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Jessica Mayo
Owner/Instructor
Jessica began her yoga practice in 2013 after a back injury in her early 30's left her facing surgery. Seeking an alternative, she turned to yoga. Inspired by the healing power of yoga, Jessica completed her 220-hour teacher training at The Yoga Connection in 2015 and began teaching in 2016.
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In June of 2023, Jessica opened Prasada Yoga Studio with a mission to empower and encourage others to become more balanced, healthy, and open to life’s challenges. Through the development and growth found in their own individual yoga practice, she aims to help students discover strength, resilience, and acceptance within themselves.
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Jessica is deeply grateful for the guidance of her mentor and dear friend, Susan Koepp, and teacher, Martha Catz, whose support helped her take the leap into teaching and opening the studio.
Susan Koepp
Instructor
As the former owner of the yoga studio, Susan has over 2 decades of teaching experience in the traditional discipline of Hatha Yoga. Her teaching is enhanced by her in-depth knowledge of the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of the body. With Susan’s guidance, students are encouraged to seek balance in strength, stability, and flexibility with proper alignment and self-awareness. She believes with proper instruction, yoga’s many health benefits are accessible to EVERYONE!
Susan’s formal yoga training was received from Discovery Yoga, a Kripalu affiliate studio in St. Augustine, Florida, under the tutelage of Deva Parnell and Christopher Baxter in 2005. She also studied with Elizabeth Holliday Hill, an internationally certified teacher who mentored the teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Her private study continues with this tradition.
Above all, Susan considers teaching yoga as her Seva. This simple Sanskrit word translates as “A practice of giving with love and gratitude and contributing to the well-being of the community” .
Nicole Edwards
Instructor
Nicole began regularly practicing yoga in New York City in 2016. She hoped yoga would provide ease and comfort from her chronic compulsive eating and codependency. Nicole developed her practice under the tutelage of Susan Koepp, and over the next five years, she came to discover that yoga offered her something much better than ease and comfort: the space to quietly ask for direction and strength. In 2021, Nicole completed her RYT 200-hour Kripalu Yoga training, she began sporadically teaching yoga as she sailed from the Chesapeake to the Dominican Republic and then to Oriental, North Carolina. Out of gratitude for the teachers who held space for her during her darkest times, and with awareness of others' personal battles, Nicole aims to hold space for those who are still struggling. Her classes honor traditional Hatha Yoga, with a focus on breath and body alignment. They are accessible to everybody. Nicole also enjoys writing, sewing, and traveling, adventures and homesteading hobbies, and playing with her dog, Kaijin Roo.
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Mary Wible
Instructor
​​​Yoga has been a part of Mary’s life since 2002 and she has been guiding others in yoga practice since 2009. In 2016 she completed her RYT 200 hour Kunga Yoga certification (Kunga is a Rwandan word meaning “to serve, help or reconcile”). Her journey includes over 150 additional training hours focusing becoming a trauma-informed yoga teacher and learning various forms of meditation. Mary’s Hatha Yoga classes include breathwork, mindful flowing postures, elements of restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Her intention is to support others in developing awareness, ease and connection in mind, body, and spirit. Mary moved to Oriental in 2021 with her retired Marine husband, Glenn. She is a retired teacher, works part time at local businesses, and enjoys finding creative outlets for her energy!
Heather Hall
Instructor
Yoga has been a part of my life for over twenty five years. I discovered it as a young mom l ooking to get in shape. After taking my first class, I quickly realized that yoga wasn’t just about stretching my body. Yoga was a way to connect body, mind and spirit. My first teacher, Gail, encouraged me to pursue my 200 hour yoga teacher training, as a way to deepen my practice, and in 2008, I received my yoga teacher certification from Yoga Flow. I am passionate about yoga and love sharing this beautiful practice with others. For me, yoga is about using the breath as a vehicle to stretch and strengthen the body, mind and spirit through a vinyasa flow style. Yoga truly is for “every body”, and my classes are accessible to all levels.