OUR TEAM

Founder

Nadeya Ward

Originally from Roanoke, VA, Nadeya studied acting at NYU TISCH before spending 11 years in Los Angeles, where she completed her 200-hour and 300-hour yoga trainings with Tamal Dodge. In 2020, she opened 3S Yoga in Richmond, VA, and also runs The Meditation Ward, working with clients on meditation and wellness. A meditation coach, certified Health and Wellness Coach, and Reiki Master, Nadeya is passionate about helping others on their wellness journeys. She brings a sense of play to everything she does, from yoga and coaching to comedy and music. At 3S, her philosophy is captured by the words on the wall: "The Spirit Plays."

Studio Manager / Teacher

Kelly Jones

Kelly is a Richmond native and VCU graduate.

Kelly completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training and advanced trainings at CorePower in 2017 and has her 300-hour and advanced trainings with My Vinyasa Practice and Awakening Yoga Academy. Kelly has taught at studios across Atlanta, Austin, Richmond, and Charlottesville. She joined 3S Yoga in 2021, stepping into the manager role in November 2023. As a teacher, Kelly is forever a student first. She doesn’t subscribe to a single method or believe there’s only one “right” way to teach or move. Instead, draws inspiration from everywhere. She loves weaving in unique transitions and fresh movement ideas to keep classes dynamic, intentional, and always evolving.

Intern Team Manager

Rachel Belsky

​Rachel is eternally curious about the balance between body, mind, and soul in all forms. While she is a lifelong student of exploring this Divinity, she has been practicing yoga regularly since moving to Richmond in 2021. Her yoga journey is rooted in the natural world, art and meditation, and was nurtured through a retreat with 3S and the Andean School of Yoga in The Sacred Valley of Peru. Rachel is a 200hr registered yoga teacher. She currently works at the American Society of Plant Biologists. Previously, she worked as the Director of Player Development for the VCU Women's Soccer Team and holds a Certificate in Sports Counseling. Rachel returns to her mat time and time again seeking freedom, as well as the immense wisdom and connection that this ancient practice lends.

Teacher

Lany Prousalis

Lany believes the discovery of one's potential for creative energy, strength, and wisdom, can be found through the practice of yoga. Her classes have a quest for freedom and fun while concentrating on the fluidity of movement with the breath. Lany has completed Michael Hamilton's Ashtanga Teacher Intensive and her 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification with Sandra Pleasants from the Iyengar tradition and Jennifer Elliot of Ashtanga Yoga.

Teacher

Sara Garrett

Sara got into yoga after needing a real mental shift in thinking. She started with online classes and loved how the movement got her out of her head and into her body. She kept a strong home practice for several years before finally receiving her 200-hour vinyasa training at The Yoga Dojo. Yoga has single-handedly changed her perspective on life.

Teacher

Joy Polefrone

Joy has been a student of yoga since 1998 and a teacher since 2001, completing her 200- and 500-hr RYT certifications through Yoga Source in Richmond, VA and Boston Yoga School in MA.

With her background in the sciences, Joy’s yoga teaching emphasizes an observer’s mind and the cultivation of presence in postures both on and off the mat. Her teaching has been inspired by senior teachers in Ashtanga, Iyengar, Tantra, Yin, meditation, and mindfulness, as well as somatic movement and bodywork. Joy’s personal practice and teaching is currently centered on Tantric Hatha yoga.

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Brandi Bovell

Brandi began practicing yoga in 2009 and quickly discovered its power to calm the mind and nourish the soul. Her love for yoga grew through the years, even during pregnancies with her three children. In 2022, she became a certified teacher through Yoga Renew and registered with Yoga Alliance. Brandi’s classes blend movement, long holds, and mini massages to help students deepen their practice and find connection.

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Margarita Prokofyeva

Margarita began her yoga journey at 16, discovering the joy and connection a personal practice can bring. She completed her 200-hour Hatha yoga teacher training in Chennai, India, in an experience she describes as unplanned and transformative. Margarita believes yoga helps us come home to ourselves, building stronger, more compassionate communities. Her classes are designed to tap into the peace and love within—come join her and leave feeling more connected.

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Sydney Gustafson

Sydney is originally from western North Carolina, but has called the Richmond area home for the past 15 years. After a knee injury and the birth of her first son ended her rugby habit, she found yoga as a meaningful and fulfilling way to stay active and present in her body. She loves that each practice is personal to the practitioner and can fit whatever needs one may have in that moment — whether it be a good, fun sweaty time, or a relaxing and restorative stretch. And every practice presents a challenge to overcome! Expect good vibes and a hot playlist when taking her class.

Teacher

Kate Archer

Kate has practiced yoga on and off for years but took on learning about all aspects yoga during the beginning of 2021. Kate achieved her 200 hour vinyasa teaching training through My Vinyasa Practice as a way to deepen her personal practice; but found a passion for bringing yoga to others in the process. Kate is a registered nurse and has seen how yoga helps her physically and mentally inside and outside of her job. Her favorite style of yoga is a toss-up between vinyasa and restorative yoga styles, getting the heat from vinyasa and peace from restorative. 

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Courtney Johnson

Courtney discovered yoga after moving to Colorado, using it as recovery from long days snowboarding in the Rockies. Drawn first to its physical benefits, she later embraced its spiritual and emotional depth, leading her to complete her 500-hour TTC in Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga at Rishikesh Yog Peeth in India. She also taught at Bali Surf and Yoga Retreat Center in Indonesia, further enriching her journey. Courtney’s classes are welcoming and relatable, encouraging students to "live their yoga" by bringing mindfulness and intention into everyday life.

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Cabell Haneberg

Cabell got her 200hr certification with Nexus Institute in Nosara, Costa Rica and is beyond excited to teach in her hometown, RVA! She believes that a healthy mind leads to a healthy body, and has found that yoga in any capacity is healing. Students of all abilities are welcome in her class and she makes an effort to offer lots of options and modifications so they every student can participate.

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Aidan Phillips

After 4 years of college basketball, Aidan moved to the Richmond area in 2021 to pursue a career in nursing. Quickly realizing she was craving physical movement and mindfulness, she fell into the world of yoga and never looked back. She took her 200 hr RYT at Humble Haven in 2023, which focused on Baptiste Power yoga. She loves the strength, calmness, and empowerment that come from her yoga practice and wants to share that with everyone she teaches.

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Kayla Currie

Kayla, a 200-hour registered yoga instructor trained at Salute The Sun in Charlottesville, VA, discovered yoga in college as a way to manage anxiety and depression. The practice became a space for healing and self-discovery, inspiring her to complete teacher training in 2023. Kayla’s mission is to hold space for others to journey inward, discover, and transform through yoga.

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Deepak Subudhi

A Richmond native, Deepak received his in-person RYT 200 certificate from Embrace Yoga Energy Yoga in Bangkok, Thailand in 2022. In 2023 Deepak became a certified personal trainer through W.I.T.S and N.C.A.A program, and in 2024 he completed his 300 YTT training in Indore, India at Paramanand Institute of Yoga. He now holds a RYT 500 distinction from Yoga Alliance.

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Halle Groter

Halle began practicing yoga when she was 18, searching for an escape out of her head and into her body. It quickly became a safe space to grow and learn about herself through the combination of stillness and movement that yoga uniquely provides. In 2021, she decided to dive deeper into her practice and earn her 200-hour certification from High Vibration Living in St. Petersburg, FL; training in all things Ashtanga. She is an occupational therapist by day and is passionate about helping others become more independent and trusting of their bodies and inate inner wisdom. 

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Rachael Orme

Rachael Orme began practicing yoga in 2013, but her connection to the practice deepened significantly after a car accident left her with a spinal injury. Yoga became more than just movement—it became a path to healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

In 2021, she completed her 200-hour teacher training at Ashtanga Yoga Charlottesville, grounding her practice in tradition and discipline. Today, Rachael continues to explore and share the power of yoga, drawing from her own journey to help others connect with their bodies, breath, and inner strength.

Teacher

McLean Fletcher

McLean Fletcher is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and healer. With a Master of Fine Arts from The George Washington University in Shakespeare and classical acting, 200+ hours of Yoga teacher training in Bali Indonesia, multiple certifications with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and two decades of experience as an actor, painter, filmmaker, yogi and fitness instructor, McLean brings a holistic approach to creation and teaching. She believes firmly that learning a new skill, particularly in the arts and the physical wellness realms, results in healing. You can not practice art or physical wellness without getting to know yourself on a deep level. Once you know yourself, there isn’t any running away from the healing. In fact, quite the opposite. Once you know yourself, you see no option other than to heal.

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Hailey Wilson

Hailey is a certified Forrest Yoga teacher who has also completed advanced training in the style, along with additional training in prenatal yoga and integrative bodywork. She has been teaching since 2014 in Houston, Austin, and Las Vegas, where she’s had the opportunity to deepen her teachings. Along the way, Hailey has developed a passion for helping students use yoga as a tool for navigating life with more presence and compassion. She believes yoga is less about touching your toes and more about touching the parts of yourself that need compassion (though the toes are nice too). In her classes, Hailey creates a space for laughter, attunement, and learning to breathe through the hard, while helping students find strength and balance both on and off the mat. Outside the studio, Hailey is a mom of two wild (and wonderful) boys, an unapologetic animal softie, and a practicing couples therapist, all of which inform the humor, heart, and humanity she brings into her students.

Teacher

Kellie Barber

Kellie is an RYT-200 certified yoga instructor who completed her training at the Mimi Rieger
Yoga in Washington D.C. Bringing over a decade of dedicated practice, Kellie's philosophy is
rooted in cultivating joy, mindfulness, and flow in every movement and breath.
Originally from Wisconsin, she is a versatile teacher specializing in both adult yoga and
children's yoga classes and camps. Kellie's commitment to presence is further enhanced by
completing a Vipassana silent meditation retreat, profoundly influencing her ability to guide
students toward deeper body awareness and internal calm.
Kellie strives to create an empowering and welcoming space where students of all ages and
abilities can harness yoga as a resource for well-being. Her mission extends beyond poses; it’s
about fostering a sense of belonging and nurturing lasting confidence within a supportive
community.

Teacher

Sarah Kane

Sarah has been part of the 3S community since the doors first opened in 2020, and this space is where she fell in love with yoga. After 12 years as a special education teacher, she transitioned into photography, but teaching has always been part of who she is. Now, she’s stepping back into a space where she gets to help people grow—and it feels like coming home.

Yoga found her during a difficult season and gave her something steady: a place to be present, to breathe, and to uncover a kind of strength she didn’t know she had. That experience lives in the way she teaches. Her classes invite students to build physical strength while also finding balance and a sense of calm within themselves.

Outside the studio, she’s a mom to two teenage boys who are growing up way too fast, and to her fur baby Athena, who somehow is too. She’s a photographer, a singer, a musician, and someone who’s always up for trying something new. Most days, you’ll find her outdoors or spending time with the people she loves.

She’s deeply grateful to be part of this community. For her, 3S is about connection—meeting new people, learning from each other, and sharing experiences that make it so much more than just a yoga studio.