Jen McCarter

Jen was hooked after her first hot yoga class in 2013. Three years later, she completed her 200-hr training at Sanctuary for Yoga, followed by her 300-hr and is still learning and looking for ways to expand her practice. Jen connects to the healing aspects of yoga - the mind, body, & spirit connection that is fostered through practice has been essential in her own healing and is a gift she hopes to share with others. Jen teaches a strong and steady class, typically working toward an advanced pose. You will experience creative transitions, hands-on assists, & usually a laugh in her classes. Jen has many favorite asanas but loves her arm balances the most. Jen’s practice helps ground her and give her the strength to serve her community on both the PTO board and her JDRF involvement (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with her son who is Type 1). She enjoys cooking, oil painting, and jello wrestling (ask her for that story later).

Brooke Allison

Brooke’s stepped into her first hot yoga class on a rainy Seattle day in 2007. She was exclusively a marathoner at that time but found herself haunted by how she felt after that 104-degree Bikram yoga class. She practiced regularly from that day forward and began teaching at that same studio 5 years later, just prior to opening her own studio in Nashville in 2012. Since then, Brooke has built a yoga community in Nashville that is recognized for its diversity, warm welcome, and strong foundation in both the teachers and the students. Brooke teaches a variety of yoga classes, from Bikram to Buti and everything in between. Her classes are typically known to be quite challenging, even when she’s trying to go easy. Through her teaching, she seeks to inspire students to find their inner calm and to connect with the strength and intuition of their true self. She is currently working on building her adventure yoga retreat, the Rising Wolf, in Glacier, Montana.

Roland Landers

Roland has been has been teaching yoga since 2011, and practicing yoga for 18 years. He took his first 200 hour training in Vinyasa Yoga and Yoga Philosophy in 2010. Since then he has completed two additional 200-hour trainings and multiple workshops on a variety of modes of practice including Bikram, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Pranayama, and Restorative Yoga. Additionally, Roland’s practice and teaching are informed by his degree in biochemistry and extensive stay in India studying yoga and Indian culture. Roland approaches his own practice and his classes as a balance of hard work and fun - always working toward the ultimate goal of stilling the fluctuations of the mind.

Sarah Grace, E-RYT 500, E-RYT 200

Sarah has spent 20 years practicing and studying yoga. She began teaching in 2003 and has sought training and education in various yoga styles, including Bikram Yoga (2003), and vinyasa-based Samarya Yoga, completing the Samarya 200hr YTT in 2013. She also practices Ashtanga Yoga at Troy Lucero's Acme Yoga Project in Seattle, where she has taught and apprenticed since 2014. Sarah currently teaches a variety of yoga classes, private students, workshops and teacher training programs, both in Seattle and in cities around the U.S. She is inspired by the natural intelligence, ease, insight and sense of personal and community connection brought forth by a consistent yoga practice and seeks to help cultivate these qualities in students of every age, experience level and ability with her skillful, patient, and thoughtful teaching style.

Laurie Hall

In 2017, Laurie completed the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Sanctuary. She says,“Developing a yoga practice and adopting a yogic lifestyle requires physical, emotional and spiritual commitment.” She has also completed Restorative Yoga Training with Colleen Dwyer of BlossOMing Yoga, and she currently teaches restorative, yin, and vinyasa classes & workshops in Tennessee. She welcomes yogis of all abilities in her classes.. She completed the Anjali Restorative Chakra Balancing course with Shannon Paige, and enjoys doing energy balancing chakra work with her clients. In 2018, she completed Level I Yoga Wall training with Bryan Legere, Level II Yoga Wall training with Mary Anne Metzger in 2019, Trauma-Informed Yoga training with Cortni Saunders in 2019, Yin Yoga training with Bernie Clark and Diana Batts in 2020, and is currently finishing her 300-hour training with Cortni Saunders. She LOVES to learn AND to teach!! She is a wealth of knowledge and an entertaining lady!

Ann Sensing

Ann is a Nashville, TN native who has always had a passion for music and discovering the hidden truths that reside within. Over the course of ten years, her path has taken her from the comfortable yet unfulfilled to a place of authentic joy and freedom based in the heart of service and well-being. Ann is a certified sound practitioner, meditation instructor, and hatha & restorative yoga teacher. She has arrived at teaching as a way to serve others in the same way she was brought to create harmony in her own life. Ann's work incorporates mindfulness, deep relaxation techniques, and somatic-based healing approaches. You can find her currently living in Franklin, TN with her family of humans and animals and teaching all over Nashville.

Celeste Green

As a mind & body therapist, Celeste brings the embodiment of her studies in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, somatic therapy, and art to her students. She has 20 years of personal yoga practice, 12 years of meditation practice, 2,000+ teaching hours, & more than 1,600 hours of yoga training. She is a graduate of the YogaWell Institute in the lineage of T.K.V Desikachar as a certified IAYT yoga therapist.

Celeste teaches in a way that is devotional, skillful, intuitive and compassionate. She believes that the body is much more than the vehicle of the mind. The body holds our life experiences and which we must lovingly include, digest and release as we journey towards freedom & authenticity in our lives.

Wendy Schoeppner

After a divinely inspired experience in 2014, Wendy devoted herself to understanding health and wholeness by way of energy medicine. Through years of deep mediation and prayer, she discovered a new method for addressing healing, growth, and personal development. The Blue Mist Healing Technique is unique to SoulWorks and is not practiced anywhere else in the world. Wendy sees clients in personal sessions, teaches classes/workshops, heads a training program, and is working on several publications, including her first book on Blue Mist Healing, a book of poetry, Healing for David, and a podcast series with Oliver London, Ph.D.

While Wendy is primarily self-taught, she is also a Reiki Master and Oneness Blesser. Wendy holds a B.A. from Indiana University in Sociology with honors. She was a Ph.D. candidate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She withdrew from her academic program and pursued a career in sales and marketing where she was, at the age of 27, appointed Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for a healthcare program in wound care. In 2016, she was a M.A. candidate at Indiana Wesleyan University Seminary for non-profit business management. Today, Wendy enjoys spending time with her husband, four children, three grandchildren, and many pets. Her hobbies include writing, doing house projects, visiting her vacation rental properties in the Gatlinburg area, and travelling anywhere. Every day Wendy enjoys living her soul mission to build the community of SoulWorks and to demonstrate how to activate the power of healing that lives within.