Meet The Team
Who We Are
front desk staff
Chenoa Brown Pierre
Chenoa Brown Pierre is a wellness advocate with a passion for helping others thrive through holistic living. With nearly 30 years of experience in customer service and over 25 years as a professional dancer, she brings deep compassion, dedication, and energy to every part of her work. Chenoa values connection, movement, and nourishment-both in body and spirit
-and finds joy in dancing, cooking for loved ones, and spending time with her family as a proud wife and
Shamika Dalombe
Shamika Dalomba is a Florida native, who now calls Charlotte, NC home. When she’s not on her corporate job in the financial services industry, she’s enjoying this new chapter of freedom to explore new hobbies and traveling now that her kids are adults. Shamika prioritizes health and wellness and actively participates in various workout classes including her new love of hot yoga.
Peyton Singleton
I fell in love with yoga during my senior year of college at UNC Chapel Hill. Following graduation in 2019, I moved to Charlotte, NC for my first job and began practicing more frequently. Though a challenging time, the pandemic allowed me to grow deeper in my practice and in 2024 I completed my 200 YTT. I love live music, beaches and my dog, Rue!
Alyssa Brown
Welcome to the commencement of Alyssa’s yoga teaching journey. In May 2024, Alyssa completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training certification with Soulful School of Yoga, run by Dr. Felicia. Every class, whether teaching, practicing, or learning, Alyssa discovers a new wave of self-confidence in her body, mind, and soul. She’s honored to lead the beginner's yoga class as a conscious beginner herself and a student of the other QC Fit Yoga teachers. Alyssa strives to offer her class as a gift of comfort, acceptance, and rejuvenation to all who join. The practice of yoga has been a constant tool of healing for Alyssa. Through loss, stress, anxiety, health concerns, and the unknowns of life, practicing yoga has helped restore balance for her. She’s honored and excited to meet you on your mat in a safe and accepting environment. You are welcome here.
Yoga Teachers
Imani Blaize
Meet Imani, your dedicated guide on the journey to inner peace. With a passion for facilitating transformation through the synergy of ancient practices and modern modalities, Imani is a seasoned healing practitioner ready to help you clear energy blocks and awaken your highest potential. Imani's own path to healing began with a profound personal journey. Having navigated through the depths of complex PTSD stemming from childhood trauma, she discovered the profound healing power of yoga. Through dedicated practice, she not only found solace but also tapped into a wellspring of resilience and self-discovery.
For Imani, yoga is not just a physical practice but a sacred journey of self-exploration and connection.
Mary Dula
Hello, my name is Mary, and I am a 200-hour certified yoga instructor. My journey with yoga began three years ago with a 40-day yoga challenge—a transformative experience that reshaped my life from the inside out. Through this practice, I discovered a deeper connection with myself and a beautiful sense of belonging within the yoga community. My mission is to guide and support others in their own journeys of healing, self-discovery, and transformation through yoga. Whether you’re stepping onto the mat for the first time or deepening an existing practice, I am here to help you cultivate self-love, inner strength, and mindfulness. Yoga is not about perfection—it’s about growth, letting go, and flowing with life. Wherever you are on your path, I invite you to move, breathe, and evolve with me. Let's embark on this journey together!
Danielle Dobbs
Danielle is a she/her person flowing in the breeze of life. During a rough patch of her life, she started doing yoga by watching YouTube videos in her house, not truly feeling seen or represented in other spaces but always drawn back to movement. Eventually her work life (recreation/sports) and personal fitness interests slowly started to intersect. She became driven and focused on teaching fitness classes for people with disabilities in 2016, which evolved into a love of learning how to effectively move all people. Words matter, thoughts matter, movement matters in all ways that we are and things that we do. Let your breath move you and find your magic in her variety of classes.
Niché Faulkner
Niché is an African dancing, diversity-focused, free-spirited peacock who lives her life on and off her mat by the Xhosa principle of “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”. Simply stated, it is the belief that “a person is a person through persons” and that we are bonded through common humanity and oneness. As a teacher, Niché advocates for yoga as an essential tool in the building of community, personal transformation, and self-care. It is her intention to stand for the underrepresented, especially those who do not fit the traditional standard of yoga including body image, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Outside of the studio, you can find Niché teaching West African dance, spending time with her family, laughing from her gut, and living her life unapologetically and free.
Grace G. Harris
Hi! I'm Grace! im a 200hr CTY currently pursuing my additional 300 hrs! I am deeply passionate about personal growth, mindfulness, sustainable movement, and building meaningful connections. In my classes I emphasize breathwork, intentional movement, and proper alignment to help students feel grounded, strong, and present. Outside of yoga, You'll often find me reading a book (I'm always taking recs!), hiking, grabbing coffee with a friend, thrifting with my husband or exploring a new creative hobby!
Renice Jones
I'm Niecy (Renice) Namaste! My yoga practice and philosophy is focused on self-reflection and regeneration to address and mitigate root cause of ailments. As a Registered Yoga Teacher, I will guide you through your yoga practice so that you may be able to find peace on and off your mat.
