Our Teachers
Every one of our teachers embodies a passion for the practice of yoga and wants to share it with you in a comfortable and welcoming environment. Whatever you desire from your yoga practice, we want to help you center, connect, and cultivate.
Stephanie Meyer Chapman
Owner and Teacher
Stephanie first discovered yoga in 2012 and immediately felt its transformative power. The gifts of mindfulness, breath awareness, and flexibility she experienced on the mat began to flow into her everyday life and her work as a high school teacher. Inspired by the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of yoga, she felt called to share this practice with others.
In March 2015, Stephanie completed her RYT-200 with Ally Ford and has been teaching with compassion ever since. She loves welcoming beginners into the practice and focusing on strength and balance in a way that feels safe and empowering. Stephanie honors yoga as a lifelong journey — a practice that naturally evolves to meet our bodies and minds where they are. She nurtures this awareness in her own practice and gently encourages it in her students as well.
Always a student at heart, Stephanie continues to deepen her knowledge and grow as a teacher. She is an E-RYT 500, RCYT, YACEP, and is certified in Yin Yoga and Trauma-Informed Yoga. She is also a Level 2 Reiki practitioner, and has had the privilege of learning from inspiring teachers like Melanie Fawer, Kino MacGregor, and Doug Swenson.
Stephanie’s teaching is rooted in kindness and connection. Her goal is to create a welcoming space where students feel supported, inspired, and empowered to explore all the beautiful ways yoga can enrich their lives.
James Osborne
James Osborne is trying to find some answers to the complexities of our world and yoga has become a comrade on this quest. He finally has learned how to breathe, move so he won't hurt himself, and discovered a community of friends who want to celebrate this connection. Every day that he practices yoga he learns something. It's humbling, exciting, motivating, and he can't wait to share this experience with you. He is approaching his fourth year of teaching and wants to infuse the energy, creativity, and patience that his teachers have shared with him. Yoga, the Arts, and his loved ones are the transformative powers that guide him.
Angelica Sarullo
Angelica hold’s a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from ULM and has had a passion for dance since childhood. She first discovered yoga in 2011 while living in Los Angeles. She fell in love with yoga, because it reminded her of lyrical dance and it corrected everything that dance physically damaged. Angelica received her RTY 200 hours from Yoga Works in Santa Monica in 2015. Angelica loves the healing power of yoga and hopes to play a role in revealing that power to her students. Angelica is also a Reiki practitioner (level2)
Harriet Stone Evans
Harriet was introduced to yoga by her ballet teacher, Paul Coates, in 1979. She has studied many disciplines of hatha yoga - among them Ashtanga, Anusara and Kundalini. Her perception of yoga was completely changed when she began the practice of Iyengar Yoga with the late Karin O’Bannon. Karin was her teacher and mentor for six years. Harriet completed two years of Iyengar teacher training and an apprenticeship with Karin. She is committed to continuing the Iyengar tradition in Shreveport. She believes that Iyengar is to yoga as ballet is to dance - it's firm and has a sound foundation.
Elizabeth Winkler
Elizabeth discovered her love for group fitness and yoga in 2002. She loves the camaraderie and encouragement that group fitness provides and wants to share that with others. Since 2012, Elizabeth has completed her 200 Hour YTT through YogaRenew; her Yin Yoga Teacher Certification with Rhia Robinson; and an additional 120 hours of training through YogaFit, including Prenatal and Seniors.. She loves the physical, mental, and emotional benefits that yoga provides and wants everyone to experience them. She teaches a straightforward, active, vinyasa yoga with a focus on linking movement with breath. Since 2012, Elizabeth has completed her 200 Hour YTT through YogaRenew, as well as additional 120 hours of training through YogaFit, including Prenatal and Seniors. She has also received her Schwinn Indoor Cycling and SCW Group Fitness and Barre certifications. She teaches a variety of classes, but yoga is her favorite!
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Jamie Day
Born in Japan, Jamie, along with her family, relocated to Illinois early in her life. As her family continued to move for her father’s work in the Air Force, it sparked her innate curiosity about people and life. She was first introduced to yoga and meditation at age 22, when she had an undeniable urge to attend yoga classes while at LSUS. After finishing her degree and starting a family, she continued to make yoga more and more a larger part of her life. Practicing Ashtanga and meditation daily, she began teaching yoga to students of all ages in 2016. Jamie has made yoga and meditation her life and continues to expand upon that: teaching mindfulness and meditation to teens studying for their SAT, as well as teaching mindfulness and breathwork to children during learning. She believes sensitivity, intuition, and insight can be found through connection with the world around us and that no teacher is greater than the one within. Jamie has been teaching yoga for the past 6 years. She is excited, humbled, and honored by the opportunity to spread her love of yoga and is grateful for all her teachers and students.
