Monica is a 500-hour registered yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a certified Death Doula and founder of Grace & Soul Wellness. She helps souls pass with grace through peace, presence, and comfort, while also guiding students in uniting mind, body, and soul through yoga. Trained under Megan Mulrine of Yogatrotter Academy, Monica infuses her classes with pranayama and meditation techniques that encourage students to take their practice beyond the mat and into daily life. Based on the Connecticut shoreline, Monica brings a holistic approach to both her yoga teaching and end-of-life work — creating space for healing, presence, and wholeness at every stage of life.

Retreat Host · RYT 500

Brenda is a photographer, storyteller, yoga teacher, and community builder whose work is rooted in capturing people as they truly are.

She has built a career around documenting the moments and relationships that make a life feel full—with warmth, honesty, and an incredible eye for the in-between moments.

That gift is exactly what she brings to Wave. Brenda has traveled with us to document retreats around the world, capturing the laughter, quiet moments, friendships, adventure, and all the little pieces that become the memories we carry home.

Brenda completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in Bali in 2026. She later founded Community Yoga New London, creating an inclusive space for people who have felt unseen or unwelcome in traditional yoga spaces.

At the heart of both her photography and her yoga is the same thing: making people feel seen, welcome, and completely themselves.

Photographer

Sydney is the creative mind behind Wave’s social media, helping turn the moments, stories, and energy of each retreat into something you can feel long after everyone has come home. From launches and everyday storytelling to sharing the people and places that make Wave what it is, she helps bring our world to life online.

She is also the founder of Social Ladder Agency, where she works with brands to build thoughtful, engaging digital identities and tell their stories in ways that feel both beautiful and genuine. She brings that same creative eye to Wave, with an instinct for capturing what feels real.

Content Creator

Justine is a singer, kirtan artist, yoga teacher, and performer whose offerings are rooted in music, mantra, and devotion. Through kirtan, vocal toning, cacao ceremony, and yoga, she creates spaces that invite people to open their voices, their hearts, and connect more deeply with one another.

Her studies have taken her beyond the physical practice and into yoga’s spiritual traditions, including continued study of Sanskrit mantra and kirtan. She has also traveled regularly to Costa Rica to deepen her practice and explore yoga’s mystical roots.

Justine brings a warmth and vibrancy that is impossible to miss. Whether she’s sharing kirtan, yoga, or laughter around a dinner table, her joy has a way of becoming contagious.

Yoga Instructor · Kirtanist · Ceremony Leader

Becca has a gift for noticing the moments you wish you could keep. On retreat, you’ll often find her behind the camera capturing everything from morning practice and big adventures to the little in-between moments that somehow end up meaning the most.

She also helps bring Wave to life beyond the retreat, creating content and helping tell our stories through social media. When she puts the camera down, she’s usually skiing, practicing yoga, baking with friends, spending time with family, or curled up with a good book and her cat, CoCo.

Content Creator · Photographer

Vicky Cooley was first introduced to yoga at a young age, remembering a class that felt like play and sparked a lifelong love for the practice. Yoga has since become an essential and beloved part of her life.

Initially trained in Ashtanga Yoga, Vicky received her 200-hour teacher training through Ashtanga Yoga Puerto Rico in 2017. She considers herself a lifelong student of yoga and Ayurveda, with a particular passion for anatomy, both physical and energetic.

Vicky teaches private yoga sessions and maintains her own massage therapy practice, Victoria Cooley Massage, in Essex, Connecticut. She is drawn to the intersection of Western and Eastern science, exploring how body, mind, and energy come together to support holistic well-being.

Yoga Instructor · E-RYT 200 · Ayurvedic Health Counselor · Certified Massage Therapist