Meet Our Teachers
Maggie Leonard, RYT200
For Maggie, yoga has become an important practice that helped her to experience grace, self-acceptance, emotional and physical flexibility, and peace in the midst of this busy city. She seeks to share this gift with others in the classes she leads. Maggie’s warm and inviting personality helps set the tone for a class in which students can explore their own practice without judgement and surrender into a sweet svasana. Her classes are thoughtfully sequenced with attention to alignment and breath awareness. In addition to having completed her 200-hour teacher training under Joe Palese, she has taken trauma sensitive training with the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies. When not on her mat, Maggie works in the Poncey-Highlands as a pastor for a congregation that, while diverse, consists mostly of folks experiencing homelessness. She has been leading meditations and teaching yoga to her congregants since 2011.
Ian Elmore-Moore, RYT200
Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Ian has been dedicated to serving people. At the age of 25, he started a not for profit organization and LLC entitled The Noble Truth Project, devoted to transcending children, communities, and corporations through compassion and mindfulness. Ian is a life coach and spiritual advisor. He also serves as a certified Georgia educator, with several years of classroom experience and a certified RYT-200 Kemetic yoga instructor. A current candidate in the Masters of Educational Leadership Program at Kennesaw State University and awarded a Bachelors of Arts degree in Philosophy at Morehouse College. Ian has served locally and globally as Vice-President of Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and selected as a college ambassador for service projects in both South Africa and Haiti. Ian looks forward to continuing his pursuit in transcending others through compassion and mindfulness. His goal is to awaken consciousness and help one grow spiritually. Through education, mindfulness, and persistence one will realize their self-worth and the impact that they have on the world.
Vladimir Tchakarov, RYT500
Vladimir discovered yoga at age 7 when he opened his mother’s yoga books and found that he could do all the postures inside with ease. Both his parents practiced yoga and meditation and attempted to pass on to him different techniques but as a young boy Vladimir showed more interest in martial arts. He spent the next 17 years practicing various traditional styles obtaining a black belt and winning numerous tournaments in his country of birth Bulgaria. He stepped back on the yoga path when in his early twenties he lost his father to colon cancer and began to practice yoga to heal his grief and to fulfill his father’s wish that he developed spiritually. After a few months into the practice Vladimir was attending classes and meditating every day, sometimes spending a whole day at the studio and taking up to 5 classes. Since then Vladimir has completed his 500 hour certification with Yoganand Michael Carrol and has studied closely with him assisting both 200 and 500 hour trainings and working to become a senior teacher in the tradition. Vladimir teaches yoga full time and he has a broad spectrum of experience. He’s taught classes to students, seniors, advanced practitioners, beginners, disabled military veterans and individuals with mental disabilities. Vladimir’s goal as a teacher is to pass on the tool of transformation that is yoga to everyone in his path in need of physical, mental, and emotional healing.
Meg Scalise, RYT200
Meg first began her yoga journey in high school by watching her mother’s old yoga tapes. While pursuing her B.A. in Psychology at Georgia State, she developed a regular practice, and shortly after graduating in 2013, started her Pranakriya 200hr yoga teacher training. In 2015, she traveled and taught abroad in New Zealand and Australia. Beginning in 2016, she currently teaches several units at Anchor Hospital in Atlanta. In addition to her love of the healing arts, Meg also has a deep passion for the performance arts. She actively dances 5 Rhythms, and sings with two Atlanta bands: Interstellar Echoes and Harvest Moon. She loves the outdoors, games, books, and cuddling her two kittens, Seymour and Franklin.
Cee Cee Wilde
Cee Cee graduated with a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Agnes Scott College in 2014 and began her yoga journey when she got her first job post-college at Solstice Yoga + Barre. Through beginning her personal practice of yoga, Cee Cee was able to realize how she could help provide space for others to heal from trauma, connect back to themselves, and find contentment. She trained under Holle Black, Tra Kirkpatrick, and Marlysa Sullivan at the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies and received her 200 hour certification in 2017. Teaching in the style of Tantra Hatha provides Cee Cee tons of room to adapt classes to meet her students’ needs. She teaches weekly classes in a variety of places - schools, non-profits, and studios - ranging from family yoga to trauma-informed classes. As a feminist, Cee Cee strongly believes in making yoga accessible to more communities and to making each class an inviting space for everyone.