Meet the SOL Teachers!
Our SOL Yoga mission is to provide a safe and welcoming space for everyBODY to practice yoga. Fostering a positive and supportive yoga community for all levels and all ages. We offer yoga classes and workshops for all levels.
Patti Agatston
Vinyasa Flow + Yin Yoga
Patti is a RYT 200 and a Licensed Professional Counselor who serves as the Coordinator of Crisis Response for the Cobb County School District. She began her practice of yoga 7 years ago and was amazed at how beneficial it was to her both personally and professionally. She recognized that in our distracted and reactive world, coming back to the mat provided the centering many of us crave.She completed her yoga teacher training at Sol Yoga in the spring of 2019, and pursued certification as a Y12SR space holder so that she could share the yoga of 12 step recovery with anyone impacted by addiction. Patti is past-President of the International Bullying Prevention Association and has led a yoga session at its conference emphasizing the importance of self-care. She loves hiking and traveling with her husband and is thrilled when her adult sons can join them.
Kyler Brady
Vinyasa Flow + Yin Yoga
Kyler’s yoga journey began as a focus on the physical practice, but she quickly realized that yoga was way more than a sequence of poses. Her own experience of yoga is what led her to teaching 5 years ago. She is a 200-hour yoga teacher registered under Yoga Alliance. To name a few, she has trained with Atlanta local teachers such as Annelise Lonider and Meryl Arnett as well as Laughing Lotus teachers such as Dana Flynn and Ali Cramer. Yoga allows Kyler to have and to cultivate these flashes of understanding and compassion that communicate a fierce truth. With this practice and understanding, she’s able to connect better with herself and the world around her. Kyler’s practice has been powerful and healing. Her definition of yoga is creativity, clarity, and a living art. Since she has developed her craft of teaching yoga, she has had a humbling and empowering experience. She leans towards Vinyasa and Yin-style classes with a creative and purposeful intention. Kyler teaches yoga in hopes of bringing tools to others that will help bring clarity, compassion, and understanding in their lives.
Leyla Christopher
Vinyasa Flow + Yin Yoga
Leyla discovered yoga a little over 10 years ago as many people do, a way to combat the stress of work. As her practiced deepen, so did the belief she should be teaching yoga. She received her 200 hour certification from Sacred Thread Yoga and has continued the path of learning with advance training in Alignment/ Adjustments, Yin, Restorative and Nidra. Leyla is a dedicated student of yoga; she is always exploring new teachers, ancient beliefs, and styles of yoga. Leyla is a vinyasa based teacher. Her classes are intention focused and inspirational. While her voice will soothe you, she will challenge you and certainly empower you. Inspired by her own yogic journey, her creative flows and playlist vary as do the intentions. She loves to offer hands on adjustments and encouraging words. When not exploring yoga, she very often is traveling, making art, or spending times with friends, family and of course, her cute pup Sass.
Samantha Clayton
Aerial Yoga
In 2017, Samantha surprised her husband with a date night doing something they had never heard of – aerial yoga. Samantha fell in love! She found a local studio and started taking all the aerial classes she could. Being inverted and climbing up in the fabric is her favorite part of class. It’s so freeing, and a fun way to work on your core and upper body strength.Samantha enjoys sharing this love of aerial with her young daughter, who is constantly asking to be in Mommy’s hammock! She completed her aerial yoga teacher training through Launch Awareness’ certification. She enjoys teaching as well as continuing her own practice. Outside the studio, Samantha lives a zero waste friendly lifestyle. She enjoys photography, traveling, reading, and is a background actor.
Carole Fischer
Vinyasa + Aerial Yoga + Yin
Carole Fischer has been practicing yoga for about 9 years. She completed her 200 hour teacher training in 2017 with Cindy Olah at Sacred Garden Yoga. Carole has two degrees in both early childhood education and health and wellness. When she is not playing the role of wife and mother, you can find her gardening, playing in the woods with Timbernook of West Georgia, or reading.Carole is passionate about educating adults and children in living mindfully using the tools and philosophy of yoga. She encourages her students to listen to their body, paying attention to how it moves anatomically and energetically, and to find the inner courage to dig deeper, love fuller, and find contentment in their lives.
Belinda Fleming
Vinyasa + Aerial Yoga + Yin
Belinda was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an RYT-500 registered yoga teacher and Founder of SOL Yoga Studio. She has a passion for teaching yoga and a mindful approach to healthy living. She has spent her life nurturing and caring for others. Belinda is a Registered Nurse with many years experience in critical care.
She began consistently practicing yoga in 2008 and then obtained certification as RYT-200 in 2014 at OnlYoga in Atlanta under John Meredith. Belinda completed her RYT-300 certification at Dorje Yoga under Jessie Fletcher. Additionally, she is certified in Thai Yoga Massage and Bodywork under Michael Stizer and certified in Aerial Yoga under Vita Lo Fria at Vita-Prana Yoga. Belinda has completed Bridge to Lotus Flow certification under Dana Trixie Flynn & Ali Cramer and Super Sequencing at Laughing Lotus in New York.
Prior to becoming a lover of all things yoga, Belinda completed several marathons including New York, Chicago and Boston raising several thousands of dollars for Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital for cancer research. She is also a former Atlanta Falcons Cheerleader.
Join Belinda for a class at SOL Yoga where you will find her cultivating vulnerability and openness that comes straight from the heart!
