Yemike Hatfield
Yemike Hatfield was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and first began practicing Bikram yoga before dedicating most of her yoga practice to Ashtanga. She has taught yoga for more than 7 years and practices Ashtanga yoga on a daily basis. In 2007, she traveled to Mysore, India for a month-long yoga practice at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute where she learned the importance of building a strong yoga foundation. She is currently studying to become an accredited physical therapist from Texas Woman's University. "No two people are alike in body shape; therefore, yoga is not only about learning asanas but also knowing how the body works in order to produce the correct alignment that gives us the greatest benefits to meet our own personal goals.

Y. E. Torres (YET)
YET is a contemporary belly dancer and visual artist. She is Level One Certified by the Suhaila School of Belly Dance and travels throughout the United States to work with her teachers, Jill Parker and Suhaila Salimpour. YET's dance study currently encompasses traditional belly dance forms and yoga at YogaOne. She performs regularly in the Houston area as a solo artist, with the troupe The Renegades and Their Collection of Carnies and with improvisational guitarist, Sandy Ewen. YET's performances range from folkloric pieces, modern belly dance fusion and an investigation of improvising movement to sound.

Mandy Wright
Bio to come

Liz Eklund
iz Eklund began practicing yoga 10 years ago, she completed her teacher training in 2009 at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, CA. She has taken various classes and workshops from yoga to macrobiotics from various teachers all over the world. She strives to educate students about the positive impact various yoga poses have on the human body including the effects on the internal organs. Her first yoga teacher used to say that "stress is the modern day plague." She truly believes that not finding a way to release this stress, clear your mind, and detox from life's events, worries and fatigues causes illness and cancers in the mind and body. She guides students compassionately into yoga postures with an emphasis on breath awareness and proper alignment. It is her opinion that yoga can be beneficial to anyone, regardless of age, flexibility, former injuries, or illnesses. After a serious car accident her physical activity was limited. Everyday tasks and joys were draining and almost impossible. Through her struggles after the accident it was yoga that brought her back to better health than before the injury.

Norah Vasen
Norah began her journey with yoga in 2005 when a friend introduced her to Power Vinyasa yoga. She immediately fell head-over-heels in love with yoga and has continued as a devoted practitioner by incorporating other styles and forms such as Baptiste, Forrest, and Boustany methods as well as training in Kundalini and Ashtanga yoga. As someone who travels quite frequently, she aims to experiment with yoga in every new city she visits. This includes various styles from across the globe and has a well-balanced view of the various forms being practiced around the world. Aside from teaching yoga, Norah works in pediatric nutrition research at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. Norah holds a BA in Theatre and Spanish and a BS in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Houston. She is knowledgeable in nutrition, preventive health, juice fasting, and cleansing diets. Her classes are open-hearted, open-minded and filled with love. She focuses on breath, connectivity to movement, and healing alignment. She believes that emotional freedom and release stem from alleviating the daily stressors in our lives and creating balance from a peaceful yoga practice.

Lee Zacharias

Lee started practicing yoga in 2007 in Santa Monica, CA.  At first, her yoga practice was a place for focus and silence; an escape from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles.  Also an avid athlete, yoga added balance, strength and flexibility to her routine.  Nowadays, yoga has become so much more.  Yoga heals everything.  “To me, there’s nothing more amazing than being on the mat, remembering the importance of breath and finding the beauty in silencing the mind.”   Lee completed her Teaching Certification in October 2009 from (The Swami) Lex Gillan of The Yoga Institute Houston.  Teaching yoga is a new and fulfilling path for her.  In addition to sharing her passion with others, she loves being a student in her own yoga and meditation journey.    “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen for you, to you and because of you.”

Carly Curran

Carly grew up in Austin, Texas and was introduced to yoga as a child by her grandmother, who still practices at age 83! From ages 3-12 she was a dedicated and competitive gymnast, but thought she had given up acrobatics and flexibility when she moved on to play volleyball in high school. In 2001 a friend took Carly to her first Bikram yoga class. She immediately thought it was crazy and way too hot, but after her second class she began to love the sweaty physical challenge and the intense focus it required.
After quitting a corporate job in 2007 and backpacking around South America, she returned to the states and went to teacher training in Dallas. Since then, Carly has practiced other forms of yoga, mainly Ashtanga and other varieties of vinyasa flow yoga. As an avid traveler, Carly most enjoys practicing in other parts of the country and around the world.

