CYS Gradudate Directory
Looking to try the CYS method in person?
Use our Graduate Directory to find a Shala teacher in your community.
Scroll down for a list of our teachers or use the search bar to find a specific skillset/location.

Jessica Roger
Yoga to live a better and simpler life in France
Specialty Areas: Restorative, Gentle, Beginners, Advanced, Ages 20-60, Group classes, Privates, English and French instruction
“Teaching and practicing yoga is a way of living. There is the practice on the mat and also how you are integrating the philosophy and principles of yoga in your daily life. Yoga is a way of taking care of the body, the heart and the mind.”

Arshia Khan
Wisdom, Presence, and Somatic Awareness in NW Arkansas
Specialty Areas: Privates, Workshops
“My work as a yoga teacher centers around sharing the wisdom of this tradition, in all of its ways. I focus on seeking presence through somatic awareness and the impartial observation of what arises. Using the body as a means of exploration, through functional movement and mobility.”

Tracy Davis
Prison Yoga and Service in Greers Ferry, AR
Specialty Areas: Privates, Group Classes, Workshops
“The way I teach depends on the energy and mood of my clients when they enter the room whether it be a private or public class. My ability to teach in this way I owe to my teachers for teaching me the techniques and self awareness and my maker for giving me this life and working through me to serve others.”

Alisyn Reid
Yoga Teacher & Therapist in Little Rock, AR
Specialty Areas: Functional Movement, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed Yoga
“I love sharing what I have learned. And yet, it can’t replace what we can find out in the present. My goal is to lead practitioners back to the present in whatever way can anchor us there.”

Elizabeth Strandberg
Privates and and Special Events in Little Rock, AR
Specialty Areas: Restorative, Mobility, Meditation
“My classes foster an environment that ground practitioners into presence through the awareness of their breath and sensation through simple and accessible movements. ”

Anna Agniel Bushlack
Breath, Integration and Rhythm in St. Louis, MO
Specialty Areas: Vinyasa Flow, Restorative
“My teaching focuses on breath, integration, and rhythm: I call students’ attention to how their breath informs their movement and vice versa. I want students to become more aware of habitual ways of moving throughout the world that cause imbalance or pain, so my classes offer new ways to move fluidly.”

Shontel Stott
Yoga by a Medical Professional in Little Rock, AR
Specialty Areas: Functional Movement, Mindfulness, Meditation
“As a yoga teacher with a medical background, I focus my attention on functional movement, the needs of our daily activities, and mindfulness. I believe that yoga goes beyond the mat and to teach these techniques to others will help to gain and sustain mobility. ”

Hannah Pasquinzo
Yoga & Mindfulness in Fayetteville, AR
Specialty Areas: Mindfulness, Presence, Meditation, Horses, Online, Workshops, Functional Movement
“I am a big believer in re-visiting the basics, and that’s usually a big focus of my classes, especially those I teach to the general public or in collaboration with others: coming to presence via the felt sensations of the body.”

Ann Thompson
Yoga Classes and Privates in Little Rock, AR
Specialty Areas: Traditional Yoga Postures, Strength Training, Core Work, Chair Yoga
“I design my classes around working with the individual to relieve the mind and body of habits, choices, and general lifestyle. In each of my classes you will find that I touch on (3) components: awareness of breath, mindful movement, and time spent in meditation.”

Samantha Cavagnaro
Yoga Therapy in Bauxite, AR
Specialty Areas: Scoliosis, Biomechanical Asymmetries, Biomechanics of Breathing and Postural Control
“I view my work as a physical therapist and yoga teacher as a life of service to assist others in developing internal awareness so they can have a better relationship with themselves and the potential to live a healthful and joyful life.”