Monica Fayad
Monica learned how influential movement is on wellness at a young age. Encouraged by her parents’ dedication to health and influenced by their interest in spiritual development, she was taken to the gym to work out her depression beginning in middle school. From that point she found a love for dance and in college her quest for wellbeing was quenched with the combination of modern dance, yoga and meditation. She has completed over 1000 hours of training in vinyasa yoga, Ashtanga yoga, mindfulness, yin yoga, perinatal yoga and Ayurveda for bodywork and yoga. Most recently she completed co-heart level chakra training with Sacred Centers and became Reiki Level II practitioner.
Deeply rooted in her practice and dedicated to continual self-discovery, she has brought her passion for the power of movement to the community since 2003. Monica leads a yoga teacher training, Balanced Yoga School, continuing education for current yoga teachers and workshops for all. Monica strives to approach each client and student with compassion, a keen eye and an understanding of universal patterns as well as inherent individualism. Monica teaches Ashtanga with the blessing of her teacher, Melanie Fawer, trained in the lineage of and certified by Sri. K Patabhi Jois, and loves teaching all styles of yoga as they each create a path toward mindful awareness, personal growth and self-compassion.
Kristy Hathorn
Kristy’s love affair with yoga began the moment she stepped onto the mat. After just a few classes with a local teacher, she felt called to dive heart-first into her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Monica Fayad at Balanced Yoga School in 2022. Since then, she has continued to deepen her personal practice and enrich her teaching.
Kristy is now a Yoga Alliance RYT 500 and holds certifications as a Kids Yoga Teacher (Yogees Yoga4Kids), Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, and Yin Yoga Teacher. As a Reiki Master/Teacher, she enjoys weaving gentle Reiki energy into her classes when it feels supportive and beneficial. She has also expanded her knowledge through workshops with Melinda Matzell, Ally Ford, and Jen Rault.
Kristy has always had a natural gift for teaching and a deep love of learning. Over the past 20 years, she has educated more than 1,000 students as a middle school math teacher for the Bossier Parish School Board. While she has since transitioned out of the traditional classroom, she continues to nurture students with special needs in their home environments.
For Kristy, yoga is more than a physical practice; it’s a path to peace and stillness. She believes yoga is for every body and every age, and her classes are designed to encourage self-awareness, compassion, and mindful presence. Kristy’s hope is that each student leaves the mat feeling supported, empowered, and connected to their own inner calm.
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Heather Ryan
Heather stepped into her first yoga class back in 2014 as part of a fitness program for work. From that point on, the Yoga “seed” was firmly planted, and inspired her to further her yoga experience. She wanted to learn all that she could about this amazing practice, and immersed herself in as many classes as possible. She began to see a major change in her overall physical, spiritual and mental well-being through years of dedicated practice. Heather soon realized the impact that yoga was having on her life and wanted to share this with others. She completed her 200hr yoga teacher training in 2021 and is also certified to teach pre and postnatal yoga. She hopes to always be a student and plans to continue to learn and grow through her yoga practice and additional training. Heather’s goal is to facilitate a yoga class that makes people feel empowered. She believes by sharing breath, movement, motivating music and energy people can empower one another to be strong and positively focused on and off the mat. She is most passionate about facilitating a warm and welcoming space for everyone of all fitness levels to feel safe and supported. Her most important rule is to have fun and never take yourself too seriously!
Erin Hogg
Erin has always had a heart for service and care. As the Assistant Director of Children’s and Special Needs Ministries at her church — and with a background as a nurse working in the ICU — her life has been dedicated to supporting others. When she discovered yoga, it quickly became another path of healing. Her very first class revealed not only physical strength but also the deep mental resilience that yoga cultivates. Over time, her practice grew into a personal source of therapy, restoration, and peace.
This healing experience inspired Erin to deepen her journey through a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Monica Fayad at Balanced Living. She soon realized that the same compassion and attentiveness she brought to her patients and ministry seamlessly translated to her teaching on the mat. Today, she blends her knowledge of health with a genuine love for people, creating classes that emphasize wholeness and balance.
Erin believes that we are whole-body beings — mind, body, and spirit are interconnected, and true wellness comes from nurturing all three. Each time she steps on the mat, she is reminded that yoga is not just movement, but a way to heal and reconnect with ourselves. She is deeply grateful to share the same studio space that shaped her own path as a teacher, and she hopes every student leaves her class feeling peaceful, empowered, and renewed.
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Tina Seaton
Tina Seaton is a dedicated yogini who began her practice in her mid 20’s. She is busy mom of 5 (including triplets) and an Ironman endurance triathlete that has competed in multiple races all over the U.S. While rehabilitating several common triathlete injuries, Tina discovered the benefits of integrating yoga and Pilates into an overall strength and endurance program. She loves that yoga utilizes her body
and mind to promote healing and functional strength in her daily life. In 2022 she completed her 200 hour teacher training and quickly began teaching. It is her goal to share her energy and passion for fitness through yoga! Tina teaches a dynamic practice that blends movement with breath to build strength and flexibility. In her classes, you will find
a supportive space to explore your mind and body, deepen your practice, and have fun!
