Ybor City faculty
Colleen McHenry purchased this loft in 2019 — doctorate in business, twenty-plus years on the mat. The faculty below is hers: certified, personable, and around long enough to know your left knee. Tap a photo to see their classes.
Owner
Owner · lead teacher · doctorate in business · owner since 2019
Colleen purchased Yoga Loft in Ybor in 2019. She has a doctorate in business and taught business classes before she traded the suit for this loft. Twenty-plus years on the mat, E-RYT 500. Voted Best of the Bay Yoga Teacher alongside the studio’s run as Best Yoga Studio. She leads Chicken Yoga at Hotel Haya, trains new teachers, and still teaches the early room and the hammocks.
The faculty
Teacher
Yoga · Candlelight · Flow
Johnnie teaches candlelight power and soul flow — slightly longer holds, honest cues, and you leave knowing where the pose is supposed to land. Monday and Wednesday 6 PM candlelight; Wednesday 7:30 soul flow when he has the room.
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Yoga · Gentle · Morning flow
Clay (Charles Hollenkamp, RYT) covers morning and noon rooms when he’s on the Mindbody board — gentle flow, stretch, hatha. Clear, unfussy, paced so a tight hamstring is not a problem.
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Yoga · Yin · Restorative
Friday 7:30 AM Morning Vinyasa. Yin and restorative when she has those rooms. If you came to downshift, this is the class.
Teacher · YTT faculty
Aerial · Yoga
Laurel Friedman, PhD in Communication (UC San Diego), E-RYT. Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida. Aerial and mat, yoga nidra, breathwork, trauma-informed cueing. Faculty on the loft’s 200-hour training — subtle body and postural alignment. She certified here in 2019 and still teaches the room she trained in.
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Yoga · Yin · Power flow
Kristin is RYT 200 on the Yoga Loft faculty. Sunday 9 AM Slow Burn — the long holds wait for later. She has been teaching here since 2021.
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Aerial Sound Bath · Yoga
Luis Arroyo, RYT 500. Thursday night Aerial Sound Bath — eight hammocks, crystal bowls. Monday 7:30 Morning Vinyasa, Friday aerial when he has the silk. Sound is the point of the evening class, not an afterthought.
Teacher · YTT faculty
Yoga · Aerial · Teacher training
Gus El Bassit teaches at the loft and on the 200-hour faculty. Aerial with Luis, mat classes, and the training room. The one the trainees learn from when the hammocks come out.
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Aerial · Yoga
Amanda teaches aerial at the loft — eight hammocks, all levels, and she actually looks like she’s having fun up there. That’s the point.
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Yoga
Heather came through Yoga Loft teacher training after a career in dance — Joffrey, Broadway Dance Center, twenty years running her own studio. Foundations Flow, Morning Movement, and the 7:30 vinyasa room. The body first, then whatever else the practice is for.
Teacher · aerial training
Aerial · Vinyasa · Teacher training
Jess of Gyp Sea Air. Aerial hammock, vinyasa, and the September 25–27 aerial teacher training in this room. She started practicing on the road, opened studios in Tarpon Springs, and teaches the silk so it works for the body in front of her. Saturday workshops when they’re on the board.
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Yoga
Yoga Loft faculty. Her weeks rotate on the Mindbody board — tap through for the nights she has the room.
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Yoga · Strong flow
Doron takes Sneaky Strong Flow on the weeks he has the room. Yoga Loft faculty — check Mindbody for his nights.
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Yoga · Morning flow · Mobility
Thursday 9:30 AM Morning Movement and Flow. Slow start, then heat — mobility, primal movement, a little play. You leave grounded and actually ready for the day.