Our Instructors
Emara Churchill
Founder/ Owner
Emara, 500 hr YTT student, brings a rich tapestry of expertise and passion to the realm of wellness. She holds a Bachelor degree in Kinesiology and Science of Registered Nursing and Breathwork and Meditation certification.
Her dedication to sharing the gift of mindfulness, particularly with women leading busy lives, is evident in her multifaceted approach. Emara incorporates mindful movement, meditation, and transcendental breathwork into her teachings, offering a diverse range of modalities to cater to individual needs.
Carol Reynolds
Carol has always been thankful for movement and how it makes her feel. She studied Ashtanga Yoga extensively in Canada, Japan and India. After developing some reoccurring chronic conditions from a car accident, she left the study of ashtanga to find movements that worked with her during injury and also helped to prevent future flare ups. Pilates and Barre were a natural progression. She loves to focus on building mobility, balance and strength.
She trained in Barre with RStudios and Erika Ferguson and has taught in multiple Halifax and South Shore studios. Her classes are a rich blend of barre, contemporary mat Pilates peppered with some juicy yoga holds. Modified for all levels - they are a challenging, full body workout set to an infectious playlist.
Happiest in the forest or at the shore, she loves to bike and run and explore. She is a strong believer in leaving things, people included, a little better than you found them.
Darby Jack
Darby began practicing yoga at the age of 15 as a young competitive swimmer and triathlete. She discovered that yoga grounded her more than anything else and helped to calm her anxious mind. Over 15 years, she continued to practice and received training from Canadian yoga teacher Angela Jervis Reid in Leeds in 2019.
She also pursued additional training in trauma-informed yoga and accessible yoga.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, while living in the UK and exploring various home exercises, she started taking online Barre classes from Adrienna Rabena and found a new passion for it. The combination of moving to the beat of the music and targeting small and large muscles with low-impact movements made her feel fantastic. As an avid runner and yogi, Barre has been essential in keeping her injury-free.
Following training with Barre Eclipse, Darby has taught Barre and yoga on both sides of the Atlantic. Her classes are known for providing a warm, welcoming environment where everyone is encouraged to come as they are and enjoy a fun, spicy, high-energy experience.
Michaela MacMullin
Michaela is an enthusiastic yoga instructor, who is eager to share all the benefits of yoga — both seen and unseen. She brings a light and fun approach to each class; you can expect a low and slow flow with focus on strength and stability. Michaela is known for creating a supportive space where you have the chance to connect with your body, the energy of our community and your own beautiful shining light.
Since first hopping on the mat in 2007, Michaela has always felt “that feeling of coming home” whenever she rolls out her mat. In 2015 the opportunity arose for her to journey to India to participate in a 200 hr teacher training. After returning home and settling in Mahone Bay, she started practicing with Lisa Avramenko and decided to take on her 200 hr teacher training as well.
“One of the biggest gifts yoga has given me is the confidence to put myself out there and believe I can guide a class … That trust integrates into the rest of my life, and now I know I can do lots of things that I couldn’t in the past.”
Outside of the studio you can find her buzzing around with daughter Alice, helping her husband do “natures’ cross fit” (what he calls yard work) and working off mat on the beautiful practice of yoga.
Brittany Hachey
Hi! My name is Britt, and I’m a facilitator at Lincoln Street Studio. My love for yoga began 12 years ago after an abusive relationship and a separation from the father of my kids. Lying on my mat at ModoYoga in Bedford, drenched in sweat, I felt fully connected to my True Essence for the first time. As someone who spent years battling high-functioning depression and anxiety, this was a profound moment, a starting point for reconnecting with the purity of who I was before society shaped me.
Since my first training with Sherry Zak at Halifax Yoga in the Baptiste style of vinyasa yoga, I’ve continued to expand my knowledge. Over the past decade, I’ve studied restorative yoga, yin yoga, pre- and post-natal yoga, the myofascial system, meditation, breathwork, chanting, and somatics. I also incorporate sound and aromatherapy into my teaching. Recently, I’ve been training with John Wineland and Kendra Cunov in the Art of Embodiment, Intimacy, and Sexual Polarity.
My classes are tailored to the moment and designed to help you connect with your truth and open your heart. From high-energy dance to soothing mantra, they create space for self-discovery and growth. While some days may feel more challenging as we explore our edges, you’ll always be held with care, structure, and love. I cannot wait to share the room with you!
Emma Davies
With over 20 years of yoga experience, Emma has moved across continents and navigated life’s changes, finding stability and strength through both the physical practice and yoga philosophy.
