Todd Roderick
Director/Founder
KPJAYI Authorized Teacher
Todd Roderick has been a dedicated student of Ashtanga Yoga since 1995 and is the most experienced Ashtanga instructor in the Southeastern US. Beginning in 1997, Todd spent more than a year (over the course of multiple trips) studying at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. During his time there, Todd studied directly with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois in the old shala when classes were limited to only twelve students. In 1998, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois gave Todd direct permission to teach the Ashtanga Yoga system. Todd continues to be authorized by Sharath Jois/KPJAYI. Todd also studied at the Ashtanga Yoga Center with Tim Miller while living in San Diego in 1998/99 and under Rolf Naujokat in Thailand in 2007. In addition, Todd has been devoted to the practice of Vedic chanting for the past 15 years and in 2004 was certified to teach this ancient practice by Sri Swamini Mayatitananda. His extensive study in India, over 25 years of teaching experience and 27 years of dedicated Ashtanga practice demonstrate Todd's commitment to being a traditional Ashtanga Yoga instructor. Inspired by the wealth of transformation and well-being that Ashtanga Yoga brought into his life, Todd strives to preserve yoga’s ancient tradition, maintaining its potency and life-changing potential. In addition to his love of Ashtanga Yoga, Todd has over 25 years of experience in healthful cooking, specializing in South Indian cuisine. He is also an accomplished musician in the Flying Mystics, dedicated visual artist, and avid organic gardener. Todd has over 25 years of in-depth study in herbalism, nutrition, and natural healing. Additionally, Todd is a serving director of The Mysore Foundation, a non-profit organization created to serve those affected by poverty and rescuing Indian Pariah dogs in Mysore, India, and Atlanta, GA.
Tiffany Monroe
Teacher/Assistant
Ashtanga Yoga Student & Assistant at Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta
Vinyasa Flow & Restorative Yoga Teacher
Meditation Facilitator
Usui/Holy Fire III ® Reiki Master
Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master Teacher
Sekhmet Reiki Master Teacher
Seichim Reiki Master Teacher
Member, Reiki Healing Association (RHA)
Affiliate Member, Reiki Members Association (RMA)
Member, International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP)
Founder & CEO of Healing Hands Reiki & Spiritual Development, Inc.
Biochemist & Product Developer
Educator (Secondary & University levels)
Ordained Minister, ULC
Tiffany’s expertise in Science and Education helps her to fully appreciate the application of Reiki, Yoga, and Meditation as vital energy modals for healing. With a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, a Master of Arts in Chemistry, and an Educational Specialist in Curriculum & Instruction, Tiffany is able to fully integrate Science into the energetics of Spiritual Development.
Tiffany comes with an impressive teaching portfolio, which includes a 20-year teaching experience on the high school level and a 14-year teaching experience on the University level. She has facilitated learning to high school students in various areas including Anatomy & Physiology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology, Environmental Science, and Zoology. She has also taught General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry to Nursing students on the University level.
To expand upon these impressive accomplishments, Tiffany has also developed herself as one of Atlanta’s premier Reiki Master Teachers. For 10 years she has trained in and become attuned to various Reiki lineages including Sekhmet Reiki, Seichim Reiki, Usui/Holy Fire III ® Reiki, and Reiki Shiki Ryoho. She has trained and attuned over 50 people in these various lineages of Reiki and has also educated the community on the amazing benefits of Reiki during various workshops, radio shows, and magazine features. Check out her amazing writeup in Voyage ATL magazine and her radio broadcasts and videos.
In 2017, Tiffany created a unique opportunity to spread the benefits of Reiki, Yoga, and Meditation when she started the Georgia 501(c)(3) Nonprofit, Healing Hands Reiki & Spiritual Development, Inc. The mission of the Nonprofit is to empower individuals to participate in their own healing process through the integration of Reiki, and other conscious living classes, into health care systems and community-based organizations. The goal of Healing Hands Reiki & Spiritual Development Inc. is to foster a caring and supportive wellness community that educates and encourages an optimal life, in which individuals consciously utilize and become intune with their inborn abilities to heal, live in balance, and connect with Indigenous Spiritual practices and the Ancestors.
As the Founder and current CEO, Tiffany has taken on vital roles within the organization to facilitate an expansion of healing within the community. Since 2017, she has taught Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga, she has led monthly Reiki Shares, and she has used her Biochemistry background to develop multiple therapeutic cosmetics to aid in Spiritual Development, from soaps, oils, bath salts, whipped shea butters and creams. Check out her spiritual product line at www.healinghandsreikiatl.org/shop.
Tiffany is a lifelong learner who continual works on her own spiritual development. She completed her initial Yoga teacher training under Micelle Young of My Vinyasa Practice. In January 2020, Tiffany started a new journey of healing with her Ashtanga Yoga practice under the direction of Todd Roderick at Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta (AYA). Since 2021, she has assisted Todd in Mysore classes and has assisted Brice Watson in the New Beginner Ashtanga Classes. Tiffany has now been teaching the New Beginner Ashtanga Classes since 2022. Her Ashtanga Yoga practice has helped her to stay focused and disciplined during her own personal journey towards healing. To stay grounded in good character, Tiffany remains close to her own Indigenous Spiritual practices and the Ancestors. Tiffany has realized her destiny and purpose in life as a facilitator of knowledge in various energetic healing modals including Reiki, Yoga, and Meditation. Her dynamic ability to teach and hold space for others provides an opportunity for students to share and realize their own salvation and to become intune with their inborn abilities to heal and live in balance.
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Isabel Aviles
Isabel started practicing Yoga in 2006 in her city of birth Guayaquil, Ecuador, when she attended an Ashtanga Yoga - Led Primary Series class, and never stopped.
Since in her city there was not a Shala dedicated solely to this practice, she also had the opportunity to practice some Western styles of Yoga. Reason why in 2009 she got the opportunity to do an Anusara Immersion with the Anusara School of Hatha Yoga of United States under the close eyes of Benita Galvan, which helped her attain an in-depth learning of Yoga Alignment. Years later, while living in Argentina, she studied with Noah Maze and Sandra Kessel from The Maze Method, with whom she obtain her first Yoga Teacher Training Certificated. Simultaneously, she started studying Ashtanga Yoga at Ashtanga Baires with Ale Chiarella, where she gain knowledge of the Primary Series, during an intensive immersion and training.
Isabel moved to Atlanta en 2019, and started studying along side Tiffany Cruikshank and the Yoga Medicine team for her Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist Certification, understanding the importance and deep impact of the Yoga practice on a physical and psychological level, with trainings that range from an orthopedic to an internal medicine approach, and more.
She now practice and study with Todd Roderick, KPJAYI authorized Ashtanga teacher, founder and lead teacher at Ashtanga Yoga Atlanta, with whom she is also doing an apprenticeship, learning the depth and teaching methodology and biomechanics of adjustments and assistance in this method.
After all this years, what has really being determining for Isabel in becoming a Yoga teacher is her daily practice, and the way this intermingle with the theory. Isabel started teaching in 2016, combining all her studies and experience, and emphasizing alignment and Yoga philosophy, as a way to help her students bring their attention to themself.