Our Team

Berlyn

Berlyn grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan. That is where she discovered the power of movement and the deep love of nature that inspires her daily. Yoga found Berlyn when she was living in Denver and quickly drew her in as a healing practice that holds her in all facets of her life. After practicing for 12 years she decided to she wanted to give back some of what the practice had given her. So she enrolled in Sacred Moon School of Yoga . Berlyn hopes through this practice she can help others come back home to self. To step into their confidence and to find a deeper sense of peace within.


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Joyce

Joyce has been a Restorative Yoga Instructor since 2015. She received her certification through Spirit of the Lake Yoga Studio in Minneapolis, MN, Lisa Bergely was the facilitator. Right from her first Restorative Yoga class, she experienced the profound healing you get from the wonderful practice. She found peace and exhilaration; she found her passion. She is excited to share the continuation of this journey with you. Welcome to the journey.


Melissa O

Melissa found yoga in 2014 and immediately fell in love with the practice both on and off the mat. She completed her 200 hour teacher training with Hilaire Lockwood of Hilltop Yoga. She is passionate about studying and teaching yoga beyond the physical practice. She is committed to continuing her studies of the 8 limbs of yoga and the Yoga Sutras. She cares deeply about creating connections and guiding others to find their own personal strength.


Christine

Yoga has been a part of Christine's life since 2008. In 2018, she received her RYT200 through Yoga Alliance in Hampton, VA. Christine is also a registered nurse who is passionate about helping patients live healthy & happy lives. Her yoga classes consist of creative flows incorporating functional movements that strengthen the body and release tension. Her motto, “the most advanced pose is wherever the body allows today, so be kind to yourself”. She hopes her students will learn to appreciate the present moment and let go of their ego and expectations. That's when the beauty, love and magic happens. 


Emily

Emily is a West Michigan native who was called home to Grand Haven after spending the last 10 years in Chicago. While in Chicago she discovered yoga by getting dragged by a friend to a free intro week at CorePower and unexpectedly got hooked! She specifically fell in love with Yoga Sculpt (yoga with weights). She was drawn to this music-based class, the intense work-out, and the energetic feeling of moving and breathing together as a community. In between jobs, she decided to do Yoga Sculpt Teacher Training where her passion and connection to the yoga community was amplified. Her classes are upbeat, challenging yet accessible, and FUN. She is stoked to bring this format to West Michigan and hopes you will join her at Wildflower.


Jenn

From a young age, Jenn has always felt the healing energy from the forest and had a deep rooted love for nature. You can find her most days barefoot, taking time to pause and appreciate the gifts from our earth. She often weaves these elements into her Vinyasa classes to create a meditative and grounding flow allowing life to breathe through us in the present moment. She and Brittany Jaskowiak founded Sacred Moon School of Yoga in 2019 and love sharing their knowledge and passion of yoga, guiding others to find their voice and style in becoming yoga teachers themselves.


Dan

Dan grew up in West Michigan and is proud to call the Lakeshore his home. He found yoga by chance when he wanted to gain flexibility after playing sports and lifting weights his entire life. Yoga has been a part of his daily life for nearly 10 years, in which he has instructed for five. Dan loves incorporating functional movement with breath and upbeat playlists with flow. His hope is that each class challenges you in a different way so you can grow your practice and move freely throughout the world.


Jane

Jane is an Energy Practitioner, Ayurvedic Counselor, and Yoga Instructor. Jane weaves the wisdom of all three sacred practices to inspire clients to emerge brightly to be their most vibrant self. Jane's yoga classes often include soulful movement, meditation, essential oils, mantra, breath work, and energy healing.


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Hayley

Hayley is a physical therapist, yoga teacher and holistic health advocate. Her integrative approach emphasizes breath and body awareness, discovering a more spacious mind and deepening one's emotional connectivity. Hayley is a very tactile practitioner, teaching with & encouraging touch to facilitate health, conscious communication & self expression. Hayley roots herself in the beauty and wisdom of nature to guide her practice and her life.


