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Meet Summer Rain's yoga teachers in Selbyville, DE. Our experienced instructors bring passion and expertise to every session, guiding you through transformative ageless fitness workouts. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned yogi, they strive to help you achieve balance and wellness.
Summer
Summer (aka Jennifer) has spent her life being athletic; (biking, running, weight lifting, and playing tennis). All the physical activity with little stretching put strains on her body leading to a back injury. Every doctor she visited had the same recommendation, DO YOGA. After only a few classes, she was hooked. She found the healing practices of yoga brought balance to her life, physically and spiritually. Summer pursued her passion to share all the benefits of yoga with others by receiving her RYT certification in 2016 and has been teaching ever since. If you like variety, you will love taking a class with Summer.
She Leads lighthearted, intelligent and creatively- sequenced vinyasa classes with thoughtful instruction. She enjoys weaving themes into her classes inspired by quotes, stories, the sun and moon cycles and even county music lyrics. A fellow teacher and friend, once told her, “You have a way of looking at the world with stability, love, and grace. Share your gift.” You can join her in her studio in Silver Spring, Md. September- June. She also teaches at ExtendYoga in North Bethesda, MD (where she received her Yoga Teacher Training) and teaches On The Beach in Ocean City, Md (122nd St) May- October. Summer received her 300 hour certificate from YogaWorks in April 2020. She is now ERYT- 500. Additional experience; Collegiate Team Yoga, Corporate Yoga, Chair Yoga, Yoga for Seniors, Gentle Yoga, Yin Yoga, Registered with Yoga Alliance.
Sophia Smith
Sophia was lucky enough to discover yoga in High School. Since then, her love of yoga has grown and taken on new forms with different seasons of life. Having struggled with anxiety since childhood, yoga is one of Sophia’s primary tools that helps mitigate this. Sophia discovered that yoga has the ability to grow physical, as well as, mental strength which provided her a boost of self-confidence.
In the hope of helping facilitate this in others, Sophia took her love of yoga to the next level in 2019, completing her 200 hour yoga teacher training. After completing this training, she immediately began teaching. Sophia hopes to bring a sense of fun and lightheartedness to her classes, along with a sense of self-discovery. She also became a fan of Barre as another form of exercise that focuses on loving your body and low impact strength building.
Outside of the studio, Sophia likes spending time with her husband, two kids, and lots of animals!
Linda MacLeish
Linda completed her teachers training in 1997 (200 plus hours). She has been a Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance since 2001 as well as teaching yoga teachers. She has completed a number of “postgraduate” trainings with international instructors over many years. She has taught many classes from beginning to advanced and worked with many bodies.
Linda’s love of yoga comes from her own journey of healing her wounded soul, having yoga as a tool that offered support physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. As a yoga teacher she has had the privilege to guide many in finding their own healing at whatever level needed.
Linda provides creative themes, sequencing, gentle guidance and invites her students to savor their practice. One student shared, “I have been practicing with Linda for over 10 years and I have never taken the same class”. Linda is also a psychotherapist who specialized in mind- bodyspirit approaches, has extensive training in energy medicine, loves kayaking, biking, mahjong and being in community with others. She coordinates healing retreats and programs for veterans to support their healing journeys.
Alisha
After 18 years in banking, Alisha left the corporate world to find balance and health for her family and herself. She studied health and nutrition to become a PN1 certified nutrition coach. Alisha quickly found that she truly loved helping others, and became a fitness coach, and a certified fitness instructor in three Beachbody programs: Insanity, PiYo, and Core de Force.She later discovered peace, strength, and passion in YOGA and became 200-hour certified under Rebecca Sirman. Alisha has continued her education by completing her 300-hour advanced yoga teacher certification with Rebecca Sirman Farr in 2022.Through her own journey to health, Alisha lost 30 pounds, reduced her stress, and became pain-free for the first time in her adult life. She now shares her learnings online, in person, on the water, on the beach, and in the studio classroom.
Elana
Hi! I’m Elana—gentle yoga instructor and high school English teacher. Here for deep breaths, soft stretches, and zero judgment. I’m a Midwestern native but have lived in Ocean View, Delaware for almost seven years. My classes are soft, grounding, and perfect for anyone who wants to stretch, breathe, unwind… and avoid doing handstands on a Saturday morning :-) Expect slow flows, mindful breath, and a welcoming space where you can relax, reset, and maybe laugh at yourself when you wobble (I do it too). Hope to see you on the mat, exactly as you are!