Teachers

Bristol Maryott is thrilled to be the owner of Jala. Bristol is an Advanced-Certified Jivamukti, Ashtanga and prenatal teacher with over eighteen years of experience teaching yoga. She has granted permission to teach Ashtanga Level 1 through Saraswati Jois. Bristol’s practice and teaching is informed by the light and grace of her dear teachers. She is grateful for the tutelage of Jivamukti founders, Sharon Gannon and David Life, as well as senior Jivamukti teachers Lady Ruth & Yogeswari. Bristol also travels to India regularly where she loves to practice with Saraswathi Jois in Mysore. She also has completed an Ashtanga second series intensive with Manju Jois. 

Bristol holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London UK and graduated from Yale with a BA in English. She has worked at Sotheby’s in London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bristol believes that art and yoga are complimentary disciplines exploring consciousness. Bristol wanted to create a space where yoga practitioners could both inspire and be inspired by art.

Eve Carey is the studio manager of Jala. Eve’s personal Yoga practice and study has spanned over 20 years. Eve is a 500hr certified yoga instructor with her Advanced Teaching Certificate with Bristol Maryott and Liz Guardia. She’s been teaching in RI since 2017. As a teacher, Eve’s goal is for students to feel supported and grounded in their practice. Her classes are informed by ancient wisdom and modern science, with a focus on where the two often intersect. She seeks examples in nature to explain yogic teachings or lend inspiration for class. Eve aims to guide students through poses, breathwork, meditation, and dharma.

Eve has a Masters of Science in Zoology and Wildlife Biology. Through her study and travels, she has been blessed with opportunities to meet and know amazing animals and people from some truly beautiful parts of the world. Lately, she shares most of her adventures with her husband and golden retriever. Eve has a deep appreciation for the natural world and making meaningful connections with all living beings.

Tracy Carruth has enjoyed practicing and teaching yoga since 1997. She loved building a yoga community and owning a studio for 13 years. It has provided many wonderful opportunities for deep study and experience along with offering yoga teaching training. She attained her advanced teacher training in NYC from Sri Dharma Mittra in Hatha Raja Yoga. She is grateful to continue broadening her practice in many yoga and wisdom traditions and their modern day relevance for well being and connection. Her intention is to provide a soft landing space to support others on their yoga journey and valuing compassion as a motivating force for love, inclusion and justice. 

She has three amazing adult kids, John, Anna and Grace and two adorable Maine Coon cats, Clifford and Cleo. 

Lindsay Weitzman has completed over 650 hours of teacher training, most recently receiving her 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training Certification at Jala with Bristol Maryott and Liz Guardia. In 2015, she completed her 200-hour teacher training with The Collective at Desa Seni in Bali. She also completed her Meridian Yoga Technique + Extreme Yin Teacher Training with Science of Self Yoga and Rose Erin Vaughan, in which she learned to combine the ancient practices of Yoga with Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

She is a lifelong student and loves sharing the wisdom and knowledge she has learned from her many incredible teachers. Chronic illness brought her to this path over 15 years ago, and after experiencing the healing magic of these ancient practices, she became a firm believer in our innate abilities to heal ourselves and even transform our challenges into teachings.  She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Boston University in 2012, and since then has remained devoted to her art practice, which she feels is deeply connected to her spiritual practice.

As a 30 year practitioner and the founder of Yoga Liberation Front, David Vendetti is a powerful advocate for empowering and celebrating every kind of body and people from all spheres of life. With a wild sense of acceptance and inclusivity his classes are a deep dive into spirituality, humanity and unlocking the secrets of transformational anatomy and energetic alignment. He is obsessed with innovating new sequences and practices that are absurdly useful and effective. He is openly polyamorous and believes in radical education for positive social reform . He is a craft maniac, structural integrator, and a game changer.

David has owned and run yoga studios for over 20 years, has traveled worldwide teaching classes, workshops, festivals and teacher trainings. He is a profound bodyworker and has run his own massage school. His teaching leaves people feeling that everyone has a place in this universe and that each of us truly, deeply belongs here weaving our brilliant textures and colors into this exquisite tapestry of life. He kind and approachable and has an irrational love of yarn and anything that combines nuts and chocolate.

Yoga has provided Danikka Dillon with tools to approach life with curiosity over criticism, vulnerability over control, and trust over judgement. A life-long learner, Danikka continues to explore the teachings so that she can share the wisdom and inspiration beyond the asana practice with others. She continues to be drawn to a vigorous physical practice as a means to focus the mind and integrate the full experience of yoga. She holds her 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training Certification from Jala with Bristol Maryott and Liz Guardia.

Danikka majored in Studio Arts, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross. When she’s not in the yoga studio, you’ll find her trying out a new recipe, exploring the woods, diving into non-fiction, or wrangling her Boston Terriers!

