Our Instructors
Jill Turanski, MA, YT500
Owner
Jill brings HeartBreath Yoga Studio to Ardmore, PA after years of carefully considering how she could best use her knowledge and experience to serve her own community.
Yoga has been an important component in both her personal and professional life for 15+ years. As a contemporary dancer, yoga shifted her relationship with her body and helped her access a more grounded, more authentic movement repertoire. In terms of personal growth, yoga helps Jill profoundly connect her mind and body while learning to deeply trust intuition.
In her previous professional career as a trauma informed creative arts therapist, Jill brought yoga into sessions to teach mindfulness skills and help clients connect breath with body as a means to manage stress and anxiety.
As a dance teacher, Jill structures an environment where self-acceptance and group connectivity is paramount. And as a yoga teacher, Jill approaches her classes with a flexible mindset and a plan to make each class accessible and safe for anyone practicing with her. The vision for HeartBreath Yoga Studio is to provide a safe, supportive environment for any human who wishes to make a little quiet space in their body and mind.
Melissa DeJoseph
Certified Trauma Informed
Breathwork Facilitator
Melissa DeJoseph is a certified trauma informed Breathwork facilitator. She has been creating Breathwork programs and leading both groups and individuals for the past 4 years. It is her mission to help individuals create balance between their body, mind and heart through the use of their breath.
She is also a mom of two energetic, playful boys and has been working with children the last 10 years as a speech language pathologist. She is an expert at creating language rich learning environments and has a passion for helping parents create strong and loving connections with their children.
Her professional and personal interests include stress reduction techniques, somatics, child and brain development, spirituality, psychology, ecology, plant medicines, the nervous system and health and wellness.
She has been studying spiritual arts the last 15 years and loves exploring consciousness through breathwork and spiritual tools. Melissa also studies Source Code, a quantum healing practice of naming and healing of 12 possible coping styles created from birth through age 5, to find greater love, joy and freedom.
Melissa is also a two time cancer survivor and expert in reducing fear, worry and stress related to cancer diagnosis and treatment. She brings all of her interests, studies, passions and experiences together when she lovingly and intuitively guides her breathwork classes.
Please look out for our new Breathwork offerings after the studio move.
Nichole Coulter
Yoga Teacher
Nichole tried her first yoga class 13 years ago after the birth of her daughter, having been on bed rest for many months. She fell in love with the mindfulness that the practice provided but more importantly, she connected on a personal level with her first teacher. Nichole believes yoga is about much more than the pose and that human connection and self-discovery is what keeps people practicing. Nichole's classes focus on flow, connecting the breath to movement, and mindfulness.
Kristy Beno
Yoga Teacher
Kristy is a certified 200 hour yoga instructor, certified spiritual life coach, Reiki practitioner and Astrologer. She focuses on a Hatha style of yoga to bring the connection of mind and body through a gentle yoga flow for everybody and everyBODY.
Kristy found yoga about 15 years ago when she was diagnosed with Chronic Neurological Lyme disease. Kristy attributes yoga and meditation to saving her life while dealing with her illness.
As a woman, business owner, wife, and mother Kristy strongly believes in creating space for others to relax and release in order to cultivate growth and healing