Every year, Small World Yoga hosts a donation-based evening of yoga to celebrate International Day of Yoga on June 21.
Hundreds of yogis gather for a fun outdoor yoga flow, live music, a marketplace of vendors, merch, food and drink, and more. This event is free to the public, family friendly, and suitable for all levels.
International Day of Yoga 2025
Saturday, June 21 from 8:30–11:30 am
International Day of Yoga 2025 will be held at beautiful Centennial Park in Nashville on Saturday morning, June 21 from 8:30 to 11:30 am. We’ll have an all-levels yoga flow followed by a showcase of seated yoga and kids’ yoga, two of the most popular styles of yoga we offer as part of our outreach programming in the Nashville community. Afterwards, IDY participants will enjoy the marketplace, free cold plunges, and live music.
Schedule of Events
| 8:30 am | Vendor Marketplace & Food Trucks Open |
| 9:00 am | All-Levels Yoga |
| 10:00 am | Seated Yoga and Kids’ Yoga |
| 10:30 am | Cold Plunges Live Music Raffle Prize Giveaways |
If you would like to learn more about being a sponsor or vendor at International Day of Yoga 2025, email giving@smallworldyoga.org.
Meet your 2025 instructors!
Jess Burns
All-Levels Yoga
Jess received her 200-hour yoga teacher certification in 2024 with Small World Yoga. She loves yoga because of its healing power and ability to create mind-body connection. What Jess enjoys most about teaching yoga is connecting with people and being able to spread the power of yoga. She hopes through teaching she can encourage students to live authentically and free.
Outside of yoga, Jess enjoys reading, traveling, and being outdoors.
Ashley Haley
All-Levels Yoga
Ashley came to yoga through her meditation practice as a way to deepen connection with herself and her community. She completed her 200-hour YTT in 2022 at Fahrenheit Yoga in Nashville, TN. In 2023, she did a 100-hour internship at Flying Tree Yoga in Medellín, Colombia to strengthen her teaching practices and learn to teach yoga in Spanish. Her background in education and working with immigrants from around the world inspires her to continue investing in community. Working with Small World Yoga gives her a space to unite all of her passions in a meaningful and purposeful way.
Outside of yoga Ashley enjoys spending time with her friends, family and pups.
Gabe Marrero
All-Levels Yoga
Gabe has been practicing yoga since 2010 after getting involved in the workout program P90X. After resuming a consistent practice in 2021, Gabe decided to apply to SWY’s DEIA scholarship and completed his 200-hour yoga teacher training certification in 2023. As a plus-sized Afro-Latino/Pacific Islander man, Gabe has not found many people who look like him in the yoga teaching space and his goal is to share with others the joy and power he has gained from doing yoga!
Outside of yoga Gabe is a consistent powerlifter and a major fan of professional wrestling and reality television.
Cody Mitchell
All-Levels Yoga
Cody took his first studio yoga class at Small World Yoga in 2018 after accidentally wandering into a yoga workshop at Bonnaroo earlier that year. At first, he was interested in the challenge and physicality of the practice, but soon it became more than that, as he discovered the connectedness it gave him to his body.
Small World Yoga had been the home to Cody’s journey and he strongly identifies with the mission that it serves. Cody received his 200-hour yoga teacher training certification in 2021. Since then, he has been actively engaged in the work of Small World as well as trying to get yoga to as many people as possible in his life. Cody also serves on SWY’s board.
Judy Seidel
Seated Yoga
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Judy has always had a passion for movement and good health. As a former figure skater with a BS in physical education from Ohio State University and a 200-hour yoga certification, Judy lives out her passion and commitment to physical health and movement. When she had a hip replacement in 2014, Judy had to make adjustments to her physical exercise program while keeping true to her health and wellness routine. It is her goal to guide and assist with movement that allows us to breathe and move with greater ease and freedom. Judy has been teaching for Small World since 2018.
Judy’s day job is helping people find their way around the globe as a travel advisor. She likes to travel herself, having recently returned from Tanzania, where she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and went on a safari.
Kali Wheeler
Kids’ Yoga
Kali has a passion for sports and fitness, and how our bodies react, adapt, and work through the process of learning new skills and art forms. Kali was a gymnastics coach for fifteen years working with children of all ages and training them for competitive and non-competitive gymnastics. She has always enjoyed working with children and teaching the sport that she loves to so many throughout the years. She loves the aspect of meeting like-minded people through yoga and seeing each other grow and learn. Kali has been doing yoga since 2014 and completed yoga teacher training in March 2023 at Santosha Yoga in Hendersonville.
Kali is originally from Dallas, Texas and currently resides in Hendersonville with her husband and teenage daughter where she enjoys boating, kayaking, hiking, camping, and doing yoga.
Music by Bobby Frank
Bobby Frank is a Nashville-based handpan artist. who’s been fascinated by rhythm and sound his entire life. Bobby records and performs extensively and frequently offers sound journeys and musical mediations around Nashville. You can find his music, including his most recent release Inevitable, on all streaming platforms.
2025 Vendors
Thank you to our 2025 sponsors:
