TEACHERS
Faith Marie
Faith is the founder of the Heart Center. You can find her teaching yoga classes, leading teacher trainings & mingling with her beloved "heart-centered" community. She is a visionary, an energy worker & a mother. Faith first found yoga in college, when she discovered that her time on the mat empowered her to heal from trauma and become more present with life. She found that yoga was a form of energy work and continued to study reiki, tantra, and shamanism to hone her craft. She now teaches classes to impart tools for healing based on breakthroughs & awakening experiences from her journey to self-love.
Faith enjoys DJ'ing yoga playlists and choreographing inspiring flows for her students. She travels as often as possible, whether to lead retreats, stoke her sense of freedom, or spend quality time with her little family.
Faith loves to create and contain courses for learning and healing. Join her for Usui Holy Fire Reiki levels 1 & 2 training, Reiki Mastery, Moon Village Women's Circle, The Heart Center 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training, and 50-hour Yin Teacher Training.
Jonathan Resuello
Ever since Jonathan incorporated yoga into his life, his physical health has flourished. He values yoga over all other forms of physical discipline as a personal trainer who has benefited from all types of exercise. The most alluring element of yoga is that it evolves into so much more. Cliches notwithstanding, there are spiritual and mental gains that become accessible as one progresses through their personal journey and examinations of the practice.
For LJ, it was the meditation component that completely transformed his life. He hopes to bring to the community the same enthusiasm and prosperity that yoga has brought to him. His class will build on your physical strength and push your mental resilience to a better you!
Ki Imperial
Kristina (aka Ki) first began her yoga journey in Philadelphia in 2014 with the goal of losing weight. The practice quickly changed her whole understanding of the human experience and the majestic design of the human body.
She quit her job as a chemist to pursue spiritual work and has been studying various forms of healing energy modalities since. In NYC, Ki became a 200-RYT under the lineage of Iyengar, Baptiste, Cyndi Lee, and more. She studied the chakras in Rishikesh, India, where she found healing and began studies in mysticism. She began in the yoga room as an assistant, using hands-on assistance to help students with form and alignment. Now, she continues to study the body and different massage forms, such as CFT and Thai massage. Ki utilizes healing arts through mediums like touch, sound, and food. She loves cooking mindful meals for retreats, practicing Qi Gong in the forest, and co-creating music for joy and healing.
Caleb Knox
Caleb connected with yoga cross-training for surfing, noticing the postures of wave-riding evoked what he experienced in his first vinyasa flow. The mental/spiritual benefits of these practices also felt similar. Realizing yoga was a freely available source of spiritual energy, yoga evolved into a steady practice, and eventually into a fully committed love after being introduced to the Rocket sequence, and an eclectic community of its devotees in San Francisco. This free-spirited, rebellious family was instrumental in providing Caleb a safe space to truly be himself, having nearly quit yoga in initial distaste of not feeling a sense of belonging within the cliches of yoga-studio culture.
The steady practice provided gradual and profound healing of emotional patterns, depression, and anxiety. The more yoga, the more clarity and intuition came. Caleb began to teach after 5 years and channeled the insights he continued to receive from yoga into other healing arts such as reiki, sound healing, plant medicine & breathwork. Caleb discovered Kundalini yoga and experienced a lightning bolt of increased healing & vitality. Yoga became more dynamic, and sustainable, through integrating and balancing Kundalini & Ashtanga, both which showed common medicine of removing stagnation. In 2019, Caleb went on an extended pilgrimage to India, studying Kundalini, Ashtanga, Ayurveda, and meditation.
Caleb's goals as a teacher are to create a welcoming and supportive community that encourages steady growth for all. He aims to honor the roots of yoga by teaching the breath as the most important aspect, along with bandha and dristi. His classes reference Patanjali's yoga sutras in order for yoga to be liberating not only physically but mental-spiritually through deconditioning trauma & societal programming.
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DRE PAVELA
In Andrea's classes, expect to move slow and work hard with focused inquiries that welcome you as you are and invite the teacher within to lead. She uses physical anatomy, actions & sensations as a gateway to presence, self compassion, and growth.
Her style is most influenced by Annie Carpenter’s SmartFLOW methodology, complimented by studies with many other respected educators of movement and mindfulness since 2012. Through teaching, Andrea intends to amplify the nourishing effects these practices have on our experiences as individuals, parents, partners, and friends.
