Lexie has 10 years experience teaching in Early Childhood Education! She works with children and families experiencing different forms of trauma. She is new to teaching kids yoga, but is experienced showing up for children and the community. She completed her 200hr YTT in 2025 along with her Kids Yoga Training & Prenatal Yoga Training in 2026!
Liz has been practicing yoga for over ten years and teaching since 2020. She is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher who is passionate about creating inclusive and empowering spaces in her classes. Students can expect welcoming sessions that range from high-energy to restorative, but with the goal to cultivate a sense of grounding in all her classes.
Off the mat, Liz is excited to explore Seattle and all the amazing accessible nature, having recently moved to Seattle!
Niaja is a yin yoga instructor passionate about creating nurturing spaces for mothers through mindful movement, breathwork, and restorative care. Her approach to yin yoga emphasizes nervous system regulation, deep rest, fascia release, grounding, and embodiment throughout pregnancy, postpartum, and daily life. Through gentle movement, guided rest, hip-opening postures, breath awareness, and nervous system support. She supports mothers in cultivating deeper trust in their bodies by helping them to slow down and tune inward as she intentionally creates moments to connect with themselves and bond with their babies.
Rachel recently completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training through Grinning Yogi, with a focus on vinyasa yoga. As a mom of three young children, she spent many of her pregnancy and postpartum years at Aditi, where yoga helped her prepare for birth, navigate the physical challenges of motherhood, and find moments of calm in busy seasons of life. She is grateful to now teach in the community that supported her through those years and to carry forward the legacy of Julie, whose warmth and impact continue to be felt throughout Aditi. After recently stepping away from a corporate career, she has been exploring a more balanced and intentional pace of life, and she hopes her classes offer a welcoming space for students to move, breathe, and connect with themselves, their babies, and their community.
Jen began teaching movement at a young age as a student instructor in her high school dance company. Her love of guiding individuals into liberated movement grew in 2018, when she completed her 200-hr RYT at The Craft of Teaching Yoga, with Adrienne and Eric Rabena. Her classes at Aditi can be described as accessible, creative, playful, and nourishing.
I completed my 200 hour Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher training at House of Om in Ubud, Bali. After moving from Australia to Seattle, I began babysitting for family members and quickly saw how much kids benefit from having fun with intentional movement. That inspired me to complete a 25 hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training with SKY. Now, I combine my love of movement and play to create yoga classes that give kids an outlet for energy, imagination, and self-expression, outside the structure of traditional sports
Kate is an experienced Pilates instructor, personal trainer, sports coach, musical theater director and dance teacher. Kate was drawn to teaching Pilates in 2003 as a complement to studying dance and playing ultimate frisbee in Chicago, IL. After moving to Seattle in 2006, she completed the Metropolitan Authentic Training Pilates certification program with Dorothee Vandewalle and continued teaching Pilates around the region. She has also completed Power Pilates Mat, Balanced Body Reformer, Ring and Roller, Pilates Mat, and multiple personal training certifications.
Carey DeMartini, LMHC, ATR-BC, RYT500 is a licensed therapist, art therapist, and yoga teacher who has been integrating movement and mental health for over 25 years. Carey is particularly drawn to how yoga can serve as a bridge for emotional balance and overall well-being. She brings a light-hearted and warm presence to her classes, leaning into the benefits of the community aspect of doing yoga with others while offering modifications to meet your body where it's at and weaving together mindfulness, breath practices, and asana to help you feel integrated and at home in your body.
Briana is a bright star in the community teaching kids and family yoga. Her love of working with children is evident in all her roles in life. With a background as a primary school teacher, she is a multi-talented gem, always wearing a warm smile that makes the children she works with feel loved and supported. After receiving her 300 hr yoga certification with Modo Yoga in 2018 she continued to live and be inspired by their pillar: “Live to Learn” by diving deeper into her passion to work with children and families, completing her 95 hour kids’ yoga certification with Deven Sisler Yoga in Bend, Oregon.
Liz got certified to teach yoga in 2020, deep in the quiet of lockdown. As soon as it was safe to gather again, she started teaching in-person classes. She joined the Aditi community while pregnant with her first child. She teaches to build strength and community, to create space for breath and presence, and to support people in showing up for the rest of their lives with a little more ease.
Loriana is a lifelong competitive athlete and is enthusiastic about all types of movement and exercise. She draws from her experience in sports, injury rehabilitation, and injury prevention training to make sessions fun, challenging, and functionally relevant. She strives to make each student feel welcome and supported by finding modifications that work for their bodies on any given day. Loriana has specialized training in coaching prenatal and postpartum people, and is an advocate for girls, women, and non-binary folks to help them feel strong, grounded, healthy, and capable throughout all the different phases of life. She is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, has a Prenatal Fitness Specialist Certification and a Postpartum Fitness Specialist Certification.
Kim completed her 200hr Power Vinyasa training in May 2018. Since then, she has taught prenatal yoga, Mommy & Me yoga, yoga sculpt, and outdoor classes. Kim completed her training as a birth doula in March 2022. Kim’s classes focus on strength, balance, connecting the breath to movement, visualization and relaxation techniques. She loves incorporating aromatherapy whenever she can.
Deirdre has been working in the field of health and wellness since 1990 and teaching yoga and therapeutic movement since 2003. She brings this depth and breadth of experience to her classes. She supports students in “coming back home” to their best selves through breath, movement, a safe environment and irreverent humor. All are welcome.
Kathy has been practicing yoga since 2003 after the birth of her first daughter. In 2017, she received her 200 hour RYT through Synergy Yoga School with a focus on Vinyasa flow yoga, yoga philosophy and Ayurveda, the sister science to yoga. This training has prepared her to follow her path to teaching gentle and energetic Vinyasa classes around the Seattle area and online.
Julie was the founder, owner, and the heart and soul of Aditi Yoga and Wellness. She passed away in March of 2023. Her presence can still be felt in the studio through this empowering and healing space she created. She is deeply missed by all who knew her and worked with her. To learn more about Julie, and the founding of Aditi, navigate to the page “Ode to Julie.”
Lara took her first yoga class in 1991 and completed her RYT200 through Yoga Renew more than 30 years later in 2022. In the intervening years she practiced a wide variety of styles of yoga including Hatha, Iyengar, Hot Yoga, Vinyasa, and Kundalini. Lara is also a dedicated meditation practitioner and has completed two 10-day silent meditation retreats through the NW Vipassana Center in Onalaksa, WA. She loves sharing the ups and downs of life, and the tools she has learned to manage this reality through her yoga and meditation practice, with her students.
Sally has been teaching yoga since 2002, and is proud to have been among the very first teachers at Aditi. She received certification from both 8 Limbs Yoga and The Samarya Center, where she also trained in Integrated Movement Therapy. These, plus hundreds of hours of training with many nationally known teachers, combine to support Sally’s style of teaching.
Suzette has been a yoga practitioner in Seattle for over 20 years. Shaped by her initial training in the Viniyoga tradition, Suzette’s Hatha teaching style takes a more gentle and therapeutic approach. Although she enjoys teaching all levels, her primary love is working with prenatal and postnatal women. Suzette is registered with Yoga Alliance at E-RYT 200, RYT 500 and RPYT 500 level.