Allison Ford
Yin Yoga + Kids Yoga
Allison Ford turned to yoga after many years of being a strict athlete. She began dance and competitive sports at a young age, moving on to play as a top-level athlete, playing for the Women’s Professional Football League as a wide-receiver. After many years of wear, she sustained a back injury, causing her to find an alternative solution following surgery. She turned to both yoga and dance in order to find new healing for her back and discovered her love for yoga in that exploration.
As a competitive athlete, she gained a new perspective with yoga and found a new honor for the body and mind. From there, she got certified as a yoga instructor and soon she created two unique student programs: One focusing on meditation and breath techniques for high stakes writing and testing, and the other on yoga for athletes which focuses on stretching, movement, and guided meditation for high performance goals. Her ultimate goal is to spread the practice of yoga and meditation from the studio to the classroom setting, and beyond.
She had been a featured speaker and instructor for TEDx Women, Women’s Empowerment Expo, Junior Achievement Annual Youth Conference, Yoga Fun Day and more.
Julie Hawkins
Vinyasa Flow
As a hiker, runner, & personal trainer, Julie was introduced to yoga in 2010 as a compliment to her active lifestyle. In 2013, after the loss of her mother, Julie began to develop a consistent personal practice. She quickly realized that she wanted to gain a greater understanding of this ancient practice. In 2015 she enrolled in Jessie Fletcher’s Dorje Yoga 200RYT program and recently completed her 500hr.
Julie is committed to not only making the practice accessible to every body type, but to also provide her students with the tools to use this practice to navigate through all the obstacles that life will continue to throw our way.
Paige Hinton
Vinyasa Flow
Hi, I’m Paige Hinton and I love sharing my passion for yoga with women and men who need a physical, mental and spiritual boost. When I started practicing yoga I was a professional dancer in NYC who was looking for another ”workout” to stay skinny. But here’s what I found: yoga became a spiritual journey and my sweaty workout; staying fit and strong and a new appreciation for my body.
My training in vinyasa yoga, my experience teaching since 2009, background as a professional dancer, meditation practice, Bachelors’ degree in Holistic Nutrition and spiritual studies have allowed me to guide people on and off the mat to healing their mind/body/spirit, living fuller and happier lives in a body that they absolutely love. I completed my 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training at Laughing Lotus in New York under Ali Cramer and Dana Trixie Flynn.
I’m known for the insights, playfulness, and compassion for people of all types, sense of humor and deep love for yoga. I bring unique guidance and teaching style to my students to facilitate their transformation and class experience.
With my dance background, I teach an inspiring class playing with the creativity of yoga while focusing on correct alignment of the poses.
Ready for down dog? Let’s go!
William Klausmeyer
Yin + Ashtanga
As a young man, William Klausmeyer was drawn to the healing arts intuitively. Using his hands and functioning as a ‘hollow bone’ or conduit for the higher good of others came naturally to him. Doing the best he could with what he had at the time in the way of understanding this inclination, he pursued a career in Dentistry. He attended the University of Michigan, both for his undergraduate and graduate studies, then went off to build a successful dental practice in Florida.
Over time, his draw to alternative forms of healing grew stronger, and he was able to utilize many of the excellent energy workers in South Florida, who both provided him with care, but also helped further open his mind, heart and soul to the power of energy work. One highlight from this period was his completion of The Transformational Experience with Sari Terrusa of TSI in Tequesta. It was his first experience with transformational breathwork. This lead to work utilizing hypnotic regression, work with clairvoyants and with other forms of breathwork.
Years later Bill was lead into yoga, and then into Ashtanga Yoga, which further took him in the direction of intuitively guided healing modalities. William completed his 200 hour YTT at Balance Yoga in Atlanta. He also completed the Yin TT with Douglas Johnson (mahapata yoga). William teaches Yin deep stretching at SOL and also offers healing Sonic Prana Sound bath classes.
Kasi Reilly
Buti Yoga
Kasi Reilly and loves sharing movement, because movement truly heals. Her love of movement started an early age with ballet and contemporary dance, and along the way, she has ran marathons, kick boxed, weight trained, and much more.
Kasi stumbled upon yoga fifteen years ago under the instruction of Steven Metz and fell in love with his vinyasa classes – connecting breath and movement. Kasi then became a 200 registered yoga teacher, and began teaching vinyasa yoga, barre classes, as well as personal training.
Buti Yoga fell into Kasi’s lap 5 years ago. For her, it was the perfect fusion of yoga, kundalini yoga, chakra balancing, and dance. She immediately fell in love, and she enjoys teaching the dynamic style of Buti yoga, and is so honored to be part of Sol Yoga.
Christina Rodriguez
Vinyasa Flow + Yin Yoga
Christina approaches teaching yoga from a place of service and she is dedicated to providing a safe space in her classes for ALL individuals at all levels of experience. Christina is a 200hr RYT, certified Yoga for All teacher, and has additional training in trauma informed best practices. She is currently working to obtain her 500hr certification through Johns Creek Yoga. Christina encourages students to have their own lived experience of yoga by using interoceptive language and cuing that creates space for an authentic and personalized approach. While she strives to offer engaging, intelligent and challenging sequences in her classes, she ultimately hopes that the this practice will facilitate greater awareness and freedom for students on and off the mat.
