Steph Jo Aud

Steph Jo Aud

Steph Jo started her yoga journey just after turning 30 years old with a beginner style at-home practice. After finding a simple app to use from the comfort of her own home, she became wildly obsessed with practicing and learning about yoga, and started practicing every single day! After a couple of years of a mostly at home self practice, she started looking for in-person classes at some local studios and met some amazingly talented teachers. That’s when she absolutely knew that teaching yoga was her calling in life!!

Steph Jo completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Yoga on High in Columbus, OH in December 2018. She is Reiki Level 1 attuned, and is a trained and certified Sekoia teacher as of spring 2021. Steph Jo has been teaching her vinyasa style classes regularly since completing her 200 hour program, and hopes to continue her education with a 300 hour program in the near future. Teaching yoga has become her favorite thing to do over these last few years and feels extremely grateful to be able to share her love of yoga with so many others.

Steph Jo loves to offer a sense of playfulness and less seriousness in all of her classes, which makes each class unique in its own special way! With carefully curated playlists to move and groove to, her vinyasa classes will help you let go of all the other things that may get in the way of connecting with the mind, body, and soul, allowing for free flowing, mindful movements, all while having a little bit of fun on the mat!! With a “No Expectations, No Judgments” kind of vibe, Steph Jo’s classes will help you gain strength and the courage take that same on-the-mat mindful disposition off the mat and out into your everyday life.

Stella Cornett

Stella Cornett

Stella started practicing yoga after a doctor’s visit. She was grinding her teeth at night and thought she would need a mouth guard. The doctor said to do three things instead: stop drinking coffee, stop chewing gum, and do an activity that relieves stress. She ignored the first two and took a free yoga class. 

Stella decided to take yoga teacher training because it felt good in her body and helped relieve stress. Little did she know how much it would turn her life upside down in wonderful and complicated ways. Best of all, she found her voice, built confidence in herself, and continues to laugh at her own bullshit.  

She completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training (Yoga on High, Columbus, OH, 2009 & 2015), Levels 1 & 2 Thai yoga massage practitioner trainings (Reden Yoga, 2018), and the Untamed Wisdom Meditation Teacher Training (Yoga on High, 2020). Her mission is to inspire curiosity, creativity, and intuition through yoga and to help people feel relaxed and at ease in their bodies through Thai Yoga Massage. It brings her joy to help others feel relief and maintain a healthy body and sense of well-being. 

Her other passions include: aerial circus arts; dancing; reading horror and fantasy fiction, and loving on her dog and cat. 

Emily Dicken

Emily Dicken

Emily, the bespectacled, day-dreamy historian turned yoga instructor loves to bring nature and context into the classroom. What does this pose have to do with life? Why was this pose invented? Why are we doing this?? Questioning, always questioning, and she invites her students to do the same.

Emily has a background in music, theater, teaching, writing, camping, and hiking. She graduated from Wright State University and Yoga on High and is a life-long resident of Central Ohio. Emily can be found in yoga studios, libraries, parks, and local eateries all around Columbus!

Brooke Doaks

Brooke Doaks

Brooke Doaks is a RYT- 500hr  mindfulness/yoga instructor and scholar. A proud graduate of the 200hr Yoga on High and 300hr EMBER + Radiant teacher training programs; Brooke specializes in mindfulness and trauma-informed yoga. Her devotion to curiosity and play is at the heart of her practice.

Currently, Brooke is finishing up a Master’s degree at Napora University, a M.A. in yoga studies, and is also enrolled in the Buddhist mindfulness instructor training program (MIT) at the same university. She’s a selected instructor in the 2024 (cohort) of the Mindfulness Mentorship program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. When Brooke’s not indulging her love of well-being and liberation, you can find her drinking tea and/or enjoying the presence of her niece and nephew. 

Abby Dorn

Abby Dorn

Abby Dorn has been teaching yoga fulltime for the past 14 years. She received her 500-hour certification from BeYoga/Ishta Yoga with Alan Finger in New York City in 2002. In 2003, she completed a prenatal yoga training with Carrie Parker Gastelu, and in 2004 she became certified to teach Itsy Bitsy Yoga TM for babies and toddlers. Over the years, she has been influenced by many teachers including Mark Whitwell, Alan Finger, Leslie Kaminoff, Erich Schiffman, Ana Forrest, Lois Nesbitt, and Krishna Das. She is eternally grateful to all of her teachers (especially her children and her yoga students!) who share their yoga and help to guide her on the journey. Abby believes there is a yoga practice for everyone, and she specializes in adapting the practice to the needs of the student(s). She loves working with all ages, levels of experience and physical abilities, and regularly teaches prenatal, yoga for babies, toddlers and kids, beginners, yoga for cancer, chair yoga, and slow flow. Abby’s slow flow class is a blend of hatha and vinyasa yoga and is inspired by the needs of each unique class. She simultaneously nurtures and challenges her students with a steady, mindful, breath led practice that incorporates detailed alignment instruction, flowing sequences and many options for personal adaptation. Abby sees yoga as a practice of active gratitude for the life we are given; as full body, mind, spirit participation in the movement of the life force through us; and ultimately as an experience of the divinity within ourselves. Abby also leads kirtans with Holly Moretti as the Bhakti Mamas, and sings professionally around central Ohio.

