OUR TEACHERS
Kelly Dougherty
Kelly promotes a calm, comfortable aura through her teaching. Her class provides the space where your lists and outside responsibilities are not welcome. This is your time to find relaxation and rejuvenation. She teaches various styles that strengthen and challenge both the body and mind. Her use of various props & functional movements assist the student in gaining the most out of every pose.
Kelly Dougherty is a vibrant woman who is trying to help ground others in wholesome disciplines. A free yoga class at college was her first experience with yoga. After college she found herself developing a personal practice while living in Nicaragua for 2 years. During that time she continuously shared yoga with many of her friends and neighbors. After moving to North Carolina in 2010, she wanted to deepen her knowledge and experience with yoga and studied at Sunrise Yoga Studio in Clemmons, NC. Yoga has been a constant grounding presence in her life, while growing Yoga on Main Studio. For the past 12 years, Kelly has built relationships, connection & community in and around yoga classes.
Knowing that goal of wellness is more fulfilled when we have each other!
Kelly also runs Lavender Anne's Herb Farm has a small homestead where they grow food and herbs for their business. Kelly loves connecting her study of the mind and body with the study of the earth. She believes taking care of our own bodies, each other and the earth is the way to healing!
Sheila Lehman
Sheila is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) through SmartFlow Yoga under Annie Carpenter and RYT500 through Shanti Yoga. She is also a Reiki Master, Certified Aromatherapist, Folk Herbalist, as well as being certified in Yoga for All, Trauma-Informed Yoga, WildCore movement, and Expressive Yoga Dance. Besides training with Annie Carpenter, she has taken workshops with master teachers, such as Shiva Rea, Rodney Yee, Seane Corn, Aadil Palkhivala, and Dharma Mittra. Sheila has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. She came to yoga in an attempt to find relief from herniated and prolapsed discs in her lower spine. The slow mindful movements provided by yoga resulted in her finding connection, space, relief, and eventually healing.
For Sheila yoga is a way of life, not just on the mat but also off of it. She believes there is no proverbial “yoga body” but rather that yoga is for “every body” regardless of age, size, gender, or physical ability. It is a dance between breath and movement that allows the individual to bring these two things together in harmony. With proper alignment, modifications, and props every body and everybody can move into that “perfect” pose.
Erin enjoys teaching yoga to “every body”, knowing it is a way of life that can help a restless or troubled mind come to “peace through practice.” Chronically suffering from untreated anxiety and having come to a crossroads in her life, she knew she wanted to make a permanent change for her mental and physical health. Yoga, being a joy to practice, and a way to shut off the brain while moving the body, Erin decided to become a certified yoga instructor.
Being fortunate enough to relocate to the beautiful foothills of North Carolina, Erin was able to train in Clemmons, NC with Valerie Kieser, ERYT 500, C-IAYT, YACEP. It was with this training that she was able to delve more deeply into a more mindful, healthy and compassionate way of living and thinking, making wonderful friends while navigating the next stage, teaching.
Erin is a certified RYT200, with additional training and certification in Yoga Assisting, Yin and Prenatal yoga; she knows that learning is never over for a yoga teacher and draws knowledge and inspiration from her co instructors and practice plus additional courses and certifications.
She joyfully teaches Yin, as well as Hatha flow, and other styles at Yoga on Main in Elkin, NC. You can catch her teaching on various farms in the Yadkin Valley as a fun way to experience the outdoors.
Erin Shiner
Melissa Ameika
Hua! My name is Melissa Ameika and my calling is to be the light and to be of service in our community. I have been practicing Reiki since 2005 and was certified as a Reiki Master/Teacher in 2009. As a life long lover of music and its healing power, I was trained in Sound Healing in 2019. I have had the pleasure of studying indigenous healing techniques and ceremony with various medicine men/women since 2009 and my desire is to share that knowledge and healing.
Some of my greatest joy is giving Reiki to animals such as dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, birds, etc.
I have spent many years volunteering at cancer centers and had the pleasure of participating in Reiki research. I also volunteered with the Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) in Las Vegas, NV, where I responded to scenes of tragedy with First Responders to provide practical and emotional support to survivors, witnesses and first responders.
Website: www.healingfrommedicaltrauma.weebly.com
Email: melissa.ameika@gmail.com
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Kim is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with a passion for helping clients achieve their fitness and wellness goals. She taught strength training classes and coached Nutrition for four years in Washington State. Kim moved to North Carolina in October of last year, and is excited to continue teaching strength training classes here.
Kim Campbell
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Kristy was raised in Winston-Salem, NC but moved away for many years. Kristy is back and loves the Elkin area. Kristy has been a Licensed Clinical Social worker since 2009 but also worked in mental health prior to full licensure. Kristy now works at Atrium WFBH as a counselor at the Weight Management Clinic where she also teaches a chair yoga class. Kristy earned her 200 hour Yoga certification in August of 2022. Kristy believes in good self care, giving ourselves grace, and accepting and loving each of our unique qualities. Kristy is excited to share chair yoga with anyone willing to learn! This is a very gentle and accessible practice for everyone!
