ABOUT
Welcome to Heart & Soul
Yoga · Wellness · Community
My passion is yoga and I want to share that passion with you! Open your heart and feel your soul's vibration to find out what's inside you.
Yoga is defined as the union of body, mind, and spirit through physical poses (asana), breathwork (pranayama), and meditation. Yoga provides amazing benefits as you learn to connect with yourself through love, inner strength, and community. As you allow the mind to relax, you become more present and aware of your body and breath.
Yoga helps ease anxiety and stress. During this pandemic, we all need a sense of community more than ever. Join us at Heart & Soul - feel the love, feed the soul, stress a little less, and start your inner journey today!
Namaste,
Melissa
Teachers
Melissa Bandock
RYT-200, Certified in Yoga for Parkinson's and Trauma Sensitive Yoga
When a friend asked Melissa to go on a yoga retreat to Costa Rica in 2011, she had never practiced before, but was intrigued with the journey and decided to go. What a life changer!!! Practicing in the rain forest next to toucans, hummingbirds, and hearing hollering monkeys was a life-changing experience. [More]
Denise Lewis
RYT-200, Certified in Kundalini, Yin & Restorative Yoga
Denise is an artist, art educator and certified 220 hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher. She discovered yoga way back in the early 1980’s learning mostly on her own through books. Her practice ebbed and flowed over the years, but after a traumatic period in life; it was yoga (and art) that helped her heal. She became a stronger, more spiritually grounded and peaceful person through her practice. She completed her 200 hour teacher training at Live In Joy in 2019 and followed that with Kundalini training at The Khalsa Center in Yardley PA. She is also certified in Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga. Her classes offer the opportunity to find peace, connect with your true Self and to be a healthy and happy you. Denise loves Yin Yoga, hiking, making art and poking around in junk shops. [More]
Jess Karpiak
RYT-200 & 500, 300 Ayurveda certification
Jess Karpiak has been teaching yoga since 2013. Her classes are inspired by a variety of yoga styles. With and emphasis on alignment and safety, she tries to bring the best elements of everything she has learned to her teaching. Besides yoga, Jess is also an Ayurvedic wellness coach and loves to share Ayurveda’s relevance to yoga in her classes. She’s also a mom to 2 teenage boys, business owner, and gardener. She received her 500-hour yoga certification in 2016 from Yogawood, and completed a 300-hour Ayurveda certification in 2020 with the Bhakti Center in NYC. Jess feels blessed to be moving into middle age with the wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda to support her journey.