empower your yoga business.
We strive to deliver a first class experience from start to finish, a seamless, simple, stress-free experience for our clients in every one of our programs.
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!”
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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.
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.
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.
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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.