Class Teachers
Cindy Brewer
Cindy Brewer, RYT
Cindy is a native of Albemarle and the owner of APY. She graduated from UNC-Charlotte with a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree in Dance and a certificate in Dance Education. Cindy taught dance in studios and public schools in Albemarle, Charlotte and Atlanta and performed and choreographed professionally.
Several injuries led her gradually toward Pilates and Yoga as a way to both use the body and be very kind to it as well. But it was what these two practices did for her esteem and spirit that gave her the need to share it the most.
She received her Pilates Teacher Certification from Leslie Clayton of Body Awareness in Atlanta, GA and her Yoga Teacher Certification from Lesa Crocker of The Bodhi Tree in Charlotte, NC.
Cindy is very grateful to be able to work in and help out in this community that she considers to be her home.
Jessy Page
Jessy Page
Jessy’s love for helping and inspiring others has had a great impact on her Yoga practice and style of teaching. Her intention for each class is to make everyone feel comfortable in their own practice whether they are beginners or advanced students.
To Jessy, Yoga is not about touching our toes or bending like a pretzel, but more about the way we connect to our inner wisdom through the asanas. Yoga has taught her patience, inner peace, loving-kindness and presence.
She completed her 200 hour Vinyasa teacher training with Dolly Stavros of Asmi Yoga. Jessy’s hope is to share with you what she has learned so that you, too, can pass along this wonderful practice of Yoga!
Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty
Meghan grew up in Malone, a small town in NY on the Canadian border. As her determination, fate and good karma would have it, a job offer in Stanly County, NC, brought her to Albemarle. With a fine art background focused on painting and art education, Meghan has taught high school art for more than six years.
Her work has always allowed her to learn something new everyday: about art, teaching, people, or about life in general. She believes in spreading positivity and happiness, and by nature, she is drawn to helping people to reach their goals and to realize their potential.
Meghan has always had an interest in Yoga and meditation and has tried different studios and types of yoga. But she never truly felt totally comfortable until she found a spiritual home at Albemarle Pilates and Yoga, where she immediately felt welcome. Practicing regularly and training with Cindy has created a deep, strong connection to the sacred space of APY, and Yoga has become an essential part of her daily life.
Erin Sizer
Erin Sizer
Originally from New York City, Erin came to Charlotte, North Carolina as an art student at Queens College. Twenty years later, at 40, she began to practice yoga as a way of coping with the many changes and demands in her life as a single mom and business owner.
“I was working, raising my kids, running here and there and exhausted. I felt this urgent need to slow down and reevaluate my priorities and my life. Yoga has effect. It restores me and slows me down. The crazier and more out of balance this world becomes, the more yoga continues to keep me grounded in all aspects of my life.”
Erin found a home for her practice at APY in 2009 and in 2011 completed her teacher’s certification. Erin and husband Jim have four children, live on Lake Tillery in Norwood and enjoy all the lake and Stanly County has to offer.
Kelley Law
Kelley Law
Kelley is originally from Briston, TN, but most recently lived in upstate SC. Kelley took her first Yoga class in 2003, but it didn’t really become a practice for her until a relocation to Albemarle led her to APY. Here, she enjoys the broad range of classes to challenge all levels, as well as the sense of community the studio fosters.
She recently completed Teacher Training, and is looking forward to sharing Yoga with others. She is a chemical engineer and travels extensively in a sales position. One of the “perks” of traveling is the ability to visit new studios and practice with new teachers quite frequently. Kelley feels this makes her Yoga practice a combination of many different styles and keeps her mind open and accepting to new ideas and experiences.
Kelley and her husband enjoy raising their family here in Albemarle and enjoy running, biking, tennis and various other sports.