Our Team
Amanda Savage
Amanda took her first yoga class — right here at YCHL. In search of a new fitness challenge, she discovered vinyasa yoga, and with it, a lifelong love of the practice. Today, Amanda embraces the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual balance that comes from weaving together various styles of yoga and meditation. Her appreciation for the science and wisdom embedded in the eight-limbed path continues to deepen, along with her love for her fellow yogis.
Amanda’s mission is to leave the Earth healthier, happier, more loving, and more compassionate than she found it. She believes we achieve this together — by healing ourselves and uplifting one another through community and service. In her classes, Amanda offers a balanced practice that encourages creativity, intuitive movement, authenticity, and curiosity.
With deep gratitude and joy, she shares her passion for yoga and hopes to spread love and light to all she encounters.
Sherryl Perry
Sherryl Perry is an RYT500 yoga teacher, Pilates Reformer & Mat instructor & Happiness Coach. She began formal yoga training in 2009 and her years of experience allow her to create joyful, safe classroom & custom private classes/ coaching sessions that resonate deeply and playfully.
Certified as a Thai Massage body worker, & a level 3 Reiki master, she finds that Thai massage is a perfect space in which to share Reiki. Sherryl has a certificate of completion for Yoga as Movement Therapy Mentorship with Katherine Schafer, and has studied yoga, pranayama, anatomy, movement & theory with Doug Keller, Matthew Darling, Arthur Kilmurray, Caryn McHose, Ray Long, Carrie Gaynor, and many others. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BS in psychology & literature and currently resides in Livingston County. She loves sharing her passion for yoga through teaching and enjoys assisting others in achieving their personal fitness and happiness goals. She recommends walking barefoot and smiling often :)
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~ Khalil Gibran
Joy Echlin
Joy is a mother, an artist, a lover of music, books, plants and being outside. Movement is her medicine and sharing it is her passion.
Yoga became Joy’s “me time” after having 3 kids in 4 years. It evolved into her therapy, her church, her dance club and her favorite place to meet people.
She is forever the student thriving on taking trainings and classes from many different teachers.
Joy’s style of teaching shines through her love creating flows, making playlists and coming up with ways to be playful and find fluidity in our practice.
She strives to be grateful always.
If you attend her classes, you will quickly learn that her favorite mantra to share is “Thank you body, I love you body.”
Diane Steeh
Diane is one of those people who can make a positive impression in a short time. She is always coming up with creative ways to challenge her students. Her light-heartedness and quick tendency toward laughter will melt your worries away before she ever starts teaching. It’s not ALL fun and games - when Diane shows up she SHOWS UP. She knows her yoga and delivers every time she steps in front of her class. Diane loves her students and it shows - she packs the house with loyal yogis who’s lives she’s touched along the way.
In 2003, Diane was encouraged by a friend to attend her first yoga class. Thinking she was incapable of mastering many of the asanas, she loved the physical effects of the body and mind and the peaceful feeling upon the completion of the class. Her mantra now is to encourage students, family, and friends to find a form of movement you love and consistently move the body several times a week. Diane feels strongly that all sports and other physical activities can be balanced and enhanced through a consistent yoga practice. She completed her RYT 200 at the Yoga Center in 2007.
Mark Trevethan
Many have associated Mark with the peaceful Buddha himself. Those who know Mark know him as a truly humble, grounded individual with the biggest heart. He puts that heart, soul and over 30 years experience into every single one of his lesson plans. Mark has a love for all living things (as you can see from his beautiful plants in our studio) and is always eager to help wherever he can. Mark is the go-to guy for students recovering from injuries/surgeries or curious about weight-loss.
Mark completed his RYT200 in the 90s and taught in Detroit. As many of us experience, he allowed his ego and self-doubt to take over his heart and lost touch with himself. In 2016, he found himself in search of a yoga studio to help him get his body/mind back to his mat, after a series of tragedies. He has been happily reconnecting with himself and his daily practice, earned another RYT200 with YCHL in 2020 and has since amazed his medical team with his seemingly miraculous recovery from a full knee replacement. Mark’s purpose is simple - to help others improve their lives, via yoga.