Josephine McCrann • she/her
co-founder / owner • E-RYT 200 / YACEP / e-RYT 500

Since her childhood in North Carolina, movement, health and creativity have been central to Josephine's passions. She is a visual artist, mover, traveler, snack enthusiast and Bella’s human.

Josephine began practicing yoga in 2006. In 2013 she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Yax Yoga Concepts, for both Vinyasa and Stationary systems. She completed her 500-hour Advanced Teacher Training, also with Yax Yoga Concepts, in 2015. She has practiced in studios all over the world, participated in workshops with leading teachers and continued her education with various trainings. Sharing this knowledge with others is her great joy. She is thankful to be a part of the Durham yoga community and is honored to assist as others move forward, wherever they may be on their own path.

lindsay Hill • she/her
RYT 200

Lindsay is originally from New Jersey. She moved to North Carolina to attend UNC Chapel Hill and never left. There she received a BA in Exercise and Sport Science which lead her to work in a commercial health club. While working there, she dabbled in yoga but it wasn’t until she started taking dance classes at Threehouse—and thought she would add in some yoga to supplement her training—that it became a regular practice.

Threehouse became a refuge for Lindsay in times of stress and grief. She signed up for her 200 hour yoga training with Journey Beyond Movement Yoga Training to understand the practice, and found that it offered so much more than the asana. Lindsay hopes to encourage everyone to give themselves grace wherever they are in their yoga practice, and carve out a moment for themselves. She appreciates the community that has grown at Threehouse, and is excited to be a part of it.

Lindsay Michel • she/her
RYT 200

Lindsay’s life always has been centered around adventure. A graduate of both Outward Bound and NOLS, Lindsay believes that the path to growth requires you to get out of your comfort zone. It’s that spirit that led her to cycle across the United States twice, run 14 half marathons and summit mountains in four continents. It’s also what led her to 200-hour yoga teacher training with Hot Asana University, where she learned that stillness is often more challenging than running, biking, hiking or climbing.

Lindsay strives to create classes that help yogis of all levels “feel each pose from the inside out,” stretching, strengthening and engaging their minds, bodies and spirits to facilitate personal growth, health and wellbeing.

Dave Jennings • he/him
Ryt 200, RYT 500

Dave found his way to “yoga” via P90X. When he was first invited to try a hot yoga class at a real studio he resisted, being pretty sure he’d die in the heat. After several months, he took his first class, was hooked and immediately began practicing almost daily. Hot yoga provided the strength and cardio he wanted - always looking for a hardcore workout - but the mental effects were the most profound. ADHD has been a lifelong battle, but while practicing, his focus and sense of calm were drastically improved without medication. This “moving meditation” worked and he wasn’t the only one who noticed - everyone close to him saw the difference as well.

Dave started practicing under the Bishnu Ghosh lineage and competing nationally in that style. Yet he has found that there is something to learn from all yoga varieties and currently teaches both stationary and vinyasa style classes. While practicing, he wants to find the balance of effort and ease on his mat - with a heavy dose of sweat - and when he’s teaching, he want to bring the same to whoever is on their mat.

Margot Schein • she/her
RYT 200, ryt 500

Margot is a Jewish, anti-capitalist, feminist, amateur baking yogi. When she practices, or teaches, she hopes to inspire joy within herself and those in class. Her teaching is focused on physical alignment, technique and safety, and orienting the practice in a larger social context. She completed her 200-hour teaching certification at Yoga Off East in Durham, North Carolina. She holds an advanced degree in public health and tries to approach yoga from the perspective of health and wellness beyond the individual. Her vinyasa classes are challenging yet accessible with a focus on self-love, body positivity, celebration, and social justice.

Si Luo • she/her
Ryt 200

Si was born and raised in China, a place she will always refer to as home. After living in the U.S. for decades, she now feels at home in Durham too. Si first found yoga as a way to ease her anxiety in adjusting to different attitudes, environments, and beliefs. Gradually she began exploring different styles of yoga and found that connecting breath to movement even for only a few minutes a day is helpful not only for the mind, but also the body and spirit. In a reality where individuality is constantly valued over community, Si aspires to cultivate the mind to body connection in others so that meaningful connections can be formed starting from within.

