Andy is a lifelong resident of Colorado. He loves everything outdoors including hiking, camping, and skiing.

Music plays a big role in Andy's life as well, he enjoys attending live shows and even learning to play the banjo. He discovered yoga as a way to supplement his many activities, but fell in love with all the other more subtle aspects and benefits of yoga.

Since his early years of practicing, he has been committed to learning more and diving even deeper into this amazing practice. Andy's classes are grounding, powerful, creative, and fun.

Angela first encountered yoga as a young athlete in Southern California and her journey on the mat has been an exploration of the tension between strength and flexibility. Her years of practice have led her to the healing power of yoga, both mind and body, through physical injury and mental stress. Yoga is a constant reminder to move through life breathing.

Plus it comes with a physical practice that can go anywhere, which has served Angela well as she has lived and traveled throughout the world. She's called Sunnyside (and Denver) home since 2015 and found the BBY community shortly after it opened. After years of consistent practice, she recently completed BBY's 200-hour yoga teacher training and is excited to start facilitating a welcoming, inclusive, and dynamic space for all to practice.

Ashleigh aims to help students unplug and journey inward, as a balance to their busy and often outwardly focused lives. Completing her 200-HR YTT in 2012, she has been instructing regular yoga classes ever since. She considers herself a lifelong student and has continued her education specifically within Yin Yoga and Chinese Meridian Theory. Ashleigh passionately shares Yin and slower styles of yoga through skillful sequencing, infused with seasonal wisdom and an understanding of the subtle body.

Ashleigh's classes encourage a consistent practice of self-awareness, by bringing attention to the breath. Her clear cues, slow pacing, and frequent offerings for modifications ensure an approachable and digestible experience. She hopes her classes help students achieve greater ease and cultivate self-healing. Off the mat, she is a business owner of an interior design company, loves to trail run with her two doodles, and enjoys frequent travel with her partner.

Gurupriya Beth Sanchez has been teaching since 2001. She loves wading in the energy of group wisdom, song, movement and remembrance of deep reality. She also loves returning to the world of form; loving, preserving and building what is beautiful with humans and more-than-human beings.

Beth’s classes are inspired by her core teachers, Engaged Buddhism Founder, Venerable Thich Nhat Hahn, and Ayurveda Master, Alakananda Ma. She is also invigorated by the Non-Dual Advaita teachings, Indigenous wisdom, Post-colonial ways, and Embodied Justice practices of Kaira Jewell, Larry Ward, and many other teachers. Her primary yoga influences include Richard Freeman and Tias Little.

Beth loves to sing, cook, farm, dance, learn, meditate, and weave new worlds with other like-hearted beings.

Chottip first fell in love with yoga as a sanctuary amidst the hustle and bustle of modern life. She not only connected with the physical relief the practice provided but the equilibrium it brought to her mind and heart. She wholeheartedly believes yoga opens pathways for self-discovery while bringing awareness to the harmony of life.

Through fluid movement she aims to help practitioners access their own unique alignment through mudra meditation and consistent flow, in turn amplifying their connection to the pranic flow moving throughout the body. Drawing from the lineage of Prana Vinyasa via Shiva Rea, Chottip aims for unification of prana and living flow for herself and her students , exploring the heart cave, moving with the ebb and flow of life.

After years of soccer and running, Faye stumbled across the practice to find recovery of her aching body. The more she practiced, she witnessed the shifts and transformations within her that went far beyond body restoration. She believes yoga can affect every individual and every community. In 2019 she decided to combine some of her passions; teaching, yoga, and inclusivity. Her 200 hour teacher training was focused on empowering all bodies to practice yoga. She strives to provide an environment where individuals feel safe and supported to express their individuality and uniqueness. Truly believing yoga is for everyBODY, Faye is eager to provide considerations and modifications for all abilities.

Jay is a wellness facilitator, vinyāsa-yoga instructor, and Ayurvedic practitioner with over 10 years of practice. His embodiment road began with transcendental meditation (T.M.) and yogāsana - discovered through the Veterans Administration in 2013. His prior exposure to movement modalities includes Tai Chi Chih, Muay Thai and combatives, and free weight strength training. 

