Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati, RYT is the executive director and spiritual director of Kashi Atlanta. She has a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and has studied yoga, meditation and healing in depth since 1985. The focus of her training has been in Hatha, Kundalini and Kali yogas. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance at their highest 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 Yoga. Jaya Devi is an ordained minister and monk in the lineage of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and the Kashi Foundation. She continues her training as a close student of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati at Kashi Ashram in Sebastian, Florida.

Jaya Devi began teaching yoga in 1992. She has taught yoga all over Atlanta, from corporations to hospitals, meditation centers to yoga studios. Her well-rounded classical style is approachable while still maintaining the great depth of an authentic practice. She teaches meditation and pranayama (breathwork), as well as yoga for all levels. She also does spiritual counseling sessions, offering her insight and years of spiritual practice to help individuals work through their own personal struggles. She initiated and taught the Immune Yoga for AIDS and HIV at Grady Hospital Infectious Diseases Clinic. Jaya Devi is very committed to educating the public in compassion, self-healing and how to serve without burning out - she teaches both staff and clientele at organizations such as Georgia Parents Support Network, AIDS Survival Project, Common Ground AIDS Facility and Skyland Trail Mental Health Facility.

Jaya Devi is the initiator of Kashi Atlanta’s Street Meals Program for feeding and assisting Atlanta's homeless and hungry. She is the co-founder of the Kashi Atlanta Care Team. Jaya Devi's teaching style emphasizes love, compassion, open-heartedness, and selfless service.

Agni Ma has studied yoga, meditation and spiritual growth in depth with Ma Jaya and Jaya Devi since 1999. She has been teaching yoga at Kashi Atlanta for over three years, and assists in coordinating Kashi Atlanta’s Certified Yoga Teachers Training course. Agni Ma is a member of the Board of Directors and is a resident of one of the Ashram houses. She is also a lawyer at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and has worked as a poverty and civil rights lawyer for over a decade.

Kim Alford has been a student of Yoga since 1994. She teaches at Kashi Atlanta in the lineage of her guru, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. Kim graduated from Kashi Atlanta's first Classical Yoga teacher's Training in 2004. Her style of teaching is compassionate, grounded and heart-centered. She believes in being a student first and a teacher second. Just as her beloved teacher Jaya Devi Bhagavati taught her, Kim emphasizes that Yoga is about raising your consciousness and being present within the moment, not how easily you can touch your toes. Kim is continually grateful for the gift of Yoga and wants nothing more than to share it.

Isvari Verre has been studying yoga fervently since 2002 under the guidance of her mentor, Swami Jaya Devi.  She has been a teacher at Kashi since 2005 after she graduated from the first Kashi Classical Yoga Teacher's training.  Isvari's intense love for yoga led her to take the teacher’s training 2 more times in order to go deeper into her discipline.  Since then she has taken trainings in Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga, Kali Natha and Advanced Therapeutics.  Isvari is an Anusara-Inspired yoga teacher currently working her way toward her 500 hour full certification under the guidance of John Friend.  She teaches many yoga workshops at Kashi which include Mastering the Basics, Inversions, Backbends and Balancing Vata; she also teaches posture clinics for the Teacher Training each year and private yoga instruction.  Her weekly classes at Kashi include Power Vinyasa and Anusara-Inspired Yoga which integrate a significant emphasis on alignment during a heart opening practice. To keep a broad, informed and layered asana perspective, she is well practiced in many other traditions of yoga as well including Iyengar, Bikram, Power Core, Power Vinyasa , Ashtanga and Kali Natha and uses it all to serve her students passionately.

Skanda has been studying yoga for over five years 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 chela to Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and student of Jaya Devi Bhagavati for five years and currently 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 has been practicing yoga and meditation since 1998, and has studied with 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 and Tommy Moss. He studied classical yoga in Kashi Atlanta's Classical Yoga Teachers Training in 2004 and 2007.

In 2000, he was introduced to kirtan, a form of spiritual practice using melodic chanting, by his teacher, Jaya Devi. He's since performed and/or recorded with Arlo Guthrie, Bhagavan Das, Arjuna (Dave) Stringer, John Friend, and Wynne Paris, and yoga workshops with Jaya Devi Bhagavati and Acharya Swami Krishnapriya of 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 6pm Beginner's Yoga, as well as the Yoga Boot Camp.

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.