VILLAGE YOGA STUDIO
TEACHERS
Bonnie Phillips, owner of Village Yoga Studio,
is a Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher certified at the 250-hour level of instruction. She continues to attend various workshops to enhance her teaching abilities. Among the many yoga teachers she has been honored to study and practice with are Elizabeth Barr, Jennifer Cann, Mary Crews, Lesa Crocker, Lynn Felder, Rolf Gates, Ti Harmony, J J Gormley, Stephanie Keach, Doug Keller, Deb Lazer, Hollis Mickey, Steve and Elaine Nelson, Doug Swenson, Maureen Stitt and Lisa Tendler..
In addition to her most important role as the mother of four beautiful children, Bonnie has a keen interest in physical,
mental, and spiritual fitness. She has been a certified personal trainer for over 20 years and has been involved in competitive athletics. More recently, she passionately embraced yoga, first and always as a student, but later with the intention of sharing her passion and knowledge with as many people as possible.
Teaching and practicing at various locations throughout the years, she has now realized one of her dreams in Village Yoga Studio—a space dedicated to the practice and instruction of Yoga Asana. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge and passion for yoga with you.
Maureen Stitt is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor who was introduced to Hatha Yoga in 1995. She began her yoga studies at the Yoga Zone in Manhattan and currently studies with Yoganand Michael Carroll, who teaches in the Kripalu tradition. Maureen’s experience includes teaching all levels of hatha yoga, private instruction, running her own yoga studio, and teaching in several other studios in the Greenwich, CT and New York area. Her classes are known for their great variety and playfulness, and she likes to empathize a moving away from the known to the unknown.
A native of southwest Virginia, Elizabeth Sadler Weiler now calls North Carolina home.  Elizabeth retired from a long career as an educational administrator in 2005, and decided to deepen her yoga practice by earning her teacher certification from Stephanie Keach in Asheville, N.C. in 2007.  A yoga practitioner for twelve years, Elizabeth has studied with Suzy Hurley, Rachel Crawford Goolsby, Bonnie Phillips, Sarah Faircloth, John Friend,Amy Schneider, Sydney Hughes Mcgee and Doug Keller. Her preferred method of teaching is a gentle, therapeutic style, focusing on deep breathing and building heat to loosen constrictions in the body. She believes that the practice of yoga deepens one’s connection with the energy in the spiritual body as well as the physical one.
Lindsey Meacham, RYT has been practicing yoga since her first introduction in 2003. Inspired by the many mental and physical benefits of the practice, Lindsey attended the Yandara Yoga Institute of Todos Santos, Mexico in 2009 - receiving a teaching certification at the 200hr level in Alignment-based Flow. Since then, Lindsey has continually studied the physical, philosophical and spiritual aspects of yoga - attending workshops in many traditions including Anusara, Vinyasa flow, Yin Yoga, Iyengar and Viniyoga. Her classes encourage compassion and full awareness of the physical, mental and emotional bodies.


Cara Hagen, "As a yoga practitioner and teacher, I believe in a practice which stresses correctness of form, the union of movement and breath, and attention to lines of energy created in both the physical and subtle bodies. My practice and my classes have been greatly influenced by the Vinyasa and Iyengar traditions, as well as dance, in which I have received my BFA from the UNC School of the arts. I received my 330 hour certification at the Triad Yoga Institute in Greensboro under the tutelage of Terry Brown. I am registered with the Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level. I have previously studied yoga at Yoga Works New York with various teachers in the Vinyasa, Anusara and Iyengar styles. I have attended workshops with Nicolai Bachman, Doug Keller, Har Darshan Khalsa, Aadil palkhivala, Bo Forbes and Matthew Seweeney. The list continues to grow as I attend workshops on a regular basis to increase my skills and knowledge of all the different aspects and approaches to yoga. When not on the mat, I am a professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. I am artistic director of 87 Dance Productions and an adjunct faculty member at High Point University. My dance work and yoga work inform each other, in that each practice asks me to look deep inside myself and bring to the surface parts of my soul. Both require great discipline and dedication, and both can be a path to enlightenment!"
Jennifer Haydon began practicing yoga in 1980, while in college at the University of Tennessee and became immediately smitten. She has remained deeply in love with yoga ever since! She received her certification in Hatha Yoga from The World Yoga Center in Manhatten in 1986. She is also certified to teach prenatal, postnatal and those with heart disease. While living in California for the past 20 years, Jennifer immersed herself in the Iyengar, Anusara and Yin Yoga traditions. She also studied restorative yoga extensively with Judith Lasater. One of her objectives as a yoga teacher is to help her students discover the poses from the inside, rather than force them from the outside. She focuses on the breath and in slowing down in order to really feel the poses and their effects and after effects on the body, mind and spirit. Her classes are deeply relaxing, joyful and fun.


Elliott Watlington, (RYT) is a dynamic and compassionate yoga teacher who attended East Carolina University where he was a member of the men’s soccer team. He received his BA in philosophy and religious studies and specialized in eastern philosophy and religion. While studying abroad in India through the university he took his first Yoga class in Rishikesh and has practiced and studied Yoga daily ever since. He has studied Jivamukti, Sivananda, Intergral, Kripalu, and Ashtanga yoga traditions through out the country. Elliott received his teacher training certification in Ashtanga Vinyasa style yoga in India at the Tattva Yogashala located on the banks of the Ganges River in Rishikesh. He has taught yoga classes at the university level, in India, and in detention centers to at-risk teens. Elliott’s classes are physically demanding yet approachable for even the beginning level student. He teaches his students to focus on their breath and stays true to the traditional yoga style in which he received his training.