Heather McDowell
I took my first yoga class in 2003 at a local YMCA. Although, I thought the class was difficult, I had an amazing experience of relaxation and calm in savasana and I remember wanting to experience that again! I took classes on and off throughout the years but I found myself needing more of an outlet when I became a primary caregiver to my parents. I began practicing consistently in 2015 and I have been hooked ever since! Yoga helped me navigate grieving the loss of my parents, it has given me peace of mind, mental clarity, it has helped me relieve stress, and it has caused me to live more mindfully. With a more consistent practice, my interest in yoga deepened. My deepening interest led to me complete my 200hr yoga teacher certification with Kiesha Battles and Candace Jennings with I Am Yoga in Charlotte, NC in July 2021 and I’m excited to share the benefits of yoga with others! I enjoy yin yoga, deep stretch, restorative and a gentle/slow flow every once in a while. In my work as a mental health therapist, I have incorporated mindfulness practices in my full-time work with therapy clients.
Holly Minter
I started practicing yoga in 2016 as a runner, mainly to cross train and alternate workouts. Since then, it’s taken me on an incredible journey that I am so grateful for. I completed my 200 YTT in June of 2023, and immediately realized I had just scratched the surface. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching at a nonprofit that serves formerly homeless individuals, and truly began to see the mind-body connection in others and in my own practice. I love the variety that yoga offers, but my favorite styles to teach and practice are deep stretch, restorative, and Yin. Outside of yoga, I enjoy traveling, cooking, live music, and being outside with my rescue dog. I look forward to joining you
in the studio
Peyton Singleton
I fell in love with yoga during my senior year of college at UNC Chapel Hill. Following graduation in 2019, I moved to Charlotte, NC for my first job and began practicing more frequently. Though a challenging time, the pandemic allowed me to grow deeper in my practice and in 2024 I completed my 200 YTT. I love live music, beaches and my dog, Rue!
Ariel Smith
Ariel shares yoga as a path to clarity, connection, and nervous system support—on and off the mat. At QC Fit Yoga, her breath-centered approach encourages sustainable movement, emotional balance, and a deeper connection to personal health. She also holds space for practicing boundaries and self-awareness through the lens of yoga.Her teaching is shaped by experience in health advocacy, community work, and leadership across spaces like the U.S. Senate and national pageant organizations.Ariel values presence, growth, and meaningful impact. Off the mat, she enjoys time with loved ones and her furbabies, traveling, and wandering the aisles of Trader Joe’s.
Alyce Vallejo
Alyce knows herself as an original disrupter of her own life. Continuously seeking the edge of the unknown and leaping with love, passion, and grace. 11 years ago she found herself stuck in the comfort of a life she thought she was supposed to be living, checking all the boxes from the outside. Realizing the reflection she saw was disconnected and closed off to the growth her heart desired. In a moment, she made a wholehearted choice to create a life of LOVE, PASSION, and ADVENTURE. With over 20+ years of dance training, performance, 300 hour yoga certification, 22 hrs Grounded Kids Yoga and as a Lightyear Leadership coach, Alyce's rich experience of movement practices serve as the initial gateway to emboding her fullest self-expression. She leans into artistry and embodiment to mold a language to her crafts that reveals a spiritual connection to source and self. Alyce continuously seeks to integrate the various modalities of movement as the visionary and founder of ‘Be Vida, Discover Movement.’ Here she uses her bold ability to intuitively listen, feel, and guide others in movement exploration through coaching, classes, retreats, art, and performance. With Alyce, you will discover a conversation of asana and inquiry, sensation and vulnerability, discomfort and bravery to awaken and empower your movement voice. You will find yourself at unknown cusps’ with excitement, community, in love, and at home in the essence of your whole self! Compassionately disrupted.
Dani vayo
Dani has been teaching since 2018 and has since then earned her E-RYT200, became certified in Yin Yoga, and is currently working towards her certification in Thai Bodywork. She teaches a range of styles from Vinyasa to Sculpt with her favorite being Deep Stretch or Restorative, where she can integrate Thai influenced massages (by request). Yoga is more than just a physical experience and so is life. Dani understands that a yoga practice needs to be more than one of its eight limbs - asana/movement - as the body will not always be able to access this limb of yoga. Her approach to the time you dedicate with yourself on the mat intends to offer you an opportunity to find what you seek from your practice and in life.
Dr. Felicia Tozzi
Dr. Felicia Tozzi is the Owner and CEO of QC Fit Yoga and the Founder of the Soulful School of Yoga. With over 20 years of experience as an educator, yoga practitioner, and exercise science professor, Dr. Tozzi brings a unique blend of academic expertise, embodied wisdom, and compassionate leadership to everything she does.
Deeply committed to bridging the gap between mental health and physical well-being, she guides students and clients back to their true selves through intentional movement, mindfulness, and trauma-informed practices.
Currently pursuing C-IAYT as a Yoga Therapist, Dr. Tozzi is on track to graduate in 2026. Her mission is to offer accessible, healing-centered yoga experiences that reconnect people to their bodies, breath, and inner strength.
