Every movement is a decision. Julia has brought this mantra from her BFA training at VCU into her yoga practice and teaching.

When her big brother brought her to her very first yoga class, Julia experienced her first “yoga high.” It came from the feeling of companionship and trust she felt in class. Her practice has stayed rooted in these values, and as a teacher she intends to hold space for her students to feel thoroughly supported by themselves and their fellow practitioners.

Julia completed her 200-hour teacher training with Humble Haven in early 2021, and she continues to learn from the incredible mentors at Humble Haven and around Richmond. She is guided by her deeply held belief that when we move with intention together on our mats, we become more intentional, connected members of our community off our mats.

Emely began her yoga journey in 2013, soon after moving to RVA.  What started out as a once a week practice quickly became an every day practice once she found hot power yoga and Humble Haven Yoga.  She came to yoga out of curiosity but soon noticed the profound changes happening not just on her mat but in her life as well.  She finally took the plunge in 2019 and became a RYT-200 by completing her yoga teacher training at Humble Haven Yoga.  One of the main take-ways from that experience was that there is always more to learn and space to grow.  The beauty of yoga is being able to step on your mat and letting the practice guide you.

Camille is an NYC transplant, having moved to RVA in December of 2017. Like many yogis, Camille's practice was born in the midst of a life-career-relationship transition, over the summer of 2007. In an effort to figure out life's next steps, Camille took a summer sabbatical of "funemployment" to close out a rocky chapter in LA with intention, trading traffic on the 405 for a few months of life-planning, beach cruising and yoga. Those months spent on the water and on her mat were the catalyst for courageous change in her life.

Landing back in New York at the end of that summer, she found a home at Lyons Den Power Yoga, as a student, then eventually, a teacher of Baptiste Power Yoga.The practices of asana, inquiry, and meditation have consistently provided her with the tools to handle transformative shifts both on and off her mat. More often than not, these shifts have been disruptive, uncomfortable, messy AND necessary. In addition to her Baptiste training, Camille most recently studied with Albina and Roger Rippy for her 300-HR YTT.

As a teacher, Camille aims to help students create a balance of effort and ease, in both their bodies and minds, through the practice of moving past their physical comfort zones into a new place of discovery. Camille's teaching style is a combination of tough love, anatomy-nerd and spiritual TED talk, rolled into one, supported by a well-curated playlist.

Things Camille loves, apart from teaching/practicing yoga: her family (husband Jonathan and daughters Grace and Leonora), salty snacks, watermelon club soda, hanging with friends, Peloton and searching for authentic Asian food in Richmond.

Suzanne's love for yoga began in 2009 while living in Washington, DC.  After practicing both Bikram and Power Yoga regularly for a few of years, Suzanne decided to earn her 200 hour teaching certification through Down Dog Yoga.  What has always drawn Suzanne to this practice is its ability to build communities and empower the individual practitioner.  To continue her goal to teach yoga to every body, Suzanne continued her quest as a student by becoming a licensed practitioner of Yoga for the Special Child in 2014 and completing her 85 hour prenatal teaching certification in 2015.  Suzanne's goal as a teacher is to empower and encourage exploration both physically and mentally.  

suzanne@humblehavenyoga.com

As an active person since childhood, Andrea found her first few yoga classes to be boring – just being honest here! ;) AND there was something that kept her coming back! The space of mental ease and physical release that yoga practice offered was certainly a benefit that kept her returning to asana, the physical practice of yoga. Eventually developing a steady practice in 2014 and relocating to Richmond in 2016, Andrea’s path led to Humble Haven’s 200-hr teacher training in 2017.