All hands on deck
Meet the Chestertown yoga crew who will help you navigate the uncharted waters of life.
A Chestertown Yoga team
Adriane is interested in what happens when we stop treating yoga as something to accomplish and start using it as a way to pay closer attention.
Her teaching is strong, deliberate, and detail-oriented, with an emphasis on breath, anatomy, intelligent sequencing, and learning to recognize what is actually happening in your body, not what you think should be happening. Deeply influenced by Forrest Yoga, she believes a yoga practice should make us more capable of inhabiting our bodies, not better at overriding them. The pose is rarely the point. What you notice while you're in it usually is.
Adriane completed her 200-hour teacher training with Blue Lotus and 300-hour advanced training with Good Ground Yoga, with additional study in sequencing and Yin Yoga. She founded Slack Tide Yoga Studio in 2024.
Adriane W., RYT-500 | Founder
Lex has been practicing yoga for nearly 40 years, first as a complement to mountaineering and high-altitude climbing and later as a dedicated student of traditional Ashtanga Yoga. Her path eventually led her to longtime teacher Beryl Bender Birch and the Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute, where she has completed more than 800 hours of training.
Lex’s teaching is rooted in the traditional practice and philosophy of yoga, extending beyond asana to incorporate all eight limbs. An E-RYT 500 and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, she brings decades of practice, study, and lived experience to her classes, offering students an approach that is disciplined, grounded, and deeply informed by tradition.
Lex F., E-RYT 800
Erika believes yoga should meet people where they are. Her background in special education informs her commitment to accessibility and her ability to see and support the individual in front of her.
Teaching from a Forrest Yoga-inspired framework, Erika’s classes are grounded, strong, and attentive. She is especially known for her thoughtful, intuitive hands-on assists, helping students find greater space, awareness, and connection in their bodies.
Erika earned her 200-hour certification with Rebecca Sirman Yoga and completed her 500-hour training with Leslie Pearlman of Good Ground Yoga in 2025. She has also completed training in Reiki and sound healing.
Erika C., RYT-500
Amy M., RYT-300
Amy came to yoga nearly 20 years ago as part of her recovery journey, finding in the practice a powerful complement to her 12-step program. Through yoga, she began to understand the relationship between breath and the nervous system and to experience a deeper connection between body, mind, and spirit.
After completing her 300-hour teacher training in 2026, Amy quickly found that teaching yoga gave her another place to show up fully as herself. Her Forrest Yoga-inspired teaching is grounded, intentional, and refreshingly unpretentious, with an emphasis on breath, sensation, and building a stronger connection to the body. Expect thoughtful movement, good music, plenty of humor, and a teacher who makes space for you to come exactly as you are.
A Chestertown native, Marva came to yoga through the strong, dynamic practices of Ashtanga and Rocket Yoga. Her teaching balances that foundation in strength and energy with the quieter influence of Yin Yoga and mindfulness. Her beloved Effort & Ease class brings the two together, blending active, intentional movement with the deep release and stillness of Yin.
Marva began teaching yoga and group fitness in 2014 and completed her 200-hour teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center in 2016, followed by a 50-hour Yin Yoga and Mindfulness certification through Evolve Yoga in 2020. Her classes invite students to find steadiness within effort and leave feeling both invigorated and grounded.
Marva K., RYT-200
Slack Tide Yoga Studio
was born of a desire to create an immersive and inclusive environment for people to uncover their inner stillness. We believe in: great playlists, unabashed authenticity, long savasanas and embodied experiences.