Concetta Codding obtained her 200-Hour Yoga Alliance certification in Connecticut in 2017, followed by a transformative 300-hour Yoga Teacher training in Peru in 2018. With a certified 500-hour Yoga Teacher qualification, she now shares her expertise through local classes and workshops, focusing on breathing, meditation, and healing flow. Beyond yoga, Concetta is also a Reiki practitioner, having obtained certifications up to Reiki 3. Concetta's life is a journey fueled by a quest for purpose and spiritual growth.

Expanding her holistic approach, Concetta is studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy at Lesley University. She aims to integrate art and consciousness in her therapeutic practice, drawing inspiration from nature's transformative processes.

Emma Lipkin completed her first yoga teacher training in 2010 and has been joyfully teaching and learning since. Through yoga she has discovered profound connection, love, and acceptance. Her classes are strong and playful with a focus on alignment and core integration.

A mother, Emma can often be found walking the streets of Providence or baking muffins with her children. She is passionate about creating a more radiant and peaceful world for her family and community.

Erica Nunnally is a traditional animist, a ritualist, an intuitive healer, and an ancestral medicine practitioner. She works with deep old medicines and practical magic to help folks live their best lives in harmony. Erica’s dharma is to ‘hold the space between the seen and the unseen’ to support your journey to remedy unhelpful patterns, heal wounds (both inherited and earned), and, ultimately, connect with your own deep medicines and gifts.

Jennifer Catrambone started her yoga practice at 13, finding that yoga offered her a new physical experience that immediately became part of her routine. As her practice progressed, she found yoga helped develop a groundedness that softened her busy mind. She also loved that yoga was inclusive to all.

Jennifer has a passion for studying the human body and the benefits of movement. She has degrees in Physical Therapy Assisting and Personal Training and has completed 200-hr yoga certifications in Vinyasa, Hot Power, and Hot Power Fusion, Yoga Sculpt, and Hip-hop Yoga! Recently, Jenn completed her 300-hr Advanced Teacher Training at Jala Studio with Bristol Maryott and Liz Guardia . She is continually seeking to expand her knowledge through personal study. 

When not teaching or working as a Medical Aesthetician, you can find Jennifer spending time with her two amazing sons and flock of birds .

Kei Soares Cobb is an afrofuturist-fruitarian-fugitive healing artist based on the shores of the Atlantic. His practice spans the five elements, though he is most known for his loving hands and affinity for bass. Kei tends herbal gardens and plants fruit trees in Providence and practices Ashtanga yoga and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. His art work has been shared at the Trinity Repertory Theatre, RISD Museum and on stages worldwide on tour with his guru choreographer, Nora Chipaumire. Kei is also an RYT-500, trained in the Viniyoga tradition of T.K.V. Krishnmacharya.

Liz Guardia believes that there are many gifts to be discovered through the practice of yoga beyond physical transformation. Her passion is to help people on the yogic path through self-inquiry, physical practice and meditation. She believes world peace will be attained once we have all found inner peace. Her teachings stem from the philosophy that the training of the body is the vehicle which leads to the training of the mind. Liz works with a lot of hands-on assist and thoughtful dharma teachings. Liz is a 200 & 500 hr certified teacher. She was introduced to yoga at the age of 16 and it has been a consistent part of her life since.

She has studied with Fluid Yoga. She is forever grateful to her teachers Kevan Gale and Betty Riaz who have helped her transform from a vinyasa practitioner to life-long student of dharma. Liz is a lover travel, adventure, food and fun! She loves to share this energy in her classes. The flows are intelligent, dynamic and robust.

Maria Earabino brings the traditions of alignment-based yoga to the mat with inclusive, accessible cues and vinyasa recognized flow. She believes in cultivating safe environments for all walks of life that may grow into a larger, comprehensive community.

 Her journey began circa 2013, when she leaned into a meditation practice. It took 3 more years for her to find a physical yoga practice, which was just at home with YouTube videos. She then felt inspired to become a teacher, and jumped right into a 200 HR training. Since then, Maria’s practice has excelled both physically and spiritually. She is excited about her career as a teacher, as it is a direct reflection of her close relationship to this discipline. 

She sequences her classes based off of her home practice, where she lets her body move intuitively while still implementing her respect of traditional teachings. 

Maria believes in the power of a well-rounded Yoga practice, and the transformation into a peaceful life through discipline and honor of these ancient teachings.

Shaffany Terrell is a Black multidisciplinary performance artist, dancer and musician from Roxbury, MA. Music is an ancestral gift for Shaffany, her intuition has guided her in making sound beyond her realm of understanding since her childhood. Shaffany is interested in using her gift to create community and safe space for Black people and all people to vibrate at a higher frequency together. Shaffany is an artist-facilitator for Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools combining art making with mindfulness to help children deepen their understanding of Self. She is certified by Deep Play for Kids and teaches yoga to children in Providence. Shaffany’s work has been featured at Wilbury Theatre, WaterFire Arts Center, Rites and Reason Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and Paramount Theatre in Boston.