Kate Jenkins, E-RYT 500, founder, lead trainer, Teacher

Kate Herrera Jenkins (Shu-wah-mitz) is an active member of the Pueblo of Cochiti in New Mexico.

She is the founder of Native Strength Revolution.

 Kate attended Loyola University in New Orleans and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Music Therapy.  She moved to New York City in 1998.  There, her career with Music Therapy developed a love to serve kids with special needs and also developed a passion for working with elders.  She continued to serve elders through movement, music and recreation until 2008.  

In 2008, she discovered hot yoga and immediately wanted to share this healing modality with the world.  She attended 9 weeks of yoga teacher training in CA with Bikram Choudhury. She has Also studied Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark and Vinyasa with Ryan Leier and Jimmy Barkan. In 2010, she founded Kiva Hot Yoga in Birmingham, AL and sold it to a new leader in 2021.  In 2014, she became affiliated with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga School and started to certify yoga teachers,  Also in 2014, she and her husband, Kerry, former NFL player, opened Iron Tribe Fitness, a group fitness gym, in downtown New Orleans and sold it it 2021 to leader NSR full-time.  

In 2014, Native Strength Revolution was born.  Over 50 Indigenous leaders are now registered yoga teachers through this program and over 70 Indigenous communities have served through wellness classes

She loves staying active and learning new ways of moving.  In addition to yoga and weight-lifting, Kate loves long-distance running! 

She earned a Ministry Leadership certificate at Highlands College in Birmingham in 2020 and sees every moment as an opportunity in ministry.

Rose not only teaches First Aid & CPR in her Tribal Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Team classes, but she also has taught splinting, suturing

and Emergency Room techniques to medical personnel, while providing Continuing Education Credits for her students. After 16 years of patient care experience, Rose is blessed and excited with this opportunity to continue teaching Anatomy with a yoga nexus.

Rose not only teaches First Aid & CPR in her Tribal Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Team classes, but she also has taught splinting, suturing and Emergency Room techniques to medical personnel, while providing Continuing Education Credits for her students. After 16 years of patient care experience, Rose is blessed and excited with this opportunity to continue teaching Anatomy but with a yoga nexus.

Johanna has leaned into the power of nutrition (healing the gut/body from the inside out), movement, and connection with Mother Earth- through plant medicines, healthy eating, and movement within the body. This passion has led her on a journey, seeking knowledge that she believes can help remind others of their healing path from past traumas. Her hope is that these  powerful tools she's learned can be shared throughout your communities. Enhancing Johanna's sense of connection to spirituality, self-awareness, and the Universe she became certified with Native Strength Revolution; RYT 200 Hr. Training. Incorporating an all over whole-listic approach to healing with nutrition and movement as medicine.

 One of Johanna’s greatest passions is working with people and helping them create a healthy lifestyle that they can thrive through. This has led her on her path to working with those in recovery, facilitating in body~mind practices. Johanna is a graduate of Southwest Institute of Healing arts as a Wellness Practitioner in- Holistic Nutrition, Life Coaching, and Fitness Nutrition Education- (Certified through NASM). Johanna also has a deep-rooted passion for working with youth and has a certification in Vinyasa (Trauma Informed) Yoga for Youth. In addition, Johanna is also certified in Trauma Sensitive Informed Yoga. Her approach to wellness has been to first address her own childhood traumas, start the healing process, and to share through a trauma informed lens, reminding others that our first responsibility is to ourselves. Johanna invites you to be patient with yourself, to honor yourself, respect, love, and show up for yourselves first; to stay in the present moment (while also establishing goals), focus on your breath, and to ignite healing that best serves you.

Dynamic and inspirational, Ryan Leier brings his unique energy to every class he teaches. Whether in his own One Yoga studios or as an ambassador of yoga to communities around the world, his expression of this ancient, yet vital tradition consistently touches people's hearts. Ryan’s commitment to honouring his teachers leads him to be equally devoted to continuing his studies as to teaching.

Ryan is primarily a student of the Krishnamacharya yoga lineage and continues to study with Srivatsa Ramaswami (Vinyasa Krama) and Father Joe Pereira (Iyengar), both by whom he was authorized to teach. Ryan also studies with Baron Baptiste, Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane, Danny Paradise, and BKS Iyengar. 

Drawing profound inspiration from his daughters, Kiyah and Thora Grace, Ryan created Vinyasa Yoga for Youth, an innovative non-profit organisation designed to meet the physical, mental and spiritual needs of youth ages 5 to 22 through the empowering practice of yoga. Ryan’s dedication to connecting with his community has also led to his role as a global ambassador for lululemon athletica.

Ryan believes that through steady practice and devotion, all people – regardless of their age, gender, race or religion, can experience the Oneness of Yoga.

Mother, Wife Grandmother, and  Hot Hatha Yoga Teacher.

