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Meet the Mt. Holly Team

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Detra Bennett-Roberson

Owner & Instructor

Detra is a mom of 2 beautiful children, Nash & Nova and owner of Down Dog Yoga & Wellness.

While attending UNCC Detra enrolled into a breath and movement class where she was introduced to yoga. Each week she looked forward to this class and was eager to learn more. After taking several “gym yoga” classes and “video yoga” classes she took her first class at a studio in 2010. Life as she knew it had changed. 5 years of practicing yoga daily Detra became certified in 2015 via Kim Zegil at Gotta Yoga Charlotte. From there she has been certified in Aerial Yoga and Prenatal Yoga.  In 2018 she completed an additional 300hrs in advanced training focusing on mindfulness and meditation with Rolf Gates.

Her classes are fun, creative and powerful moving body with breath, creating space, strength, flexibility, balance, peace, love and understanding.  Detra believes when yoga is truly embraced one can become the best version of themselves.

Detra’s mission is to grow yoga in the Denver area and to introduce yoga to those who have never experienced this ancient practice. She loves serving people and giving back to those with fur and skin.

Our Yoga Teachers

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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
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  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
DownDogYoga-MtHolly-Day2-02-web.jpg
  • About Lili
    I attended my first yoga class in the summer of 2007 at a LifeTime Fitness. As a mother of a 5 year old and a 3 year old, I was just looking for an hour to devote to myself. Luckily my boys enjoyed the childcare center and the yoga class fit into our current schedule. I loved the class and found myself scheduling activities around yoga, rather than the other way around. Not long after discovering yoga, my family and I embarked on a journey that took us to different states and different countries. At each location, I was able to find a way to practice yoga. Sometime it was in a studio, sometimes a fitness center, sometimes just a practice at home. Experiencing yoga at so many different places enabled me to try many different styles of yoga. Around 2015, I injured my wrist and thought that my yoga days were behind me. Those few years away from yoga really demonstrated to me how much yoga had benefited me in my day to day life. I had taken all of that for granted. Realizing how much I missed my regular yoga practice, I began researching ways I could still perform the poses, while protecting myself from further injury. I experimented with various props and learned techniques that enabled me to have a very robust practice. Through this discovery process, I began to understand that yoga truly is a practice that is unique to each individual. Upon personal reflection, I realized that I wanted to help others discover and relish in the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga. Body + Mind + Soul = Yoga. I earned my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification from Chakra Flow University at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. My training and teacher was led by Victoria Martinez. My goal is to help others see that practicing yoga is an extremely personal thing. I would like to stress that yoga can be exactly what each person wants and needs it to be. One of my favorite quotes about yoga: Yoga is not about touching your toes. It is what you learn on the way down. - Jigar Gor
  • Classes I Teach
    Slow Flow, Deep Stretch, Restorative & Meditation
Yoga does not transform the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
~B.K.S. Iyengar
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