Yoga Teacher Team

Dana Christian Lee

Founder & Executive Director

​Dana Christian Lee has been practicing yoga for 17 years and teaching for 15. She holds two degrees in education, eRYT 500 hour yoga certification & Anusara Yoga Inspired Teacher Certification. Her passion is to make the world a healthier & happier place for ALL people while inspiring them to give back to their communities in service. Dana's passion led her to start Embody in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2014. Dana's vision is to have affiliate Embody locations across the country & eventually the globe!

My name is Monica Reyna, and I could not be more honored and thrilled to be a part of the Embody team! I am a Reiki Master Teacher, Yoga, Tai Chi, and fitness instructor/personal trainer in the Grand Rapids and surrounding areas. I have two amazing teenage girls, Mya and Mady, that help remind me to move from my heart space daily. My absolute passion is helping my fellow humans to recognize the light inside of themselves, honor it, nourish it, and love it as a way of being. I am so happy to be on this journey with all of you!! ​

Peri Jill

Peri Jill is a yoga and meditation teacher serving the Grand Rapids area for over a decade. She found her practice while combatting chronic illness and has made it her mission to share the healing tools of yoga with her community. She is a certified holistic health practitioner and educator specializing in women's wellness and empowerment. She's trained in trauma informed yoga, and yoga for depression. She loves being a mama to her twin boys, nature, music, dancing, laughter and play! She's honored to be a teacher and community member of EmbodyGR.

Stacy Calcatera

Hi I'm Stacy!  I am mom of Gwen (she's 11), Hank (he's our dog) and wife to my awesome husband Eric. We transplanted to Grand Rapids 11 years ago and it was the best decision we ever made. This is now home and where I found my tribe, my community! A job at Steelcase (where I work today) is what got us here, but it is the awesome people that keep us here. I started practicing yoga over 20 years ago after a major knee injury sidelined me from other workouts. Thank goodness, because I fell in love. I got my 200 RYT and started teaching 9 years ago after our move to GR. I was an ambassador with Lululemon for 4 years and through them got to really reach the community and meet the amazing Dana Lee! She was like the sister I never had and knew that we would get to do great things together!  She has allowed me to be part of her amazing tribe at EmbodyGR, where I am forever grateful for the opportunity to help teach, inspire and well....DO GOOD!  

Melissa Vannette

Melissa is a yoga instructor and professional life coach serving West Michigan and beyond. She discovered her passion for yoga after struggling with crippling anxiety for the greater part of two decades. She traveled alone to India to study yoga and meditation in 2017, and the experience enabled her to completely transform her life. She has since committed herself not only to her own self-care and development, but also to helping teens and young women respect their bodies and recognize their own self-worth. When she’s not practicing handstands, she loves traveling to new places, good food, reading on the beach, and deep conversations. She is thrilled to be a part of this community alongside Dana and the rest of Embody!

​Susanne Werblow

After experiencing back problems in 2006, Susanne's doctor said swimming or yoga were her best exercise options. She initially thought yoga was too slow and not for her, but she disliked cold water even more. So, Susanne gave yoga a try and that’s how she discovered Kundalini Yoga. While it was “weird” at first, she felt better after her first session. Since then, Kundalini Yoga has become an integral part of her life.
Kundalini Yoga totally changed her relationship with her body. She started yoga because of her back problems. They quickly disappeared. She also discovered how to better master her mind, stay calm in the face of difficulty. But it’s the work with the flow of energy that was the most impressive for her. Starting every day with her early morning practice is the best gift to herself! It just gets her through the day with so much more energy, balance and grace.

After training at Spirit Rising Chicago with two of Yogi Bhajan’s direct students, she started teaching Kundalini Yoga in Grand Rapids in 2013 and founded Kundalini Yoga GR in 2015 out of the Wellness Collective GR.

Leah Grace

Leah Grace, CMT, LELC, works as a psycho-spiritual and somatic therapist for conscious entrepreneurs and leaders. After 19+ years working with clients, her mission is to alleviate the suffering caused by being held back from actualizing your potential. She is the creator of the Soul Aligned Leadership programs. She combines strategic coaching, neuroscience, breath and somatic work into one program to facilitate transformation and reveal a whole new way of living and leading – in alignment with your true self.

Jill Fox

Jill Fox became curious about yoga in her teens as a young gymnast. She formed a daily practice after retiring from gymnastics to help keep some of her strength and flexibility.  What she ended up discovering was so much more. 
Jill has studied and earned 2 (200-hour) teaching certificates. The first with Rolf Gates in California, in 2009 and the second with Sri Dharma Mittra in New York in 2019. She is honored to be part of the Embody team to help spread the benefits of yoga. 

Holly Haveman

Holly is a world traveler who has been practicing yoga since her days in Costa Rica.
She officially studied in India, and took her practice around the world, where she lived a Feel Better Do Good lifestyle. Returning to Grand Rapids in 2017 to start working with her family’s flower and gift shop, Kennedy’s, she was delighted to learn of EmbodyGR. She happily raises her hand to join on the teaching team and can’t wait to keep community yoga alive in GR. 

Mimi Ray – Guest Teacher

Mimi's teaching reflects a lifelong love of yoga and study. Yoga is a coming home again and again, to know one’s Self, and find balance in a hectic world. Special interests in practices are Restorative Yoga, Ayurveda & Yoga Nidra. Mimi is the founder and director of The Art of Teaching Yoga, 200hr RYS Yoga Teacher Training School & been teaching since 2004. 

Jennifer Jettner

Jenn lives in Spring Lake, Michigan, with her husband, Chad, rock-climbing son, Connor,  quick-witted son, Noah, and flower-child, Kiya!  Her fur family includes Tuck (Labradoodle) and cat Monk! 

​She completed her 200-hour training at Dancing Feet Yoga in New Buffalo, Michigan.  She recently completed her 300-hour training through Mindful Vinyasa School of Yoga in Grand Rapids.  She is also certified in Aroma Yoga and Yoga Kids International.  She has her Reiki I and II and a Master's Degree in Education.

Jaron Art Siegel

Jaron is a wizard of natural living. Since he was a teenager he has been exploring yoga, working aroind the country natural health products, studied at university and with health professionals, and a variety of traditions and rituals around the world. Jaron is known in the Grand Rapids community for his work as a healer, a teacher, and leader in the sacred masculinity movement. Jaron brings a playful yet deep energy, and passion to every situation. Currently he is creating health and wellness products at his company ONYA.

Sarah Andro

Sarah's most important work in life is being a Mother. 

She began doing yoga personally in the mid '90s. In 2019 she took her 200 hour course to start teaching yoga. 

Sarah has since gone on on to receive Yin Yoga certifications through The Online Yoga School and Yoga with Kassandra. She is currently enrolled as a 300-hour student through Janet Stone Yoga in California. In addition to yoga, she is also a certified Reiki Master (Levels I, II, and III). 

Her passion is helping others/myself by practicing/teaching wellness through exercise, strength, nutrition, movement & breath.