As an ERYT 500 certified yoga teacher, Jay is inspired by yoga nidrā, rocket and prāṇa vinyāsa, and trauma-informed ashtanga. His instructional style synthesizes classical sensibilities, sonics, functional movement patterns, and Malayali ayurveda. His classes are crafted for you to cultivate centering, mobility, and resilience by integrating breath-awareness, static-dynamic flow-states, and attunement to your nervous system. 

Beyond the movement community, Jay adores the arts, sport, literature, and backroads. His sincere convictions are related to suicide prevention, personal and cultural expression.

As a yoga instructor, Joy has a playful way of reintroducing you to your own personal awakening by gently nudging you to declare freedom from all self-made limitations. Her teaching style is bright, challenging, playful, inspiring and sometimes upside down. One of Joy’s strongest values is G-R-O-W-T-H and you will find this embedded in every levity-filled class she guides you through.

Joy first discovered yoga in college where she happily practiced and studied Iyengar. From there her asana practice went rather dormant while life surrounded her in a variety of other ways. In 2008, she took her first vinyasa class, and as some would say, the rest is history! Joy is ERYT 200-hr certified having trainings in Vinyasa, Iyengar, Baptiste and Bhakti. Outside of yoga, Joy loves to spend time with her family and her pups!

Description goes hereMichelle has been a student of yoga for more than 20 years and has skillfully guided others for over a decade. Born in Toronto, Canada, Michelle's years as a dancer influenced her deep learning from different lineages of yoga and meditation teachers. With an enduring curiosity, Michelle embraces all forms of movement and continuously explores new styles. She is an advocate for moving what you can, when you can, however you can and encourages others to stay committed to both learning and unlearning. She has also been shaped deeply by life and those she loves including the profound influence of her Trinidadian & Tobagonian parents, and her children, Quinn and Rowan. Michelle is committed to creating community wherever she goes and loves to travel and learn about other cultures and eat their food. Recently Michelle has found joy in creating clay works at her local pottery studio in Denver, where she lives with her husband, children, and French bulldog, Obi.

Pam has worked in the fitness/yoga/wellness space for over 42 years. Pam has over 1000 hours in formal yoga training and holds certificates in vinyasa, yin, yoga nidra, restorative, Iyengar inspired, mobility, HIIT training, pranayama, mantra meditation and TM meditation.

Her passion is teaching yoga to all levels of students. Yoga has the ability to transform your body and mind in the moment. Continued practice allows the practitioner to cultivate self-awareness, physical and mental resilience, and depth of compassion. Practicing in community allows humor, curiosity, and determination to expand the energy in the space. It is a thing of wonder to experience a room breathing and moving together.

Colorado has been home to Pam for 36 years. She enjoys travel, trail running, paddleboarding, snowshoeing, and hiking with her deaf dog, Stevie. She likes some indoor stuff like reading, cooking and sleeping.

Through years of embodied studies, Raymond has come to view the unique facets of yoga as a collection of contemplative lenses that provide clarity in ones journey to ease both personal and collective suffering. While sharing in community, Raymond tenderly invites others into connection through shared moments of stillness and silence where clearer perception of ones relationship to self and other may come into focus. Raymond offers physically accessible sequences that are introspective, incremental and inclusive in order to foster a meditative foundation from which ones intuitive knowing may arise and intimately inform ones practice.

Raymond passionately advocates for greater mental health awareness within yoga communities and for the utilization of these practices to examine individuals’ evolving relationships to experiences of depression, anxiety and stress.

Rossi’s yoga journey began at 17 in her native Bulgaria, where the practice "found" her and sparked a lifelong passion. Since completing her first Vinyasa teacher training in 2014, she’s dedicated herself to exploring yoga’s depth, embracing all eight limbs of Patanjali’s teachings. With thousands of training hours, Rossi’s expertise spans Power Vinyasa, Iyengar, Hatha, Restorative, Yin, and Yoga for addiction and recovery.

