Dave embraces the opportunity to hold space where students and teachers can explore and share their passion for yoga. A dedicated practitioner and lifelong learner, Dave has accumulated over 1,500 hours of teacher training in yoga and meditation, including certification in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). As a teacher, Dave’s intention is for students to leave class feeling emotionally grounded, mentally clear, and more fully connected to the present moment. When he’s not on the mat, Dave can be found planting trees and cultivating pollinator habitats—or out in the world, connecting with nature and meeting cool people.

Lisa Daugherty began practicing yoga in the mid ‘90s in Tucson, Arizona. After moving to Indianapolis, she started teaching yoga classes in neighborhood community spaces in 2002. She joined the Cityoga teaching team in 2007. Since then, she has continued to teach extensively throughout central Indiana. She currently offers weekly classes and workshops and is the co-lead trainer for Prenatal and Postpartum yoga teacher training and Somatics and Trauma Informed yoga teacher training and has offered wisdom and teachings for the 200 hour yoga teacher training, all at Cityoga. She guides local and international yoga retreats with her husband who is also a yoga instructor. Her teaching style is eclectic, unique, creative and rooted in embodiment and a deep reverence for nature. She is also the Executive Director of Heartland Mindfulness Collective, a local non-profit organization that works to reduce barriers and increase accessibility for systemically marginalized communities to receive yoga, meditation and wellness services, while providing right livelihood to local yoga instructors and service providers. She is a mother to 4 young adult daughters and has been advocating for midwifery care and empowered childbirth for 30 years as a doula and childbirth educator. She is also a ceremonialist and a threshold guardian who uses ritual and music and storytelling to bring about a vision of planetary and personal healing and wholeness.

Hari Datti Kaur is deeply fascinated by the technology of Kundalini Yoga, which uplifts the mind and emotions while strengthening the physical body, as well as the nervous and glandular systems. As a musician, she values the profound influence of Naad (the sound current) integral to this practice and plays the Gong in every class. Having personally experienced the transformative benefits of Kundalini Yoga, she is passionate about sharing it with others. Hari Datti is Level 3 Certified by the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI – equivalent to 800 hours) and serves as an Associate Teacher-Trainer in KRI’s Aquarian Academy. She also holds a 500-hour certification through Dharma Mittra’s Life of a Yogi program (classical Hatha Yoga) and an 85-hour certification in Yin Yoga. She has been teaching at CITYOGA since 2005.

Heather began her yoga studies on the Big Island of Hawaii under the celebrated Ashtanga master, Norman Allen. She studied with Mr. Allen for 12 years and received a five-year Intensive Study certification. She then completed a 200-hour teacher training with the world renowned yogi, Aadil Palkhivala. Heather continued her education with a two-year asana study with Ray Madigan, a senior teacher of Iyengar yoga. Heather teaches with detail and enthusiasm. She encourages people of all capabilities to join her class.

Samantha embarked on her RYT 200hr teaching journey in January of 2020 in Rishikesh, India, 4 years after discovering the benefits of yoga. In September 2016, Samantha was in an unfortunate car accident that caused severe neck and shoulder issues. Stubborn and determined, she started practicing hot yoga 1-2 times a week. After only a few weeks, she began to feel relief from the pain from her accident. Samantha spent the next several years fine tuning her practice and researching 200hr trainings so she could begin to share this incredibly healing way of life with others. She stumbled upon a training program in the birthplace of yoga, Rishikesh, India. Her training consisted of both Hatha and Ashtanga yoga practices, meditation, pranayama and a deep dive into emotional blockages. Since, she has focused on providing her students with a vinyasa based practice with restorative components. She strives to create balance within her practice using breath and movement as well as providing a flow that feels natural for the body.

Paige began practicing yoga in 2019.  She is a 200hr RYT through Cityoga, teaches Original Hot Yoga (26+2), and enjoys Ashtanga vinyasa yoga.  She loves to practice with youth and seasoned yogis, continuing to learn about keeping up emotional and physical health. She has brought yoga to her work, and enjoys teaching Spanish, dancing Bachata, & cooking a good meal. Paige aims to brings us to the precious present moment, so pepare for peace, and learn something new about yourself. Namaste.

