Our Team

Evelyn Van Antwerp

Director/Owner

M. Ed., E-RYT 500, YACEP

Evelyn has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 25 years. For her, yoga has become an avenue for self-knowledge, self-love, awareness and physical well-being.

With over 20 years teaching students and adults, becoming a certified yoga instructor was the perfect choice. She received her 200-hour and 500-hour Yoga Alliance Certification through Namah Shivaya Yoga with Tej Monga, took another 300 hour Kriya Yoga training with Sattva Yoga in India. She has study with Judith Lasater and Leslie Kaminoff. She has also completed 700 hours in Ayurvedic Counseling. Evelyn was mentored by Tej Monga for several years until she took over Namah Shivaya Yoga in Dallas, Tx. when he returned to India.

Since yoga is very much a personal experience and one based on levels of ability, her endeavor is to teach to the needs of individual students by modifying poses. Her classes are designed for both newcomers and seasoned practitioners. Each class focuses on proper alignment and breathing techniques, with an emphasis on core body strength. Her goal as an instructor is for all of her students to experience the full benefits of yoga.

501.545.3445

info@jyotiya.com

Satya Waters

Lead Teacher - Kirtan

E-RYT 1000

Melissa Waters (Satya), E-RYT 1000 not only loves yoga, but lives yoga. In 2002, she fell in love with health, peace and supreme flow in the form of Ashtanga yoga and never looked back. She got her certifications under Tej Monga at Namah Shivaya Yoga in 2010-11, which included a pilgrimage to India. Satya learned and synthesized from many other masters along the way although, currently, daily life is her primary teacher and task-master J

Drawing on her natural love for people and the consciousness that flows through us all, she works somatically to bring awareness to the unconscious so we can authentically live as all of who we are – integrated with and guided by our Highest Self. The postures, yogic philosophy, breath, meditation, mudra, mantra and Nature are woven together to ignite a lasting transformation from within. Satya now shares this passion with women in the form of a powerful and relaxing personal retreat in the countryside of rural Arkansas that is curated just for you, as you are in the moment.

She delights in elevating the frequencies to Joy through ecstatic dance, kirtan, facilitating women’s circles, drum circles and …simply Being.