Jen Hegerty

Jen Hegerty

Jen Hegerty has a love for teaching! With over 30 years in the field of education, she is a Worthington Schools elementary school counselor with a BS from The Ohio State University and M Ed from the University of Dayton.

She trained as a 200 hour Integrative Yoga Therapist with Center for Wholeness, studied 180 hours in Advanced Meditation from Waves of Wisdom, Mindfulness Studies from Mindful Life Schools, and Paddleboard Yoga from Jenn Bodnar, yoga trainer and owner of Yoga Digest. In 2022, Jen became Reiki Master through the Karma Yoga Foundation. She is obtaining her 300 Hour Teacher Training through EMBER and Radiant Yoga during 2022-2023. Jen believes that mindfulness and breath are the keys to opening oneself to possibilities of yoga.

Alissa Jackson

Alissa Jackson

Alissa’s teaching approach to yoga is one that supports looking within oneself with the goal of increasing overall wellbeing on and off the mat. With her soft presence, Alissa leads a mindful and nurturing practice that explores specific themes while inviting her students to realize their own strengths within in a safe supported environment. Alissa has practiced yoga off and on in addition to other physical activities for the last decade to find balance in her life. She turned to yoga in 2010 with a new and committed focus to heal and rediscover herself. Her curiosity to look deeper within herself and passion led her to the 200-hour teacher-training program at Yoga on High in 2014. She then went on to complete the Sekoia Teacher training in 2015, iRest Level One and the Reiki Master Program in 2016. Her practice includes a variety of yoga styles with a focus on mindful movement connected with breath. Alissa adores music, loves adventures and is a fan of trying new things- whether is it tasting new foods, travelling, cycling, or new types of yoga such as Aerial or Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga. She is always up for a new experience. With a background in medical social work, Alissa enjoys working with diverse groups of people and in unique settings. She has experience teaching private individuals, hospital employees, in local parks and at schools. She is committed to sharing the benefits of yoga within the community.

Shoma Jha

Shoma Jha

Shoma Jha was introduced to yoga after embarking upon motherhood and has never looked back. She earned her 200-hour teacher training from Yoga on High, Columbus, OH. Additionally, Shoma is certified with mini yogis® to teach yoga to children. She decided to dive in full-time to spread the practice of yoga, leaving behind a career in environmental engineering and sciences. The practice of yoga never ceases to bring Shoma inner strength, clarity, and peace. She has taught yoga to many populations. These include young children, special needs middle school children, high school athletes, senior citizens, as well as physically active adults. Her experience includes teaching in schools, yoga studios, fitness centers and also in corporate settings. Shoma believes that everyone everywhere at every age can enjoy the gifts of yoga. It is her vision to share this wondrous practice to all.

Laura Lampe

Laura Lampe

Laura Lampe discovered yoga relatively late in life, and quickly fell in love with how it teaches us to find the middle ground between effort and ease — both on the mat and in life. To her, it’s a beautiful “dance” that fuses physicality, mindfulness, breath and meditation to create a transformational experience in both body and mind. Laura received her 200-hour teaching certification in 2015 through Josie Schweitzer of Thank Yoga in Columbus, Ohio. She encourages others to celebrate their body for what it can do — and to have fun discovering new ways to move through life with grace and ease. When she’s not on her mat she’s a website copywriter and holds a degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.

Brittny Manos

Brittny Manos

Brittny is a RYT 200 yoga instructor and is also a 100-hour Trauma Sensitive EMBER™ certified. Brittny earned her BA in Psychology at The Ohio State University in 2012. She began working at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio shortly after. Her dedication to health and wellness is specific to supporting adolescents and young adults, more specifically vulnerable youth served by Adolescent Medicine and the HIV FACES program.

Brittny’s work springs from a place of empathy and introspection. Yoga has been an essential part of her life since she was sixteen; the practice and the community allowed for an acceptance that was completely foreign to her up to that point. Through the experience of laying her life on her mat over the years, a place she could break down and rebuild, she discovered part of her purpose was to share that experience with others. She has the mentality of forever being a student. Off her mat, she enjoys camping adventures and paddle boarding with her pup!

