Meet Our Yoga Alliance Trainers

Jen McCarter, E-RYT 500, E-RYT 200, RPYT, YACEP

Jen was hooked after her first hot yoga class in 2013. Three years later, she completed her 200-hr training at Sanctuary for Yoga, followed by her 300-hr and is still learning and looking for ways to expand her practice. Jen connects to the healing aspects of yoga - the mind, body, & spirit connection that is fostered through practice has been essential in her own healing and is a gift she hopes to share with others. Jen teaches a strong and steady class, typically working toward an advanced pose. You will experience creative transitions, hands-on assists, & usually a laugh in her classes. Jen has many favorite asanas but loves her arm balances the most. Jen’s practice helps ground her and give her the strength to serve her community and her JDRF involvement (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with her son who is Type 1). She enjoys cooking, oil painting, and jello wrestling (ask her for that story later).

Brooke Allison, E-RYT 500, E-RYT 200

Brooke’s stepped into her first hot yoga class on a rainy Seattle day in 2007. She was exclusively a marathoner at that time but found herself haunted by how she felt after that 104-degree Bikram yoga class. She practiced regularly from that day forward and began teaching at that same studio 5 years later, just prior to opening her own studio in Nashville in 2012. Since then, Brooke has built a yoga community in Nashville that is recognized for its diversity, warm welcome, and strong foundation in both the teachers and the students. Brooke teaches a variety of yoga classes, from Bikram to Buti and everything in between. Her classes are typically known to be quite challenging, even when she’s trying to go easy. Through her teaching, she seeks to inspire students to find their inner calm and to connect with the strength and intuition of their true self. She is currently working on building her adventure yoga retreat, the Rising Wolf, in Glacier, Montana.

Chase Bossart, E-RYT 500, E-RYT-200

Chase first met TKV Desikachar while studying abroad in Chennai, India in 1991. He studied as a personal student of Mr. Desikachar’s for over 20 years, learning the principles and practical tools of this ancient lineage. Since 2005, he has been making the breadth and depth of these teachings available to students.

Sarah Grace, E-RYT 500, E-RYT 200

Sarah has spent 20 years practicing and studying yoga. She began teaching in 2003 and has sought training and education in various yoga styles, including Bikram Yoga (2003), and vinyasa-based Samarya Yoga, completing the Samarya 200hr YTT in 2013. She also practices Ashtanga Yoga at Troy Lucero's Acme Yoga Project in Seattle, where she has taught and apprenticed since 2014. Sarah currently teaches a variety of yoga classes, private students, workshops and teacher training programs, both in Seattle and in cities around the U.S. She is inspired by the natural intelligence, ease, insight and sense of personal and community connection brought forth by a consistent yoga practice and seeks to help cultivate these qualities in students of every age, experience level and ability with her skillful, patient, and thoughtful teaching style.

Laurie Hall, RYT 500, OTR/L

In 2017, Laurie completed the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Sanctuary. She says,“Developing a yoga practice and adopting a yogic lifestyle requires physical, emotional and spiritual commitment.” She has also completed Restorative Yoga Training with Colleen Dwyer of BlossOMing Yoga, and she currently teaches restorative, yin, and vinyasa classes & workshops in Tennessee. She welcomes yogis of all abilities in her classes.. She completed the Anjali Restorative Chakra Balancing course with Shannon Paige, and enjoys doing energy balancing chakra work with her clients. In 2018, she completed Level I Yoga Wall training with Bryan Legere, Level II Yoga Wall training with Mary Anne Metzger in 2019, Trauma-Informed Yoga training with Cortni Saunders in 2019, Yin Yoga training with Bernie Clark and Diana Batts in 2020, and is currently finishing her 300-hour training with Cortni Saunders. She LOVES to learn AND to teach!! She is a wealth of knowledge and an entertaining lady!

Alana Neptune, RYT500, E-RYT 200

Alana is a dedicated, 10-year Ashtanga practitioner and has studied under Sharath Jois, David Swenson, Kino Macgregor, and others. Alana studied in Rishikesh, India to become RYT 500-certified, and she is a Registered Children's Yoga Teacher and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. She has expanded her Kids Yoga by completing trainings in Social-Emotional Learning, Child Development, and Mindfulness for Kids. She completed her Master’s of Science in Elementary Education in 2020 and taught Kids Yoga full-time for 2 years in the Metro Nashville Public Schools and developed the yoga and social-emotional learning curriculum for Nashville. 

Celeste Green, E-RYT 500, IAYT, YACEP & Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor

As a mind & body therapist, Celeste brings the embodiment of her studies in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, somatic therapy, and art to her students. She has 20 years of personal yoga practice, 12 years of meditation practice, 2,000+ teaching hours, & more than 1,600 hours of yoga training. She is a graduate of the YogaWell Institute in the lineage of T.K.V Desikachar as a certified IAYT yoga therapist.

Celeste teaches in a way that is devotional, skillful, intuitive and compassionate. She believes that the body is much more than the vehicle of the mind. The body holds our life experiences and which we must lovingly include, digest and release as we journey towards freedom & authenticity in our lives.