“You only have to let the soft animal of your body. love what it loves.”

Group of smiling people in a yoga studio posing for a photo, with some seated on the floor and others standing, against a background of large windows and a brown wall.

Hello, we are playful heart studio, an accessible place to join together in reverence for our beloved bodies. We want you to be you, feel good in your skin, learn a thing or two, and cultivate joy as a community.

  • Noelle is an intuitive healer, floral designer, and performance artist. She grew up in Boone doing community theater and dance. Her first yoga class was at age 6 with her father, who is a sound and energy healer, and she fondly remembers adults looking at her upside down from between their legs. She began teaching in 2009 and became an internationally certified yoga therapist in 2017. As a back care specialist, living with scoliosis, she has a deep understanding, and ample experience helping others heal pain of all kind in their bodies. Noelle is thrilled to be back in the Historic Banner Elk School after starting Avery Community Yoga in 2019 and stepping down to build her family and floral design business. Noelle deeply believes in Love, play, nature, and community.

A person in a light-colored shirt stands indoors by a large window with orange flowers in a vase on the windowsill. A floor lamp provides warm light in the background.
  • Chelsea has been practicing yoga since 2009. She is certified and registered as a 500 E-RYT with 12 years of combined teaching experience in Florida, Peru and Western North Carolina. Trained in Vinyasa and Hatha styles with a self developed affinity for the depth of Yin, she loves combining styles both in personal practice and shared instruction for a balance of fluidity and creative self expression.