Krista Ghaffarian

RYT, 200-hour Kripalu yoga certification from Discovery Yoga in St. Augustine

Certified Personal Trainer through ISSA

Certified Nutrition Specialist through Nutrition Lifestyle Management, Inc.

Certified Group Fitness Instructor through AFFA

Krista founded The Yoga Center in October 2008. She is excited to be bringing the yoga experience to Daytona Beach and the surrounding area. Krista began as a group fitness instructor in 2001, loved it and a few years later, received her personal training certification through ISSA. Through study & practice Krista found her passion in Yoga. She has been teaching Yoga since 2004 and received her 200-hour yoga teacher training through Discovery Yoga in St. Augustine in 2008.

Ron Ghaffarian

RYT, 200-hour Kripalu yoga certification at Discovery Yoga in St. Augustine

Licensed Massage Therapist

Thai Yoga Certification

Toni Robinette

RYT - 200 Hr Certification from Discovery Yoga in St. Augustine

Teresa Millar

ERYT - 500 Hr Certification

CW Reed

KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor

Yana recently moved to Central Florida from Russia, bringing with her years of dancing and teaching experience. Yana is a second generation dancer with a love and passion in the art of dance. While in Russia Yana performed in a variety of colleges, festivals, and charitable events. As a professional choreographer Yana continuously taught both in “Red stars” model agency and fitness club “Master Gym” as Belly Dance instructor in 2002-2005. As a great soloist she has performed at countless shows and restaurants throughout the whole south east of Russia.

Since in Florida, Yana has been teaching belly dance classes at different fitness clubs in as well as the Introduction to ATS at Suehair’s Belly Dance studio in Deland. She is also taking Flamenco classes from Ernesto&Jenny Caballero, as well as ATS and Tribal Fusion from Lacey in Orlando. Yana is a member of  Suspira’s Orlando Bellydance and currently performing with “Troupe Ahlaam”. In three years spent in the USA, Yana has studied with Masters of the Dance such as Ansuya, Bozenka, Aradia, Moria, Zoe Jakes, and Maja.

Autumn Anderson

Licensed Aesthetician
Certified Wellness Consultant
KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor

Nancy Nashed

BFA in Fine Arts from The Savannah College of Art and Design,

Professional Classical Feng Shui Certification from The San Francisco School of Feng Shui considered the most dynamic and comprehensive practitioner training available.

She is currently enrolled at Wisdom University in order to complete her Master's in Arts and Healing.

Nancy recently attended Jules' 200 Yoga Certification Training in Vinyasa Flow.

Nancy offers Feng Shui workshops through Daytona Yoga Center.

Nancy aims to blend the healing qualities of living a creative life with feng shui and its healing benefits, making the most of the environement in which we live, and incorporating yoga to care for the bodies in which we live.

As a child raised in an environment of physicians Nancy has found ways to meld her own path, using design with her family’s influence of healing. Nancy incorporates the practice of Feng Shui- intuitive conscious design which relies on the principles of nature- into her design methods. Since 2002 Wind Water Design has evolved a philosophy on the importance of conscious design in regards to how our spaces affect us. Experience a Fusion of Intuitive Design and Function.

"Feng Shui can be an amazing practice that allows one to examine their inner reality through their outer world. In working with her clients, Nancy explains that we create our own world, inside and out and that the landscape of our environment has a direct affect on our moods, health, direction, goal fulfillment, and general ability to enjoy life."

Nancy receives her inspiration from design and feng shui philosophy, working closely with people to support their dreams and lifestyles, and creating and designing unique and beautiful spaces to nurture the spirit. Nancy hopes to awaken the awareness of higher standards in others, as they become inspired to take a look at their surroundings and ask whether they are nurtured and supported and make the changes that will do so. For Nancy the most rewarding experiences in working with clients is the defining moment when a client feels empowered by the creation of a design that embodies their true goals.

"Working with Daytona Yoga in Daytona Beach, and with Krista and Ron directly has been an enlightening experience. In designing a Total Wellness Center we reach out to provide a beautiful, relaxing space for community and healing. In working in their home behind the scenes we create a supportive and secure home environment to enrich the lives of Krista and Ron so that they may in turn serve the community. Come see what this space has to offer, I know you'll feel at much at home here as I do!"

Sensei Morris Sekiyo Sullivan is the dharma teacher for Volusia Buddhist Fellowship who trained with the Bright Dawn Institute for American Buddhism, a non-sectarian tradition based on Japanese Mahayana Buddhism and studied Vipassana meditation in the Thai tradition.

A freelance writer and former features writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Sekiyo-Sensei is wrapping up work on several books, including Wisdom; Compassion; Serenity, a guide to Buddhist practice and Making Merit, a look at Buddhist practice drawn from insights gained while touring Thailand with a high-ranking Theravada monk. He speaks regularly at Unitarian Churches and to other groups about applying Buddhist practice to everyday life.

Like many of his generation, Sekiyo became interested in Eastern religion during the late 1960s while entering his teens and living in Texas. He began reading about Zen Buddhism while studying social sciences at a community college in Central Florida. His first formal practice came in the early 1990s, when a Unitarian pastor in Orlando started a meditation group along the lines of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing tradition.

Along the way, he also explored Tibetan practices like Tonglen and Lojong, and while coordinating meetings with a recovery group that used Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) as an alternative to 12-Step self-support, he became fascinated with the similarities between Albert Ellis’ theories about psychology and the Buddha’s explanations of dukkha and its cause.

In 2005, Sekiyo was asked to assume leadership of Volusia Buddhist Fellowship. At the time, he was studying Vipassana meditation with the abbot of Wat Florida Dhammaram, even spending a brief period on monastic retreat as a monk in the Thai Dhammayut order. He also started working with a group of Buddhist inmates at Tomoka Correctional Institution, where he and a monk from Brevard Zen Center co-lead weekly meetings and semiannual in-prison Zazenkai (day of practice) mini-retreats.

In 2010, Sekiyo completed the Bright Dawn Institute for American Buddhism program and was inducted into the Bright Dawn lay (non-monastic) ministry.

Kim Latford

RYT, 200 hr certification in Hatha

Ashtanga Teacher Certification

LeAnn Kamal

RYT - 200 Hr Certification