About

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Everyone Yoga started from the realization that the community of Ridgewood didn’t have any yoga studios, and that there were so many in need of a space to get together to move and release – in a real, real people way. For those who live stressful lives, those who have hectic schedules, those who don’t have time: Everyone Yoga is a space that emerged to become a sacred space for you. We want to replicate the feeling of being at home, where you can feel free to be yourself and show up as you are.

We are doing this by bringing yoga to a down to earth style that fosters community, inclusion, and union as its core values, as well as the belief that we are all equals as humans and always “works in progress”. In other words, we won’t care if you can do 
a headstand in our classes or if you wear fancy yoga clothes, we will only care about how you feel after you exit our doors!

We promise to be a place where Everyone feels welcome, accepted, and included. Let’s take a step back from it all to find ourselves, together, and let’s do 
it with grace: by being able to laugh at our mistakes, not take things too seriously, and just enjoy life as it is. 
We believe that our differences unite us and make the world a beautiful place.

We truly believe that

Yoga is for Everyone

Ridgewood is our Home

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Our deepest inspiration to open up a yoga studio has always been our beloved Ridgewood.

As locals, we have always known that there has always been something special about this neighborhood even before it started changing so much.

Ridgewood is a place where we feel safe and recognized; a place where we know our neighbors 
and we care about our local businesses and each other.

Ridgewood is a shelter, with so much culture and history, and we would be nothing but honored to build community in such a wonderful place.

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We vow to always look out for Ridgewood and the members of its community; Everyone Yoga will always be -proudly- locally grown.

The Team

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Anna Sofia Ibarra

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Born and raised in a small town in Mexico, brought by destiny to NYC, Anna Sofia is a mother, community member, Reiki Master and Yoga + Breathwork Teacher who founded Everyone Yoga NYC.

After becoming a mother in 2021, and realizing that her life and spiritual practice were undergoing intense transformation, she found herself yearning for ways in which she could continue her yoga practices in a whole new more demanding life phase and style.

It was through the vanishing of the perfect yoga postures, not being able to feel comfortable in “yoga clothing” anymore and not resonating as much with the ethos of other yoga spaces that where at her reach, that she began dreaming of a local yoga studio that could be a space where yoga could be brought down to earth in a way that folks could truly feel welcome, capable and worthy of this wonderful ancient practice. In addition, as an immigrant and BIPOC, she knew about the importance of creating spaces where we welcome and celebrate diversity, uplift minorities and support one another as members of a shared local community.

After months of creative process, collaborative work, fundraising, support of her loved ones, and an A-HA moment of coming up with the perfect name for Ridgewood’s new community yoga space, she finally opened Everyone Yoga in the summer of 2023.

Anna truly believes in the power of communal support and how we are meant to grow together as communities, therefore she carries that ethos at her heart while leading this space. She is forever grateful for the teachers, work studies, students and other local businesses that believe and share our values, and is continuously inspired to keep finding ways to make yoga accessible to Everyone.

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Zoe Assikos

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Originally from Texas, Zoe has called Ridgewood home for over a decade. With a background in clinical psychology, she has always been drawn to the connection between mind and body, which unsurprisingly led her to yoga. Though newer to the practice, she embraces it with curiosity and appreciation, recognizing its ability to support both mental and physical well-being.

For the past several years, Zoe has dedicated herself to fostering inclusive, community-driven spaces in Ridgewood. She has worked closely with local organizations like the Ridgewood YMCA and Noctua Diem, creating welcoming environments where people feel seen, supported, and empowered.

At Everyone Yoga, as our Studio Manager, she brings her strong organizational skills and deep enthusiasm for connection, helping to shape the studio into more than just a place to practice—it’s a true third space where people can gather, grow, and find belonging.

Outside the studio, she loves exploring NYC’s restaurant scene, scrolling through Letterboxd, or spending time with her loved ones—including her cat, Tito.

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Majo Ibarra

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Born and raised in a small town in Mexico, Majo began her professional career as a filmmaker studying in New York and Mexico City. At the same time, Majo began her journey in yoga inspired and guided by her sister, Anna.

Majo has been in the backend of Everyone Yoga since it was just a project inside her sister’s mind. With ongoing love and support, she helped open EY’s doors back in 2023, and ever since she has fallen in love with the studio, Ridgewood, and its community.

Although she lives in Mexico City, she continues to serve EY’s community now as Head of Marketing & IT, using her creative skills and her love for the mission and values of Everyone Yoga to help continue to expand our wonderful ethos.

Outside of yoga, Majo loves spending time outdoors, discovering restaurants, traveling, hanging out with friends and has a big passion for cinema & music.

