Our Mission as Teachers

Stephanie Adames ~ Founder & E-CYT200

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Stephanie's yoga journey began in 2011 when she was encouraged to attend a class for stress relieve.  She fell in love with the peace & calmness the practice gave her and knew she wanted to share yoga, her newfound love with the world.  After practicing for a couple of years, she enrolled in YTT in 2016 and graduated 200-hr teacher training.  Since graduating, Stephanie began to teach a variety on classes in local studios while exploring her niche and voice.  She realized her passion was seeded in yoga for healing and began to teach trauma-sensitive classes with a focus of self-empowerment.  In 2018 she began to teach SUP Yoga in Crystal River and in 2020 she began to teach Yoga in the Park as donation-base classes.  She is the founder of Soulful Yoga Connections and The Soulful Shala and is currently enrolled in a 500YTT in Tampa, FL.   

She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and has been serving at-risk children and families through counseling for the last 13 years. 

Lynn Mendicino ~ RYT500

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Lynn has worked as a Physical Therapist for 30 years in various healthcare settings in both the US and Norway.  She has had a lifelong interest in health, exercise, and how lifestyle affects the body-mind-spirit.  In 2021 she graduated with her 200-hr yoga teacher training.  The journey was so inspiring and life-changing, she continued to deepen her studies and received her 500-hrs in May 2023.  Lynn draws inspiration form her many master teachers to include Karin Stephan who studied with B.K.S. Iyengar and Larissa Hall Carlson, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda among many other accomplishe

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"The yoga journey is a most wonderfully inspiring journey.  It has profoundly changed my life.  That ever elusive contentment that I have been chasing after my entire life is paradoxically already in me (us).  Yoga for me, is the key that unlocked the door to inner peace" 

Bettina Fegan ~ E-CYT200 

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Bettina fell in love with yoga after taking her first class in 2013.  To deepen her own practice, she took her first 200-hr teacher training in 2014 which was a deep dive into anatomy and physiology.  Then in 2017, she completed her second teacher training where she began to understand the deeper meaning of yoga.  This gave Bettina a 400-hrs of YTT.  At that moment, she knew she wanted to share the beautiful & empowering practice with others.  

As a teacher, Bettina is dedicated to sharing the light and joy of the practice.  With every class she strives to create a space of positivity and empowerment allowing students to embrace their true potential.  

"Discovering yoga was a beautiful introduction to an authentic practice on an illuminated path that moves with me through life's changes and obstacles, and somehow places me back to the seat in which I began."