Linda Feldman
Linda is the director of Budding Yogis, a certified Next Generation Yoga teacher, and a certified Yo- gaKids Associate . She also holds a certification through Radiant Child Yoga Program and has trained with the Samarya Center for Integrative Movement Therapy. She has been teaching kids yoga in D .C . since 2002. She began her own practice of Iyengar yoga in the early 1990’s in Chicago, and has continued to study in New York City and Washington, D.C., teaching adults as well as children . Linda holds an M .A . and spent years working with foundations and as a public television executive.
Through her yoga teaching, Linda strives to inspire creativity in children and to help them develop healthy and peaceful minds and bodies . She works to encourage children’s respect for themselves, their bodies and others . Linda currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her own budding yogis
Kahlil Kuykendall
Kahlil Kuykendall, RYT-200, is a joyful and encouraging teacher whose daily yoga practice includes Kundalini and Hatha yoga. Kahlil is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, certified in 2007 through KRI (Kundalini Research Institute). She is also certified as a Hatha yoga teacher having trained in 2001 with the Indian Institute of Yoga. She believes that yoga is for everyone and her goal is to provide students with a well-balanced and grounded practice. Inspired by the birth of her four children, Kahlil is a certified prenatal yoga teacher who creates an environment where pregnant women gather safely in an ancient circle of belonging. By opening the heart and trusting our intuitive powers as women, her classes are graceful experiences of sharing the dance of life. She also enjoys teaching yoga to children and is a certified Yoga for Youth, Yoga Ed. and Radiant Child yoga teacher.
Kate MacDonnell
Kate MacDonnell teaches children in settings such as after-school programs, PE classes, and community centers throughout the metro area. She has taught in public, private, and charter schools; as well as at Girl Scout camps and troupe meetings; and at a youth detention center. She has worked with groups ranging from pre-K through 12th grade.
These broad and varied experiences have shaped her approach to teaching yoga to children and youth. Her passion for teaching children stems from the desire to provide its valuable tools to all children and youth. Having discovered yoga late in college, she could see immediately how useful it could have been to her own peace of mind growing up. Now that yoga has become so main stream, she enjoys being able to freely teach the calming effects of the practice as well as the autonomous, non-competative exercise regimen to as many children as possible.
Kate has practiced yoga for 14 years and received her teaching certification in 2006. She has the Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT200) as well as the Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) designations through Yoga Alliance. She has completed the Street Yoga Training and the YoKid teacher training, and continues to study with a variety of adult master teachers. Yoga has had a profound effect on her life and she wishes to share the amazing effects of yoga with all of her students.
Annie Mahon
Annie Lake Mahon founded Budding Yogis, directs Circle Yoga, and is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) in the Anusara tradition, and certified Children’s Yoga Teacher (C-RYT) . She holds both M.S. and M.A. degrees and is ordained in the Order of Interbeing, the lay order of Thich Naht Hanh’s Buddhist mindfulness community.
Annie loves teaching kids mindfulness, yoga, and life skills to help them thrive in the world that they are living in. As part of that effort, she taught conflict resolution and meditation skills in a public schools, and has been teaching yoga and mindfulness to kids since 2002 . She brings her background in health and fitness and her personal meditation practice together to create a balanced mind-body yoga program at Budding Yogis. Annie is also a licensed massage therapist and she has four children of her own that teach her most of what she knows.
