Her Story

Tia Platte, E-RYT® 500, YACEP® is a Mother, entrepreneur, movement facilitator, yoga educator, and former contemporary dancer. She teaches an empowering, dynamic yoga practice that invites personal inquiry while cultivating functional strength and mindfulness. She is passionate about sharing the process of self-realization in classes, workshops, trainings, and one-on-one.

 

Quite simply, Tia invites people to connect more deeply with themselves and understand their true nature. 

 

Tia first discovered yoga as a dancer in high school and quickly fell in love with the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of the practice. After graduating with a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Va Commonwealth University, Tia deepened into her studies of yoga. She completed her first 200-hour teacher training in 2000 with Don and Amba Stapleton at Omega Institute and began teaching yoga soon thereafter. Tia went on to complete Mary Paffard’s Yoga Mendocino 500-hour Advanced Teacher Training in 2003 and an additional YogaWorks 200-hour Teacher Training in 2008. She began studying with Rodney Yee, Richard Rosen, and Mary Paffard in 2001 and has attended multiple workshops and immersions with Annie Carpenter, Roger Cole, Jason Crandell, Maty Ezraty, John Schumacher, Shiva Rea, and Anne Van Valkenburg.

 

Additionally, her love of dance and fitness led her back to the barre becoming certified as a BarWorks Barre Instructor through YogaWorks. In 2015, she developed the YogaBarre training offered exclusively at Yoga Source for five years where she trained and mentored YogaBarre trainees.

 

Tia’s signature style of practice is strength-based vinyasa steeped in functional movement. Expect more than just poses on the mat as the process of self-inquiry is the foundation for all the practices of yoga. In addition to alignment-based Vinyasa, Tia teaches donation-based Community classes, Gentle, Chair, Core Flow, Kids, Meditation, Pranayama, Restoratives, Slow Flow, and Somatics.

 

Outside of yoga, Tia is a certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA), Health Coach (Dr. Sears Wellness Institute), and Holistic House Manager (Sage Haus). She aspires to complete her studies as a Movement Therapist by 2027 and elevate her services as a Holistic Lifestyle Manager for busy families and households.

 

She spent over fifteen years as an entrepreneur and small business owner of Yoga Source, llc (2007-2022) and Taj Wellness, llc (2023-2026), Yoga Source Director of Teacher Training (2007-22), yoga mentor and guest workshop presenter. When not immersed in being a Mother to one amazing son and two fur boys, studying or teaching yoga, she loves to travel and spend time in nature, most notably near an ocean.