Mission Statement
•Nourish and rejuvenate body, mind and spirit awareness through the eight limbs of yoga
•Create a peaceful space that emanates with love, creativity and positive vibrations so that all feel welcome, supported, happy and whole
•Spread healing, harmony and happiness to our local community
•Together let's learn to shine our own light, walk our own path and truly become the light of the world, bringing peace to all humanity and Mother Earth.
Amber Melendy
Amber is dedicated to a warm, open and loving environment that helps people tune into their highest self. "Yoga is for every BODY. I hope to inspire others to connect deeply to their heart center. When we connect to our heart, we inevitably become aware and reverent for well-being, as well as all living beings."
Through the integration of pranayama (breathwork), asanas (postures), relaxation, teaching of yamas and niyamas (yoga ethics), and positive messages, she is able to give people a true mind-body-spirit experience. Amber creates a peaceful space that helps people achieve a healthier state of existence. She encourages all people in OurLando to shine their own light and walk their own path towards healing, harmony and happiness.
Amber is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) through Yoga Alliance. She has attended Sivananda, Ashtanga and Kundalini teacher trainings. She studied with Janice Clarfield and is a certified Prenatal Yoga Instructor. She is inspired by many great teachers and masters including Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Swami Sivananda & Vishnu-Devananda, John Friend, Yogi Bhajan, the Swami's at Sivananda Yoga Farm, Sri Ekan & Nirgunavathi, Linda Walker, Gary Kraftsow, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, David Swenson and many more.
Debbie Parsons
Debbie has been practicing Yoga since 2002, beginning as most people do with a desire to get in shape physically. She explored many types of Yoga including Power Yoga, Kundalini, Bikram’s, and Ashtanga. It was a class she took in India, overlooking the Himalayas that she first realized how Yoga was much more than just a workout. Soon she began to witness how her own confidence boosted, her self-image improved, and her ability to simply love life blossomed. The saying “find the peace within” finally made sense! She truly believes that world peace begins with a decision that each individual makes to take responsibility for their own happiness. “Yoga is the perfect vehicle to allow every ones heart to ‘shine’ with true peace and happiness,” she loves to share. It was a simple decision for Debbie to take her passion for the Yoga teachings and turn it into a career. She is a certified Hatha Yoga instructor and is registered with the Yoga Alliance.
Debbie invites you to explore the benefits of Yoga for yourself in this safe and positive setting that Shine On Yoga illuminates.
Jim Leary
Jim (DOM, MBP, LPT, CQT) is a certified qigong and kung-fu instructor from the Shoringiryu Matsumura Orthodox Zen School, Okinawa. Jim has studied in Asia, Europe, South America and the United States for over forty years. He has trained with many amazing teachers over the years all over the world and has a personal wish to empower people in their own quest for growth and enlightenment.
Janelle Pochintesta
Janelle Pochintesta has a B.S. in Psychology and is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200 hrs) through Yoga Alliance. She attended her first 200hr training with Yoga Master Edely Wallace and another 200hr training with Jhon Tamayo the father of Atmanada. She is looking forward to continuing her education with Jhon T. and taking the 500hr level early next year. Janelle has also received training from the infinitely knowledgeable Emily Ruff at the Florida School of Holistic Living with a certification in advanced herbalism. Janelle believes that yoga is more than a practice it is a way of life. Through life we learn that nothing is perfect. In her class you will find a warm, loving, accepting environment giving you the support, security and safety needed to grow and transform into your highest self. All that is required is the breath. So, please leave your egos at the door. You can pick them up at the end of class or just let them go…
Kate (Ad Sach) Levinson
Kate is a gifted teacher, visionary, playshop and retreat leader, angelic channel, abundance coach, author of 30 Days to Abundance and Prosperity and a yoga/meditation teacher. Since 1985 she has helped thousands of people awaken their Spirit. In addition to being a KRI certified yoga/meditation teacher, Kate is an Intuitive and Angel Therapy Practitioner® and Medium certified by Doreen Virtue, a Sacred Contract Consultant certified by Caroline Myss and a Past Life Regressionist certified by Brian Weiss. Kate belongs to the yoga associations IKYTA and 3HO.
Kate began her yoga journey when she was eighteen. A long time hatha teacher, specializing in Vinyasa and Ashtanga. Kundalini has been Kate's private practice for many years. She has now made her commitment, received her kundalini name, Ad Sach Kaur, and is dedicating herself to bringing her “yoga heart” kundalini to her students teaching others the amazing energy technology of kundalini yoga.
Kimberly Heninger
Kimberly is a certified yoga teacher, Reiki II Practitioner and a Licensed Massage therapist. She began her yoga adventure in a small serene temple in the forests outside of Gainesville, and met an exceptional teacher, Kamala, in 1991. For the next four years, Kimberly discovered the fruits of a regular yoga practice: greater clarity, health, and focus. She completed her sociology degree at University of Florida and was drawn to massage school which included daily yoga classes. "Yoga became a way of peeling back the layers of confusion and fear, and exposing a clear direction for a fulfilling and balanced life."
She brings fifteen years of yoga practice to her gentle, mindful hatha flow, breath work, and guided meditation. Drawing from the knowledge that everyone has the ability to slow down and become aware of the subtleties in each asana (posture); she helps others to cultivate a deep sense of balance and calm.
Lauren Gaines
Yoga has the power to heal, not only personally, but globally. Lauren believes that yoga not only affords us physical and energetic purification but through moment to moment mindfulness we receive increased awareness of ourselves and our deep interconnection with all beings. She feels blessed to share this practice and she encourages her students to experience a positive connection not only to themselves but to all of life.
Lauren has received her 200 hr Vinyasa Flow yoga certification through White Lotus, Anusara yoga training through The Yoga Center, and her Ashtanga 200hr teaching certificate from local yogini, Krista Shirley. Lauren is a 200-hr member of Yoga Alliance. As a Karma Krew Chief, Lauren coordinates community service projects for our Central Florida yoga community to practice living their yoga "off the mat". Through the process of reaching inside during our own practice we find transformation in opportunities to reach out to others and serve. It can all be yoga! Find out about locally themed service opportunities by emailing Lauren at orlando@karmakrew.org.
In addition to her passion for yoga, Lauren has received attunement for Second Degree Reiki as well as Intermediate Certification in Herbalism through the Florida School of Herbal Studies.