She completed her first 200-hour YTT at Anuttara Ashram in Northern BC, where she developed a deep love for Hatha, Restorative, and Yin. Later, she added 200 hours of Baptiste Power Yoga training to her practice.
Emma embraces all styles of yoga as a way to learn something new about ourselves, with a special fondness for Restorative and Yin. Known for her lighthearted approach, she encourages students to smile, laugh, and not take themselves too seriously on the mat.
Victoria Scully
After a successful career in musical theatre, Victoria transitioned into teaching Strength and HIIT classes in 2019. When the world hit pause, she embraced the opportunity to expand her skill set by training in Yoga and Pilates, which ultimately shifted the course of her life.
Pilates became the catalyst that united her passion for efficient, functional movement with her desire to support others in their healing journey. Victoria now teaches Pilates full-time, offering both group classes and private sessions at various locations in Halifax. She is also continuing her education, currently pursuing the advanced level of her 600-hour Comprehensive Classical Pilates Certification through Authentic Pilates Canada.
Victoria offers a supportive teaching style that will leave you feeling connected to both your body & your mind.
Élyse Leefe
Elyse has been a dedicated member of Lincoln Street Studio since the beginning and has been practicing barre on and off for over five years. When she was diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis, she found that low-impact barre classes were the ideal way to stay strong and active. She’s now taken her practice to the next level by completing her Rio Barre Method Training at RStudios in Halifax.
Movement has always been an essential part of Elyse’s life. As a new instructor, she’s excited to create an inviting space filled with great music, shared laughter, and plenty of sweat to keep everyone feeling strong and energized.
Selena Wiebe
Selena discovered yoga and meditation in her early 20s, drawn to the power of movement and breath as a path to self-discovery. She deepened her practice through a 200-hour yoga teacher training and later expanded into Ayurveda, becoming an Ayurvedic Wellness Counsellor. As an Intuitive Reiki practitioner, she integrates energy healing into her teachings, creating a space for balance and restoration.
Motherhood further shaped her journey, inspiring her to become a doula, supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She teaches prenatal and mom-and-baby classes, weaving Ayurvedic wisdom, breathwork, and intuitive movement into her sessions. Whether in group classes or one-on-one, Selena’s goal is to create a nurturing space where students feel supported and connected to themselves.
Amanda Ring
Amanda is a sacred space holder for healing and alchemy on the path of coming home to your authentic self. Amanda offers genuine loving, safe and profound intuitive and practical support to all who walk with her. She has a professional background as an Occupational Therapist and is also a lifelong Spiritual Pioneer, with a deepening connection to her Celtic Ancestral medicine and Feminine Wisdom ways.
An Empowerment and Consciousness coach, Ceremonialist, Holotropic & Liberation Breathwork Facilitator, Intuitive, Energy & Shamanic healing guide, Feminine Thought Leader, Community Weaver, and Alchemist. She is passionate about creating opportunities and experiences which activates embodiment, deepens presence, expands self-healing potential, awakens deep remembrance, educates and elevates your sovereignty. Amanda has a special place in her heart for working with other women on the path of self-love and self-empowerment. Amanda walks with you as you untame your divine wild essence, remember and reclaim who you truly are so you can live a more intimate, courageous, and joy filled life.
Maddy White
Maddy has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager. She has been teaching yoga since 2016, and has completed 500 hrs in basic yoga training, as well as further training in Restorative Yoga, Advanced Vinyasa Sequencing, Biomechanics, Pre and Post natal Yoga, and more.
Maddy has deepened her study of the human body in movement, by completing her Masters Degree in Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University. She is currently on maternity leave from physiotherapy work after having a baby.
In Maddy's vinyasa class you can expect a focus on inventive sequences, alignment and breathwork. Be prepared to sweat, feel your body, breathe deeply, and settle.
Claire Louise Osmond
Practitioner and facilitator since 2006, Claire-Louise’s massage style embraces a nurturing blend of bodywork, movement, breath and Qi to help people expand their journey of self-healing by elevating body awareness to stress responses and by stimulating positive thoughts and emotions to replace triggers. She has a deep understanding of the therapeutic power of massage and that touch as a vital sense can create and sustain healing memories for us all. She practices yoga, Feldenkrais, Qigong and meditation for her own well-being and to inform her healing approach.