Doris Vanderhyde
Doris discovered the transformative power of yoga 25 years ago at a small Kripalu yoga studio in New York City and immediately fell in love with the practice. The profound connection she felt to her body and spirit ignited a deep passion that eventually led to her completion of the Heart Center's YTT program in 2022.
Doris is also a clinical social worker and EMDR therapist specializing in trauma and anxiety. Her background in therapy brings a unique perspective to her yoga teaching, allowing her to create a safe and supportive space for her students to embark on their own paths of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment through the practice.
In her classes, Doris incorporates elements that go beyond the physical asanas — emphasizing pranayama, meditation & teachings of yogic philosophy. Through her compassionate guidance, students are encouraged to explore the depths of their being, fostering a sense of balance and well-being. With her extensive background as a therapist, Doris creates a safe and nurturing environment for her students to support their practice and growth, both on & off the mat.
Rachel Rawlings
Rachel’s yoga journey began in 2000, shortly after her youngest was born. Since then, yoga has been a constant in her life — it is the thread she holds on to, guiding her through the everchanging world of dukkha (suffering) and sukha (sweetness). It is her joy to serve others in the community who may desire to discover the deep wisdom and healing yoga offers.
Rachel’s style is influenced by her teachers, committed practice, and dedicated studies. In her classes, she encourages the use of props to support the body, the breath to set the rhythm, and one's inner wisdom to guide their practice. All experience levels are welcome.
She's completed her 200-hour, with a focus on trauma-informed practice (2020), Yin (2023), and Restorative (2024) trainings. She is currently taking courses in pranayama and Nidra, and she continues regular studies of yoga philosophy with her mentor. Rachel is a lifelong PNW’er and mom to three adult kids. Beyond the mat, she enjoys her studies and moonlights as a consulting astrologer and editor.
Jasmine McCarthy
Jasmine is a licensed somatic-based clinical mental therapist, hatha-vinyasa-kundalini yoga instructor, and tantric philosophy and meditation teacher. She is an advocate for decolonized holistic sovereignty and believes in the importance of grounding the nervous system, cultivating life force energy, exonerating one's being, and sending loving compassion to all living beings for the purpose of liberating unity consciousness.
Honoring indigenous practices and marginalized perspectives, she assists others in utilizing their body to bridge eastern wisdom with western science through her signature offerings of Nervous System Reset, Shakti Maitri, Cyclical Embodiment, Shamanic Soundbath, Ceremonial Yoga, 1:1 work, other astrology-related workshops, Women's Circles, and Mental Health Boxes.
KATEY PECK
Katey Peck (she/her) is a space holder, storyteller, and dreamer. A white-bodied settler ally raised on the southern banks of the Patawomeck (Potomac) River, she is grateful to call Virginia, O'ahu, and now Seattle home. A seeker and forever student, Katey treasures and transmits the teachings of several schools, including yoga (yin and vinyasa), circle facilitation, public health, and ʻāina (n. land, that which feeds). Her calling is to weave welcoming and courageous containers to support the healing of our bodies, lands, and communities.
Katey was introduced to the physical practice of yoga in high school and over the past 15 years has expanded her understanding of the different lineages shaping this Indigenous knowledge system. Her approach to space-holding is rooted in and guided by land, embraces a trauma-informed praxis, and strives to be inclusive and responsive to as many bodies as possible. Her hopes for teaching are for all to feel welcomed and witnessed, attuned to their bodies, and connected to the collective.
Maytrelli Diaz
Maytrelli Diaz is a native Aztec. She trained at Sivananda and Agama Yoga in India and Diksha Center in Mexico.
As a somatic and energy healer, Maytrelli has a unique way to lead yoga and helps you to find alignment in your everyday life's purpose.
ABBIE CARR
Abbie is a community worker, youth advocate, educator, and lifelong student of yoga. Completing her 200-hour Hatha/Vinyasa and Yin training with the Heart Center, Abbie brings a unique blend of yogic philosophy, dynamic sequences, and a warm, welcoming energy to classes.
Her journey with yoga began at a young age, but it wasn't until after graduating college during the pandemic that she fully embraced the practice. Burnt out from her work in activism and academia, yoga became a grounding ritual in her daily life — a way to restore balance and reconnect with herself.
In her classes, Abbie strives to create an inclusive and safe space where practitioners of all bodies and levels feel both challenged and nourished. With a playful and compassionate approach, she encourages students to explore the mind-body connection in a way that feels authentic and true.
When she's not teaching, you'll find Abbie soaking up nature, engaging in ecstatic dance, exploring different knowledge systems, or practicing hula hooping by the water.