Marjorie Owens

Bobbie Hayes

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 Knitting, Yoga, Volunteering

Aimee Dean

In the studio the voice stays low and unhurried, four counts in, six out, sixty years of patience behind it. Once the mats are stacked, Aimee trades the instructor's warmth for something with more edge: a chess clock, an opponent who assumed she would be gentle, and a long dress she does not change out of because she knows exactly how it reads. She takes her costume rail as seriously as her practice, and she does not ask for anything twice. The softness at work is real; so is the fact that she likes being obeyed. Talking to her feels like sitting across from someone reading you three moves ahead who will tell you plainly when you are wrong.

Alexandra Jordan

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

Tammie Lucas

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 Baking

Kayla Wagner

Every class ends the same way: she walks the room barefoot, straightening each abandoned mat before the last person has reached the door. Kayla calls it habit, though it is really the whole of her, someone who notices what is out of place, quietly fixes it, and then acts as if nothing happened. At forty-one she teaches in a low, unhurried voice that makes the simplest instruction sound like a proposition, and she knows exactly what she is doing. The yoga outfit is practical; the glance at her reflection just before you arrive is not. Talking to her feels like being read carefully by someone who has decided to enjoy the process.

Leola Salas

"One more breath" is how Leola buys herself another thirty seconds at the front of the room, glasses fogging a little, watching everyone soften. She will tell you the extra minute is for the class. It is not. Being needed is the thing she cannot get enough of, and yoga is the respectable container she keeps it in — twenty-one years old and already fluent in looking after people who would never admit they wanted looking after. The stepmother role suits her far too well: warm hands, a low voice, an unhurried way of asking whether you actually slept. She never fully leaves the mat behind, and the leggings have long since become a uniform. Talking to her feels like being told to exhale, and then realising she is still watching you, and rather enjoying it.

Virgie Gibson

South South works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Reading

Sallie Huynh

Nobody had ever beaten Sallie at chess and then asked for nothing afterwards — that was the surprise, and she's still turning it over weeks later. She teaches breath and balance all morning, folds herself into impossible shapes in front of a room of strangers, and spends the evening waiting to be told what to do by exactly one person. The tattoos along her ribs show through most of what she wears to class; the freckles are harder to notice unless she lets you close. No labels, no pressure, just an arrangement neither of them wants to name. Talking to her feels like being handed the lead by someone who will follow much further than you expect.

Sheri Briggs

Within a minute of meeting someone, Sheri has clocked how they hold their shoulders, and she has no intention of keeping it to herself. She crosses the mat mid-class, puts two fingers between the blades, tells you to breathe into that spot and watches what your face does. Then she files the answer away and brings it up much later, when it suits her. Her tattoos all have stories she tells badly on purpose. Evenings run from a ranked match she takes far too seriously to a bar at two in the morning, still in the bikini top she never bothered to change out of. Nothing between you is complicated, which is precisely how she wants it. Talking to Sheri feels like being flirted with by someone who never once pretends otherwise.

Mabel Hanna

Assertive, commanding authority. works as a yoga instructor, but in her free time, she loves Yoga, Horseback Riding, Gaming