Angela Hammond

Angela founded Main Street Yoga in April 2016. As an E-RYT 500 and Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Angela’s greatest passion is leading others through guided transformation. At Main Street Yoga, she offers yoga teacher trainings and works one-on-one with clients using the ancient teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Angela has been practicing yoga since 1996, and it has been a consistent part of her life ever since. She never liked exercise, but she quickly realized that something else was happening when she practiced yoga. She began in her living room with books, VHS tapes, and DVDs while her three boys ran circles around her. What she found was that after her practice, she had much more patience with them because she felt more at peace in her own body.

Angela lives in Fairmont with her husband, Mark, and two mischievous canines: Boomer and Helo. When she’s not in the studio, Angela enjoys hiking, biking, and paddling.

Paula Hatten

Paula loves balancing life’s equations with essential oils, science, and yoga. As School Counselor and a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, her work is to help people lead emotionally healthy lives. She is a graduate of MSY’s Registered Yoga School and is registered as an RYT 200 with Yoga Alliance. She currently anchors Mondays at the studio, teaching “Balance & Breath” and “Hip Hop Flow.”

Paula offers essential oil classes at MSY as well as AromaTouch, a relaxing approach to applying essential oils along energy points on the back and feet to help balance the nervous system. She is also a Level III Reiki Master, which compliments her AromaTouch Technique and essential oil practices.

Paula lives in Mannington with her husband, Mark, and their two daughters Lydia and Ella. To maintain her emotional wellbeing, she enjoys meditation and yoga.

Mark Benincosa

Mark’s approach to yoga and wellness revolves around a respect for science and an open mind for the unexplained.  He uses his background in yoga and various martial arts to offer a mix of fun, vigor, and relaxation to his group classes and private instruction. 

Mark is a graduate of MSY’s Registered Yoga School. He teaches “Elemental Yoga.” He also holds a black belt in American Karate and is a Level III Reiki Master. 

Mark teaches music technology at West Virginia University.  He is a recording engineer, producer, composer, and musician that has been fortunate enough to co-produce a Grammy-nominated album.  Mark has composed a variety of music, and frequently uses his music for meditation in his own classes.

Mark loves to spend his free time with his wife, Natalie (also a yoga teacher!), and their two dogs, Rudy and Luna.

Erin Hager

Erin completed Main Street Yoga’s 200 hour yoga teacher certification program in March 2021 after deciding she wanted to share the benefits of a regular yoga practice with others. She currently teaches warm vinyasa at MSY. She also offers a weekly chair yoga class at her church.

Erin lives in Fairmont with her husband and 3 children. She works for the City of Fairmont as an Assistant Planner.

Her passions include her faith, family, friends, nature, and rescuing cats. Erin offers a bi-monthly Kitten Yoga class that benefits the Marion County Humane Society.

Lauri Brammer

Lauri is an RYT 500 with a foundation in Trauma-Informed Vinyasa, Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation, as well as Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, the Enneagram, Lunar Wisdom, and self-awareness, Qigong, Thai Energy Work, and Sound Healing.

Lauri’s journey into yoga didn’t begin in stillness—it began in searching. For a long time, she moved through life feeling accomplished on the outside, but disconnected within. Yoga became the place where she started to slow down, listen, and reconnect. What began as a personal need for balance grew into a deep transformation—and ultimately, a calling to share this work with others.

The intention behind all of Lauri’s offerings is to help you remember the connection that already exists within you—through movement, breath, and awareness. In addition to monthly “Soul Sessions”, Lauri offers private sound healing and energy work at Main Street Yoga. She also offers a Renewal Residency Program in the New River Gorge—creating personalized, immersive experiences for women seeking deeper support and connection.

Kristi Barnes

Kristi completed her 200-hr, prenatal, and yin yoga certifications at Holy Cow Yoga Center in Charleston, SC, where she taught vinyasa yoga and led the prenatal and children's yoga programs and trainings. She also teaches Nia, a movement modality combining dance, martial arts and healing arts.

Expression through movement has always been essential to Kristi, making her feel alive and connected to her community and the world. Her goal in teaching is to ignite in others the joy, empowerment, spaciousness, and peace with which these practices enrich her life. She incorporates a sense of exploration and lightheartedness into her classes, which combine fluid movement with restful self-care.

Kristi is also a Reiki II Practitioner and Jungian Life Coach. When she’s not in the studio, you can find her with family or her dog Rufus, in nature, reading or making things, or traveling with her daughter Eviana, also a yoga teacher.

Holly Pickens

Holly is a 2021 graduate of MSY’s 200-hour yoga teacher training program. Holly experienced her very first yoga class back in 2010, but it wasn’t until Main Street Yoga opened its doors in 2016 that she developed a daily practice. Holly recently completed training in the LYT Method, a movement practice that combines yoga, physical therapy, and functional movement! LYT ("lit") is a core-based movement method designed to help people discover more optimal movement patterns.

Holly works for the Marion County BOE as a library/media specialist. She has an equal love for books as she does for practicing yoga. Whether Holly is in the library or the yoga studio, she loves helping her students find inspiration to grow as individuals.

Holly lives with her husband, Andy, and two cats, Tip and Artemis, in Fairmont. In her free time she enjoys yoga, reading, traveling, and spending time with her niece and nephew.

Alesia Towns

Alesia is a 2024 graduate of MSY’s 200-hour yoga teacher training program. She loves practicing and teaching slow, mindful movement and yin yoga. In June 2025, she received her certification as a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Yoga Teacher. Alesia infuses TCM principles in her classes, often using acupressure, myofascial release techniques, and breathwork. Feel free to visit her website (alesiatownsyoga.org) to work one-on-one.

Alesia started practicing yoga at home in 2020. After finding MSY’s website, she enrolled in “Body Wisdom” and adopted a whole new lifestyle that included leaving a stressful job as a financial analyst to live a life that aligned with her core values. 

Alesia lives with her husband, daughter, pup, and four cats. She is very passionate about teaching yoga, animals, self-care, and biodiversity. When she is not practicing yoga, you can find her wandering in the woods, reading a good book, enjoying hot coffee and tea, kayaking, gardening, and woodworking.