Meet the Team
Naomi Pritchett • (she/her)
Owner / TeacherNaomi first stepped on the mat in 2009 and since then, yoga has become her go-to modality for pain relief, becoming more mindful, and maintaining her sense of balance.
She has over 1,000 hours of teaching experience with a focus on vinyasa yoga, functional movement, and adaptive modifications. As your teacher, she will combine a wide variety of movement practices from her collective training in yoga, weight lifting, mobility, and durability.
All of Naomi's classes incorporate creative sequencing, breathwork, elements of meditation, and descriptive cueing.
Janice Thomas • (she/her)
Janice started her yoga journey when she took her first hot yoga class in 2018. She had just become a new mom and was in search of an outlet that could provide time for self-care and foster a more active lifestyle.
She immediately fell in love with both the challenge of the practice, and the embrace of the community. She became yoga teacher certified in 2021. Janice offers vinyasa-styled classes that are accessible to all levels of experience. She teaches varied sequences that include modifications, advancements, and cues to match breath to movement.
When she is not in the studio, she enjoys spending her free time exploring Durham with her family or curling up with a book and one of her huskies.
Angela Hsu • (she/her)
E-RYT 500, YACEP, Reiki Master
Angela began practicing yoga just as a means to complement her skydiving career. Competing in the discipline of freestyle (which is like dancing and acrobatics in the sky), flexibility and strength helped to create interesting and dynamic movement for competition routines. However, yoga became much more than just an aid to reach her skydiving goals. In addition to the physicality of the practice – the mental and spiritual benefits quickly came to light – and became an integral part of her life.
Completing her first YTT in 2011, she has since accumulated well over 5,000 hours of teaching. She is a featured yogi in the documentary Why We Breathe, a Lululemon Legacy Ambassador, and was also featured in ORIGIN Magazine as part of their “Women who eat impossible for breakfast” series.
Laura Lundeguard • (she / her)
Laura is a yoga teacher, birth doula and has over 1000 hours of teaching experience. Laura first discovered yoga about 15 years ago and practiced on and off until she dove deep into her practice in 2015 following the passing of her twin sister. Her practice allowed her to heal from her grief while giving her the expansion to explore her own capacity. Laura’s teaching is informed by her own experiences of living with chronic pain and illness.
Laura helps to guide each student to find their own path of unfurling and healing, by linking breath to movement to ground into the sensations of their body, while finding space for playful and creative movement. She is honored to share space with each student who takes her classes, and looks forward to walking alongside you.
Julianne Kennedy • (she/her)
Julianne completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through Franklin Street Yoga Center in 2022. She has trained in a variety of techniques for conflict resolution and mediation, and has an interest in studying eastern and western healing practices alike.
She grew up running and spent more than eight years pole dancing. It was her experiences with dance that nurtured a love for movement and sensuality, and a passion towards supporting others in thriving in their bodies. She resonates deeply with how challenging it can be to connect with the body’s needs and wisdom when navigating day-to-day life and understands that it takes great courage to carry your body and mind in a new way.
As an instructor, she hopes to guide fellow students in fostering authenticity in their movement and confidence taking their practice beyond class. Her teaching style is affirming, lighthearted, and educational.
Ae Bügger • (they / them)
Ae is a queer, gender expansive creator & listener, guiding Yoga rooted in play and tender care. They deeply believe in the magic of shared movement as a chrysalis for cultivating bodily integrity and collective well-being. Ae strives to guide Yoga that holds space for giggles, gooey sighs and all that exists in-between. Class will allow room for exploration and wonder, but not for gendered cues or hierarchical postures. Ae discovered Yoga while living and farming in Peru in 2019, and has grown to cherish the expansiveness of Yogic wisdom—specifically as a system of embodied resistance.
Catch Ae around Bull City—likely rocking some tie-dye, soaking in live music, vending at the farmers market, playing with their queer baseball team, or galavanting through town with their grandma in pursuit of the yummiest chocolate chip cookies!
Zoë Palmer • (she/her)
Zoë began her yoga practice over 15 years ago when a friend introduced her to asana. Since then, the study and practice has been continuous, and grown into more than just movement- but a lifestyle of endless learning and practicing all things yoga.
Zoë participated in her first 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2013 where she taught the traditional 26&2 series. She began an Ashtanga practice which became her go-to during the pandemic and where she really fell in love and found a sense of stability in a time of chaos.
Zoë's passion really lies in the practice of Yin. The art of slowing down in a fast-paced world calls to her and she hopes to help others find the beauty of taking practice and life a little slower.
Rachel Neugroschel • (she/her)
Meet Rachel, a curious yogi whose journey began in 2016, when she tried yoga every day for 6 weeks to decide if she really liked it. It stuck! She was smitten with a form of exercise that was not only for her physical body, but had a hunch it could be just as good for her soul (and nervous system). In 2018, she decided to complete her RYT 200 in Rishikesh, India, and started teaching at her home studio in Washington DC. Throughout the challenges of the pandemic, she found solace and strength through yoga, cultivating a self practice on the roof of her DC apartment.
In 2020, she relocated to Durham where she continues in her practice. With a commitment to being trauma-informed and size-inclusive in her teaching, she persistently strives to teach and practice yoga both on and off the mat. In her classes, she aspires for her students to leave feeling strong, empowered, and filled with love and care for themselves and others.
Chris Diaz • (she/her)
As a former gymnast, runner, and swimmer, Chris had always been engaged with athletics but sustained injuries and was looking for something more restorative. When finding yoga, Chris was inspired by the community and integration of the practice through one's life as well as the asana or physical practice. This motivated her to complete a 200 hr training with a focus on power vinyasa style, and to begin teaching and learning about other styles of yoga.
Chris's classes include creative and strengthening flows to empower and challenge yourself on the mat.
Chris lives in Durham with her spouse, Elijah, and dog, Roxie.
Raha Manyara • (she/her)
Raha began her yoga practice 8 years ago. She fell in love with the practice halfway through her first ever hot yoga class. For Raha, the yoga community she met was a very welcome and much needed re-introduction to Durham, NC her new home.
Originally from Kenya, Raha had been living in Durham for over three years at that point. Her new yogi community showed her the love, caring and friendships that Durham has to offer.
Raha participated in her first 200-hr yoga teacher training in the year 2000 through a Black Lives Matter related movement. This training focused on creating spaces for marginalized people and meeting people where they are, therefore making the whole practice of yoga accessible to everyone. She completed her second 200-hr training in 2023. She teaches both Vinyasa styled power and flow classes. Raha’s goal is to lead classes that help the students feel strong and safe in their own bodies.