I AM YOGA

04/09/2026

Who am I? Let me share a taste of my yoga teaching journey over time ⏳

🎲📸 1 - 2012: Me and HMJ celebrating her 40th in Vegas. I had just completed my YTT and was fresh to the consumerism of Yoga.

🧘🏽‍♀️ 📸 2 - 2014: Me excitedly teaching a class at lululemon Birkdale. I took a package to leave my corporate life - to teach Yoga every day, every time, anywhere to anyone. To swim in the humanity of Yoga.

🗽📸 3 - 2019: Me the traveling yogin, fully abundant and at ease in the city that never sleeps.

🧘🏽‍♀️📸 4 - 2024: Me intentionally and intimately teaching on the West Side, my side, the health and wellness desert side. .studio

♥️📸 5 - 2026: Let me reintroduce myself, Kiesha Battles, Ambassador for South Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Business owner, multi-grant winner, studio manager , yoga teacher, trainer, retreat leader, mentor, friend, sister, daughter, mother, wife. Here as an activist of Yoga! Partnering with to bring wellness resources to the people I serve.

Highest praise to the teachers that have paved and grounded the way 🙏🏽📿

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With love and ever living gratitude to my family 💚

04/07/2026

Community is the heart and soul of everything we do at I Am Yoga. 💜🙏🏾🌺

Wellness coach, IAY YTT grad, and YRWOC attendee & presenter Leslie Kelson shares why she chose to pay it forward and fund a scholarship for YRWOC, helping to make this powerful program more accessible to the entire community:

"I truly believe that to whom much is given, much is required. Yoga has been more than a practice for me—it has been a refuge. In moments of chaos, uncertainty, and overwhelm, it has given me a place to breathe, to be still, and to find my way back to myself.

There have been times when I felt stretched thin by life, and it was through my practice that I found calm in the storm. It reminded me of my strength, my softness, and my ability to keep going. That kind of healing is something I carry with deep gratitude.

It is from that place of gratitude and love that I want to give this opportunity to someone else. The Yoga Retreat for Women of Color is a space where I have felt seen, held, and understood in a way that is so rare and so necessary. My hope is that this scholarship allows another woman to step into that same space—to exhale, to heal, and to rediscover herself.

If this offering can bring even a fraction of the peace and transformation that I have experienced, then it will mean everything to me."

We are grateful for supporters like Leslie who help make programming accessible to our beloved community. 🌺🌺🌺

Exhale, heal, and rediscover yourself at the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color, May 15-17, in Boone, NC.

Visit our website to learn more!

04/01/2026

Join us for this free family event on Saturday, May 2nd at the Almetto Howey Alexander Labyrinth, 3801 Beatties Ford Rd, Charlotte.

A labyrinth is an ancient design with a single path that leads you on a journey toward the center. This event will give you an opportunity to walk a labyrinth as a form of walking meditation and reflect on the experience with writing and discussion.

All are welcome, whether you’re seeking peace across the world, a walk outdoors, or a meaningful way to set the tone for the day.

Donations are welcome to help support community-based wellness classes and may be offered in person or when registering online.

See our website for more details!

03/29/2026

Happy spring, y'all! 🌸🌼🌷

Rise and flow with us!

Visit iamyogaclt.life for full class listing or go to link in bio.

03/20/2026

Say hello to Tiffany!! ✨✨

Tiffany hosts our Monday morning meditation class, featuring Ta***ic and Vipassana meditation styles emphasizing a grounded and embodied approach. What better way to start the week?!?

Fun Fact: Tiffany traveled solo for 2 years throughout the world on a spiritual pilgrimage, road-tripping through over 14 states and 8 countries!!! 🌍

Gather and ground in community with Tiffany on Mondays at 7:30am! Check out our website for the full I Am Yoga class schedule!

