Founder

Nya is an Atlanta-based social worker, yoga educator (E-RYT 500, YACEP), teacher trainer, facilitator, community builder, and equity, diversity, and belonging (EDB) educator with over 18 years of experience supporting individuals, families, and communities across the social service and wellness sectors.

With over 1,000 hours of yoga education and years of experience teaching, mentoring teachers, and facilitating wellness experiences, Nya brings a unique blend of movement expertise, social work knowledge, and community-centered practice to everything she creates. Her work lives at the intersection of yoga, mindfulness, social justice, and collective care.

Through Soulga, Nya supports yoga teachers, wellness professionals, and organizations through teacher trainings, mentorship, consulting, retreats, and movement experiences. Whether facilitating a yoga class, leading a workshop, guiding a retreat, or consulting with a wellness business, she weaves yogic principles, mindfulness practices, and trauma-aware facilitation into every offering.

Drawing from her background in social work and yoga, Nya creates learning spaces that invite people to explore values, identity, relationships, and systems of power while developing practical tools for personal growth, leadership, and community care.

Nya believes wellness and leadership are not separate from how we show up in relationship with ourselves, others, and our communities. Her approach combines ancient wisdom, embodied practice, and modern social awareness to help people and organizations create more intentional, inclusive, and values-aligned spaces.

Qualifications & Training:

M.A. Social Work - University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada)

B.A. Criminal Justice - Holy Family University (Philadelphia, USA)

30 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training - Sacred Thread Yoga (Atlanta, USA)

85 Hour Pre & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training - Drishti Yoga (California, USA)

300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training - Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre (Toronto, Canada)

50 Hour Meditation Training - Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre (Toronto, Canada)

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Studio Blue Yoga & Fitness, studio no longer in business (Toronto, Canada)

100 Hour Yoga Asana Sequencing Training - Studio Blue Yoga & Fitness, studio no longer in business (Toronto, Canada)

Grief & Yoga Teacher Training - The Grief Practice (California, USA)

Gender Affirming Yoga - The Trans Yoga Teacher, (North Carolina, USA)

Redefining Mobility - Matt Phipphen (California, USA)

Flow School, Sequencing Training - Carrot Bowl Bonnie (USA)

60 Hour Functional Yin, Meridians, Hip Anatomy, Yintelligence (United Kingdom)

30 Hour Yoga Anatomy Course, Doctor Yogi (USA)

NASM Personal Trainer Certification (in-progress)

Lead Collaborator

Tash (she/her) is a half Ilocano, half Bicolano settler on Turtle Island. Specifically treaty 13 territory, the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Missisaugas’s of the Credit First Nation, the Huron-Wendats in what is currently known as “Toronto, Ontario.” She is a yoga philosopher teacher, community builder and creative whose main mediums are: movement + writing. The foundation of her work is indigenization through inner work, meditation and philosophy. She doesn’t want to teach you anything but, instead, remind you who you already are.

Tash seeks to support and amplify the voices who will actually be on the ground doing the work to create the necessary shifts that we all need to move forward. She wants to engage meaningfully with those interested in reclaiming the roots of yoga and the roots of self in a way that feels like we don’t actually have a choice- we have to move this way. She will stand with you as you let go.

She is inspired to hold space with you and help you uncover not just your teaching dharma, but your dharma in this lifetime.

LINEAGE:

225 hour Hatha + Vinyasa with Taryn Diamond, Kim McBean, Ruby Knafo + Erin Wilbur for Union Yoga + Wellness

Ongoing Yoga Philosophy with Hali Schwartz

40 hour Barre with Morgan Cowie for Mosaic Yoga

40 hour accessible + chair yoga with Kassandra Prus for Union Yoga + Wellness

40 hour Restorative + Yoga Nidra with Taryn Diamond for Lost n’ Found Yoga

200-hour “pilates” [studio no longer operational]

Level 1 + 2 Reiki Attunement with Clare Kenty

300-hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School via Canmore Counselling

80-hour advanced sequencing with Hana Lukac