About Us

Jodi Epstein

As a yoga, mindfulness, and movement teacher for more than a decade, Jodi is passionate about the body-mind-breath connection and how yoga and meditation practices can have a positive impact on health, posture, and mental well-being. Her classes include creative sequencing with a focus on finding a sense of ease in the midst of movement, and her private sessions and mentorship offerings are personalized with functional stretches and strengthening that help her students to find a yoga practice that fits their bodies.

 Jodi attributes her earlier training in the Linklater and Alexander techniques as her introduction to the connection between body and mind and credits these teachings with the ability to guide large classes and workshops. She received her 200 hour certification from Sonic Yoga and her Mat Pilates certification from the Kelly Kaine Kinected School of Pilates. Jodi has also completed meditation trainings with Ishta Yoga and Tara Brach, Yoga Nidra workshops with Rod Stryker, A Pelvic Health Mentorship, and Prenatal Yoga with Juliana Mitchell, and is an interdisciplinary pelvic health specialist trained by PT Isa Herrera.  Jodi has served on the faculty of the Living Now Yoga 300 Hour teacher training, co-leads sold-out seasonal workshops with Mindful Wilderness, and hosts core training and yoga for Pelvic Health Workshops throughout the year.

For in-person classes, you can find her at Yoga Agora.

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Rikki Gunton

Rikki has been practicing yoga since 2004 and completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2009. She has been studying Buddhism and practicing meditation since 2012 and is certified to teach mindfulness meditation by Tibet House/Dharma Moon.

In her classes you’ll find traditional yoga poses supported by deliberate strength and mobility exercises, and an emphasis on mindfulness and exploration. Her style of teaching prioritizes creating space for students to feel embodied in their own experience.

Rikki is passionate about continuing education. She studied yoga alignment with Sam Chase, anatomy with Tiffany Cruikshank, physiology with Drew Hume, teaching privately with Francesca Cervero, the Yoga Detour Method with Cecily Milne, Pranayama with Arundhati Baitmangalkar, and meditation and Buddhist studies with Josh Korda, Chris Crotty, and Ethan Nichtern.

Her investigation of mind, heart, and body are ongoing and she loves sharing these tools with others.

Check out YogaCity NYC’s review of her class here.