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Work Study Community

Everyone Yoga would just not be possible without the help and care of our wonderful community of work studies.
They are all local and have a great passion for yoga and community, and it is through them that we share our values with students on a daily basis.
Our work studies take care of our space and are in charge of our reception for two classes every week, and in exchange we gift them unlimited yoga classes and special pricing for events.
If you’re interested in joining this program, email hello@everyoneyoga.nyc to find out if there are any open spots, we’d be happy to have you!

The Teachers

Amelia Heintzelman

She/Her

Amelia discovered yoga and pilates alongside her dance practice. After experiencing traumatic injuries as a teenager, she connected with somatic forms and developed a movement practice to regain agency, develop resilience, and better understand her body as it healed. Since, she has been trained in Stott Pilates, Vinyasa, and Katonah yoga, and she also has a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from Indiana University.

Amelia works from an internal logic of sensation, speculative physiology, and improvisation to develop material and sequences that allow students to follow their own intuition while connecting with their bodies.

In her classes, expect sequences that move and feel spherical, a deep integration of breath work, and the use of metaphor and imagery to facilitate a container for your own unique experience. Each class presents opportunities for exploration within the framework of good technique.

Anna Sofia Ibarra

She/Her

Anna, the Founder of Everyone Yoga, is a Yoga & Breathwork Teacher and a Reiki Master from Mexico. Her spiritual practice began through reiki, shamanism and buddhism studies, where she found inspiration to continue to search for tools for self-cultivation.

In 2018, she found yoga through her desire to learn how to meditate, and has since studied lineages such as Ashtanga and Vinyasa, as well as yoga for specialized communities like prenatal, kids and seniors. Her most recent inspiration, which informs her teaching practice greatly, is Katonah Yoga.

Through her decade of experience from practicing energy work, she is deeply passionate about energy, the elements, the seasons, and how we can use yoga, the use of metaphor and the breath to play with them all to bring ourselves back into balance.

In her classes, expect to be carried in mind-body journeys through creative sequences that inspire you to follow patterns and repetition to develop enlightening insights about yourself and your body.

Caroline Sherwood

She/Her

Caroline is a Manhattan based certified Mat Pilates instructor. Her work as a teacher stems from the knowledge she has gained studying movement and anatomy as a dancer.

You will feel right at home in Caroline’s classes if you love a stimulating practice that focuses on how the internal understanding is just as important as the external work. Caroline understands that everyone has a body history and she is committed to creating an accessible yet challenging class that supports you where you are in that moment.

Off the mat Caroline loves to make art, music and fresh pasta. You might also see her performing with her dance company 32nd Pack.

Greg Mytelka

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Greg is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher in NYC who believes that both play and rest are non-negotiable. Initially drawn to yoga as a movement practice, he soon realized the transformative benefits of a yogic lifestyle and its ability to bring one home to themselves.

Greg’s classes strive to cultivate comfort and joy that students can carry with them beyond the mat. He teaches Vinyasa and Restorative style classes, with a goal of promoting self-inquiry and inner peace among students.

Outside of the studio, Greg works in arts education, collaborating with a variety of populations to share the power of theater and the performing arts, and serves as a Teaching Artist in schools throughout Brooklyn and Queens.

Juliette Rossato

She/Her

Juliette was born in Miami, but most of her childhood was spent in northern Germany. Through all her travels, yoga has remained her constant, always providing a sense of home no matter where she finds herself. She concluded her first RYT 200 hour training in Boulder, CO in 2011 and has since completed numerous yoga workshops and teacher trainings.

Her classes are intentional, alignment focused and creative. Inspired by mobility and strength training she incorporates fun, non-traditional yoga postures and exercises to help her students feel their best and most stable in their bodies.
Juliette’s energy is grounding and calming so that while her class can be challenging you will always feel peaceful and completed at the end.

Outside the studio Juliette spends as much time as she can with her family, her husband and her toddler. She loves going to the gym, traveling, dancing and exploring all that NYC has to offer. She is beyond thrilled to have found her forever home in Ridgewood and within the Everyone Yoga community, where she can share her passion and experience.

Laura Witsken

She/Her

Laura is a Pilates teacher, an improviser, dancer, performer, collaborator; guided by the innate forces that movement and expression offer to the living experience.

Her classes emphasize alignment alongside curiosity. She teaches the foundations of both classical and contemporary Pilates with intention to expand the strength, stability, and availability within the body. She loves to learn from the people who take her class and welcomes all levels from total beginners to experienced movers.

Outside of Everyone Yoga, you may find Laura walking the streets of Ridgewood, because she loves this neighborhood and is happy to call it home!