Anna Vonmaltzahn
Anna’s approach to facilitating movement is rooted in her background as an athlete paired with her long-time love of yoga as both student and teacher. She’s all for a sweaty physical challenge, but is also an advocate for movement that invites us to slow down and to tune into our bodies at a deeper level. Throughout her sequences she encourages us to work with both effort and ease, emphasizing the practices of being receptive to our body’s ever-changing needs and relating to ourselves compassionately.
While the classes that Anna teaches are created with intentionality to serve specific physical benefits, she is passionate first and foremost about creating a space where students feel safe and empowered as their own best authority within the āsanas. Anna is a counselling therapist by day which intersects beautifully with her aim as a yoga teacher to inspire a mindset that allows students to cultivate a healthful relationship with exercise. Her classes remind us that movement can be incorporated joyfully and sustainably into our days.
Maeka Wright
Meeka (they/them) is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Physiyoga Instructor, Physiotherapy Assistant, and Level 2 Reiki Practitioner with over 25 years of personal practice and 3 years of teaching experience. Their classes are lighthearted and welcoming, focused on awareness and connection to body and mind. Maeka’s personal yoga practice has supported them to live well with chronic pain and Maeka supports clients to heal themselves, encouraging empowerment through practice. They invite students to move from the place they’re at — with presence, honesty, and a healthy dose of humour.
A lifelong student of yoga, Maeka enjoys sharing the wisdom they’ve gained while giving thanks to the lineage of teachers in this practice that originated in ancient India. They are a queer, non-binary settler living in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.
Katie Sorrell
Katie first discovered yoga at the age of 16 and quickly fell in love with both the movement and the quiet moments in between. She completed her 200 hour teacher training at Shanti Yoga in Halifax in 2025, deepening her appreciation for the many unseen benefits of the practice—emotional resilience, inner strength, and a sense of grounding. In Katie’s classes, you’ll find a sense of playfulness and fun woven through mindful movement and breath, creating space for growth both on and off the mat.
Michelle Silver
I truly believe that yoga is an integral part of healthy aging and wellness. My classes are gentle yoga and a beautiful blend of breath, movement and stillness, inclusive options, a less is more approach. Curious, yet hesitant about yoga, due to the popular media images of slim young, extremely fit women and being more of a creative, academic not athletically inclined soul, I came to yoga later than some. I was really drawn by the sense that yoga was more than the physical, seeking more balance and calm in my life. I found my courage to take that first step and joined my first yoga class and began to explore a personal practice in 2004. Ten years later, I chose to share my yoga experience with others and I became a Certified Yoga Instructor from Atlantic Yoga Teacher Training, Jody Myers school (AYTT - Kripalu Inspired Yoga) and Certified Yoga for Healthy Aging Teacher with Baxter Bell and Melina Meza. In 2021, I studied and completed as an Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (by Kathryn Templeton, Yoga International).
My goal is to make yoga welcoming and approachable. To invite people to explore yoga while they learn to maintain and improve strength, balance, flexibility, agility, and cultivate equanimity with a balanced practice of movement and breath work. As an Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, I bring a seasonal approach to yoga practice. My classes are for anyone wanting a gentle, mindful yoga class. You are encouraged to move at your own pace and to listen to your needs. My classes include guided verbal cues and choices for taking care of oneself.
Luna Slipp
Luna is the creatrix behind Inner Invocation offerings. Her path has led her to be deeply involved in movement & ecstatic dance spaces, grief work, women’s work and circles for all, guiding and participating in circles, journeys and workshops around the world. She has been participating in workshops for many cycles and facilitating for five years). With reverence for the alchemy of the body through grief & vitality, She has recently finished her death & grief work apprenticeship with guide Narinder Bazen.
Luna has a passion and great respect for the importance of the Nervous System, mindful movement and embodied work. She feels creating safe and contained spaces to be pertinent to dive into one's own inner world. She is a student of life, a devotee to nature, a writer, a Somatic Attachment Practitioner & author of “33 Birds Messages Unheard” an ode to grief's ability to bring you closer to life itself. Luna feels a full being desire to create and gather in ritual, embodied & circular settings.
A ritualist, movement & grief guide, born & raised as a settler on Mi’kma’ki, Luna began her soul discovery work with an initiation through the death of her Father. This initiation brought her to find her own rendition of the way she viewed the world through travel and exploring various aspects of herself via dance, various cultures and art, workshops and mirrors of humans along the way. Luna feels called to show up in her authentic self through vulnerability, heart-centred connection and ritual. She has always had an affinity for nature and is humbled by the power of interconnection and interdependence within this world, it is the song to her soul.