and love are the means to heal ourselves and the world. 

She holds community healing events, teaches self-healing, and volunteers at harm reduction facilities and anywhere else where compassion, love, and being human with all its ups and downs are needed. One love.

jovan

Jovan started practicing Yoga at the age of 19, to complement her dance and Pilates training. She first started teaching yoga to children and later decided to dive deeper and receive her 200 Hr ShaktiYoga teacher training with Julie Dohrman, and her Reiki attunement from her Reiki Godmother’s, Aki Hirata Baker and Manu Del Prete. Her classes are an enlivening combination of her deep love of movement and her sessions, a discovery of the medicine that may be found within. 

She invites practitioners of all levels to trust the wisdom the body holds and to show up as we truly are. No matter where she lived or traveled, she has always found herself turning to movement to support her in her well-being. 

katie

A yogi of over 25 years, Katie is a radical creative hailing from the blessed coast. She received her 200-hour yoga and reiki certification in 2011 with Deborah Hanekamp @Mamamedicine and has led classes in studios, gardens, women’s shelters and arts venues throughout the US, UK and Asia. In 2019, she complete a Trauma-Sensitive YTT with the Lineage Project. A long-time student of Siri Rishi, her practice fuses Hatha-Vinyasa with selected Kundalini techniques; encompassing the sacred alchemy of asana, mantra and pranayama breath work. A pioneer of Hip Hop Yoga, Katie’s transformational work lies under a sacred canopy of co-created ritual and magic to align with higher consciousness. 

Follow her on instagram @parvati_slice

LINDSEY

Lindsey Dean offers yoga classes that center moving with intention and creating space to connect with the breath. She’s continuously grateful for how the practice supports resilience and strengthens community. Lindsey started practicing yoga in 2009 and completed her 200-hour training with Lucent Yoga in February 2019. She has since participated in trauma-informed yoga, prop-assisted workshops, and various other trainings. Lindsey originally hails from the Virgin Islands, and believes that a little humor sweetens the space.

margo

Margo L Terry aka luxlun (250 RYT) is a yogi and multimedia artist born and based in Brooklyn. Margo offers dynamic yoga classes inspired by Hatha and Vinyasa traditions. She guides her students through a sequence of breath work, intentional movement, and meditation to ease and strengthen the mind, body, and spirit.

tamara

Tamara Thomas is an educator, performing artist and choreographer. After receiving her undergraduate degree, she toured with Chuck Davis' African American Dance Ensemble. While completing her Master in Fine Arts in Dance at Temple University, she served as a member of Kariamu and Company Traditions and Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble.  In addition to being a performing artist, as a choreographer, she has shown her works at events and venues such as World Café Live, the Temple Black Alumni Arts Showcase, the Black Women's Arts Festival, the International African Arts Festival, the American College Dance Association Regional Conference, the Chale Wote Arts festival in Accra, Ghana and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 

Her artistic vision involves the integration of arts and community development. This focus has been shared with various community based organizations both nationally and internationally and drove the creation of The Nkonsonkonson Afrikan Youth Ensemble in Kingston, Jamaica. She has provided instruction in various capacities at Temple University, the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts in the School of Dance, the University of Georgia, Goucher College, and Medgar Evers College.  She is currently a Health and Nutrition Life Coach, Doula and Yogi and has founded Sola’s Wellness Garden – Health Nutrition Coaching and Doula Services.