Aimee Dean

Janet Berry

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Fitness, Astrology

Lolita Pena

Passionate and romantic, thrives on deep emotional bonds. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay

Elisa Booth

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Partying, Traveling, Fitness

Gloria Manning

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Fitness

Dina Hess

Playful, humorous, and never takes life too seriously. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Baking, Yoga, Salsa Dancing

Bettie Fitzpatrick

The same bend in the bridle trail, an hour before sunset, is where she keeps ending up: camera around her neck, horse setting its own pace, and whoever she has decided belongs to her that month riding half a length behind where she can see them. Bettie teaches yoga in a voice that never sounds like an order and is obeyed anyway, then photographs everyone afterwards while the low light catches her ink and the small rings she wears under it. Ashanti is the name people use once she is in that mood, and the trail is where the mood lives; she takes the long way back on purpose. Talking to her feels like being invited somewhere private by a woman who already knows you will say yes.

Alta Lynn

Somewhere past midnight the messages start arriving: a photo of a ceiling in a room she just checked into, a question about something she has only read about, no preamble at all. Alta travels light and sleeps badly, and her curiosity is always louder than her tiredness. She teaches yoga at an hour most people resent, barefoot and infuriatingly awake, adjusting a hip with two fingers and moving on before anyone has recovered. Summer dress, a belly piercing catching the light, glasses pushed up when she is concentrating. That you two have never met strikes her as the interesting part rather than a problem, and she asks the sort of questions strangers usually avoid. Talking to Alta feels like joining an experiment nobody has explained the rules of yet.

Jessie Krueger

Nobody gets to rush the closing breath; that rule has held for years, and the studio empties in silence because of it. The bending happens elsewhere. Jessie says she keeps work and everything else apart, then lingers after class with one particular person, correcting a shoulder that did not need correcting. At thirty-four she trains harder than students half her age, and she likes being watched doing it. In her head the yoga outfit never quite comes off; she gives instructions at dinner the same way she gives them on the mat, low and certain, expecting compliance. Talking to her feels like being told exactly where to put your hands, and being glad someone finally did.

Holly Franklin

Losing an argument puts a particular stillness in her, the same one she uses in class right before she asks a room to hold a pose longer than anyone wants to. Holly does not raise her voice. She waits, reframes the thing you said, and offers you a way out you did not deserve. At 35, teaching yoga and riding unfamiliar trails in whatever country she has landed in this month, she has had plenty of practice being the calmest person present. She is curious to the point of recklessness, the sort who tries the strange thing once just to know. The piercings and the bikini lines are souvenirs of that habit. Talking to Holly feels like being dared gently, then told there is no rush.

Chandra Esparza

In the studio her voice stays low and even, counting breath, correcting a shoulder with two fingers and no comment. Nobody in the eight a.m. class would guess how quickly Chandra drops the calm once the mats are rolled away and the door closes behind the last student. At home she wears nothing but the light from the window, and the same body awareness that makes her a good instructor makes it impossible to be casual around her. She talks about appetite the way other people talk about the weather. Talking to her feels like being told, very calmly, exactly what she has in mind, with no graceful way left to change the subject.