Nicole S.
Nicole is the Founder and CEO of Restore Yoga + Wellness. She is a dedicated yoga instructor with twenty years of teaching experience, helping her students to find inner peace and a healthier lifestyle. She is committed to helping her students improve their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Nicole regularly incorporates meditation and mindfulness techniques into her classes to help her students relax and focus on their breath. Her classes are always filled with enthusiasm, kindness, and a sense of humor. She believes that yoga can be a source of healing and joy for everyone.
Nicole is an E-RYT through Yoga Alliance and a certified Holistic Health Coach.
Nicole S.
Nicole is the owner and operator of Restore Yoga + Wellness. She is a dedicated yoga instructor with twenty years of teaching experience, helping her students to find inner peace and a healthier lifestyle. She is committed to helping her students improve their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Nicole regularly incorporates meditation and mindfulness techniques into her classes to help her students relax and focus on their breath. Her classes are always filled with enthusiasm, kindness, and a sense of humor. She believes that yoga can be a source of healing and joy for everyone.
Nicole is an E-RYT through Yoga Alliance and a certified Holistic Health Coach.
Nicole is the owner and operator of Restore Yoga + Wellness. She has been teaching yoga for over seventeen years. She is an E-RYT through Yoga Alliance, a certified Holistic Health Coach and an Access Bars Practitioner. She is training to become a SomaBreath Master Trainer.
Meet Our Teachers and Therapists
Tricia C.
Tricia Clift is a RYT 200 Yoga Alliance Certified instructor. She found yoga through ballet, her first love of movement and body connection. She believes yoga is for every body! Finding your connection to the practice through breath, body, community, etc. is your yoga, it is different for each one of us. Honoring safety and what is right for each individual are key players in her class.
She invites you to join her in a judgment free zone, don’t be afraid to feel silly!
Tricia is the Studio Manager and Retail Manager. She is honored to be of service to you.
Erica B.
Erica Balk is a RYT 200 hour Yoga Instructor. She found yoga after years of an active runner and athlete in school. She completed her training in January 2020 at Urban Yoga Shiva in Wesley Chapel, FL. In her own teachings she has a passion for creating a space for healing and transformation within others, and embracing the true roots of yoga.
In addition to sharing her love of yoga with others Erica has a passion for crystal healing, plants, cooking, and making crafts. She enjoys finding new ways to grow and learn.
What truly gets Erica Balk engaged and excited is making a difference in her community. That is why being a yoga teacher has such a special place in her heart. Through her community, Erica has found friendship, love, peace and strength like never before.
Erica is also RY+W’s Wellness Advisor and Reiki Master Teacher. Erica is available for reiki sessions, soundbath therapy, bio-field tuning and chakra clearings. You’ll find her bright, smiling face at the front desk when she’s not teaching classes.
Meghann K.
Meghann came to yoga several years ago during a difficult transition in her life. After having two children, Meghann felt she had lost a connection with herself. Through the tool of yoga, the journey to remembering herself began and has continued since. “Yoga helps me to remember the essence of who I am inside. When I’m connected to who I am, I feel more joy. I show up as a better version of myself for others”. Meghann completed her 200-hour mindful yoga teacher training through Healthy Body Peaceful Soul (now Insight with Joni) in Sewickley, PA. Meghann recently completed her 300-hour yoga teacher training through Vira Bhava Yoga based in Asheville, NC.
In addition to practicing and teaching yoga, Meghann is a physical therapist, receiving her doctorate in physical therapy from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2009. Meghann is passionate about pelvic health physical therapy, and working with women who want to build a deeper level of inner awareness both in their bodies and in their lives. Meghann strongly values self-responsibility as a tool to live an authentic life.
Meghann offers physical therapy services (including but not limited to pelvic health physical therapy and dry needling), group yoga classes/workshops, and private yoga classes.
Meghann is a native of the Ohio Valley region and is committed to serving the people of the community. She lives in Bridgeport, OH with her husband and two children. Outside of work, she enjoys time with her family, playing with her dogs, practicing yoga, paddleboarding, hiking, and photography.
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself”- Rumi
Tanya O.
South Florida transplant Tanya Ortiz never thought of describing herself as a yogi. But with much unexpectedness, life brought her to an incredible practice where she gained more than ever could have been imagined. Through her practice she has found love, faith, peace and community, as well as gained strength, mobility and confidence in her own body.
Tanya completed her yoga teacher training in 2016 at Holy Cow Yoga and holistic Center in Charleston, South Carolina.In her teachings she loves to allow students to become more familiar in their own bodies as well as provide opportunities to deeper insight of our true selves , and embracing the path each one of us is on. Along with her 200 hr RYT, Tanya has also completed SUP yoga teacher training.
In addition to sharing her practice with others Tanya has a passion for traveling, cooking & baking and all things outdoors. She enjoys looking for new areas to grow and new crafts to learn.
Angie C.
Angie began practicing yoga over 20 years ago as a way to maintain balance and physical fitness and manage stress.
In 2003, she completed yoga teacher training through Living Yoga Program, housed at the Ancient Yoga Center at the Radha Madhav Dham ashram in Austin, Texas. The experience was life changing.
