empower your yoga business.
To help 7,000 yoga teachers grow their tribes and reach true financial freedom.
We strive to deliver a first-class experience from start to finish, with a supportive and solutions-oriented team assisting our clients all throughout their journey. The ripple effect of this will positively impact hundreds of millions of lives as our students share the power of yoga.
FOUNDER & CREATOR
Ryan Rockwell is the founder of Modern Yoga Teacher . He has helped passionate yoga teachers & studio owners all over the world to grow their following and reach financial freedom while serving the world with total authenticity.
Former Online Marketing Director for the Yoga Journal and marketing consultant for National Geographic, Prevention, Women’s Health and Vegetarian Times publications.
Yoga teacher of 16 years, sought after business coach and one of the highest paid online marketing strategists.
With an extensive repertoire in change management and entrepreneurship, Evelin is known for being a savvy leader who is devoted to her clients and to helping the team to achieve their objectives and potentials, Evelin’s warm and thoughtful personality flourishes as she displays unwavering commitment to achieving excellent results.
Altogether, Evelin has over 10 years’ experience leading people of different cultures and backgrounds and is a true expert when it comes to cultural intelligence and operations.
Evelin Alvares
OPERATIONS MANAGER
With an extensive repertoire in change management and entrepreneurship, Evelin is known for being a savvy leader who is devoted to her clients and to helping the team to achieve their objectives and potentials, Evelin’s warm and thoughtful personality flourishes as she displays unwavering commitment to achieving excellent results.
Altogether, Evelin has over 10 years’ experience leading people of different cultures and backgrounds and is a true expert when it comes to cultural intelligence and operations.
Linn, our Yoga Mastermind Head Coach & Accountability coach, is a RYT500 yoga teacher, personal coach, entrepreneur & Modern Yoga Teacher graduate. With a yoga background from India and degrees in engineering and energy systems, she combines a subtle understanding of how people work with methodical problem solving skills to guide both our coaching team and our students. Above all she cares about connecting people to their natural wellbeing and stepping into being the best versions of themselves, letting go of life’s struggle and allowing life to work for them. This includes finding ease and freedom in business. Linn has the big picture understanding of Modern Yoga Teacher’s work and yoga and is therefore a natural coaches’ coach to our team as well as guide to our students.
She has an energy that gets you excited about life, the future and basically everything she talks about! Thaila’s favourite quote is “One day your life will flash before your eyes. You never know when but before it does, you better make it worth watching!”
She has an energy that gets you excited about life, the future and basically everything she talks about! Thaila’s favourite quote is “One day your life will flash before your eyes. You never know when but before it does, you better make it worth watching!”
ACCOUNTABILITY COACH
Tech Support
SALES MANAGER ASSISTANT
Marketing Director
Graphic Designer
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
CLIENT SUPPORT
Accountability Coach
Imogen is a Modern Yoga Teacher accountability coach, Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher and a successful Yoga Mastermind program graduate! Working in the service and care of others for over 14 years, specializing in supporting those making changes to their drug and alcohol use; Imogen is a skilled listener and behaviour change expert. Her successful online community: Reconnect and Reboot With Yoga and Self Care and her Train Your Brain Mastermind Program allow Imogen to live in alignment with her passion and purpose; working closely with people, using yoga to aid a deeper sense of connection in their lives. Imogen is particularly intuitive when it comes to exploring with curiosity and compassion what is keeping her clients from moving forward. Her playful nature and good humour radiate into her coaching and teaching, creating a safe and warm atmosphere for clients to be fully themselves.
Accountability Coach
Siôn is a transformational coach, yoga teacher and Kirtan leader from Wales & is one of our amazing accountability coaches & graduates of the Yoga Mastermind Program. After years of working in the television industry he decided to pursue his passion and began sharing the teachings of yoga full-time. He is now a successful entrepreneur teaching retreats and courses around Europe as well as working more intimately with private clients on his online training. Siôn is an exceptional coach, keeping our Yoga Mastermind students on track & provides high quality feedback to ensure quality content creation for a scalable & sustainable business. He’s been known to empower those struggling with anxiety to overcome their difficulties and reach their highest potential using the healing practices of yoga and meditation.
He has a customer service background going back 25+ years combined with 11+ years digital marketing, running his own online business, he understands deeply the struggles online businesses can face
Steve is an avid meditator, honoring his daily practice and is well versed in the ancient spiritual texts, is also a devotee of Eckhart Tolle Deepak Chopra, Alan Watts and Wayne Dyer.
Steve’s area of genius and where his passion lies, is having deep, honest conversations with everybody he connects with. He is a strong advocate for growth and change, down to earth, genuine and straightforward with a big old heart
He is dedicated to getting our clients the best results possible!
She was a Regional Sales Manager for an immigration consultancy agency and grew up in a family adept to building businesses. As a multi-tasker, her role is to keep everything on track, to decide which matters need the most urgent attention, and to be able to make great things happen before they are even thought of.
Marketing Director
Richard is our marketing strategist who is eager to develop scalable projects and lead the team in executing activities that will generate profitability for the company. He is skilled in the world of Mar-Tech and has been helping companies increase their revenue in a short span of time such as Firefly Fuel, PushButton Podcasts, and solar companies. His fascination with the magic behind modern day marketing is what propels him to succeed in this business.
“Modern day marketing is like the alchemy of old, when you master it, you can turn words into gold. That magic fascinates me.”
Tech Support
She is a dedicated yogi, a traveling adventurer with a double major in Communication and Environmental Studies with a minor in Health and Wellness from University of California Santa Barbara. Her natural optimism in life is what motivates her to see the bright side of every situation. With a powerful mindset, she will be guiding clients in becoming more open-minded towards new possibilities.
Appointment Setter
She strives to be an agent of change in people’s lives by guiding them to reach their full potential and inspiring her clients to take concrete action towards their goals. Her mission is to empower people to live their best possible life and help them share with the world their own uniqueness and talents.
Sales Manager Assistant
Michelle is a Breakthrough Coach who is a passionate advocate of helping people thrive. Since her early 20s she has dedicated much time and energy to exploring the world of self discovery. Michelle is qualified massage therapist, life coach, mindfulness meditation teacher and a passionate student of earth restoration and regeneration.Through travel over the last 10 years she has been able to combine her passion of the healing arts and earth care by volunteering in different locations around the world, she now has her own land in Portugal and is dedicated to helping other people recognise their unique gifts and talents, she firmly believes if we all follow our dreams and let nothing hold us back we will thrive and in turn the earth can thrive too!
Abby Keil Tampos
She was a former Online English Tutor for 5 years and has now gained a lot of experience working from home. She developed her competitiveness, and learned to communicate more effectively through years of expertise.
During her leisure time, she loves to color her hair, cook new types of dishes, and travel with family.
When the pandemic happened, she felt the urge to try a different niche where she can genuinely enjoy the tasks and moreover grow her skills. Decided to make an effort to shift a career, and now, she had the chance to pursue being a Virtual Assistant.
Yvonne, a Mindset Coach here at Modern Yoga Teacher, is a certified expert in the Sedona Method, working for over a decade with her students to welcome and let go of emotions and beliefs. She facilitates small groups and one to ones. She particularly loves to support people to recognize and release self-judgements and to deepen awareness that our motivation to achieve goals is enhanced when we are compassionate with ourselves.
She retired from a successful career in corporate management where she worked with such Fortune 500 Companies such as Apple, Coca Cola and Dr Pepper to pursue her passion of helping others.
Whether leading groups who are beginning their business journey or those scaling and leveraging teams and systems, she knows the most important keys to your success are your perspective and your community, and she’s really excited to be part of this one.
Rick ‘RedBeard Yogi’ Burnett is our AMAZING & very very patient Tech Coach & videographer at Modern Yoga Teacher. He is an e-RYT500 yoga teacher specializing in Vinyasa and Yin Yoga. While living in Japan, he co-authored a comprehensive teaching manual for yoga on stand up paddleboard (SUP). Additionally, he runs his own videography company specializing in yoga and fitness-related video content.
Fascinated by a very young age by gadgets and technology, Rick loves tinkering with and finding a solution to tech-related problems. He also holds a masters degree in Anthropology and a Masters in Public Health, both from Michigan State University.
Someday he might grow up and become an adult, but just as in a yoga class, I wouldn’t hold your breath on that one.
With almost a decade’s experience, Terri is one of our Modern Yoga Teacher Facebook Ad Coaches. An amazing digital strategist, Terri has a wealth of knowledge in content & paid ad strategy & has played a role in both large-scale organizations like PBS and the Better Business Bureau, down to mom & pop shops. Her level of expertise is invaluable to her students as she approaches paid ads with strategic branding and targeting techniques to generate the best possible ROI.
Nicholas is an Accountability Coach who is eager to keep individuals accountable, focused, and recognize the areas that need growth. He is also a transformational coach that focuses on high performing individuals using NLP, Breathwork, Somatic Therapy, and is the co-owner of a company called “The Journey of Now” for bespoke coaching and healing. His business ventures which involve setting up an e-commerce store, designing websites, managing construction projects, and initiating branding and mentor startups has led him to the path of becoming a coach who is excellent in strategy and developing a transformative mindset.
Graphic Designer
Kayleigh is one of the Breakthrough Coaches here at Modern Yoga Teacher. She lives in sunny Australia and I’ve been working for Modern Yoga Teacher since the start of 2020.
She has been a huge advocate of health and wellness since her teens when anxiety and depression reared its ugly head.
Through meditation and yoga, she’s been able to not just manage those issues but stop them from holding her back to living the absolute best life she can.
She’s an intuitive person, and she truly believes that your life and your business must be authentic and honest for it to be indeed and transformational and bring that integrity into every breakthrough session to ensure success!
Jess is one of the Breakthrough Coaches at Modern Yoga Teacher! Yoga, in the true meaning, mind, body & spirit, has played a large role in Jess’ life, getting her through some of the hardest moments & allowing her to live a life to the absolute fullest, starting with making the decision to live by the ocean in Byron Bay, Australia & traveling around the world. Her mantra – ‘To never live vicariously through anyone else.’
Since joining Modern Yoga Teacher, she has been able to come back to what she loves, helping people break through their fears & see their own potential, reaching freedom in their lives that they never thought possible. Freedom & transformation, that’s what it is all about.
Meliza, AKA Amber, is the always fabulous VA in the background of Modern Yoga Teacher. She is a registered nurse based in the Philippines but when she became a mother she decided that she needed more work-life balance so began freelancing to stay home with her daughter. Being reliable, trustworthy and honest goes a long way & she has an excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements. Always aiming higher than what is expected from her, she is a highly experienced, motivated and results-driven individual. She wants the job done before the expected deadline and will go the extra mile to provide excellent outcomes. During her free time, she enjoys & inspired by baking, traveling with family and friends, swimming and doing little arts and crafts.
She has more than 10 years experience in General Accounting: accounts payable management / receivable management, journal / ledger entry, payroll and tax preparation, full charge bookkeeping.
When her son got sick way back in 2013, she decided to stay at home and work as an online bookkeeper. Since then, she has handled various accounts in different parts of the world.