03/19/2026

Still time to register and celebrate the Spring Equinox in community! 🪻
Come and experience two amazing yogis as they guide you through a gentle yoga practice honoring the energy of the Spring Equinox. 🌸

Register at https://www.iamyogaclt.life/events/spring-equinox-seeds-of-intention

This is a community class and donations are welcome.

Precious Stepney

Spring Equinox Gathering 🌿🧘🏾✨

As the seasons shift, we arrive at a moment of balance—equal light and dark, winter transitions into spring. This is a powerful time to pause, reflect, and ask: What do I want to grow in the season ahead?

Join I Am Yoga Alums Precious of Body Mind Stretch, LLC and Térése of Yoga Inspired, LLC for a gentle yoga practice honoring the energy of the Spring Equinox. Together we’ll move slowly, breathe deeply, meditate, and explore intention setting supported by the dreamy New Moon in Pisces. 🌙

This gathering is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and plant seeds for the life you want to nurture.

Free event, donations welcome.
For further details and to register, visit: https://www.iamyogaclt.life/events/spring-equinox-seeds-of-intention

What to expect:
✨ Slow, mindful yoga
✨ Meditation + Breathwork
✨ Intention setting
✨ Reflective journaling prompts

03/17/2026

"You have unlimited permission to say YES to rest."

In this month's newsletter, Lenora Johnson introduces Soul Compass Yoga, a new addition to the I Am Yoga weekly class lineup. Soul Compass is all about practicing the art of slowing down and listening to the direction of your body, mind, and heart. Let your soul compass guide you! 🧭🧭🧭

Check our class schedule and sign up for our newsletter on our website!

03/16/2026

Spring Equinox Gathering 🌿🧘🏾✨

As the seasons shift, we arrive at a moment of balance—equal light and dark, winter transitions into spring. This is a powerful time to pause, reflect, and ask: What do I want to grow in the season ahead?

Join I Am Yoga Alums Precious of Body Mind Stretch, LLC and Térése of Yoga Inspired, LLC for a gentle yoga practice honoring the energy of the Spring Equinox. Together we’ll move slowly, breathe deeply, meditate, and explore intention setting supported by the dreamy New Moon in Pisces. 🌙

This gathering is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and plant seeds for the life you want to nurture.

Free event, donations welcome.
For further details and to register, visit: https://www.iamyogaclt.life/events/spring-equinox-seeds-of-intention

What to expect:
✨ Slow, mindful yoga
✨ Meditation + Breathwork
✨ Intention setting
✨ Reflective journaling prompts

03/11/2026

Come walk with us and find your path!! ✨✨✨

Join us for a transformative weekend of self-exploration, creation, and community as we step into the magic of the labyrinth to discover a path through the maze of today.

Come along and meet us in the beautiful Berkshires for:

✨Labyrinth walks at dawn and dusk
💫Story time at twilight
✨Contemplative practice
💫Joyful movement
✨Creation and collaboration
💫And of course, plenty of time for rest and renewal

Together we’ll go there, and back again…the labyrinth awaits!

Visit the I Am Yoga website for more details!

Polly Weiss
Marcia Ramoutar
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

03/11/2026

Come walk with us and find your path!! ✨✨✨

Join us for a transformative weekend of self-exploration, creation, and community as we step into the magic of the labyrinth to discover a path through the maze of today.

Come along and meet us in the beautiful Berkshires for:

✨Labyrinth walks at dawn and dusk
💫Story time at twilight
✨Contemplative practice
💫Joyful movement
✨Creation and collaboration
💫And of course, plenty of time for rest and renewal

Together we’ll go there, and back again…the labyrinth awaits!

03/08/2026

Celebrating all the amazing yogis who help keep our I Am Yoga family tree strong, every day of the year! 🌳💪🏾 🌠💜


Cassandra Cureton
Sonia K McCallum

03/05/2026

Stretch your SOUL with us! ✨✨✨

Join from where you are, how you are, whoever you are!

For full class listing, visit: https://www.iamyogaclt.life/classes