Lauren Webster

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Lauren is a queens native with a love for music and yoga. She believes in approaching life with a light heart and a flexible mind and her teaching is imbued with this ethos. As a practitioner as well as a teacher she fully embraces the ebbs and flows of our ever changing energy; always holding space for people to explore where they may be in their practice, and not mattering the day they can expect to feel nurtured physically and spiritually through her classes.

Lauren leads our Kids Yoga offerings in-studio and through our public school partnerships; blending yoga, play and mindfulness with a variety of themes. She encourages kids to explore their own creative expression of “yoga” through games and stories grounded in breath-work and familiar postures.

When she isn’t teaching, you can catch Lauren chasing around her children, or painting and drawing letters all over town.

Lornnie Louie

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Lornnie is a Ridgewood mother and nature lover at heart. Her passion for whole body wellness guided her to yoga, nutrition, and lead her to become a postpartum doula.

In her Prenatal Yoga class, you will find a combination of postures and mindfulness practices that will both physically and mentally condition your body in preparation for childbirth and parenting.

Baby & Me Yoga class is a mix of strengthening and restorative movement for caregivers that soothe the aches of new parenthood and will leave your bodies feeling strong, energized and minds at ease.

Outside of the yoga studio, you will find Lornnie tending to her apothecary and natural dye garden, cooking a nourishing meal, or upcycling discarded textiles.

Mackenzie Proud

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Mackenzie started practicing yoga as a physical practice but quickly recognized the space it provided to connect with her breath and slow down her stream of anxious thoughts. She has now found that the true work is listening to her own body, setting the ego aside and leaning into a practice that looks different every day.

Mackenzie encourages her students on this same journey, leaning in to self compassion by listening to their body and connecting with their breath. Her classes are structured with an anatomical and alignment focus, but her favorite part of teaching is to empower her students to be their own guides on the mat. Classes offer a lot of options, modifications and props so each student can find what feels good in their body, whatever that looks like on each day.

Mackenzie lives in Ridgewood with her partner, outside of the studio she works in corporate sustainability, for fun you can find her meeting with her book club, cuddling with her cat and enjoying time in nature.

Sophia Phillips

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Sophia has years of experience in practicing mindfulness and meditation. Besides a yoga teacher, she is also a trauma-informed Birth Doula and Somatic Practitioner.

Sophia brings a grounded and calm presence, and a playful and joyful energy to the classes that she teaches. You can expect to be challenged as you are led through dynamic and fun flows, with plenty of focus on core work and functional, nourishing movement.

More than anything, Sophia is passionate about using her abundant skill set to cultivate and support her local communities, especially in supporting pregnant and newly postpartum communities.

In their free time, she enjoys attending yoga classes, building community, gardening, reading, making tea, cuddling with her cats, and connecting deeply with nature. Sophia is committed to caring for herself, her communities, and the earth that is always holding us.

Veronica Dye

She/Her

Veronica is a 200hr RYT and has been teaching Yin Yoga since 2018.

She first became interested in the benefits of Yin following an injury, where she found that not only did doing Yin help her physically recover, but it also supported her mentally and emotionally to accept that healing takes time.

Her classes are centered around regulating the nervous system, incorporating basic mindfulness meditation, and long holds in poses to physically work into our deeper muscle tissue that needs time and patience to stretch. Her classes are challenging in ways that deepen your yoga practice and benefit your life off the mat by giving you tools to manage stress and anxiety.

Outside of teaching, Veronica is a massage therapist local to Ridgewood and specializes in Oncology and Lymphatic massage. She plays music in her band Terminator, trains Muay Thai, and loves to cook and read.

Ross Erin Martineau

She/Her

Ross discovered yoga in college after being a dancer for most of her young life. She felt yoga had what dance didn’t: A whole-body approach, a focus on breathing, and the use of movement as relief, which is why she became deeply connected to the practice. In 2018, she completed her 200-hour YTT at New Love City in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and then in 2020, inspired by her own pregnancy, she completed Kids YTT through OmSchooled.

As a teacher, Ross prioritizes making movement and breath work accessible to everyone. Her love of music and dance directly influences how she creates her classes. By playing loud music she encourages students to get lost in the flow of class as she hopes to encourage everyone to embrace the mistakes, enjoy the challenges, and when in doubt be silly and play for god’s sakes!

Ross also works as a postpartum doula and lives with her husband, daughter and dog in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Mariya Ohulchanska

She/Her

Mariya is a trauma-informed Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork teacher based in New York City. As a dedicated practitioner, her studies led her to practicing asana all over the world, culminating in the completion of her 200-RYT training specializing in Ashtanga Vinyasa in 2021.

