CARLETON JAMES

I’ve always been drawn to connection - to people, to movement, and to the emotional threads that run through body, mind, and spirit. Yoga found me after years of sports and structure, at a time when I was looking for something that felt more honest and lasting. My first training was in Hatha Yoga back in 2013 with Becca Hewes in Oklahoma City. Wanting to learn more about the asana practice, I later studied with Awakening Yoga Academy, completing another 200-hour and a 500-hour certification. I’m grateful for their mentorship and the years of training that helped shape my foundation, but just as much, I’m shaped by the people I’ve taught and taught with, the places I’ve moved through, and the lessons that come with simply continuing to show up.

I hold a Master’s in Exercise Science and have been teaching full-time for over a decade - classes, retreats, workshops, and private sessions. Lately, my teaching has opened into new directions, blending breath, movement, and soft instrumental practices in ways that feel alive and grounded. I aim to create space for your own experience. You step in, you move, and what you carry with you is uniquely yours.

SHELBY HEINTZELMAN

I developed a deep love for movement early on as a competitive gymnast throughout my childhood and adolescent years. That time taught me precision and discipline–but also left me craving something softer, something that lived beneath the surface of structure. Yoga arrived as that doorway. A way to move and feel at the same time. To connect breath with body and let movement become my language.

My teaching is influenced by Awakening Yoga and Zenthai Shiatsu – modernist in perspective, intuitive in flow. Each class is an invitation to listen inward–to move with intention, to remember the body’s intelligence, and to connect with the part of you that already knows the way home. It’s a practice of devotion—an ongoing return, again and again, to presence.

For nearly a decade, I’ve shared this practice across studios, online spaces, 1:1 sessions and retreats around the world. More than anything, I hope the practice reminds people of their own depth, that through this connection to self, we fill from within and begin to pour that presence back out into the spaces and relationships we’re part of.