Our Team
Meet our team of expert, compassionate teachers devoted to your wellbeing and success.
Joy Montgomery
Hi, I'm Joy! ...and I didn’t mean to open a yoga studio. I thought I was a realtor! But a few years ago I learned I had advanced degenerative disc disease in my neck. I was in pain all the time, overweight, stressed, out of shape, feeling old and tired.
I had done yoga for many years but never consistently. I decided to do "a little yoga" at home every day to help with the pain and headaches. Then I started taking classes. Then more classes. Then summer of 2022, I decided I would do yoga teacher training as a way of keeping myself mobile and deepening my personal practice.
Yoga Teacher Training was life changing. I fell in love with my body for the first time in my life. I learned to trust myself. I found a sense of physical, mental and spiritual calm. I also lost 40 pounds, and gained back almost an inch of height that I had lost over the last 10 years from hunching. No more daily headaches. Better sleep. Improved mood.
People around me noticed the changes and kept asking me what my secret was. I started to share and people responded. People just like you, who want to make changes but don't know where to start. People who feel intimidated to walk into a yoga studio. People who think they are too old or too fat or too "whatever" to start yoga. My mission is to share this incredible practice with you - no matter who you are, what stage of life you are in, or what body you're working with.
RealJoy Yoga is for all of us. It's the studio I always wanted to belong to but couldn't find. Welcome home.
Kathleen Cook
Kathleen's passion is guiding others to increase their flexibility and strength in mind and body. Yoga changed her life and she loves helping others develop their own personal practice.
Kathleen Cook
Kathleen has been practicing yoga since 2020 and completed her RYT200 teacher training in 2021. She has been teaching since 2022. She is warm and approachable. Kathleen's passion is guiding others to increase their flexibility and strength in mind and body. Yoga changed her life and she loves helping others develop their own personal practice.
Tim Prince
Tim has been practicing yoga for over 20 years with a special love for Vinyasa Flow. He knows his students by name and freely shares encouragement and positive feedback. And his music playlists are always a big hit!
Tim Prince
Tim has been practicing yoga for over 20 years with a special love for Vinyasa Flow. He completed RYT200 teacher training twice and has been teaching yoga since 2021. He retired in 2020 after teaching middle school social studies for 30 years in Farmington Public Schools. Tim brings his enthusiasm and care to everything he does. He knows his students by name and freely shares encouragement and positive feedback. And his music playlists are always a big hit!
Candice Lamarand
Candice has been teaching yoga since 2017. "My yoga practice has helped me become more connected, intentional, and less reactive. Yoga helped me develop grace and compassion for myself...
Candice Lamarand
Candice has been teaching yoga since 2017. "My yoga practice has helped me become more connected, intentional, and less reactive. Yoga helped me develop grace and compassion for myself, honoring my strengths and weaknesses, reaching a level of self-love that—as someone who as a tween/teen/young adult suffered from eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and more—never imagined was possible. Yoga helped me become and stay sober for over six years now—and most importantly, has helped me raise my children with deep love and respect. Holding a safe space in all of my classes, where all feel supported and respected as they are, is very important to me as a yoga teacher."
Diane Loveday
Mom,Traveler, Gardener, Reader and Nature Lover Yoga began as a fitness plan that grew into a lifestyle. Having practiced yoga as a student for almost 30 years I decided to enhance my practice by participating in a 200 hr YTT. It changed my practice and my perspective on yoga and life. Yoga connects mind, body and spirit and inspires me to share this with others.
Diane Loveday
Mom,Traveler, Gardener, Reader and Nature Lover
Yoga began as a fitness plan that grew into a lifestyle. Having practiced yoga as a student for almost 30 years I decided to enhance my practice by participating in a 200 hr YTT. It changed my practice and my perspective on yoga and life. Yoga connects mind, body and spirit and inspires me to share this with others.
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