YogiSmile
A Studio That Feels Like Home
At YogiSmile, we believe yoga is more than movement—it’s a way to build strength, steadiness, and connection that supports everyday life. Our mission is to offer a welcoming space where people of all levels can breathe, move, and reconnect—with themselves and each other.
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Rooted in the heart of historic Laurel, Maryland, YogiSmile reflects the diversity and resilience of the community it serves. This studio was born not just from training or technique, but from lived experience—from walking through difficulty and finding tools that helped the body heal and the spirit endure.
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For me, yoga arrived during one of life’s most difficult seasons. It didn’t erase the grief or uncertainty, but it gave me ground—a way to face each day with clarity, steadiness, and care. YogiSmile was created to share that ground with others.
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This studio is an offering: a space built on kindness, shaped by resilience, and held with intention. Every teacher here shares that same spirit of service, supporting each student with presence, patience, and purpose.
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We hope you’ll find what you need here: strength, space, or simply a moment to return to yourself.
The Team
Meet the passionate team behind YogiSmile! Our experienced instructors are dedicated to helping you connect with your practice in meaningful ways. Each team member brings unique expertise and energy to ensure a fulfilling experience for students at all levels.
Kay Keyhani
Founder
Kay Keyhani began her yoga journey in 2005, discovering its profound healing benefits firsthand. Inspired by her personal transformation, she became a certified yoga instructor and started teaching Yoga in 2017 to share yoga’s incredible potential with others.
Kay teaches Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Prenatal Yoga, striving to make each practice accessible, relaxing, and uplifting for every student. Her classes blend mindfulness, movement, and breathwork, fostering a positive experience for yogis of all levels.
In addition to yoga, Kay offers Mat Pilates to complement your practice, helping students develop a stronger core and spine while achieving greater balance and strength. Dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, Kay empowers her students to embrace wellness, joy, and self-discovery on and off the mat.
Courtney Wright
Courtney first fell in love with yoga for its recovery-based benefits while recuperating from a dance injury in college. Years later, after a memorable Summer Solstice class, she decided to follow her calling and fully immerse herself in the yoga teaching community. Serving on several studio programming teams deepened Courtney’s passion for teaching. She formed lifelong bonds while leading yogis to deepen their practice and pursue their certification. She specializes in Vinyasa and Restorative yoga and enjoys helping students of all experience levels and body types realize the strength, balance, and joy yoga has to offer. In addition to teaching Yoga, Courtney also manages the YogiSmile Studio and supports our day-to-day operations with care and dedication.
Machele Sanders
Machele is a 200-hour Certified Yoga Teacher with an additional 50-hour Yoga Sculpt certification. She discovered yoga in 2019 while navigating chronic migraines connected to grief and trauma. What began as a personal healing practice became a powerful source of movement, release, and community—ultimately inspiring her to share yoga with others.
Machele is dedicated to creating inclusive and empowering spaces where students can reconnect with their bodies and cultivate resilience. Her classes emphasize mindful movement, breath awareness, and mental well-being, offering a balanced practice that supports strength, presence, and self-discovery both on and off the mat.
Brigetta Weatherington
Brigetta began teaching dance fitness in 2011 throughout Maryland, DC, and Virginia. Her experience extends from youth groups and educational settings to government workplaces and neighborhood associations, including a diverse collection of music and dance: Latin rhythms, Asian influence, Afrobeats, Caribbean energy, Rhythm & Blues, and Pop. Dance Fitness allowed her to keep moving through life, maintaining health, mobility, and life enthusiasm.
Beyond her love for movement and helping others become healthier, Brigetta enjoys writing, watching movies, and offering therapy services to support her community.
Dave Terzian
Dave discovered the transformative power of yoga in 2013. His yoga classes feature a fun and flowing style that focuses as much on transitions as it does on the postures themselves, often utilizing innovative transitions to bring students into familiar postures in unfamiliar ways. His classes incorporate an energetic pace and flow designed to build both functional strength and balance. He is RYT-200 certified with Yoga Alliance, and is currently working towards his 500 hour certification.
Dave has enjoyed a successful professional career as both a retail entrepreneur and real estate investor. In addition to teaching vinyasa yoga, he serves as an Entrepreneur-in Residence at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he coaches and mentors undergrads as well as MBA’s and other graduate students.
Kimberly Sarvis
Kim was initially drawn to yoga to maintain flexibility and to just keep moving. After nearly ten years of personal practice, yoga has provided her with so much more: personal growth, a deepened spiritual practice, and community! For Kim, yoga is more than exercise; it's a way to center and to reconnect to our true and innermost selves, which then allows us to connect more authentically and deeply with others. Wishing to share the benefits of yoga, Kim received her 200 hour Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga teaching certificate. It's with great enthusiasm that Kim looks forward to meeting you on the mat!
Lorena Sabogal
Lorena Sabogal is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and brings over 25 years of personal yoga practice to her teaching. Originally from Peru, her approach is rooted in movement, spirituality, creative expression, and sound. Lorena holds certifications in Yin and Restorative Yoga, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Sound Meditation and Healing, Reiki I, Pranayama, Bhakti Yoga, Ayurvedic Lifestyle, and Compassionate Senior and Chair Yoga.
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With formal training at the Music Conservatory in Peru and the Washington Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Lorena brings a musical and intuitive quality to her classes. Her offerings blend breath, gentle movement, stillness, and sound to cultivate balance, awareness, and deep inner ease.
Maria Hernandez
Maria started practicing yoga almost 15 years ago as a complementary practice to running. She quickly connected with yoga and experienced many of its benefits, such as mindfulness, improved sleep and concentration, living in the present moment, openness, self-exploration, flexibility, and overall improvement in her life through healthier habits. This profound impact led her to want to assist others on their healing journeys.
Maria has completed 400 hours of Yoga Teacher Training and is certified by Yoga Alliance. With 8 years of teaching experience, she is skilled at guiding students through their practice and is experienced in teaching in both English and Spanish.
Marlene Burrell Sahl
Marlene began her yoga journey over 10 years ago to enhance flexibility and balance the demands of her physically intensive job as a personal trainer. What started as a physical practice soon transformed into a source of mental clarity and spiritual renewal, inspiring her to share yoga’s profound benefits with others.
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Marlene holds 200-hour and 300-hour teaching certifications and now teaches Vinyasa Yoga, emphasizing thoughtful sequencing, alignment, and breathwork with a playful touch to keep classes engaging. She also offers Yin Yoga, focusing on recovery, resilience, and cultivating calm in a fast-paced world.
Tianna Christine
Tianna Christine began practicing yoga over 10 years ago while searching for a low impact workout. It started for her as a great way to develop a routine for flexibility. Over time, her practice evolved as a tool for stress and meditation. She loved yoga so much she decided to get certified to teach and share the practice with others. Tianna specializes in Vinyasa yoga and enjoys sharing the practice with everyone, including those new to yoga.
Theresa Preston
Theresa found a connection to yoga twenty years ago while working out at the gym at The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Theresa has since retired but found yoga to be helpful in both preventing and healing from injuries. Theresa enjoys yoga because of its emphasis on stillness of the mind, meditation, and the connection of the mind, body and spirit.
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Theresa received her RYT200 Certification in 2013 and continued her Yoga learning journey to become a Certified RYT500 in 2017. Currently Theresa enjoys teaching Beginners and Chair Yoga and actively contributes to the health and wellbeing of communities in Laurel and surrounding areas.
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Theresa enjoys taking long nature walks with her dog Polo, going on Yoga retreats and spending time with family and friends.
