Instructors
William W. Mejia, CSCS, CYT (A.K.A., Bill) created Heroic Yoga in order to integrate the most vital exercise training styles. After a combined two decades of experience in sports, yoga and personal training, Mejia discovered that any particular exercise style alone was insufficient. Mejia’s extensive experience made him realize that only a properly hybridized fitness style, like Heroic Yoga, would deliver optimal fitness results and well-being for his clients. Heroic Yoga combines mindful, dynamic-movement yoga poses with key elements borrowed from the following popular training styles: resistance strength-training; Olympic weight-lifting; sports-specific training; plyometrics; stability training; mixed martial arts; and Pilates.
Jess Root was introduced to yoga floating around inside of mom’s womb. Years later, under the un-erring guidance of Bodhisattva Yoga’s founder, Vivekan, she received her teacher certification. Drawing direct insights from her personal practice, Jess is constantly awed by yoga’s ability to unleash super-human inner and outer strength, a healthy, stress- and illness-free immune system and a fountain of endless youth. She wishes to share yoga’s myriad of benefits in her Basics level classes, where she helps the yoga newbie create a solid foundation and vocabulary of yoga asanas (poses) and sequences. In her Open Flow class, she shares her fun, playful, personal home practice sequences.
As the manager of Bodhisattva Yoga, Jess aspires to crystallize the connection between sustainability, spirituality and wellness through classes, community events and eco-sensitive retreats. She contributes to Discovery Communications’ PlanetGreen.com and TreeHugger.com, has been featured in Budget Travel, E, the Environmental Magazine, and she has lectured at The Tibet Center and the Rubin Museum of Art.
Kelly Eudailey began practicing yoga ten years ago as a welcome antidote to life in the dance world. She received her yoga teacher training in the Ishta yoga lineage at Be Yoga, which focuses on adapting yoga practice to the individual’s needs. Kelly enjoys teaching at Bodhisattva Yoga because there is ample opportunity for personal attention and care in each class. She is drawn to Bodhisattva’s community roots, impeccable space and the studio’s commitment to yoga as a life practice.
Sylvie was bit by the yoga bug in early 2004 while struggling through hard times. Originally from France, she settled in Brooklyn in the same year. She is a practicing architect in Manhattan and is also a dancer, choreographer and set designer. Yoga practice at Bodhisattva Yoga brings her essential balance and happiness, which in turn permeates all other activities in her life. She’s thankful to have been a trainee under the inspiring guidance of Vivekan. Today, she’s thrilled to accompany others on this path.
