Angela Hammond

Angela is the owner and founder of Main Street Yoga. As an E-RYT 500, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Angela’s greatest passion is leading others through guided transformation. At Main Street Yoga, she offers 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings and a group health coaching program. She also works one-on-one with clients using the ancient teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Angela has been practicing yoga since 1996. She has been teaching since 2016. She teaches Bhakti Flow & Yin - an all-levels class that playfully fuses mantra, myth, vinyasa, and yin yoga - every Saturday at 9am.

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 teaches “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.

Holly Pickens

Holly is a 2021 graduate of MSY’s 200-hour yoga teacher training program and has been teaching Beginners Yoga at the studio since graduation. 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 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.

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 yin yoga, restorative yoga, and 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.

Ryan Kurczak

Ryan Kurczak is a Kriya Yoga meditation teacher and director of Kriya Yoga Online, the home of the 2-year Kriya Yoga Apprenticeship Program. Ryan was authorized to teach Kriya Yoga by Roy Eugene Davis, a direct student of Paramahansa Yogananda in 2005.

Ryan travels nationally and internationally presenting weekend seminars and week-long retreats for those interested in practicing Kriya Yoga meditation. Ryan is the director of the Asheville Vedic Astrology Apprenticeship Program, overseeing the intensive 2-year self-study course in Indian Astrology.

Ryan enjoys time in nature, playing music and exploring the depth of yogic wisdom through his love of Sanksrit and yogic texts. He is the author of An Essential Guide to Kriya Yoga Practice and several other texts on Kriya Yoga. Ryan is the coauthor of the The Art and Science of Vedic Astrology Volumes 1 and 2. All of his books are available on Amazon and Kindle.

Lauri Brammer

Lauri Brammer is an RYT 200 in Trauma Informed Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation. She also has completed 300-hour training for Kundalini, Ayurveda, Enneagram, Lunar Wisdom, and Self-Awareness. She has gone on to pursue training in Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice that perfectly complements yoga practice.

Lauri's goal is to bring the gifts of self-awareness and mind-body connection that resides in all of us (and sometimes get pushed to the wayside!!) out through the tools and techniques afforded to us by yoga. She currently teaches Beginner Kundalini and Beginner Qigong at MSY as well as monthly special events that include sound healing and full moon circles!

Kristen Rivera

Kristen is a graduate of the MSY Yoga Teacher Training program and a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. She earned an MBA from university but is flourishing by focusing on self-care and sharing that with others.

A practitioner since 2011, Kristen is passionate about nervous system resilience and strives to incorporate this into her classes. As a vagus nerve warrior, she has found a renewed presence from a regular yoga practice and delights in sharing this mindfulness with others. She currently teaches Good Morning Flow and Mellow Flow at MSY.

Kristen is currently rearing two younger children. When she is not on the mat she can be found exploring the emergent outdoors, savoring scrumptious foods, and spending time with her husband, children, and pup.  

Carrie McDougal

Carrie is a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level. Immediately after graduating the teacher training program at Main Street Yoga, she enrolled in the “Breathing Deeply” Yoga Therapy Program and is now a “yoga therapist in training.”

Carrie began her yoga journey with meditation after having three children within four years. She was mentally exhausted, stressed out, and felt like she was losing her mind.  Yoga and meditation helped - so much so that years later she realized she wanted to help others who struggle the same way she does. Carrie firmly believes that healing can occur with daily yoga and mediation. 

Carrie works full time as an OP Manager of Quality Review at MEDSTAR Health. In her free time, she enjoys reading, swimming, gardening, most anything outdoors. She loves spending quality time with her children and grandchildren and traveling with friends and family.

Gracie Tarley

Gracie is a 2020 graduate of MSY’s 200-hour yoga teacher training program and is registered as an RYT 200 with Yoga Alliance. She brings a renewed and youthful spirit to her classes, encouraging others to make self-care a priority through the practice of yoga, no matter their age. She is passionate about incorporating yoga, meditation, and essential oils to guide others towards a healthy lifestyle –physically, spiritually, and mentally. 

Gracie has 17 years of dance training, but it wasn’t until 2016 that she took her first yoga class - here at MSY. She quickly fell in love with yoga and meditation, as they provided her with a sense of ease and clarity when dealing with school and the complexities of young adult life.

While enrolled in MSY’s teacher training program, Gracie attended West Virginia University and graduated in December 2022. She currently teaches Awakening Flow, Rest and Restore, and Invigorating Yoga!

Jasmine Moran

Jasmine began her journey into Qigong through YOQI®, a global qigong training organization. Having completed two years of training, she is now an associate Qigong instructor who continues her advanced studies with YOQI®.

Jasmine’s classes provide a structured framework for tapping into “qi” - universal life force - while promoting harmony with the natural rhythms of life. Her “seasonal” approach to Qigong (“chee-gong”) complements the energy and dynamics at play in nature in order to maintain physical, mental, and emotional balance.

Jasmine is a lover of plants, gardening, flowers and time in nature. She is a perpetual student of wellness and natural well-being. She became a full time Qigong instructor and assistant with Kriya Yoga Online in 2023. She travels nationally and internationally with her partner, Ryan Kurczak, offering Qigong sessions at Kriya Yoga Meditation retreats.