Kristin Good

Kristin first began her yoga practice as an undergrad at Texas A&M University when her mother recommended trying it as a way to relieve stress and help with chronic headaches. When YogaOne opened in October 2008 she attended one of the first classes and was instantly hooked. Her yoga practice transformed as she began to make it a daily endeavor. Kristin has found yoga to be healing, relieving pain in her knees that has accrued after playing 15+ years of soccer; calming yet energizing; and transformative, altering not only the way she views working out, but also the way she chooses to approach hardship. She is currently pursuing her J.D. at the University of Houston Law Center. Kristin received her Teaching Certification in January 2010 after studying under Lex Gillan. Her practice is influenced by Forrest, Baptiste, and Hatha yoga.

Elizabeth Rubino

Elizabeth began practicing yoga in 2003 and received her teacher certification with Robert Boustany Pralaya Yoga in March of 2009.  From the beginning, Elizabeth realized yoga was not merely a wonderful exercise, but a way of life.  Elizabeth holds a BA in psychology and a minor in studio art.  Upon graduation, she worked several years in pharmacology research studying the neurochemical causes and effects of stress and depression in order to discover new antidepressant drugs.  After several years, she discovered that her love of yoga paired with her passion to help others, could be used to continue to help people with stress prevention and management through the teaching of yoga.  She then took a leap of faith, left the lab, and dedicated herself to yoga studies.  Elizabeth’s classes are designed to challenge her students to safely push their limits, while working through physical, mental, and emotional obstacles.  Through breath, and being present in the now, Elizabeth lovingly encourages her students through postures promoting self-awareness on and off the mat.

Dana Shamas

Dana delights in the beauty and wonder of life! Her uplifting, fun-loving spirit and contagious laugh ensure that both beginners and advanced students start and end her classes with a smile. Dana has practiced yoga for over 10 years and is a Certified Jivamukti Yoga Instructor. She has found her practice on the mat to be a perfect playground for learning how to gracefully walk through the challenges of life.  Taking her learning off the mat, Dana has worked with a number of socially-conscious start-up companies, as well as major corporations. She has an MBA from UC Berkeley and loves to bridge the gap between finance and yoga philosophy.  A Native Houstonian, Dana has traveled extensively and lived in New York, London, Croatia, and San Francisco.  Dana is thankful for all her amazing teachers and students and considers herself blessed to pass the practice on to others. She has studied with David Life and Sharron Gannon, as well as John Friend and several senior Anusara yoga Instructors. Dana's experience of the transformative power of breath in her own practice inspired her to pursue training as a transformational breath facilitator so she may share this same wonderful gift with others. I bow to the divine light in you.  Namaste.

Chelsea Padon

As a little girl, I was always involved in dancing and gymnastics. I focused on gymnastics until age 12. At age 15, I attended my first hot yoga class here in Houston. The class was intense, but I could not ignore the way I felt inside and out. I started attended hot yoga regularly. I fell in love! Seven years later, I'm teaching hot yoga  and enhancing my own practice. Since becoming a student at YogaOne, I now practice Vinyasa, Forrest, Piyolet and attend other great workshops at every opportunity. The Texas Yoga Conference was also a great experience. As a teacher, I want to share with my students the extraordinary benefits you can receive simply using your own body and breath. I often use metaphor to help my students further relate to their bodies.  The goal is to feel happy and healthy. Namaste.

Rebecca Calandro
Rebecca began practicing yoga in 2002. It began as a complement to her already active life as a group exercise instructor, personal trainer, and student; she’d heard it could be used for stress management and flexibility, and figured she could use a little bit of that. It turned out that Yoga was more than she expected and thus, the Journey began. A few years later, Rebecca began entertaining the idea of teaching Yoga, but she wasn’t entirely sure it was the right path for her. It was then that life’s events revealed the most wonderful part of yoga to her. Yoga isn’t something that we simply learn, do and teach; it is a lifelong endeavor that evolves with time. Yoga is always immediate and available to us, as long as we as students cultivate awareness of what our minds, bodies and spirits require, and we honor those needs. Since there is always something to learn, there is always something to teach! Rebecca began teaching Yoga in early 2009, and completed her 200-hour RYT in July of 2009. Her personal favorite asana practices are Ashtanga Yoga and Yin Yoga, and you will find elements of both of these in her classes. Strength and flexibility don’t simply allow us to do yoga poses, but they allow us to experience ‘sthira sukham asanam’, steady happy postures. This lesson we learn on the mat, can also serve us well off the mat.

Roger Rippy, RYT 500
Roger grew up near Fort Worth, Texas, where practicing yoga was not commonplace and where it could quite possibly have gotten you beaten up. He attended his first yoga class (hot yoga!) with Albina in 2001 and has been a student of yoga ever since. His yoga background is in Bikram and Ashtanga. His current yoga crushes are Forrest Yoga and Vinyasa Flow. He loves music and tries not to take himself too seriously.