A yoga practitioner for almost 20 years, Missy Goss-Coln experienced a life-changing shift when she learned how yoga is more than a “workout” and actually a tool for personal and collective transformation. Yoga offered Missy healing and liberation throughout her journey from high-pressure Corporate America and business school to non-profit work. Finally seeing herself reflected in a wellness space a decade into her practice inspired Missy to not only foster a sense of belonging in Western yoga, but to shift the narrative of who well-being is for. 

Centering agency and accessibility, Missy's classes are designed to meet you where you are and offer variations for practitioners to exercise their right to choose what feels right, in the moment. She holds space for students to slow down, nurture mind-body-spirit connection, and cultivate embodied awareness – impacting how we show up off the yoga mat.

Experience and Education Highlights

Leadership

• Give Back Yoga Foundation | Yoga Mat Grant Recipient, 2026

• Start:ME Atlanta | Southside Microbusiness Mentor, 2025

• Kashi Atlanta

  • Co-Lead, Conscious Communication: Anti-Racism in Yoga Spaces at Classical Yoga Teacher Training (CYTT), 2023-2024

  • Apprentice, 2022-2023

• New Leaders Council Atlanta | Fellow, 2021

• Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals | Advocacy Lead, 2019-2021

• Emory University, Goizueta Business School | Year 2 of Two-Year M.B.A. Program

  • Teaching Assistant, ‘Leading with Emotional Intelligence’ Course

  • Fellow, Delta Air Lines Leadership Coaching Fellows Program

  • Goizueta Advanced Leadership Academy (GALA)

Certifications

• Accessible Yoga School | 50-Hour Accessible Yoga Training Online

• American Red Cross | Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED

• Kashi Atlanta | 200-Hour Classical Yoga Teacher Training

• Meryl Arnett | Awakened Heart Meditation Teacher Training

Select Practices, Trainings, and Immersions

• Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry) at Esalen | Freedom Dreaming: How Daydreaming and Imagination Open a Portal for a Liberated Life

• Lama Rod Owens | Letting the Ancestors Hold You: BIPOC Practice Series

• BEAM | Black Mental Health and Healing Justice 101

• Collective Resilience | 25-Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga and Somatics Basics

• The Mindfulness Lab | Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

• Off the Mat, Into the World | Revolution Through Love: Race, Reclamation, and Liberation with Nikki Myers, Hala Khouri, and Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts

Degrees

• Northwestern University | B.A., Communication Studies; Minor: Business; Medill Certificate: Integrated Marketing

• Emory University, Goizueta Business School | M.B.A., Concentrations: Marketing, Social Enterprise