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Our Professional Team

All of the instructors at Johns Creek Yoga are Registered Yoga Teachers with the National Yoga Alliance. Most have additional certifications, and all continue to further their practice and teaching expertise through continual workshops and training.

Sheila Ewers

Sheila Ewers

Founder
Sheila is an ERYT 500 certified teacher who has been practicing and teaching for many years. She is the founder of both Johns Creek Yoga and Duluth Yoga and relishes the opportunity to share the practice that has so powerfully transformed her life with as many people as she can. She completed her 200 hour training at Peachtree Yoga in Sandy Springs, Georgia and her 500hour at Kripalu Yoga Center in Massachusetts. She holds additional certifications in Yin Yoga and Thai Yoga Bodywork.   In addition to daily classes at both studios, Sheila facilitates Yoga Teacher Training and offers retreats and workshops both locally and internationally. As a former Professor of American literature, she loves to explore the intersection between philosophy, poetry, religion, nature and yoga and often brings that synthesis into her classes. . She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to train and learn and will forever consider herself a student of this ancient and beautiful practice.
Constance Gibbs

Constance Gibbs

Merchandise Manager & Yoga Instructor
Constance discovered Johns Creek Yoga several years ago and shortly after began volunteering at the front desk. While working as a Fashion Buyer, she decided to complete the 200 hour Teacher Training. Constance’s role as Retail Manager has given her the opportunity to expand...
Sonya Kuropatwa

Sonya Kuropatwa

Yoga Instructor
Sonya’s gentle guidance and loving touch extends from her fascination with the body as an instrument of spiritual and creative expression. Sonya came to yoga after more than 20 years as a classically trained dancer, teacher, and choreographer as a means to further understand the mysteries of the mind-body connection. She has witnessed and guided her students through the wonders of movement, self-awareness, ...
Amy Haysman

Amy Haysman

Yoga Instructor
Amy began practicing yoga in 1995 and in the first class heard the calling to teach this wisdom to children. She co-founded Grounded Yoga, Laughter, Elevation and continues to teach kids and train adults around the world to do the same. In her yoga classes for grown-ups you will be lead to find your optimal alignment and balance the serious with the playful. You will be encouraged to ...
Sedef Dion

Sedef Dion

Yoga Instructor
Sedef (SukhPrem Kaur) has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and teaching since 1999. She completed her Hatha yoga training at Peachtree Yoga Center and is now a 500 E-RYT. Later, Sedef became a Kundalini Yoga teacher under the guidance of her teacher Mukta Kaur Khalsa studying Yogi Bhajan’s teachings. She is a Yoga Alliance member as well as Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Association (IKYTA). Sedef’s classes reflect her belief ...
Kristin Aziz

Kristin Aziz

Yoga Instructor
Kristin’s first experience with yoga was at a prenatal class in 1996 when she was pregnant with her second child. She soon realized that not only was yoga beneficial in helping her to feel physically better, but it also gave her tools that she was able to use to help manage the challenges of her...
Rose Moro

Rose Moro

Yoga Instructor
Rose believes that she has personally experienced the transformative power of yoga and that it has set her on a fun-filled journey of self-discovery. After 10 years of on and off practice, yoga officially took root in her life in 2013 after she underwent bilateral hip replacement surgeries. While the physical practice helped to rehabilitate...
JuMin Chein

JuMin Chein

My name is Ju-Min Chien. I currently live in Alpharetta with my family and 2 animal children. I am from Taiwan and began practicing yoga in 1998 when modern and westernized yoga had yet to truly permeate the yoga culture on the island. My first teachers were teaching traditional style asanas infused with Chinese medical...
Marnie Memmolo

Marnie Memmolo

Yoga Instructor
In her mid 20’s, Marnie was encouraged by her mother to try yoga as means to deal with health issues, the stress she faced working in corporate sales and simply finding greater life fulfillment. A dancer in her youth and yearning for the joy that movement brought to her life, she found her first yoga class at a dance studio in Cambridge, MA. She left class renewed, joyful and alive. 20 years later, she utilizes the teachings ...
Leisy Julien

Leisy Julien

Yoga Instructor
200 E-RYT, trained and certified by YogaFit, The Leading Company in Mind-Body Fitness Education. Specialized in Vinyasa Flow - a form of Hatha Yoga, but experienced in many other forms of yoga such as Ashtanga, Yin Yoga, Hot Yoga and others. Leisy is also Certified in Usui Reiki, level 1 and level 2 and is currently working towards her 500 RYT ...
Val Had

Val Had

Valerie was introduced to yoga in 2013 after earning certification as a personal trainer. For her, Yoga was a natural supplement to weight lifting that she pursued in order to stay flexible and avoid injury. During the following years she realized that there was even more to yoga and wanted to share it with her...
Jennifer Balzano

Jennifer Balzano

Yoga Instructor
After a cancer diagnosis in 2015, Jennifer dedicated herself to the practice and study of yoga and meditation receiving her initial 200-hour yoga teaching certification and 500RYT certification under the guidance of Sheila Ewers of Johns Creek Yoga. She is honored to teach yoga, creating a safe space to help others deepen their own practice and bring...
Mari Godwin

Mari Godwin

Mari began practicing yoga as a young mother dealing with everyday stresses. It quickly became her passion and transformed her life. Over the years, she has learned that yoga is an integral part of every aspect of her life off the mat. Mari hopes that that passion shows up in every class she teaches. She...
Stephanie Hirschfeld

Stephanie Hirschfeld

Yoga Instructor
Stephanie is an RYT500. She moved to Roswell, GA with her 2 furry kids (1 cat and 1 dog) in May 2016 from her home town of New York City where she studied with some of the top yoga instructors from around the world.  In 2010, she was diagnosed with a connective tissue auto immune...
Ariel Jaillett

Ariel Jaillett

Ariel Jaillett is a registered Yoga Alliance 200-RYT & Grounded Kids certified yoga teacher. She began her journey through the immersive Johns Creek Yoga teacher training and is currently working towards her 500-RYT. She is also studying psychology and world religion for her undergrad at Georgia Gwinnett College. She discovered yoga her first semester in...
Michelle Meyers

Michelle Meyers

Accounts Manager
Michelle is a CPA with a Masters degree in Corporate Accounting. She has been in practice for about 20 years, with a special emphasis on small business accounting for the past 10 years. She is also a fitness enthusiast, having competed in powerlifting and Crossfit. She believes strongly...