We know some of you have been with us for a while. You've found your teacher, your time slot, your spot in the room and it works. We see that, and we don't take it for granted. Loyalty like that is what makes a studio a community instead of just a gym with mats.
So we want to be upfront about something: change is here this summer, and we're genuinely excited about it.
Here's what we believe at MonmouthFlow growth happens at the edge of what's familiar. A new teacher, a different cue, a different way of explaining a pose you've done a hundred times, can suddenly make something click in a way it never has before. That's not a disruption to your practice. That is the practice.
There's one more thing we want to say before we introduce you to the incredible group of instructors joining our family this summer.
Every one of them is stepping onto that mat in front of you as a teacher for the very first time here at MonmouthFlow. For some, it's the first time teaching, period. That takes real courage more than most people realize until they've stood at the front of a hot room or any room fro that mat with twenty plus sets of eyes on them. Teaching yoga or any group fitness class isn't just knowing the poses. It's something you grow into, class by class, cue by cue, breath by breath. We hope you'll meet each of them exactly the way this community has always met each other with warmth, patience, and grace. Everyone teaching in that room right now was once teaching their very first class too.
Now, let's introduce them.
Meet Bella — Sculpt, Yogalates & Mat Pilates
Bella is a NASM-Certified Personal Trainer with a foundation that goes back further than the certification. Before she ever stepped into training, she spent eight years as a competitive gymnast and cheerleader years that didn't just build an athlete, they built a coach. That's where she first found her love of mentorship, and it's carried into everything she teaches today.
Across Sculpt, Yogalates, and Mat Pilates, her classes are calisthenics-based and rooted in functional training real strength that shows up in your real life, not just in the mirror. Her coaching style is built on clear cueing, genuine encouragement, and meeting every student exactly where they are, whether it's their first class with her or their five hundredth.
Meet Allie — Hot Power
Allie is an RYT200-certified vinyasa yoga instructor who has been practicing for over five years. What drew her in and what keeps her coming back to the mat — is the strength and peace yoga gives her, inside and out. She brings that same balance into her Hot Power classes: powerful, sweaty, and grounding all at once.
Meet Adam - Smart & Strong Hatha Yoga
Adam is a highly motivated instructor who has studied under some of the most respected names in yoga, including Sri Dharma Mittra and International Asana Champion Jared McCann. He currently teaches roughly a dozen classes a week across varying styles, and was previously involved with Yoga to the People, helping train and develop emerging teachers.
Adam teaches both Vinyasa and heated Hatha yoga (in the tradition of Bikram-style practice), and he's just as comfortable leading a class of one as he is a room of 68. His training runs deep: a 200-hour Vinyasa certification with Yoga to the People in 2012, a hot yoga teacher training with Yoga to the People in 2013, and a 500-hour teacher training in 2016 at the internationally renowned Dharma Yoga Center under Sri Dharma Mittra, alongside additional training with Jared McCann.
He maintains a daily personal practice and continues learning from notable teachers, including Mr. McCann, Sri Dharma Mittra, and New York State Asana Champions Yoshio Hama and Talia Peretz — a commitment to staying a student first that shows up in the way he teaches.
Smart & Strong Hatha is an anatomically informed yoga practice designed to increase strength and flexibility. The teaching of this practice also considers skeletal and anatomical variations of different students. This practice aims to increase body awareness and functionality.
Meet Amy — Hot Vinyasa
Amy came to yoga in her 40s, about ten years ago, originally looking for a counterbalance to running. What she found instead was a perfect coming-together of her dance and athletic background — which makes sense, since yoga literally means "to yoke," to bring together.
She was hooked almost immediately. She got certified and started teaching as a side hustle before her two young boys were even up for school in the morning. These days, Amy splits her time working at a flower farm, still keeping up a daily practice, and still parenting now a college junior and a high school junior. Her Vinyasa-trained (200-hour) teaching style centers on fluidity of movement, and the way creativity and strength move hand in hand on the mat.
Meet Denise — Morning Hot Vinyasa
Denise has been teaching full-time for over 20 years, and she still remembers her very first day walking into a studio. That memory is exactly why she teaches the way she does with patience, not judgment.
Before yoga became her full-time path, Denise spent 15 years as a registered nurse in a busy Brooklyn hospital. She's seen a lot, and it's given her a steadiness and compassion that shows up in every class smart, creative sequencing, thoughtful modifications for injuries and prenatal students, and zero room for judgment. She's also spent the last decade leading teacher trainings across Monmouth and Ocean counties, shaping the next generation of instructors along the way.
Expect patience, real guidance, and a lot of laughs. This is yoga.