Heather Hudson
Heather is fun, passionate and wildly imaginative. A native of Shreveport, her path to teaching involves yoga, dance, somatics, nutrition, meditation and sound healing. After many years in competitive sports, Heather knew she needed to heal her body. Studying under Dorthy Kristin, she began modern interpretive dance at the Visual Sound and Movement Dance Company. Here she learned somatics and traveled to San Diego to study at the Reese Movement Institute. She became an Arodasi®Healing Practitioner, learning modalities that calm the nervous system and unwind pain. This was really a springboard into the movement arts. In 2003 she received her Yogafit certification and since then has taught prenatal, kundalini, child, restorative, yin, and senior yoga classes. Simultaneously, she studied Nutrition earning her CDM from BPCC. She added sound healing to her practice in 2019 where she uses the sound frequencies from singing bowls and gongs to help align and relax the cells of the body. June of 2024, Heather completed her Level 1 and 2 Reiki Certification and in 2025, she became a certified Yin Yoga teacher. She is currently studying with Ashley Turner in her Yoga Psyche Soul® 300 hour training that uses yoga, meditation and journaling practices to help regulate trauma. Heather’s goal is to help others find the joy of movement and the peace of stillness. “Yoga has given me much more than movement flexibility. It taught me how to be mindful, peaceful, and joyful - especially during those anxious moments. It has also given me a community that I treasure.”
Emma Payne
Emma began her yoga journey in the Summer of 2017 with her mom after her first year of college. It began as a fun way to spend time and workout with her mother, but eventually, she discovered that there was so much more to yoga than just the physical postures.
Yoga has helped Emma get through difficult times like the pandemic, relationships ending and an eating disorder. She realized that yoga has shown her hope, self-love and inner peace, and she cannot live without it. Through this realization in August of 2020, she knew that she had to show others the beauty that yoga continues to bring to her life. She made the decision to sign up for her 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training with Heather Delia in the Summer of 2021.
She became a certified 200-hr yoga teacher in December of 2021 and immediately began teaching (the day of her graduation to be exact!). She has also completed 30 hours of Continuing Education for Arm Balances and Inversions in February 2024 and became a certified Yin Yoga teacher in 2025. Yoga continually shows Emma that she is never alone and has all the answers she needs within herself...she just has to turn in. It is now her mission to help guide others to knowing, loving and accepting themselves for who they are through the practice of yoga and to continue to find inner peace and acceptance.
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Emily Mills
Emily Mills is an RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance. Her first yoga teacher training was Level 1 Kundalini Yoga with Prem Kaur in Madrid, Spain in 2011. Emily later completed her 200 hour with Heather Delia at Aspire Yoga School in 2021, and her 300 hour with Nathalie Croix at Shanti Yoga Training School in 2024. Emily loves to teach mindful and creative vinyasa flow, Yin Yoga and Breathwork to guide students into an experience of deeper connection.
Emily has additional training in prenatal yoga, Rebirthing Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, Yin, and more. She also loves to study yoga philosophy.
When she’s not teaching, practicing or thinking about yoga, Emily is a mom of two beautiful girls, an avid gardener and community herbalist.
Rachael Bloom
Rachael Bloom sees yoga as an act of learning to connect deeply with one’s own body and mind. She stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time in 2022, hoping to relieve shoulder tension and seasonal depression; what she found was a transformative practice that taught her invaluable lessons about self-care, patience, and the sweetness of slow and steady progress.
Rachael became a 200 hr RYT through Balanced Yoga in 2024. Her teaching style emphasizes genuineness and earnestness, encouraging students to compassionately meet themselves where they are. She loves to welcome beginners and those seeking a firmly rooted foundation for their practice. Rachael enjoys creating approachable classes that empower students to build confidence as they explore movement with mindful presence.
A nurturer at heart, Rachael finds joy in cultivating a warm and supportive atmosphere both inside and outside the studio. When she’s not practicing yoga, she can be found caring for her home, her many houseplants, and her two kitties.
Rachael is a Yin certified instructor and a Level 2 Reiki practitioner.
Dan Krohn
Dan discovered his love for group fitness through CrossFit, but it was Yoga that truly transformed his life. What began as a physical practice quickly evolved into something deeper—beyond self-help books and external guidance. Through Yoga, Dan found a path to stillness, self-awareness, and spiritual growth. It taught him how to truly connect with his Mind, Body, Breath, and Spirit.
In December 2024, Dan completed his 200-hour RYT through Balanced Yoga. He is also Yin Certified and Trauma-Informed through the Prison Yoga Project. Passionate about learning and pushing the edges of comfort, Dan embraces growth through challenge—both on and off the mat.
Dan loves putting together creative, intentional classes that give students the chance to build some resilience by leaning into discomfort—but always with the option to come back to center and explore something deeper. His favorite styles to teach (and practice) are Energetic Vinyasa, Hot Yoga, and Yin Yoga for meditation and prayer.
When he’s not in the studio, Dan is often traveling—seeking new experiences, meeting diverse communities, and exploring the unfamiliar to continue his journey of growth and connection.