A disciple of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and the Siddha Lineage Of Swami Muktananda and Bhagwan Nityananda. Studying Shaiva Tantra Meditation from Kashmir, with Dr. Paul Mueller Ortega, Dr.Douglas Brooks, Swami Durgananda, Swami Shantananda, I also studied Tibetan Buddhist Practices of the Sakya Lineage with Luding Khenchen Rinpoche. I have a 40+ year meditation practice receiving many initiations and transmissions from many great contemporary teachers. Studied History of Yoga with teachers such as Dr. James Malinson Phd authority on Early Yoga, Dr. Ian Baker Phd authority on Tibetan Buddhism thru SOAS University of London. 

I have been studying with Dr. Christopher Wallis Phd a Sanskrit Scholar covering The Recognition Sutras, Vijnana Bhairava, Spanda Karikas, Yoga History, 64 Yoginis Practices, 12 Kalis, and Tantraloka. 

On the Hatha Yoga front, I have studied Iyengar, Anusara, Raja Hot Core Hatha Yoga, Barkan Method Level 2-3 Hot Vinyasa Training, 26/2 Plus Training, Level 1 Baptiste Hot Power Yoga Instructor, 26/2, 84 advanced, Hot Vinyasa, Hot Power Yoga, Sound Healer, Authentic Japanese Reiki Master, Meditation Podcaster, and Yoga Nidra Meditation.

Colleen Buckman (Kalyani) is a Singer/Songwriter, Holistic Health Practitioner, Educator and Writer.
She has over 24 years of experience in the field of holistic health, integrative medicine and education. She helps people take their place in the world through individual sessions, retreats, corporate wellness classes and trainings.

Colleen is a Certified Rebirthing Breathwork Trainer and Practitioner, Certified Sufi Spiritual Healer, Shadiliyaa Sufi Teacher, Certified Massage Therapist, Doula and Healing Touch Practitioner. She has done extensive work as a Hospice Worker and Grief Guide. Colleen has studied at Haidakhan Vishwamahadam and The Kriya Yoga Institute in India. She is a guest teacher at Naropa in Boulder, CO. and Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN.
She has a B.A. in English and Theatre from the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Colleen has also composed, arranged and co-produced two full solo albums (Fertile Ground and Sometimes in the Sun), and collaborated on a third album (Sitara & Kalyani with Pavan Kumar). She has a passion for bringing community together. Colleen is currently touring, teaching, seeing private clients, and writing.

Jacqui Gibson-Clark is a RYT- 400 yoga instructor.  She walked into her first yoga class (Jivamukti) in 2001 and fell in love with yoga.  She has since practiced many styles including Iyengar, Anusara, and Kundalini Yoga.  After practicing yoga in a large body for some time, she was inspired to become a yoga teacher.  In 2016, received her certification at Swan River Yoga in New Orleans.

As a student of yoga, Jacqui spent many years being in classes with great teachers who were not always able to make poses and classes accessible.  As a result, she had to understand what was at the heart of each pose.  She learned how to be in a class, utilize the instruction and attention of the teacher, while staying in conversation with her own body and being creative with props.  She uses her practice to occupy her body while she seeks peace and freedom. It is Jacqui’s goal to witness the liberation of all people in all bodies in this lifetime, starting with her own.

As a teacher of yoga, Jacqui’s primary focus is to create space for all students, but in particular students in large bodies, who are being targeted by fat oppression.  She structures her class around helping her students show up, breathe and move joyfully.  She hopes that her classes help her students regain a sense of agency over their own bodies.

Jacqui is a fat athlete and loves swimming, biking and lifting.

Shawn Galin, Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and the director of UAB’s Office of Standardized Patient Education (OSPE). Galin has led the OSPE, housed within the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation, since 2015. Standardized patients are people trained to perform in clinical training scenarios—portraying history, physical exam findings, and emotional states of real patients—providing students with key experiential learning in a controlled and safe environment.

He is also an experienced yoga practitioner and instructor. He says he was first introduced to yoga in 2006 after a back injury left him searching for an alternative therapy for chronic back pain. He began his yoga journey practicing Ashtanga yoga, which follows a precise sequence of poses and is very physically demanding. Over time, he says he became drawn to vinyasa flow (or power) yoga, which is what he practices and teaches today. Vinyasa flow yoga incorporates many of the same postures as Ashtanga, but the order of the poses changes every time and is, in his classes, set to music.

To deepen his practice and understanding of yoga, Galin completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2012 and is now a registered ERYT-200 with the national Yoga Alliance. “People start a yoga practice for many different reasons, but the number one reason for most is stress relief,” Galin says. “First and foremost, yoga gets us out of our heads and into our bodies. When we shift our focus fromour buzzing, anxiety-laden thoughts, we enter a visceral, physical experience.”