Our Instructors

Julie Parsons began teaching hatha yoga after completing her first 200 hr program at The Yoga and Movement Center in Walnut Creek, Ca in 2004. Her 200hr training also included a 6 month apprenticeship with Diane Valentine and other California Bay Area teachers. Next she added 150 hours of training and assisting with Judith Hanson Lasater in Restorative yoga making her an Advanced Trainer in Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga. After moving back to Texas in 2006, Julie began teaching at Divine Center of Yoga in Southlake, Tx and then 3 years later in 2009 became co-owner of Divine Center of Yoga. While teaching and operating the studio she completed her 500 RYT certification from Purple Lotus in McKinney, Tx, certified in Pink Ribbon Recuperative Yoga with Amy Garrett and Julie Byrd, certified Reiki 2 master, certified in Primordial Sound Meditation and Ayurveda Prefect Health teacher training through The Chopra Center. When Divine Center of Yoga needed to close on 27th of May 2022 it was time to create something new within the same community that has become a family. Be Here Yoga studio is that new beginning.

Julie Parsons

Aimee Andrews

Aimee has been teaching yoga since 2011 and has trained under Shannon Buffington and advanced training with Arpita Shah. As a certified counselor working in schools and Licenced Professional Counselor (LPC), Aimee has worked to blend the two worlds of work, inviting mental health and awareness to her teaching as well as mindfulness, yoga, and meditation into schools, helping educators approach behavior and emotions in the classroom with a trauma-informed and compassionate approach.


Aimee Andrews ERYT 500, LPC

Alexandra Bellamy

Alexandra Bellamy is a 200 hour E-RYT, and has been practicing yoga since 2003. Her life has been transformed in many ways through her yoga journey, and she believes the practice can be a powerful tool to dig deep within yourself and rediscover your true nature while working towards better health, greater clarity, and inner peace. Her dedication to her practice led her to complete her Vinyasa Flow Yoga Alliance certification in 2010, and also Vinyasa Teacher Trainings with internationally celebrated yoga teacher and activist Seane Corn. Alexandra loves sharing the practice and philosophy of yoga with her community and strives to be an energetic and passionate teacher so she can creatively teach others how to physically, mentally, and spiritually become stronger and more resilient in life..


Alexandra Bellamy is a 200 hour E-RYT

Ally South

With over 20 years of yoga practice and teaching since 2006, Ally shares the teachings of Ashtanga Yoga through Led classes and Self-practice classes (Mysore Style).

Ally has taught Yoga worldwide & has studied with many teachers including studying at the KPJAYI in India with Sharath Jois. She is certified to teach Ashtanga Yoga, Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga, Restorative Yoga & Pelvic Floor Yoga. Before Yoga, she trained extensively at one of London's leading Dance Schools, Laban where she was introduced to Movement Analysis. Her knowledge of movement highly influences her teachings today.

She believes that Ashtanga Yoga can be for everyone, offering insight that guides you to discover a practice that shapes your constitution and empowers you to reclaim a remembered wellness.

Carol Slack

Carol began practicing yoga over 20 years ago as a way to deal with osteoarthritis.  She found that yoga was so much more than the physical poses.  Carol found yoga impacted her body, mind and spirit in such a positive way that she wanted to learn more.  She began her teaching journey in 2020 with Om Yoga Journey (Arpita Shah).  She took advanced training with Dallas Yoga Center in 2023.  Carol aims to bring the same well-being and peace that yoga has brought to her to others.  She hopes to offer classes where all bodies feel included and comfortable.   

Carol is an RYT 500.

Dan Hall

Dan began a yoga and meditation practice in December 2011, and has been teaching since 2015. His formal training is primarily in Hatha Yoga and Yoga Nidra, with a strong focus in meditation and pranayama practices. Dan’s formal yoga and meditation practice has given him the clarity to navigate life’s challenges more gracefully, and to recognize the body’s stress signals to better self-regulate the nervous system.

