SONDER is a Registered Yoga School

our ASTER YOGA TEACHER TRAINING has a
5 STAR YOGA ALLIANCE RATING

Allie Lehnhardt

E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP, through Yoga Alliance

Yin Yoga Certified

Mindful Resilience for Trauma Certified - Veterans Yoga Project

Specializes in the art of Vinyasa flow

I am a mother of two grown boys and a military spouse of over 29 years.  I began my practice in 2006 and quickly realized the physical, mental and emotional benefits that yoga offered.   I completed my yoga training in 2013 while living in Seagrove, FL and have since taught class in both group and private settings in Panama City Beach, Tampa and the Washington DC area. 

The beauty of Yoga begins from within. Through movement, stillness, intention and devotion, all creating balance within the heart, we learn to trust the fluctuations before us. As a Yoga teacher, I devote myself to meet you where you are on this journey we call ‘life’. Allowing for a shift of the spirit to unravel and align to your highest potential. I believe that when we can tap into the quiet spaces between the thoughts, there is peace that naturally is set forth into the world. It is there that alignment happens, mindfulness enters and love overflows.

Megan Twining

E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP® through Yoga Alliance

Mindfulness Mentor Candidate (Cloud Sangha)

Professional Yoga Therapist Candidate (The Mindfulness Center)

Yin Yoga Certified

TRX® Yoga Master Instructor

Mindful Resilience for Trauma Certified - Veterans Yoga Project

Since 2012 I have taught over 6,000 hours of mindful movement in the USA and Europe. I founded Sonder Whole Fitness in 2020 to create an inclusive community where energy could be shared.

Through Yoga, I’ve learned to observe life as art. Each messy and memorable moment is integral, and not to be missed. Yoga teaches us that communication should be gentle and that words create our world; that energy is reflected, and that we move beautifully when we are moved. Doubting the gifts we’ve been given and denying God’s will for our lives only takes away from who we truly are. My commitment as a Yoga teacher is to point out the vibrant beauty and fragile wonder of this world, and to serve each person who is ready to unlock their wildest potential. It is through my core values of gratitude and courage that I take each step forward.

As a mom of seven, a domestic abuse survivor, and someone that has lost over 150 pounds, Tina embarked on her own transformational journey that taught her the fundamentals of building a roadmap to long term success.  Tina teaches how to honor yourself through the processes of bridging the gap between the physical and emotional self. Through workshops and presentations she delivers empowering tools that are able to be immediately implemented. 

David brings his unique style and ability to make things simple to the yoga world. Because of his passion and desire to share the human body with everyone, he delivers the complex and sometimes frustrating topic of anatomy in a way that is very accessible and understandable to yoga practitioners. David is Ashtanga Authorized Level 2. He studied in Mysore with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in the “old” shala.

Kelsea is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, practicing since 2007 both in hospital and outpatient/sports medicine settings. There is a joy that comes both from teaching someone post-stroke how to walk again AND getting an athlete back to their sport or activity of choice. Kelsea enjoys looking at all aspects of movement from a holistic perspective, including how the mindset is affected. She has treated patients from age 4 to age 99, with an emphasis on manual therapy coupled with mobility and stability exercises (yoga and non-yoga) that pertain to each patients' specific needs and response. She has recently left the corporate physical therapy clinical setting to start her own business where she has the freedom to truly help patients her way. Even 15 years into the profession, she sees herself as always a student, and believes that to continue to help people, she has to learn new things and adapt them into her daily practice. Kelsea is looking forward to bringing her expertise of anatomy and kinesiology to YTT students as well as serve as a sounding board for the many questions of "why" that are sure to arise. 

Savitha Enner grew up in India and studied yoga and yogic life style through her ancestors and teachers from a young age. She has integrated these teachings with over 700 hours of teacher training she has taken in the US to help her students adopt the ancient teachings into modern day practices. She continues to study yoga philosophy under her teacher from India and share in YTT and workshops. 

Her movement classes are alignment based vinyasa style practices intending to ignite curiosity among her students about their body, energy and mind. She believes that yoga is a practice of self realization and can be cultivated through consistent and dedicated practice. She teaches Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Vedic Chanting and vegetarian cooking classes to immerse Yoga as a foundation for a holistic and purposeful life. 

DRUMINYASA SPRING EQUINOX FLOW

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Location: Sonder Whole Fitness
REGISTRATION OPENS FEBRUARY 1st (included in price of YTT)

Feel the rhythms of the drums as you connect breath, heartbeat, mind, and body to a vinyasa flow, led by Megan Twining to the vibrations of Druminyasa. The primal nature of drumming nourishes a connection to the deeper self, encouraging movement that is both grounded and freeing. Melt into the end of your practice with an extended savasana drum sound bath to ultimately relax your body and enlighten your mind.

About Druminyasa:
As featured by The Washington Times, CBS, and Washington’s WTOP news, Brad Ellsworth of Druminyasa® (Love Shine Play festival, Wanderlust) has been playing drums and percussion for over 25 years. Brad is a yoga teacher and founded Druminyasa by connecting his love for rhythm, drums and movement. Check out more from Druminyasa at www.druminyasa.net

Here’s what people are saying….

“You feel the rhythm in your bones. The drum beat starts to match the rhythm of your heartbeat, starts to match to the rhythm of your breath until all of a sudden you are just in this energy of oneness, connected with the drums, connected with the other people, connected with the deepest part of yourself." - Tara (Asheville)

VIBRATIONAL Connection: Contemplative Creatives

SUNDAY, APRIL 14th

Time: 4pm - 6pm
Location: The Phillips Collection

REGISTRATION OPENS FEBRUARY 1st (included in price of YTT)

Anthony Roth Costanzo performs with the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet. Anchoring the program is the world premiere of a new 25-minute work for string quartet and countertenor by Brazilian-American composer Marcos Balter, co-commissioned by The Phillips Collection and Chamber Music America.

Following the effects of the global pandemic, Balter focused his new work—titled Therapy—on concepts of catharsis and the healing potential of creativity, with fragmented text drawn from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Balter chose Alfonso Ossorio’s Recovery Drawings from the Phillips’s permanent collection as inspiration. Ossorio sketched the 42 Recovery Drawings while in the hospital recovering from heart failure. The wildly evocative set of drawings proves that physical restrictions need not constrain imagination, and that limitations can be both generative and transformative.