Julia

Yoga began transforming Julia’s life 20 years ago. She completed her 200 hour teacher training through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta school of yoga following the traditional gurukula ashram method in 2006. She’s humbled and enlightened daily by her practice and the practices she’s blessed to bear witness to through fellow students and teachers. In her practice and classes Julia is devoted to both honoring tradition and coloring outside of the lines. She integrates training in trauma sensitive yoga teacher training, Usui Reiki, Lomi Lomi Hawaiian healing arts and Clarity Breathwork, as well as ancient and modern literature and music to open access points to ever widening rings of being.


Jan

Yoga has been a part of Jan’s life journey for over 20 years, always helping her to stay grounded, reminding her to breathe, and bringing her back to her center when life starts to unravel. Yoga is deeply healing for the mind, body, and soul. Yoga is holistic. Yoga is life. In 2021, she received her 200 Hour registered yoga teaching certificate through Sacred Moon School of Yoga and her 100 Hour Yin Yoga teaching certificate from Shree Hari Yoga India. India was a life changing experience for Jan, and it reignited her passion for yoga and her desire to share yoga’s healing benefits to people everywhere. Jan plans on completing her 500 Hour teacher training this summer in India.


Brittany

In March of 2012, Brittany completed her 200 hour teacher training at Transcending Yoga in Swansboro, NC. One year later she become certified in Prenatal Yoga by Heart Song Yoga in Wilmington, NC. In December of 2016 she then completed a training certifying her in Yoga for Kids and Families by Rainbow Kids Yoga. In 2019 Sacred Moon School of Yoga was created with her dear friend and business partner, Jenn Jettner. What fills her cup? Spending time with her husband, their son Griffin, teaching, hiking, snowboarding, cooking, girl’s nights, and sunshine. Her favorite quote is, "Life isn't meant to be easy. It’s meant to be lived. Sometimes happy, other times rough... but with every up and down you learn lessons that make you strong."


Lauren

Lauren has her 200 hour yoga teacher training through Yoga Alliance, completing her training with Sacred Moon School of Yoga. While her first movement language and career is dance, Lauren has been practicing yoga for over ten years, deepening her practice upon her return to Michigan and finding grounding at Rootdown Yoga in Muskegon. Lauren enjoys Vinyasa classes, connecting breath with movement. She incorporates her experience as a dance instructor within her yoga practice, always finding the dance between breath and body. She feels this style of practice transports her to a deeper place of awareness, and loves putting together unique flows with creative transitions. Lauren believes asanas should challenge us, either physically or mentally, to break through any barriers that block the discovery of one’s inner strength and light.



Hannah

Hannah grew up in the dance studio and eventually found yoga in 2012. With movement being a main focus throughout her life, Hannah brings practitioners into a space of confidence and comfortability in their own expression. For all levels of relationship to movement, Hannah prioritizes all of her students cultivating a sense of ease within their bodies, their practice, and their life. Hannah's classes are funky and forgiving, with ample opportunity to experiment and expand.


Kristine

Kristine Mast is the former owner of Muskegon Yoga Center and current owner of MasterPeace Yoga & Travel. She spent 25 years as an elementary school educator before deciding to follow her passion and buy a yoga studio. In those 8.5 years she has introduced yoga to the local high school curriculum, teamed with area athletes to include yoga in their training regimes, ran 5 sold out international yoga retreats in Costa Rica and Mexico, and has taught yoga asana and philosophy at Muskegon Community College. As a lifelong teacher and learner, Kristine has studied through 200 and 500 level teacher training, Holy Fire Reiki Training, and maintains a regular self study and dedicated daily practice of all eight limbs of yoga. Her understanding of the power of the practice has significantly evolved and continues to evolve. She has studied with Hilaire Lockwood receiving both 200 and 500 RYT Training. She has also participated in workshops and intensives with Maty Ezraty, Kino MacGregor, Taylor Hunt, Seane Corn and Bryan Kest.