Rossi’s classes blend strength, education, and emotional connection, empowering students to deepen self-awareness and cultivate balance. She weaves humor, intention, and deep insight into her teaching, creating spaces for transformation. In addition, Rossi is a Mindset Coach, Reiki Master, and Bodywork Practitioner who is currently pursuing a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Rossi’s mission is to guide others toward healing, resilience, and the joy of self-discovery.

Sara has spent a lifetime collecting wisdom and information from incredible mentors and students alike within the realm of movement and mind body connection. She has travelled as a teacher trainer and built training programs for a variety of movement modalities including The Willpower Method, Barre and Yoga.

Sara’s teaching experience has given her a profound understanding of human movement, in the body and in the heart. Her classes are a creative and challenging alchemy of traditional yoga poses and functional movements. Her classes tell a story and guide a connection to deeper sense of self.

Sarah’s yoga practice began in 2009. At first it was about getting herself to stretch, and “workout” differently, but it quickly became more than just a physical practice. Not only was she moving her body in a new way, but her mind was also changing. Yoga sparked connection within, taught her to trust, to feel, to get to know herself deeply.

In 2013 Sarah completed her 200-hr Power YTT at Zuda Yoga in Sacramento before expanding her education to include Yin, Bhakti, Yoga Nidra and Trauma-informed yoga. As a student of life, Sarah believes in the benefits of all forms of yoga. The power of connection is prominent in Sarah’s classes and her message is one of growth. She strives to invite each student to find their unique growth edge, wherever it may be in the moment, to meet the practice and spark the potential for change.

Shanté, a lifelong lover of movement, discovered yoga after experiencing an adrenal crash in 2019. As a personal trainer, runner and new mom, yoga became an anchor for her amid the complexity of life transitions. Yoga's patient invitation to rest, release, and reconnect sparked a profound self-love for Shanté, inspiring her to complete her 200-hour training in 2021, followed shortly by her 300-hour. 

Guided by the ancient wisdom of breath, body, and a fire playlist, Shanté sees the rhythmic dance of stillness and movement as a pathway to conversing with higher consciousness. Through listening, prayer and play her classes honor change by creatively stirring space to explore transitions to welcome all versions of ourselves and intentionally learn to be with them. Throughout her many stages, Shanté encompasses all that she is and isn’t with compassion, practicing and sharing yoga as a way to nurture more space for rest, release, creativity and connection!

Shanti, a Venezuelan native, discovered the transformative power of yoga in 2010 while living in New York City. Since moving to Denver in 2020, she has deepened her practice completing both her 200 HR and 300 HR yoga teacher trainings. Her immersion in the study of yoga asana, philosophy, and sutras fueled her passion to help others cultivate inner peace through the profound connection between mind and body.

Shanti strongly advocates for cultural humility and inclusivity within yoga communities, believing in yoga's power to liberate and connect all people. As a dynamic and engaging bilingual instructor, Shanti fosters a sense of belonging by sharing yoga's unifying power with a diverse community. She is excited to share her love for yoga with her students, empowering them to cultivate self-awareness, self-love, and independence on their individual journeys.

Sonja is a graduate of Better Buzz's first teacher training class back in 2018 and has been teaching in this community ever since. What to expect in one of Sonja's classes? A mixture of soft reflective moments and sweaty strong shapes.

She loves balancing postures and twists, so get ready to wobble and wring it out. Her main goal as a teacher is to promote the idea that yoga is for everyone, so classes tend to be challenging yet accessible. Sonja also loves mixing genres and styles of music from reggae and hip hop to top forty hits, 80's synth pop,funk and electronica.

Throughout her life, Tori has enjoyed exploring movement of all kinds. Running and soccer were her two main outlets for years until she discovered yoga. For Tori, yoga was different in the most beautiful of ways because it invited her to connect to her body not only through movement but also through stillness and everything in between.

After years of practice, Tori decided to embark on a 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2024 to deepen her understanding of yoga's teachings and to share her love of yoga with others. As both a student and a teacher, Tori strives to discover something new in her yoga journey with every practice, every interaction, and in the subtleties of everyday life. She brings this same dedication and intentionality to her classes, hoping to empower and uplift everyone who attends.