About Your Hosts

Tymi Howard Bender is an internationally known Yoga Alliance 500 E-RYT yoga teacher. She is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, creator of Manifest Yoga International Teacher Trainings, founder of Guruv Yoga Studios and currently owns and operates James Island Yoga in Charleston, South Carolina. Tymi helped pioneer the vinyasa and yin yoga movement throughout the world. She believes that yoga is not a separate practice, but a life’s journey. It begins with the spirit and does not end with rolling up the mat. Yoga is a way of life; not just an exercise. Teaching the science and art of yoga is her passion. Her approach to teaching yoga is by bringing people closer to this “yoga is a lifestyle” philosophy and using it to achieve their life goals.

In typical Tymi fashion, she took injuries from her days as a ballet dancer and turned to yoga in 1993, finding both physical and spiritual comfort in its adoption. Receiving her BA in Theatre and Dance from Rollins College and Masters Degree from NYU/ Circle in the Square, and yoga trainings with some of the renowned yogis of the world—John Friend, Dharma Mittra, David Swenson, Steve Ross, Jonny Kest, Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, David Life, Sharron Gannon, and others—Tymi has developed a unique approach to teaching that finds its roots in a devotion to God, Service and Yoga.

Candace Blair is an internationally known practitioner and teacher of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, Sound Healing, Shamanic Reiki, and Sacred Cacao Ceremonies. These practices have altered the course of her life, helping her to find her purpose and passion. They have opened her heart to more love, an elevated mind, body and spirit and raised her conscious awareness. She looks forward to sharing these inspiring healing modalities that have transformed her life with like-minded people.

She is KRI Kundalini Yoga certified by Karam Kriya in England/Portugal; she trained as a “Cacaoista” with Rebekah Shaman in Ibiza, Spain & London; she furthered her Shamanic studies with Mally Paquette, a modern medicine woman from Awakenings in Sedona. She is level 1&2 certified in Shamanic Reiki and a trained sound healer using ancient gongs & crystal singing bowls.

Candace is also trained in the “Alchemy of Becoming” methodology, she helps her clients to raise their level of consciousness by releasing trapped emotions from the body, the aura, and the energetic systems.