Faculty

 Mary Lyn Jenkins has been teaching yoga for 15 years and committed to full-time teaching the past 13 years. After a cross-country move to Jacksonville, Florida, from Seattle, Washington, she dug deep on her courage and transitioned from 15 years of set design and Creative Director to serve her new beach community; in 2010, Big Fish Power Yoga opened its doors. It was the result of her passion for beauty, people, creativity and expanding leadership with power yoga as the medium.

An E- RYT 500 and Tier Three Certified Baptiste Influencer, Mary Lyn has spent thousands of hours over the past twenty years, involved in training, developing and leading herself and others to expand their gifts to serve powerfully. For six years, Mary Lyn worked closely with the NFL developing recovery programs with yoga as the focus and was the cover model of Yoga Journal magazine in August 2016.  Her first book, The Transformative Power of Language, was published in 2019 and ranked #1 as an Amazon Best-Seller. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Baptiste Foundation, is a Certified Lightyear Leadership Coach coaching individuals to live the life they want. She leads classrooms and teams to love, forgive and stand in choice. She’s a wife of 23 years to the same great man and momma of two amazing teenagers. Her Southern roots run deep with family dinners, hospitality and traditions. She considers partnership to be the most powerful instrument for positive change.

Luca is an E-RYT 500 and leads yoga classes, workshops, and trainings. Luca has presented at internationally recognized conferences including Yoga Journal LIVE, ECA Fitness Conference, and at the White House as part of Michelle Obama’s ​Let's Move! C​ampaign. Luca has contributed to published academic research studies on the efficacy of yoga in collaboration with the University of Miami, and developed  a year-long research study on the effects of yoga for at risk youth in collaboration with Florida International University.

 Karen Torrone, Director of 5 Boro Power Yoga in Staten Island, NY, started practicing yoga in 2005 and in 2007, received a 100 hour certification in Classical Yoga and then moved into training with Baptiste Yoga, attending Level 1 Training in February, 2009 with Baron Baptiste and has since completed Level 2, Level 3 and FIT and has trained over 1200 hours to reach Tier 3 Certification. Karen continues to grow in her development as a leader/teacher and assists Baron and the Senior Baptiste Faculty in weeklong and weekend programs and believes that yoga is a lifelong journey of discovery both on and off the mat. 

Karen has led over 25 #unstoppable yoga for youth trainings around the country for the Baptiste Foundation and has led the 200 Hour Baptiste Teacher Training Expand Your Power at her home studio, in Albany, NY and in Belize. In 2020, she was an Affiliate Coach for the first ever online Baptiste 40 Days to a Personal Revolution program with Baron Baptiste. Karen was a Mentor with Africa Yoga Project and led a family service trip to Kenya to build a greenhouse for an orphanage. She is a Certified Life Coach and a Certified Yoga Body Bootcamp Instructor and has taken the Prison Yoga Project weekend training with James Fox. Karen travels around the world sharing her love of yoga by leading teacher development weekends, workshops and retreats and is co-founder of Guyon Rescue, a not-for-profit 100% volunteer organization which began in October, 2012 in the days following Hurricane Sandy.