Dan began teaching regular studio classes in 2015 following a yoga mentorship program. After a few months of teaching, he knew this was something he would be doing the rest of his life. He went on to complete a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program in 2016 through 3Tree Yoga in Fort Worth, TX, a 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in 2018 through Embrace Yoga in Washington, D.C., and a second 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in 2019 through Indra’s Grace Yoga. In May 2019 he had the great opportunity to learn the techniques of iRest® Yoga Nidra and became an iRest® Level 1 Teacher.

In addition to offering regular public yoga classes, Dan also offers special classes, workshops, and private yoga and energy work sessions to best accommodate students’ needs. He also is an assistant yoga teacher trainer.

Dan’s goal as a yoga teacher is to always show up for his students. He strives to help students feel safe, comfortable, and accepted no matter who they are. His hope is for them to rejoice in their individuality, and to take comfort in knowing that we all contain the same goodness, kindness, and love within.”

RYT 500

Diana Casabar

Diana found yoga when she was training for her 3rd black belt degree in Taekwondo, and needed help healing her injured back. Yoga classes helped her heal and successfully train and complete her third degree. During the next 4 years of training for her fourth degree, she took up the study of T’ai Chi and Qigong, to complement her martial arts training. It was then that she came to realize how powerfully integral qigong needed to become in her life. She has studied with Ron Smith, Daisy Lee, Robert Peng, and Deng Ming-Dao. Diana also teaches Self Defense for Women around North Texas, and beyond. In her day job she’s a jeweler, but her best times are hanging with her hubby, sons, daughter in law and totally amazing granddaughter.

Jennie Dendy

Jennie began practicing yoga in 2011 as a way to stay healthy to care for her disabled daughter. In yoga, she found more than just better physical health - she found better mental health as well. Early on, she discovered the practice of yin yoga and she fell in love. It was the perfect quiet complement to the faster paced practices. In 2018, she signed up with her teacher Arpita Shah at Om Yoga Journey to get her 200 RYT training which she completed in early 2019. From there she continued training as a yin yoga instructor, completing 120 hours with yin instructors including Bernie Clark, Paul Grilley, and Shannon Stephens. She also has 80 additional hours of training in Ayurveda and yoga therapy with Arpita Shah. She has been teaching since 2019 and loves sharing her love of yin with others.


Juliette Betancourt

Juliette discovered yoga at the age of 15. Throughout the years, and after being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, Juliette realized that the practice of yoga made her feel strong, empowered, calm, and balanced. She was so inspired by this and her amazing yoga teachers at Divine, that in 2020 she decided to pursue formal teacher training at Om Yoga Journey with Arpita Shah completing the 200 and 300 hours required to become a RYT-500.  Juliette has great joy in serving others. Few things bring her more joy than witnessing the peace and bliss students experience with the practice of yoga.  She aims to teach a class that is relaxing, nurturing, and empowering, in which students feel completely aware and happy with and within themselves. 

When she’s not teaching yoga, she enjoys being home with her family which includes her husband, one daughter, and three of the most magnificent dogs in the world, as well as reading, writing, and traveling.  During the day, Juliette is a Dyslexia Specialist at a local school district.

She is thrilled and extremely grateful to be a part of Be Here Yoga which she considers her home.

Credentials:

RYT-500

Aqua Yoga Level 1

M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction -

Kristi Burns

I am proud to have started my yoga journey over a decade ago and I was a certified 200 RYT beginning in 2013. I love to keep my practice lighthearted and fun!

Lori Powell

Although Lori reports that she giggled through her first yoga class more than 35 years ago, something kept bringing her back to try again.  

 Lori’s yoga practice began as an exercise program that she loved, eventually practicing about 5 times per week.  At a certain point she began to notice the emotional and mental change that came over her the minute she stepped onto her mat.  And THEN she began to see how she carried her yoga practice off of the mat and into the world. THAT’S when her yoga journey really began.  

