Paige Keisler Collins is the owner and founder of Mind Body Knox.  She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider.  She has certification in trauma-informed yoga, prenatal yoga, and aerial yoga.   Paige received extensive training on the science of integrated health in graduate school and has been practicing meditation, breathwork, and yoga herself, as well as incorporating these practices into her work with individual clients for many years.  She pursued yoga teacher training as a means to provide well-rounded group services focusing on a mind-body modality to help improve the emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing of all members of our community.  Paige has been teaching yoga since 2017 in community settings, residential treatment facilities, and over livestream.  She currently offers aerial yoga, kids' classes, and donation based classes.

Rachel has been a dedicated student of yoga since 2019, including practicing in Ashtanga, Hatha, Power, Sivananda, and Vinyasa styles. In summer 2022, she completed her teaching certification at the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in the Catskill mountains. Rachel has also completed Breathwork Teacher Training Certification through Loka Yoga School, an accredited program with the Yoga Alliance. She values yoga’s unique ability to enrich physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of life in interconnected ways, and found these benefits especially meaningful in navigating challenges brought by the pandemic. She is also an enthusiastic writer, educator, musician, reader, dog lover, and student of the Sanskrit language and classical yogic texts

Alex Iman is a passionate yoga teacher who discovered yoga while earning a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, Spanish, and Government from Wofford College. After several months of training, he became a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. During the day, Alex works as a Cultural Analyst at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he enjoys offering classes for his colleagues. He strongly believes that yoga is a powerful tool for maintaining one’s mental and physical wellbeing. His approach to yoga is centered around helping his students to recognize and regulate their emotions through their personal practice. He spends a lot of his time teaching to individuals working in high-stress environments and to those who are new to yoga. Alex strongly believes that each class he teaches contributes to building a healthier and more empathetic world.

Theresa is a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor. She has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and then received her certification through Yoga Farm Ithaca in 2020. She started teaching on her own with the goal in mind to create a comfortable, safe space for anyone to practice yoga and meditation. She has been teaching private classes in client’s homes, over zoom, and holds group classes in a local park.  Theresa started doing yoga for the physical benefits of strength and balance that yoga provides all while being gentle on the body. Later in life when faced with the tough challenges that life can throw at you, she found meditation and yoga to be excellent tools. Theresa started teaching so that she can share how yoga and meditation can calm the storm of thoughts and emotions to create peace within you.

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After many years of toying with the idea of practicing yoga, Audra found yin yoga in December of 2019. From her first class she found Yin to be an excellent way to release the stresses from her job and life. That class acted as her "Gateway Yoga" opening her up to everything that this incredible practice has to offer. After a year of consistent practice she started pursuing her yoga teacher certification through Renegade Yoga Center's first teacher training program. The entire experience proved to be quite transformative and created a pathway for her to share the same peace she experiences through yoga with others.

Amanda recently came to Knoxville from Harlan, Kentucky.  She is a 200-RYT through Asheville Yoga Center. Amanda owned and operated Harlan Yoga Studio for 8 years.  Amanda  truly believes yoga is for everyone and can be especially helpful to people who want to be active but are experiencing the impact of past or current injuries. Her own yoga practice began as the result of an injury. She was searching for a gentle form of exercise that could both stretch and strengthen her body.  She specializes in alignment based yoga to bring a practice safe for all bodies. She gives personalized attention during class to ensure comfort and challenge when desired.  Her favorite part of yoga is the sense of community felt in a class setting. Amanda's upbeat style of teaching takes you deeper into postures, while cultivating a practice unique to your body. She loves teaching flow style yoga, but she also teaches Yin, Power, Restorative, Kids Yoga and Chair Yoga. You can find Amanda's other classes on Facebook at Yoga with Amanda Wolfe.

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