Meet The Team

Liz Shakti Wyld, E-RYT-500, RCYT

Creator/Director of Shakti Kids Yoga, Lead Teacher Trainer

Liz is a fun-loving, curious yogini, herbalist and teacher. She loves to meditate, travel the world, read and write, spend time in nature, create art, make jewelry, make herbal medicine and other wellness products.  Most of all Liz loves embracing life and teaching all people big or little!  When she found yoga more than 20 years ago, it was the home within that she had always been seeking. She began teaching children yoga in her Montessori classroom and instantly fell in love with helping people find connection to their breath, body, peaceful mind and spirit! Liz strives to empower her students to create their own practice and take away tools to use in everyday life. Also, Liz helps encourage students to intuitively flow into a meditative practice by connecting their movements with breath. Liz is the creator and director of Shakti Kids Yoga and teaches Children's Yoga Teacher Trainings, Workshops, Yoga for Special Events in Austin, Texas and Denver, Colorado and the surrounding areas. 

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Favorite pose: Supta Badha Konasana (reclining bound angle)

Current hobby: herbalism & making mocktails

Celeste Mastronardi, RYT200 & RCYT

SKY Teacher & Lead Assistant

Celeste completed Shakti Kids Yoga teacher training in 2023 and has been teaching in schools throughout Denver ever since! She loves sharing the art of yoga and mindfulness with children. You can expect lots of songs and yoga stories in her classes.

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Favorite pose: Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)

Current interest/hobbies: Travel, Cooking, Skiing

Faith Bennett, RYT200 & RCYT

SKY Teacher

Meet Faith, a kids yoga teacher from Nashville, TN. The practice of yoga and mindfulness has changed her life in a profound way. Faith has also seen first hand how mindfulness and emotional regulation tools can impact kids, families and schools when she was volunteering with a non-profit organization back in Tennessee. Her time as a volunteer inspired her to bring children's yoga & mindful movement to Colorado. She is passionate about stoking the fire of child-like joy & wonder, while also empowering kids with tools and resources for managing their emotions. In her classes, Faith offers an approachable introduction to yoga poses by including fun activities and silly games while also weaving in emotional regulation techniques for her students to carry with them, even after they leave the class. 

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Favorite pose: Uttana Shishosana (puppy pose)

Current interest/hobby: Travel

Kelsey Dyas, RCYT

SKY Teacher

Hello! I am Kelsey Dyas, 34 years old, she/her, teacher, student, vegan and some would describe me as “crunchy.” 

I knew around high school that I wanted to be a teacher. I went to college and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and fell in love with teaching toddlers to regulate themselves.

I have 10 years of classroom experience with ages 12 months to 5 years old. Also, 5 years of nannying experience with the ages of 8 months to 6 years old. I have completed many training sessions such as Reggio Emilia (Teaching theory), Conscious Discipline, Touchpoints, and Shakti Kids Yoga Training. I have taught skiing, biking and swimming for children as well.

Why yoga is one of my favorite hobbies is the mind-body connection and how much I have learned about my own body to support my healing. Teaching children the things I have learned in yoga is extremely important to me and something I feel very passionate about. What I think I love most about teaching yoga and the breath is that I enjoy helping people but I also love empowering them. Teaching yoga and the essential breath to children is going to give them a lifelong tool that they can use in many situations in life. They’ll be able to enjoy their life more. 

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Current hobbies: hiking, road biking, snowboarding

Blair Binder, RYT 200 & RCYT

SKY Teacher

Blair has been doing yoga since she was a child, and it remains an integral part of her life. She loves doing yoga at home with her 2 kids as well as skiing, biking, and just being being outside. Blair completed Yoga Teacher Training in 2020, and Shakti Kids Yoga teacher training in 2024. She loves using songs and music in her classes. Tree pose, or any balance pose, is her favorite to do with kids because its fun to learn to fall and get back up again. Blair is so excited to be a part of Shakti Kids Yoga and to be able to help kids exercise their bodies and minds.

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Favorite pose: Vrksasana (Tree pose)

Current hobby: reading

Kate Martin, RYT200 & RCYT

SKY Teacher

Namaste! I have been doing yoga for many years and love to bring the same peaceful feeling I experience in the practice to little ones. I know the practice of yoga and breath work can teach kids resilience and inner strength. I love doing yoga with my three kids, especially my youngest, who we recently adopted from India. 

Favorite pose: Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana)

Hobbies: cooking, traveling, Ayurveda

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Christine Ireland, RCYT

SKY Teacher

Hello, I am Christine! I am a firm believer that yoga is for everybody. I especially believe in the importance of sharing yoga with children, senior citizens and those of limited mobility. I truly believe yoga can transform lives and communities for the better, and that is what led
me to take the 95 HR training with Shakti Kids Yoga. With over 18 years of experience, personal health limitations and two young children of my own, I knew this was the perfect opportunity to further my knowledge and practice. Through this program I have seen first
hand what simply introducing ideas of mindfulness and breathing can do for a child's overall somatic wellness, and how underutilized these highly beneficial techniques really are. My hope is to spread the beauty of movement and breath, and connection of mind and body,
with precious little souls so they can thrive as they grow.