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
Ashley Bollinger
Ashley hails from Austin, Texas, where she honed her teaching skills through rigorous training with Bodhi Yoga. Her yoga journey commenced in 2003 as a refuge from workouts that strained her body, resulting in injuries and an unsustainable lifestyle. What began as mere exercise quickly evolved into a profound exploration of health, meditation, self-awareness, acceptance, and compassion.
After several years in Texas, Ashley and her family relocated to the Midwest, where she passionately shared her wisdom as a yoga instructor at Tapas Yoga Shala for a remarkable 5 years. Her diverse classes spanned Power Vinyasa, Hot 26, Vinyasa Flow, and meditation. Ashley's dedication to yoga education has taken her across the globe, including a transformative experience in the heartland of Yoga, India, where she practiced and studied under the guidance of the esteemed Yoga master and meditation guru, Dr. Senthil Kumar, M.D., Ph.D.
Her greatest joy as an instructor? "I thrive on empowering new students, revealing their inherent flexibility, strength, and potential for a beautiful and enriching yoga practice."
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.
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!
Kristi McIntosh
Kristi is married with 2 teenagers and resides in the DFW area. She has been practicing yoga for 22 years, 12 of those years at Divine Center of Yoga. She completed 200 hours of yoga teacher training at Yoga and Ayurveda Center in September 2021. She is also a member of Yoga Alliance. She currently is teaching private and group classes. She is excited to begin at Be Here yoga in the summer of 2022. She already has taught over 120 classes since her certification last September.Her background is in Ashtanga, Hatha and Iyengar. Kristi is also a part time health coach, and graduate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. Through her studies, it affirmed that true health cannot be gained only from nutrition. Yoga is a key component in her every day life and she is passionate about overall wellness & health in mind, body, and spirit.
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
Marina Fabian
Marina has been teaching in the Yoga, Meditation, and Breath work space for nearly 10 years. She has a whole system approach to yoga and wellness based upon the belief that our mind, body, spirit system is connected and dependent upon each other to be able to elevate and lead us forward in our lives. In her classes you will experience an extremely safe and welcoming space, joy and connection to the heart, purposeful movement of energy through the body, and focused strength work that builds resiliency and body awareness. In addition to working in the yoga space, Marina is also a leader and coach in high level mindset and belief system work to bring continuous upward change and alignment in life.
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.
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
Tyler Dawn
Tyler’s yoga journey began in 2012 at a residential alcohol treatment center. She was amazed how yoga could relieve the dis-ease of being in her own body. After finally getting sober in 2014, she immediately enrolled in yoga teacher training at Gaia Flow in Dallas. In 2015 she became a 200RYT and has been teaching ever since. In 2016 she became a certified Y12SR (yoga for 12 step recovery) leader and began leading yoga in treatment centers as well as community. Tyler has also completed over 400 hours of yoga therapy training through Breathing Deeply yoga and is certified in Trauma Informed Yoga. Her certifications through Yoga Alliance also include 200E-RYT and YACEP.
“I wanted not only to share my passion for yoga but to also share the meaning and benefits of yoga to connect. This includes connecting to self, other, community and Spirit.”
She enjoys teaching all types of yoga but focuses on foundational postures, breathing and alignment during her classes. Tyler is also a certified Mindfulness meditation teacher and will graduate from SMU in Dec ’22 with a certification in Spiritual Direction.