Angela Hammond

Angela is the owner and founder of Main Street Yoga. As an E-RYT 500, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Angela’s greatest passion is leading others through guided transformation. At Main Street Yoga, she offers 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings and a group health coaching program. She also works one-on-one with clients using the ancient teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Angela has been practicing yoga since 1996. She has been teaching since 2016. She currently teaches Beginners Yoga, Awakening Flow, and Bhakti Flow & Yin - an all-levels class that playfully fuses mantra, myth, vinyasa, qigong, and yin yoga.

Angela lives in Fairmont with her husband, Mark, and two mischievous canines: Boomer and Helo. When she’s not in the studio, Angela enjoys biking, paddling, and hiking.

Paula Hatten

Paula loves balancing life’s equations with essential oils, science, and yoga. As School Counselor and a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, her work is to help people lead emotionally healthy lives. She is a graduate of MSY’s Registered Yoga School and is registered as an RYT 200 with Yoga Alliance. She currently anchors Mondays at the studio, teaching “Balance & Breath” and “Hip Hop Flow.”

Paula offers essential oil classes at MSY as well as AromaTouch, a relaxing approach to applying essential oils along energy points on the back and feet to help balance the nervous system. She is also a Level III Reiki Master, which compliments her AromaTouch Technique and essential oil practices.

Paula lives in Mannington with her husband, Mark, and their two daughters Lydia and Ella. To maintain her emotional wellbeing, she enjoys meditation and yoga.

Mark Benincosa

Mark’s approach to yoga and wellness revolves around a respect for science and an open mind for the unexplained.  He uses his background in yoga and various martial arts to offer a mix of fun, vigor, and relaxation to his group classes and private instruction. 

Mark is a graduate of MSY’s Registered Yoga School. He teaches “Elemental Yoga.” He also holds a black belt in American Karate and is a Level III Reiki Master. 

Mark teaches music technology at West Virginia University.  He is a recording engineer, producer, composer, and musician that has been fortunate enough to co-produce a Grammy-nominated album.  Mark has composed a variety of music, and frequently uses his music for meditation in his own classes.

Mark loves to spend his free time with his wife, Natalie (also a yoga teacher!), and their two dogs, Rudy and Luna.

Erin Hager

Erin completed Main Street Yoga’s 200 hour yoga teacher certification program in March 2021 after deciding she wanted to share the benefits of a regular yoga practice with others. She currently teaches warm vinyasa at MSY. She also offers a weekly chair yoga class at her church.

Erin lives in Fairmont with her husband and 3 children. She works for the City of Fairmont as an Assistant Planner.

Her passions include her faith, family, friends, nature, and rescuing cats. Erin offers a bi-monthly Kitten Yoga class that benefits the Marion County Humane Society.

Lauri Brammer

Lauri Brammer is an RYT 200 in Trauma Informed Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation. She also has completed 300-hour training for Kundalini, Ayurveda, Enneagram, Lunar Wisdom, and Self-Awareness. She has gone on to pursue training in Qigong, Thai Yoga, and Sound Healing.

Lauri's goal is to bring the gifts of self-awareness and mind-body connection that resides in all of us (and sometimes get pushed to the wayside!!) out through the tools and techniques afforded to us by yoga. She currently offers bi-weekly “Soul Sessions” at MSY that combine her many talents and interests as well as monthly special events that include sound healing and full moon circles!

Kristen Rivera

Kristen is a graduate of the MSY Yoga Teacher Training program and a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. She earned an MBA from university but is flourishing by focusing on self-care and sharing that with others.

A practitioner since 2011, Kristen is passionate about nervous system resilience and strives to incorporate this into her classes. As a vagus nerve warrior, she has found a renewed presence from a regular yoga practice and delights in sharing this mindfulness with others. She currently teaches Good Morning Flow and Mellow Flow at MSY.

Kristen is currently rearing two younger children. When she is not on the mat she can be found exploring the emergent outdoors, savoring scrumptious foods, and spending time with her husband, children, and pup.  

Holly Pickens

Holly is a 2021 graduate of MSY’s 200-hour yoga teacher training program. Holly experienced her very first yoga class back in 2010, but it wasn’t until Main Street Yoga opened its doors in 2016 that she developed a daily practice. Holly recently completed training in the LYT Method, a movement practice that combines yoga, physical therapy, and functional movement! LYT ("lit") is a core-based movement method designed to help people discover more optimal movement patterns.

Holly works for the Marion County BOE as a library/media specialist. She has an equal love for books as she does for practicing yoga. Whether Holly is in the library or the yoga studio, she loves helping her students find inspiration to grow as individuals.

Holly lives with her husband, Andy, and two cats, Tip and Artemis, in Fairmont. In her free time she enjoys yoga, reading, traveling, and spending time with her niece and nephew.