While Si found yoga in a hot and humid environment challenging at first, the heat helps quiet her mind and remove distraction. In class, you can expect a mix of strong vinyasa-style movements with creative variations, lots of sweat, rounded out with sprinklings of breath work. Si completed her 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training at Carolina Yoga Company and is grateful to be sharing her practice with the yoga community in Durham.

karla vallecillo • she/her
RYT 200

Karla is a Nicaraguan native, runner, wellness enthusiast and LGBTQ+ advocate. She has been practicing yoga since 2017 and through her classes she aims to hold safe space for healing and connecting, with room to explore and be curious, incorporating breathwork, strength, mobility and options for accessibility. Karla completed her 200 hour teacher training in multi-style yoga with YogaRenew Teacher Training, and has a background in Recreation and Sports Management.

Karla has lived in Miami and New York and is very excited to connect and serve the Durham community in English and Spanish, her hope is you leave her classes feeling connected, strong and empowered in your practice.

Tasha Nicole • she/her
RYT 200

Tasha found her yoga practice in the midst of pain and loss in 2015. The effort of bringing mind, body and spirit together led her on a search for self that brought about a transformation she didn’t know she needed. Through this transformational work, filled with compassion, acceptance and self-love, yoga became her therapy, the studio became her “church.”

Her experience of the yoga practice led her to complete her 200 hour teacher training at Anjali Power Yoga in New Jersey. With an extensive background in science and healthcare, as a registered Labor and Delivery nurse specializing in high risk obstetrics, her teaching is tied to the belief that movement is medicine. She believes that people store their history in their body, which informs the way she teaches her yoga classes.

Hailing from Philadelphia, she has decided to land in the Raleigh-Durham area in order to foster connections and nurture community. She is happy to call this area “home” and looks forward to leading practices that combine powerful yoga sequences with restorative, relaxing movement to help ease anxiety and combat stress. Be prepared to use the strength and energy of the breath while smiling, laughing, and sweating trough Tasha’s class!

jourie Palumbo • she/her
ryt 200

A Wisconsin native, Jourie has always incorporated movement into her daily life. Starting with team and individual sports in her youth, later transitioning to gym memberships and then eventually, yoga classes. During a transformational part of life, she began her practice with the intention of focusing on wellness. Jourie was instantly drawn to the teachings of the practice and quickly associated her mat and the studio with a sense of self-awareness, healing, safety, and presence.

As a queer, anti-racist, feminist, and continuous learner, she aims to cultivate an inclusive space for everyone. Jourie believes in the power of yoga and how it ignites healing and personal growth, both on and off the mat. Her aim is to support students in their experience of these facets of the practice and to help them tap into their own personal power. 

She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Journey Beyond Movement Yoga Training through Threehouse Studios. Within her classes, students will find a warm and welcoming atmosphere, playlists to get them moving, a focus on the traditional teachings of yoga, and the invitation to show up exactly as you are - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Maria Ratliff • she/her
RYT 200

Maria begrudgingly accompanied a friend to her beloved yoga class at Down Dog Yoga, a studio offering heated vinyasa practices, in Washington D.C. And her life changed. Awed by the simultaneous intensity and serenity of that practice, she returned home seeking heat. Almost immediately, she began practicing Bikram yoga consistently while continuing to explore various yoga styles. An arm balance near miss led her to a workshop at Franklin Street Yoga Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. There her mind, body, and heart nestled deeply into Ashtanga vinyasa and Baptiste power vinyasa yoga. After cultivating a consistent practice for a couple of years, she completed her 200 hour training at Franklin Street Yoga Center. She still regularly practices Ashtanga but the creativity and fluidity of vinyasa yoga allows her to "live out loud" in her practice and teaching style. She incorporates music, a sense of playfulness, and a bit of daring into her classes because rhythm, fun, and courage foster vitality. In class, she’ll continue to draw the attention to the breath. A breath of steadiness, a breath of ease, a breath of fun, a breath of courage...vitality in all its many forms, cultivated and practiced on the mat to carry it off the mat.

dana kouchel • they/them
ryt 200

Dana first found their way onto a yoga mat in 2015 after years of inflexibility and a desire to try something they knew they’d be “bad” at. It was, in fact, as challenging as they’d thought it would be, but after getting a taste of the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional benefits, as well as the connection to the community, they continued to come back. Their journey led them to take their 200 hour yoga training with Journey Beyond Movement Yoga Training, through Threehouse Studios in 2022.