Kristy Zappia
Sarah McWilson
Sarah sees yoga as an integral part of her own self-care, empowerment, and ability to feel grounded in her body, and connected to spirit. When she’s practicing yoga, the rest of her life flows with less resistance. It’s her intention to share this sense of being with others. And make yoga feel accessible and approachable to all.
Sarah’s relationship with yoga dates back to college, where she took multiple semesters. Several years later, saying “yes” to the opportunity to take over a class at a local gym helped further her desire to guide yoga, while offering her a needed balance to running.
In 2017, while living in St. Augustine, Florida, Sarah completed the immersive 200-hour certification program at Discovery Yoga Center, in the Kripalu tradition. With an emphasis on pranayama (breath as life force) and making yoga adaptable and inclusive, this experience gave Sarah the framework she’s built upon since.
Sarah’s led pop-up offerings from farm fields to communal spaces, while living tiny on wheels for the past five years, and creating public art installations in the form of painted murals, alongside her partner as HAND IN HAND. Home is a 100-square-foot DIY box truck affectionately named “The Marshmellow” (spelled mellow with the intention to be more chill).
Elkin has become Sarah’s homebase, and she looks forward to sharing her yoga practice through her All Levels Flow class. So much of our life is lived in the mind. Sarah’s goal is helping you feel more at home within your body.
Outside of yoga and creative work, Sarah’s other meditative practice is trail running. Like everything in her life, it’s all for connection! — with self, and within community.
Sarah writes a weekly-ish letter on being human and letting go called “Learning to Float.” You can read and receive it here: learningtofloat.substack.com
Collaborative creative work: handinhandcreative.org
Kym Goins
Kym Goins didn’t think yoga was something she could do in her large body. And she set out to prove herself wrong. In that process, she found that yoga is an opportunity to show up for ourselves where we are right now and tune in. It’s a practice of connection. It teaches us how to care in a more balanced way for ourselves and others. It is something that is definitely worth overcoming your fears to try and do. You could start here.
The weekly Body Kindness class that Kym teaches, most often begins with breath work and then works slowly into stretches, movement and the practice of the poses. It is a quiet, gentle way to begin the day. The focus on modifications and use of multiple props allows stretching and poses to be more accessible for our bodies. And our bodies tend to be different every day. It’s a light hearted affair and at times a heart opening one too.
Kym has been teaching yoga since 2015. She is certified in Curvy Yoga, Yin Yoga and Deep Stretch Yoga. She has completed courses in Yoga for Trauma, Yoga for All, and Yoga for Addiction. She is invested in yoga being accessible to everyone. EVERYONE. She is a lover of poetry and carries a book of Mary Oliver’s poems with her everywhere she goes. She loves three dogs, a crippled deer and windy days.
If you have questions about this class, you can email kymgoins@gmail.com and she’d be happy to explore that conversation with you.
My love for group fitness began in 2001 with the opening of the Yadkin Family YMCA. I began teaching a variety of classes there 2 years later and until my family relocated out of the area in 2013.
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We returned to Elkin in 2017. That’s when I discovered a love for yoga. I won’t ever forget how excited I was about learning the COREBarre practice over 8 years ago. Being an instructor at Yoga on Main for the past 8 years has allowed me to share my passion for fitness and for teaching with the community.
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I live right in town with my husband of 23 years. We have 3 teenagers, 2 cats, and a dog. In addition to barre & yoga, my hobbies include running, volunteering, travel, and politics.
Amanda Brewer
Hi, I’m Ashley, most people call me Ash.
special needs mama to mighty milo | clairsentient medium & channel 🜃 | AuDHD | gemini + mani-gen | expansion spotting & somatic reiki practitioner | anxiety alchemist
I work with neurodivergent, spiritually awakening women - esp mamas raising high-support-needs or nonverbal children. I use a cutting-edge modality called expansion spotting to help you connect intuitively with your spirit guides, highest selves, your kids, and go quantum level deep.
Special needs parenting split me wide open in ways I never planned… and launched a full-on, no-turning-back spiritual awakening. Not on my vision board, but here we are! Life is already a kick in the pants. Add perimenopause + caregiving + awakening + fascist takeover? Absolutely unhinged.
I’m a coffee music & book connoisseur. I cuss for emphasis and fun, and love all things folklore & mystical. I’m a visual learner, so I use tv shows and movies as metaphors in the way I teach a LOT. Because if it’s not neurosparkly-proof, why learn about it?
Somatic practices and energy work changed everything and brought me home to my body, my intuition, and my truth. Now, I hold grounded, judgment-free spaces where you can safely explore your intuition, connect beyond the veil, and be reminded of your innate, divine light and wholeness within.
Ashley Matthews
Hi, I’m Kate France! I grew up in Elkin but moved away for college to attend UNCW. I was based in Wilmington for around 10 years with a few breaks living in France, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Connecticut. Wilmington is where I first discovered and fell in love with pilates. I immediately felt a deep connection with it - it made exercise feel like a gift instead of a chore. I have always been a very high energy person but while practicing pilates, I am able to find calmness and peace. It keeps me grounded in a world that is very easy to get caught up in. Having two small children brought my Husband and I back home to Elkin to be near family. We love this community so much, so I am very grateful and excited to be able to give back to it by teaching something I love so dearly.