Meet our team

Heather Ruth, Owner

.After leaving a high stress career that left her sick and tired, Heather made her way to teaching yoga and becoming the owner of Serenbe Yoga. Her journey to yoga began as a way to manage stress and gain physical strength. She received her Thai Yoga Therapist certification and 200 RYT in Costa Rica specializing in Restorative and Breathework, and attained her 300 RYT through The Maze Method, which focuses on alignment. She is also certified in Aerial Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and a certified Sound Bath Facilitator. She is the founder of Serenbe Goat Yoga, and mother to the stars of the show, her sweet 7 Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Heather's classes are light hearted and meditative in nature.

Stephanie Bernstein

Stephanie brings over 20 years of experience in yoga, movement and healing. With a basis in Alexander Technique, she received her original yoga teaching certification with Cyndi Lee at OM Yoga Center in New York City in 2001. While that training gave her a strong foundation in Shambala Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation, Stephanie pursued her passion for yoga therapeutics. She loves working on an individual basis with students to address specific concerns. A bit of a gypsy throughout the years, Stephanie had the privilege of having studied with a great many master teachers and has taught in many places including New York, Boulder, Maui and San Francisco. She is RY- 500 certified, and is also Reiki certified. While living and teaching in the San Francisco Area, she also ran her company, To-Go Ware and worked with Yoga Journal Magazine as a yoga model and as their sustainability blogger. These days, when not chasing her 3 children around, Stephanie teaches alignment focused classes that encourage self-inquiry, breathwork and mindfulness.

Jeny Mathis

Jeny has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. Through her own practice she has come to understand that the mind-body-spirit connection is critical to wellbeing. She has worked in all kinds of settings bringing tools and practices to everyday people to help them slow down, be present and experience now the life they are working so hard to build or maintain. Those practices include mindfulness and meditation, yoga, and facilitated labyrinth walks. Her certifications include 200 hour RYT, Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, and Aerial Yoga. Her hope is that with these tools and practices her students will become more aware, live more authentically and connect more deeply with themselves, each other and their communities.

Christine Provine

Christine is a senior Kriplau Yoga Instructor. For 12+ years she’s been teaching in studios around the Atlanta area and leading teacher trainings, workshops, retreats, and corporate, public, and private classes. Her classes are intuitively guided and offer an integrative yoga experience incorporating breathwork, meditation, elemental medicine, and asanas inspired by Universal, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga traditions.

Brittany Sandlin

Brittany’s yoga journey began in 2015 when she started taking yoga classes as a stress management tool to deal with graduate school. She quickly fell in love with Power Vinyasa and found that it was her form of therapy. Brittany developed a strong desire to dive deeper into her practice and bring the transformational power of yoga to others. This started her journey of receiving her RYT-200 through Highland Yoga’s teacher training program in 2017. Brittany taught at Highland for 4 years before moving to Serenbe to seek out a more mindful way of living. Brittany’s mission as an instructor is to provide students with a moving meditation experience that emphasizes connecting breath with movement. She believes that the power of yoga lies in slowing down the mind and that movement is medicine. With a background in ballet, she loves to incorporate poses that allow for expansion and creative, fluid transitions in her sequences. She hopes to create a non-judgmental space for you to show up, be on your mat, and be in the present, the only place where radical transformation can occur.

Liz Gabor

Elizabeth is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, providing this remarkably effective yogic technology to further help people bring balance to body, mind, and spirit. Think of it as emotional and spiritual fitness. She incorporates meditation, imagery, breathwork, visualization, mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques into her work in order to create clarity, self-awareness, and stress reduction for her students. Elizabeth received extensive training for health care professionals at the world -renowned Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington D.C. and teaches mind-body skills to individuals, groups, and high school students.

Anthony colantone

It was through a severe spinal injury, which ended his professional dance career, that Anthony discovered the world of yoga. The main part of his rehabilitation was through yoga, thus avoiding the need for surgery. After developing a regular practice, Anthony began to benefit immensely from many of the healing qualities that come with deep self-exploration. Having a quieter mind, a healthier body, and greater control of his emotions and management of life’s beautiful chaos all sparked a fire within him. Four years later, he continues to cultivate a beginner’s mind and actively seeks out yogic knowledge and philosophies. His passion to help others find and define their personal journey through yoga is what motivates him to show up to each class open-hearted and fully present.

Meagan myrick

Meagan Myrick spent the past two years in Mexico, immersing herself in spiritual exploration and learning from local medicine women and healers. This enriching journey has deepened her understanding of healing and inspired her mission to share the transformative power of sound therapy with others. With over seven years of personal exploration, hundreds of hours of sound baths, the completion of multiple Sound Healing Training programs, and a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, Meagan is dedicated to creating safe, nurturing spaces that allow you to access the deepest parts of your being and experience profound relaxation and inner peace.

Elsie Brotherton

Elsie discovered yoga in 2010 when searching for tools to cope with stress and anxiety during law school. In 2013, after having settled into her career as an attorney, Elsie completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and soon realized that she felt called to share her passion for yoga with others. In 2015 Elsie took the leap from practicing attorney to full time yoga teacher and studio owner in Atlanta, GA. Elsie is the founder and CEO of the Atlanta-based studio Highland Yoga, which she created in 2015. She has taught over 5000 yoga classes and led more than 10 yoga teacher training programs. Her classes are challenging but accessible; serious but fun! Elsie and her husband Bree and daughter Billie relocated to Serenbe in December 2023. She is excited to build community around the practice of yoga in Serenbe.