Dana also works as a nurse practitioner, an energy worker, a plant spirit communicator and an intuitive medium and loves to work at the intersections of the body, mind and spirit. They feel called to create space for self-inquiry by weaving grounded teachings from a variety of healing practices into their classes. Their philosophy is that yoga is a journey of personal and collective liberation, and that the mat is a place where students can explore some of the oppressive beliefs and systems that are restraining. As a Southern Jew, a non-binary and queer person, they seek to foster decolonized, inclusive healing spaces for all, but especially queer, trans and other marginalized populations. 

ae bügger • they/elle
rys 500

Ae is a queer, trans+ creator and listener, guiding Yoga rooted in playfulness and tender care. They deeply believe in the magic of shared movement as a chrysalis for cultivating bodily integrity and collective well-being. Ae strives to guide movement that holds space for giggles, gooey sighs and all that exists in-between. Class will allow room for exploration and wonder but not for gendered cues or hierarchical postures. Assistance in Spanish can be provided. 

While living and farming in Peru in 2019, Ae serendipitously wandered into the entrance of Pachananda Healing House. A week after their very first Yoga class, they registered for a teacher training and have grown to cherish the expansiveness of Yogic wisdom—specifically as a system of embodied resistance. During this experience, Ae was gifted abundant friendships with other LGBTQ+ Yogis, allowing them to show up authentically to their body and practice. Ae’s Yoga and Queerness have been lovingly entangled ever since.

Catch Ae around Bull City—likely clad in some variation of colorful tie-dye, soaking in live music, vending at the farmers market, playing with their queer baseball team, or galavanting through town with their grandma in pursuit of the yummiest chocolate chip cookies! 

asha Godfrey • she/they
cyt 200

Curious and searching for a form of exercise that would mimic the movement of dance classes attended in an earlier lifetime, Asha took their first hot yoga class in 2017. Though she had to leave the studio halfway into the class, she was met with a cool lavender cloth and grace in the lobby, marking the beginning of her journey to find joyful movement and an end to seeking out strenuous exercise to change the way her body looks.

Asha started their 200-hour yoga teacher training in January 2020 and graduated in April of the same year, teaching all their classes remotely due to the pandemic. She navigated feelings of grief, guilt, and rage during such unprecedented times as the mandated quarantines and the events following the murder of George Floyd. Topics of anti-racism, mental health, spiritual bypassing, and cultural appropriation (to name a few) drove Asha's devotion to their teaching during the pandemic, prompting them to enroll in Skill in Action yoga teacher training with Michelle C. Johnson. This segment brought on an immense shift in Asha’s relationship with yoga and its teachings; however, they enrolled in school in 2021, bringing their yoga classes to a halt. A fierce social activist, Asha brings radical self-care, body positivism, and anti-white supremacy to her practice. Prioritizing feeling rather than appearance, Asha incorporates variations (not modifications) of poses, props, and affirming language into their classes.

Briana young-Roane •she/her
RYT 200

Aubrey Zinaich • she/her
e-RYT 200 • E-RYT 500

Aubrey is an E-RYT 500-hour certified yoga teacher with over 2000 hours of teaching experience. She became certified to teach Yoga in February 2018, and has been practicing yoga, meditation, and mindfulness for 25 years Since her certification, she has taught weekly classes and led multiple retreats, including to the Sacred Valley in Peru, Taos, NM, and Jamaica. Aubrey is passionate about helping all people find their inner truth. Her special interests include mantra, moon cycles, sound current, Polyvagal theory, the Perinatal phase of transformation, and various forms of meditation.