Our Instructors
Heather Kemp
E-RYT500, Yin certified, PTSD/TBI/Trauma certified, Sound and Energy Healing certified. Heather has been instructing for over 10 years and is the founder and owner of Yoga Rouge. She has worked with a number of college and professional athletes individually and as teams. She believes in giving back and humbly offers her time and services to several active and veteran military organizations, as well as several non-profits.
Heather delivers a passionate, powerful breath-based class whether it’s Hot Power or taking it down notch with Flow, Yin, Yoga Nidra, or Sound Bath Healing. Her teaching always comes from the heart, in the present moment, what she sees before her, never a script. She teaches breath and manfulness, with a touch of spirituality; a moving, breathing meditation that will empower you on your journey. Everything she teaches in her classes can be incorporated into your everyday life.
Dana Guillory
E-RYT500 and YACEP, Level Two certified Merge (fascia) Practitioner, 11:11 The Practice, BUTI® Yoga, Yin Yoga, Barre and Mat Pilates, and MANY more…
Dana’s classes are a synthesis of many styles of movement, challenging yet for EVERYBODY, energetic, fun, maybe set to a good beat and delivered with a smile. Her goal is to empower you to be your best self and define yourself inside and out.
Lee Smith
RYT200
As a United States Army Veteran as well as being in recovery from drugs and alcohol for over 10 years I have always searched for ways to truly heal myself. Because power yoga focuses on your breath, impacts not only your practice but your daily living, I found something that I truly love and want to give back to others.
Lee brings the heat, his experience, knowledge of trivia and music to his encouraging, enlightening and energetic classes. Be prepared to sweat it out!
Erin Kimbrough
RYT200
Erin’s love and dedication to yoga began years ago as a way to stay physically active and manage stress through graduate school. She fully embraced the call of yoga as a mental, physical, and spiritual practice. Yoga has been one of the great gifts of this life, and Erin seeks to honor that gift through mindful practice, and more recently, teaching. She invites all yogis to explore different modifications and find ways to listen to what their bodies need by taking it back to basics.
Lauryn Burleigh
RYT200, Yoga Trapeze Certified, Meditation Teacher Certification in progress
In addition to the physical movement of yoga, Lauryn enjoys the mental health aspects and brings a particular focus to mindfulness in classes. They believe anyone can do yoga and is dedicated to making classes a valuable experience regardless of flexibility, injury, experience, or other constraints. As a cognitive researcher, Lauryn is also passionate about the scientific study of, and findings regarding, yoga's benefits.
Melanie Verzwyvelt
RYT200
Melanie draws on over twenty years of experience in various styles of yoga to lead her hot yoga classes with the intention of offering what is needed while providing her students a space for individual exploration and growth. An administrative law judge by day, Melanie loves to learn new things and hopes to inspire her students to do the same. Melanie obtained her RYT-200 certification from Yoga Ya Ya in her hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana.
Jamie Skiles
RYT200
Jamie’s love for yoga started at Yoga Rouge! She has always dealt with stress and anxiety, when Heather encouraged her to dive deeper into yoga, everything changed! She just completed her 200 hour training this past summer, and is excited to share the inspiration that Yoga Rouge has given her. Her classes are energetic and demanding, and she loves to throw in inspiring quotes from the current books she’s reading. She practices yoga because she needs a way to manage the stress of a busy college life. Every time she leaves a class, she feels like a renewed person ready to take on whatever life may throw at her! The most important lesson yoga has taught her so far is that breath is the key to life. If she’s in a class feeling like she can’t conquer the practice, she has learned to just breathe. In everyday life when she feels anxious or helpless, she has learned to just breathe! She hopes each person leaves her class feeling as renewed and inspired as yoga always makes her feel!
Evan Matthews
RYT200
Evan is our hero! He teaches a vigorous, powerful, and challenging class! As a practitioner for many years and having an extremely curious nature, he brings an element of surprise and calm to his instructing. He is a Marine Veteran doing two tours during high combat times. His “day job” now is as a junior high Math teacher, a football coach, the team bus driver and yoga instructor. He is also working on his Masters.
MG Miller
RYT200
MG loooves teaching Hot Power Yoga. Her favorite thing is leaving a class and looking like I just took a shower in my clothes; in fact, it is the only time I enjoy sweating. One of my favorite things about this studio is that our teachers have a wide variety of strengths. I love starting off my week with Rabia and Erin’s vigorous hot power classes. Heather’s class physically and mentally challenges me in ways I didn’t know I needed. Mia and Mallory’s class ALWAYS kick my butt. Lee’s class is super fun, and he’s always looking to see what new poses he can surprise us with. Dana’s is always smooth and super bendy. I’m a people person and I love showing up to a class and meeting new friends! To me this place feels like a second home and I hope it will for you too!
Brooke Miller
RYT200
I fell in love with Yoga after taking my
first ever class at Yoga Rouge. In 2018 I completed my 200Hr with YR because I love what the practice has done for me in my everyday life, & I want everyone and their grandmas to experience the pure delight of yoga. In my classes I want to hear your breath! Before class be sure to drink plenty of water & prepare to Sweat. It. Out!
Ashley Temple
Bikram Yoga College of India Los Angeles, CA 2006
Yoga is a path for which I have chosen to help others heal and feel more alive! When life becomes clouded and unmanageable and the ordinary needs a tune up we come to the mat to do just that…. See you on the mat!
Ashley is also a graduate of LSU!
Shea Needham Caliva
RYT200
Shea is originally from Dallas and has been practicing yoga in different styles since 2004. She was looking for a studio similar to studio she came from that taught hot power yoga, and she found her studio home at Yoga Rouge. Shea loves the challenge of matching the breath with the poses and finding stillness in her mind during the classes. Her favorite part of class is the beginning and end when the mind is called into focus on the group breath, the energy and power that comes from my fellow yogis, and savasana when the calmness washes over the class and everyone is in communal peace. Shea completed her 200 training this summer. While the poses and breath restore the physical body, it was learning about all 8 limbs of yoga that were really life changing.