 Lori believes yoga is suitable for all, regardless of age, experience, or level of fitness. Her goal as a yoga teacher is to guide her students on a journey that begins where they are in their yoga practice.

Lori completed her 200-hour and 300-hour yoga certification through Om Yoga Journey.  These hours and others included specific training in Ayurveda Lifestyle, Yin yoga, Prenatal yoga, and Ayurvedic Herbology

Mangala Allen

I hold several certifications through Master Yoga Foundation and Svaroopa ® Vidya Ashram.

My goal is to help you unleash your inner healing and bliss through the yoga practices I

have been trained to offer you. I teach the yoga of spinal decompression, releasing

tightness in the muscles attached to your spine, from tail to top. This frees the energetic

flow through your body on all levels (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual). I look

forward to serving you.

EYTS 750 RYT 500

Dr. Pam Kendall

Pam Kendall became RYT200 certified in 2016 by her amazing teacher, Arpita Shah and has taught weekly ever since. As a practicing chiropractor since 2001, teaching yoga has been a fabulous adjunct to her extensive biomechanical knowledge of the human body and has served as a valuable asset to patients and students alike. Teaching yoga is sometimes a bit selfish for her… it forces her to slow down and breathe in the hectic life of the practice she shares with her husband (kendallcare.com) and home life with two college age kids, one busy high schooler, two needy labradors and a sassy mother/son cat duo.

Sayo Johnson

Hi, my name is HisSayo Johnson.

As a Hatha Flow (Slow Flow) teacher, I love guiding

students to move mindfully from one posture to the

next, cultivating awareness of breath, body, and mind.

I believe yoga is a deeply personal journey, and I strive to

create a space where students can explore their unique

experience on the mat.

My classes encourage curiosity – about the connection

between movement and breath, and about the

sensations and emotions each asana evokes.

It’s a joy to witness students deepen their practice and

grow more connected to themselves through this

awareness-based approach to yoga.

I can’t wait to meet y’all in the class!

-RYT 500 Hour

Stephanie Read

Stephanie began to study the healing and therapeutic aspects of yoga in 1998. She became a Register Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance in 2009. Two years later she studied extensively in pregnant anatomy, physiology, labor and birth and became a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher and DONA certified birth doula. Her prenatal yoga classes focus on the importance of breath and deep relaxation, along with movements that align and balance the body for labor and birth. Through her prenatal classes a sense of confidence, companionship and community emerges.

Stephanie’s calm style of teaching continues in her weekly Gentle classes. Here, her classes focus on strength and flexibility in the body without overworking it. She only asks that her students never take themselves too seriously, never push into pain or discomfort, and always remember to practice kindness and playfulness on their mat and in their daily lives.

STEPHANIE READ, RPYT, E-RYT, 500, CD(DONA), SpBPE, and Ayurvedic Doula B.A., University of Oklahoma

RPYT and 500HR E-RYT, Yoga Alliance
Birth Doula, DONA International®
Spinning Babies® Parent Educator, Spinning Babies® Ayurvedic Doula, Ayurved Sadhana
Relax and Renew Restorative YogaTM Trainer, Judith Lasater

Visit Stephanie’s website for doula services: ayurvedicdoula.com

Tiffany Stewart

Tiffany loves sharing the healing practice of yoga. Before becoming a yoga teacher she enjoyed being a stay home mom followed by getting a Masters in Education and teaching elementary school. When it became clear that chronic back pain was caused by teaching littles, she decided to take some time off from the classroom and found herself doing a deep dive into her yoga passion. 


Tiffany’s goal is to guide students to be present in their bodies which brings peace, the opportunity for healing, and connection to our true nature. Her teaching style is steady, nurturing and joyful. And she often reminds her students to bring some playfulness into their practice which is so important. 


-RYT 500 Hour

-M. Ed. Teaching, University of Texas Arlington

-B.S. Kinesiology, Texas Woman’s University