Marcia Miller

Marcia Miller

I have been practicing meditation for 45 years, starting with Transcendental Meditation™ when I was in college. The day I first learned to meditate was also the day Jane Fonda hosted a huge anti-war rally at my college, and it seems that meditation and full out living have been co-mingling ever since. I have meditated through the many joys and tragedies of my life and have come to think of myself as a “radical welcomer.” Everything is welcome in my meditation—breath, thoughts, all emotions, body sensations (especially body sensations), and anything else that shows up. All are messengers to the Great Mystery of Life. I believe that my mission as a meditation coach and teacher is to support everyone to be more compassionate and welcoming to themselves, and from there to all beings. We each have natural pathways to the vastness of Awareness and I want to help people to find their portals to Aliveness and Wholeness. As a lifelong yoga teacher and founder of Yoga on High I have had many opportunities to teach meditation to all types of people and am so happy that meditation is now so popular.

Teachers who have been especially useful to my meditation practice and teaching include: Lorin Roche (author of The Radiant Sutras) and his wife Camille Maurine (also author of Meditation Secrets for Women); Anne Douglas and Stephanie Lopez from the iRest™ tradition; Daniel Odier, Stephen Levine, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Will Johnson; and authors Sharon Salzberg, Pema Chodron, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, along with the poet Mary Oliver, who keeps inspiring me to pay attention to everything, each day, with amazement.

Linda Oshins

Linda Oshins

Linda Oshins, E-RYT 500, has been practicing yoga since 1988 and has studied with teachers from a range of lineages in order to focus on both precise alignment and the energetic expression of asanas. She has extensive experience in curriculum development and as a business woman, applying yoga practices in a modern business environment. In addition to classes for the general public, Linda has taught many specialized classes to groups of students with a common interest or problem—people with cancer, mood disorders, respiratory problems, back pain and so forth—but her main emphasis is the development in each student of finely-tuned internal sensory conversations based on curiosity and intuitive self-listening. That is the ground upon which all students develop their own vocabulary of movement and sense of self, no matter their motivation for taking class.

Her main focus now is on pranayama and meditation including iRest Yoga Nidra, a form of meditation taught by Richard Miller. To that end she teaches a twice a week early morning pranayama/meditation class. She also teaches workshops for teachers on introducing breath awareness practices to beginners and pranayama techniques to students who are ready for them.

Linda is a Reiki Master who practices Reiki as an offering to those in need and as a spiritual practice. She values Reiki practice as a chance to experience energy flow directly; it is the utmost invitation to set aside her judgmental mind and watch a process develop, a form of witnessing on behalf of another.

Linda is also cheered and inspired by any growing green thing. She loves a garden or a walk under an open sky, rain or shine. She feeds her backyard birds and knows some of them personally, especially the Carolina wren who scolds her every day. She reads avidly, writes for her own amusement, cooks gratefully and knits presents for her friends. Finally, her favorite name is “Nana,” granted her by her two grandchildren.

Aimee Pruitt

Aimee Pruitt

Aimee came to yoga and meditation later in life after dealing with severe burnout and stress while working in the Emergency Department as an RN. She found deep healing from the practices and shares those practices with her students through Hatha Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda. She has studied with Yoga on High, The California College of Ayurveda and True North Restorative in California. Her Mantra is "Today, I choose life!"

Marcy Rodgers

Marcy Rodgers

Marcy is a lifelong learner and a career educator who has found her home in the yoga studio where she sees abundant opportunities for curiosity and exploration. Having been a dancer, choreographer, and group exercise teacher, Marcy discovered that yoga is unique in its capacity to support the entire being. Marcy firmly believes that yoga can benefit everyone. She teaches alignment-based classes that are clear and approachable for all students while maintaining a warm atmosphere and leaving space for student self-exploration. She emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and self-love on the mat and in life and encourages people to let their highly driven, competitive selves take a break. Some of her favorite moments are when participants share that they have found a new sense of relaxation and calm in their overworked and overstressed lives. Marcy has a B.A. in Spanish and Education and an M.A. in Bilingual and Multicultural Education and ESOL. Marcy is a registered 500-hour Yoga teacher and UZIT (formerly known as Urban Zen Integrative Therapist). She is also a Reiki practitioner and is certified in Thai Yoga Massage.

Michele Vinbury

Michele vinbury

Michele is a heart-centered, creative and playful teacher who builds connections and community with her students through knowledge of the practices and a lighthearted sense of humor. Central to her teaching is her ability to meet each student right where they are and to teach from an embodied place that is neither wanting to fix or change them.

Michele is most at home when surrounded by rocks, moss and tree friends. In the woods, as on the yoga mat, it just feels easier to breathe. If you’ve taken classes with her, you’ve probably received homework to talk to trees, sing to the stars, lie belly down on the earth, meditate with the sky.

More than one person has called Michele a starburst. People have described her as electric, as “beautiful, hilarious, magic” (and at times, she’s been described as a pain in the #$$ too!)

It is true that sometimes she takes things too seriously. Mostly though, she is playful and light hearted. Michele likes to laugh. A lot. And she does laugh - a lot. Other people who like to laugh find themselves laughing with her - a lot. Which makes her heart happy.

It is her deepest heart’s calling and most sincere life goal to love. (A lot.) And to let herself be loved (a lot) too.