Jessanya Pritikin
Since leaving behind the city life of NYC, Jessanya has been traveling the world connecting and sharing with others. Originally a trained dancer, her love for movement brought exploration of the body through training and certifications in both Yoga (Inner Spirit) and Mat Pilates (Lila Flow). While traveling through the Americas and Europe the past five years, she has been sharing her creation, PALOGA- a full-body physical practice designed to lengthen and strengthen the body and mind through breath and conscious movement.
Jessanya resides in the tiny beach town off the Pacific coast of Panama, Playa Venao, where she is Director of Wellness. In this role, she oversees multiple Selina locations: managing retreats, festival wellness programming, and operating the day-to-day experience of yoga classes, meditation, ballet, sunset expressive painting, full moon cacao circles, ecstatic dances, breathwork sessions, and much more. A musician at heart, Jessanya plays in weekly Sound Healing sessions as well.
Patricia Pinto
Patricia Pinto is the Co-Founder of Lila Flow Yoga Programs and Love Surf Yoga Retreats. She has taught thousands of Yoga and Pilates classes and led more than 50 yoga retreats and trainings worldwide. With an interest in alternative therapies since 2001, her trainings include those in the traditions of Ashtanga, Vinyasa Power, Meditation, Mindfulness, Shamanic Healing, Reiki, Yin, Mobility, Pilates Mat, Pilates Apparatus, Neuroscience, Therapeutics, EMDR Therapies, Kundalini, Thai massage and so much more. Her extensive knowledge and casual demeanor is what makes Patricia so accessible; she is a seasoned professional yet approachable and friendly. She currently teaches Mindfulness and Meditation for the United Nations, University of Miami, Core by Hyperice, Teacher Trainings around the world and locally in Miami Beach for YoBk and Equinox.
Dee Holliday
Dee infuses her classes with a light-hearted, playful energy, creating a mood where students can cultivate and strengthen the relationship they have with themselves in a compassionate and loving way.
Dee completed her 200-hour teacher training certification at OM Factory School of Yoga in April 2012 under the guidance of Holly Coles and Amanda Wentworth, Dee completed a second 200-hour teacher training in April 2013 under Matt Giordano and Andrea Borrero at Earth Yoga and a Yoga Nidra teacher training in 2014 under Shakti Assouline. She also completed her 300 hour certification under the guidance of Matt Girodano in March 2018.
Dee currently teaches at Equinox and Alo Yoga in New York City.
Taryn Vander Hoop
Taryn Vander Hoop, Lila Flow’s Co-Founder, is a lifelong student of movement; dancer, choreographer, and international yoga and dance teacher known for her long unique sequences and encouraging spirit.
Taryn received her 200-Hour yoga certification from Yoga Effects, and 300-Hour yoga certification from Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, Aerial Yoga Training from Om Factory, and is a Yoga for Cancer (ycC) certified teacher. Her accomplishments include leading 200-hour teaching trainings for Om Factory worldwide, teaching at the Korean National Yoga Conference, Union Square Summer Thursdays, and leading two yoga retreats to India with participants from all over the globe. Taryn also started the first Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training program at Rutgers University, which she co-teaches with Blair Ritchie, as well as co-founded Lila Flow Yoga with Patricia Pinto.