She seeks to create classes focused on emotional wellbeing, along with functional movement and releasing breath work. Welcoming students of all levels and disciplines, her hope is that they leave feeling restored and rejuvenated, having found a safe space and solace from the stressors of our daily lives.

Outside of the studio, Mariya is a dedicated licensed social worker and human rights advocate, supporting newly arrived communities in New York City. She lives in Ridgewood with her partner Zach, and their pup Sammy.

Katya Danko

She/Her

Katya is extremely passionate about all things related to movement, specifically yoga and dance. With a 200-hr teaching certification through Three Sisters Yoga and throughout her 15+ years of experience, she has found movement to be the best way to explore our true selves and connect to our bodies on the deepest level.

Yoga has enhanced the experience and connection to not only the way she moves on the dance floor, but also the way she moves through life. Using her dance and choreography background and continuing certifications, Katya implements creative and innovative sequencing and colors transitional movement with dance and visualization. Katya believes it is important to create a safe and playful space for students of all levels to feel secure, confident and to find joy in their practice both on and off the mat.

Out of her realm of teaching, Katya loves hanging out with her dog “Ollie”, practices Acro Yoga with her partner, and is always on the search for the best Carrot Cake in NYC.

Marisol Viera

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Born and raised in Ridgewood, Marisol has been practicing yoga & teaching Zumba classes in the area for over 12 years.

Marisol celebrates students of diverse backgrounds and identities in and out of her open-level classes. Her Zumba classes are spaces to explore your sense of embodied joy, new movements and your relationship to your body while building community. Expect to leave feeling reinvigorated!

Outside of class, Marisol is a huge bookworm, often finding herself in the middle of several novels, academic texts, & scriptures simultaneously. She is also a huge sunbather, taking full advantage of the parks & beaches when the sun is shining.

Shakira Figueroa

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Shakira is a yin and restorative yoga teacher based in Queens offering grounding classes that encourage stillness, deep release, and emotional healing.

She understands the fast pace of city life and aims to provide a sanctuary where students can slow down, reconnect, and restore balance. Therefore, her sessions focus on gentle hip and heart openers, creating a warm, supportive space for students to soften both body and mind.

Shakira leads our monthly Runner Restore classes in collaboration with local Ridgewood Runners, where she curates classes for the specific needs of the group. Outside of class she enjoys running (of course) and dancing with her dog Rocco.

Shira Cohen

She/Her

Born and raised in New York City, Shira began her embodiment journey from a spiritual perspective, studying the energy body through metaphysics and expanded consciousness. Connecting her spiritual and physical bodies led to the start of her fitness journey with Pilates, studying with Balanced Body. Seeing, hearing and feeling the benefits of Pilates, she honed in on the modality as a true source to help others strengthen and connect within.

As a teacher of self-sovereignty, Shira works to help you connect with your own body, building your mind, body and spirit connection. Students can expect consistent flows with options to modify for all levels. Her class will challenge you, leaving you feeling aligned and empowered.

Outside of Pilates, Shira enjoys connecting with nature, reading, plant medicine, listening to music and learning about the cosmos. You might find her walking around the city or taking a class at Everyone Yoga!

Zach Sobel

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Zach’s yoga journey began in 2015 after ACL surgery led him to discover hot yoga, igniting a transformative path of self-discovery. After hot yoga, he found Vinyasa classes and was hooked on its flowing movements and the sense of connection and grounding it provided, therefore in 2019, he pursued teacher training at Revolution Yoga in Rockville Centre, NY.

Specializing in Vinyasa, slow flow, yin, and leading yoga nidras, Zach’s mission as a yoga teacher is to empower individuals to recognize their inherent capabilities and guide them toward inner peace.

Beyond yoga, he is passionate about holistic well-being, currently studying massage therapy and enjoying activities like weightlifting, basketball, bike riding, and Jiu Jitsu.

Glo Liu

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Glo is a yoga teacher, Thai bodywork practitioner, and acupuncture student. She was drawn towards yoga and healing work from her own long journey with chronic pain and illness, and is passionate about helping others reconnect with their bodies and find a sense of ease and wholeness again.

Expect her classes to be strong flows that build a lot of heat, with long stretchy wind downs.

In her free time, she enjoys rollerblading around her lovely neighborhood of Ridgewood, and playing chess at chess clubs all around town.

Paulina Kuo

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Paulina is a lifelong yogi who was raised in rural Texas, now living in Brooklyn, NY.

Her yoga practice is informed by Eastern medicine practices passed down from her mother. Paulina believes yoga is moving therapy and a powerful way to express thoughts, feelings and experiences, and essential for living in alignment with your truest self.

Outside the studio, Paulina works in the hospitality industry. She enjoys children’s movies, going to the Rockaways via ferry and finding the best desserts in NYC.