Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati, E-RYT 500 is the executive director of Kashi Atlanta, a Yoga Alliance certified school. She has taught yoga and meditation all over the world. Since 2003, Swami Jaya Devi has developed and conducted Kashi Atlanta’s Classical Yoga Teacher Training, which has graduated over 150 Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teachers at the 200-hour level.

Swami Jaya Devi has studied yoga, meditation and healing in depth since 1985. The focus of Jaya Devi’s training has been in Hatha, Kundalini and Kali Natha yogas. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level, a Certified Yoga Teacher through The Kundalini Research Institute, 3HO International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association, Amrit Yoga Institute, as well as a Senior Teacher of Kali Natha Yoga. Swami Jaya Devi is a member of the Dattatreya Saraswati Kali order of Sanyas in the lineage of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and the Kashi Foundation, and a close student of Ma Jaya at Kashi Ashram in Sebastian, Florida. She was given the title Yoga Acharya which means “master teacher of yoga” in 2007.

Since 1992, Swami Jaya Devi has taught yoga extensively and to a wide range of audiences - from international interfaith conferences, corporations and hospitals to meditation centers and yoga studios. The author of the Classical Yoga Teachers Training Manual, Swami Jaya Devi initiated the first Immune Yoga for AIDS and HIV in the Southeast, and founded Kashi Atlanta’s Street Meals program. Her well-rounded classical style is approachable while still maintaining the great depth of an authentic practice. Throughout her teachings, Swami Jaya Devi emphasizes personal depth, compassion, awareness and open-heartedness.

Agni Ma, E-RYT 200, began studying yoga and meditation in depth with Swami Jaya Devi and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati in 1999 when she injured her back after four months of boxing. She immediately fell in love with the yoga high, and her back healed quickly. In addition to teaching yoga and meditation classes, she coordinates the Kashi Atlanta Yoga Teacher Training, offers private instruction and teaches a variety of workshops including Yoga Boot Camp, Arm Balances & Inversions, and Meditation and Pranayama, as well as workshops to refine teaching techniques. Agni Ma is working towards obtaining her 500 hour Yoga Alliance certification this year.  She is also a member of the Board of Directors and resides at Kashi Atlanta Ashram. A lawyer at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Agni Ma has worked as a poverty and civil rights lawyer and advocate for 25 years. She loves to share the yoga and meditation that have kept her passionate about life and serving others, both on and off the mat.

Kim Candika Alford, E-RYT 200, began some serious flirting with the practices of yoga in the early 90's when she was a teenager. After finding her teachers, Swami Jaya Devi and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, she embraced the community at Kashi Atlanta in 1998 and deepened her study of yoga and meditation. After completing their first 200 hour teacher training in 2003, she began teaching right away. For many years Kim struggled with chronic pain, which lead her to discover the deeper healing practices of yoga. Her life has been transformed and she feels she can face challenges with grace because of her broad spectrum of yoga practices (asana, pranayama, mantra and meditation.) She's also studied Anusara Yoga® with Gina Minyard, completing the Anusara Immersions with Gina and Part I Teacher Training with Christina Sell. The Anusara methodology and therapeutics have created a platform from which Kim has advanced her physical practice and teaching techniques. In addition to teaching classes, she co-teaches the Kashi Atlanta Yoga Teacher Training, offers private instruction and teaches a variety of workshops including Partner Yoga, Yoga for Chronic Pain and workshops for new yoga teachers who want to refine their teaching strategies. With absolute gratitude for being able to serve others, Kim is passionate about helping practitioners uncover freedom, creativity and courage in their own practices, in both body and mind. Kim is also an accomplished Art Director/Graphic Designer, working with her clients to create solid branding and design for their businesses.

Skanda (Kevin Miraglia), E-RYT 200 has been studying yoga since 2000 and completed the Classical Yoga Teachers Training in both 2004 and 2005 at Kashi Atlanta. His foundation of yoga is classically based, infusing Kali, Hatha, Kundalini, and Ashtanga Yoga styles. He has been a student of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati since he began practicing yoga and resides in the Kashi Atlanta Ashram. He is an avid student of Kali Natha Yoga as taught by Ma Jaya. He has also studied yoga with Mukanda Stiles, Structural Yoga Therapist.

Skanda Jaya is a very active participant in the Twelve Steps of Recovery. He sponsors and guides others in their healing of addictions and is currently teaching Yoga for Addictions.

Ganesh Giri, RYT 200, has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1998, and has studied with Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati since May 2000. He's studied ashtanga and Power yoga with David Swenson, Bryan Kest, Adele Gale, John Meredith and Tommy Moss. He studied classical yoga in Kashi Atlanta's Classical Yoga Teachers Training (YA 200hr) in 2004 and 2007. He completed the Kali Natha Yoga Teachers Training (YA 200hr) with Ma Jaya in 2010.

In 2000, he was introduced to kirtan, a form of spiritual practice using melodic chanting, by his teacher, Swami Jaya Devi. He's since performed and/or recorded with Arlo Guthrie, Bhagavan Das, Arjuna (Dave) Stringer, John Friend, and Wynne Paris, and performed for yoga workshops with Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati and other teachers in Kashi Ashram in Sebastian, FL. Ganesh Giri also leads kirtan at Kashi Atlanta, and is a freelance musician in the Atlanta area. Ganesh Giri teaches the Monday 10 am Yoga class, and Tuesday 6 pm Beginner's Yoga, and Thursday 6 pm Yoga.

Frani Green (Shakti) has been studying yoga since 1985 and teaching for nine years. she is a certified Yoga Instructor through the International Yoga Institute, the American Aerobic Association International, and the International Sports Medicine Association.

Shakti has studied with Jaya Devi Bhagavati, Shiva Rea, David Life, and Mukta Khalsa, as well as studying at the Kripalu Yoga Institute. Her background includes studies in Kundalini Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Kripalu, Ashtanga Yoga, and Bikram style. She has taught classes that include Beginner’s Yoga, Basic Yoga, Advanced Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Kids Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Meditation, Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga for Sports, and Immune Yoga.

Shakti enjoys teaching yoga because it helps mental focus, cleanses the mind, builds a strong spine, and promotes good health. “I like to share this gift with people because I know it makes them feel better.”

Since 1998, childbirth studies, holistic health and yoga have been a passion and integral part of Mukti’s development as a yoga practitioner and instructor. Mukti is a recent graduate of Kashi Atlanta’s teacher training and has been a dedicated student of Ma Jaya and Jaya Devi for 3 years. Recently, her yoga and massage studies have grown to include a focus on creating and maintaining reproductive health before, during, and after pregnancy through holistic, non-invasive practices of massage, yoga asana, and meditative visualization. Her combined knowledge and experience of meditation, yoga asana, childbirth education, herbalism, and massage therapy as well as her work as a labor birth doula, provide a well-rounded breadth of knowledge available to participants in her pre-natal classes.