Healing Arts Yoga
at LHAA

Our skilled yoga instructors have years of experience in their practice and teaching, emphasizing safe, intelligent and intentional healing movement through yoga. Beyond their passion for yoga, our instructors are always willing to help people whether they are beginners or experienced practitioners.

Connie Payne, RYT 500

Connie has been teaching yoga classes since 2013. Her classes ranged from all levels, intermediate levels, yoga with weights, yoga for strength/flexibility and yoga for the pelvic floor. She has assisted the LHAA Yoga Teacher Training program since 2018. Connie has been a firm believer in the therapeutic benefits of yoga since the 90’s when she was seeking relief from chronic back and hip pain. She found that yoga helped strengthen and heal her body, and it offered a calming, centering experience. Connie completed her 200 RYT at Lexington Healing Arts and her 300 RYT in Rishikesh, India.

Beth Connors-Manke, E-RYT 200

Beth has been practicing yoga since 2000 and graduated from LHAA’s first 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2009. An Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with Yoga Alliance, Beth began teaching studio classes in January 2010 and has taught continuously since then. Beth’s teaching specialties include back health, the subtle body, yoga philosophy, ethics, and Ayurveda.

Beth joined the LHAA teaching team for the yoga teacher training in 2017, taking on the role of co-lead trainer. Since that time, Beth has helped update the curriculum to make it more integrated and learner-focused. During the Covid pandemic, she was responsible for adapting the curriculum when the program had to shift temporarily to instruction over Zoom.

Beth’s pedagogical experience extends beyond the studio. She has a doctorate in English and has taught college-level writing, rhetoric, public speaking, and literature since 2001. In that capacity, she has trained and mentored new teachers for more than 15 years.

Dindy Yokel

A yoga practitioner for more than 25 years, Dindy Yokel deepened her practice by studying at the Azul Yoga Institute of Boca Raton – 200-hour RYT training, graduating in May 2016 and at Yoga Journey, completing 500 hours in September 2019. She specializes in Yin, Hatha, Vinyasa, Gentle and Restorative styles incorporating mindful meditation, Reiki, chakra balancing, and yoga philosophy into her teaching. Ms. Yokel has received trauma-sensitive yoga and mindfulness certification from Connected Warriors and is certified in Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven. She recently received her CMT-100 in meditation from the World Meditation Alliance.