She is honored to have practiced with students and teachers of all ages and from all backgrounds over the years. She grows and learns alongside each new face she meets on the mat.
She currently resides in St. Clairsville with her husband, Mark, and four beautiful children. As a busy mom, she has no “spare” time, but she has a great love of reading and yoga of course!
Amy A.
Amy started yoga two years ago and immediately fell in love with the practice and all the benefits she received from yoga.
She is a level one trained teacher with YogaFit and is looking forward to advancing her training further.
Her hope is to help others discover yoga and fall in love with it as much as she has.
Kathy S.
In October 2010, Kathy completed her 200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga H’om Studio in Pittsburgh and has been teaching classes ever since.
Kathy thinks of yoga as self-care, learning how to improve the health of the body, mind and spirit.
Kathy has lived her whole life in the area and taught preschool for 30 years.
When not teaching yoga, you will find her working out, golfing, or enjoying her grandchildren.
Tammy B.
Tammy is an RYT 200 Yoga Alliance Certified instructor. She was trained in The Baptiste Method (hot power). She began her yoga practice seeking relief from severe back pain. She found that relief and many more benefits including strength, flexibility, peace and mindfulness to name a few. Tammy believes yoga can improve anyone’s life. Age and physical ability doesn’t matter, everyone can improve their quality of life through yoga! “Practicing yoga will carry you through life, give yourself this gift and begin your journey today.”
Tammy will be offering private and semi-private classes.
Carol B.
Carol is an Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator and Practitioner and an Advanced Access Body Processes Practitioner. She will be offering these services at our studio!
Carol is also a Certified Medium, Certified Doreen Virtue Angel Therapist, Certified Angel Oracle, Reiki Master, Colored Light therapist by Spectra Hue, and an IET Angel Therapist that works with the angels for restoring your life’s purpose and joy.
She is an event and workshop promoter and Author of the “Loving Kindness Journal. The book of loving you.”
She is a life long seeker of up to date practices to heal your life, create more joy and have a richer life.
Allissa S.
Allissa has been a licensed massage therapist for 7 years and is nationally board certified. She’s always been into health and wellness. She specializes in Swedish, deep tissue, sports and pregnancy massage. Allissa loves helping people feel their best through massage therapy and over all wellness.
Tessa H.
Tessa has been a licensed massage therapist since 2008, specializing in Swedish, deep tissue, sports, pregnancy and hot stone massage.
Tessa loves to connect with people to help them feel their best. Her favorite part of the massage is seeing their face as they come out of the room feeling completely relaxed.
Margie L.
Margie is an Access Bars and Energetic Facelift Practitioner.
Margie was searching for healthy, healing and holistic processes to bring relief from life’s stress, anxiety and years of bottled up frustrations. After being introduced to Access Bars and Energetic Facelifts, her life completely changed. She is so excited to join the Restore Yoga + Wellness team to share these processes. Ease of life is what we all crave and deserve and she would welcome the opportunity to help you achieve this in your life.
Jim W.
Jim began practicing yoga in 2002 as part of an employee wellness program at his place of work with the hope of alleviating lower back problems. After a few weeks of classes, he felt the physical benefits of yoga and began developing a deeper connection between mind, body, and breath. This connection led to a passion for yoga that he
brings to his mat each time he practices or teaches.
Jim believes that everyone can practice and gain some benefit from yoga. He enjoys sharing his experience and knowledge of yoga with others through his relaxed and light-hearted teaching style. While Jim believes that yoga should be fun, he will still give you a workout of the mind and body providing modifications as needed to allow you to get the most from the postures. Jim’s personality, patience and respect of individual’s abilities and limitations makes his class both fun and challenging to all levels of yoga students regardless of age, sex or body type.
Jim continues to practice Yin, Vinyasa, and restorative styles of yoga and combines these practices into his classes. His goal for each student is to walk off their mat with a feeling of rejuvenation and inner peace while improving their strength, flexibility, and balance.
When not on his mat or behind a computer screen at work, Jim likes to spend time with family, friends and his dogs.
Roseann L.
Roseann is a master Esthetician with 17 years of skin care experience. She enjoys all aspects of caring for others as she is also a retired RN of 42 years and a Reiki Master. She is excited to resume your relaxing facials and reiki therapy here at Restore Yoga + Wellness!
Tina Y.
Tina has had an interest in health and wellness for the last 20 years, as she was trying to find answers regarding her own health challenges. She always wanted to get to the root cause instead of using the “pill for every ill” concept that was prominent in conventional medicine.
Her curiosity and love of learning always kept her reading and exploring a variety of ways to improve her health and find a better quality of life. This led her to enroll in the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy in 2019 to further gain a deeper understanding of the way the body works to achieve optimal health. She graduated in September 2020 as a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach through the FMCA which is an affiliate of the Institute of Functional Medicine.
After completing the course in the midst of the pandemic and dealing with her own work/life balance challenges, she realized that using these fundamentals was just part of the whole body wellness she was looking for!
She has incorporated intuition and creativity in her unique health coaching style to help her clients build the skills to make transformational change in their own lives.