Victoria was first introduced to Ashtanga yoga in the summer of 2011 after attending a talk about Ashtanga at an international book store in Helsinki, Finland. Between 2011 and 2016, Victoria practiced Ashtanga yoga intermittently, but she returned to a more regular practice after sustaining a long-distance running injury in 2017. In 2018, Victoria moved to Indianapolis and joined the Ashtanga community at CitYoga where she has remained a dedicated practitioner. In her free time, Victoria enjoys hiking and backpacking, camping, gardening, and biking. Outside of CitYoga, Victoria works as an ecologist at an engineering firm where she completes environmental reviews for transportation projects.

Nina Powel (she/her) is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). She completed her YTT-200 with Cityoga in July 2023, class 41. She is a United States Army Veteran and currently serves as a Full Time Deputy Fire Marshal at a local Fire Department where she offers yoga classes to firefighters on duty. Nina is honored to guide you through your practice here at Cityoga!

Patty has spent the last 12 years leading expeditions for all ages of individuals (from 12 years old - 72 years old) in the backcountry on alpine backpacking trips, mountaineering trips, rock climbing trips, canoeing trips in more for organizations like Outward Bound, NOLS, Naturalists at Large, Ithaca College, Prescott College, Indiana University and multiple schools throughout the state of California. She has 1000s of miles of solo backpacking trips that she has learned from and multiple trips with groups of friends to accomplish more challenging goals in the backcountry. She holds her Wilderness First Responder, CPR, and Mental Health FIrst Aid certifications and has years of experience tending to a wide range of physical, emotional and mental injuries in the backcountry. Patty believes that the more time spent in nature, the better a person truly is because they have the ability to disconnect from all the distractions from the world and turn inward to find themselves. She believes that the outdoors and wilderness are the greatest natural equalizer for humans and the greatest way to bring compassion up for humans. Patty believes that if everyone spent a week backpacking in the outdoors each year, the world would be a significantly more peaceful place.

Todd began his yoga practice in 2012, mostly at PAI Yoga and Fitness in Dublin, OH and Be Moved Power Yoga (BMPY) in Lafayette, IN before relocating back to Indianapolis and calling Cityoga School of Yoga home. Todd’s wife Karen calls him a “completely different man” since he began regular yoga practice. Not because of any physical transformation but rather just walking through the world better equipped to just breath through it, whatever “it” happens to be. Todd took the next steps in his practice in 2023-24, completing his 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Anita Trent and Be Moved Power Yoga. His training is in Baptiste-style power yoga and, to date, that’s what he teaches. Todd often incorporates his joy for music and a conversational focus relevant to yoga practice and life in general and into the classes he leads. Todd taught a regular Sunday morning power class at BMPY before relocating and still subs there occasionally. Now recently retired, Todd is exploring his best fit for teaching opportunities in the Indianapolis area. Todd and his wife Karen have two adult boys, one living in Denver and one with his family – including two precious granddaughters - just a few miles away in Indy.

Melissa, E-RYT 200, RYT 300, YACEP, discovered Yoga about 20 years ago as a way to mindfully move with her own young children. After years as an athlete, staying active was a priority and something to model for a healthy lifestyle. After finding adult classes, Yoga became a way to destress from a career working with children with disabilities at the elementary school level. When Melissa delved deeper into the roots of the practice, she decided to study in a 200 hour program. Obtaining her 200 hr certification in 2013 was just the beginning of a life long journey. She has since obtained a certification from Love Your Brain to teach classes to individuals that have sustained a traumatic brain injury, completed a 300 hour Yoga teacher training, and is currently enrolled in a prenatal Yoga teacher training at Cityoga. Melissa has been teaching Yoga classes for over 11 years in various settings and has helped facilitate a Yoga Teacher Training for almost 9 years. After 46 years in central Ohio, Melissa and her husband relocated to Indianapolis in 2023 for his job. Melissa enjoys practicing Yoga and Pilates, weight training, hiking, disc golf, reading, cooking and baking, volunteering, traveling, and discovering new hobbies as recent empty nesters.