Afro Flow Yoga® co-founder, Jeff Jones, is a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, musical director, composer and co-creator with his wife and founder, Leslie Salmon Jones. 

Jeff creates an intuitive dynamic flow through a stream of consciousness and the mastery of African inspired rhythms, instruments and vocals, synergizing the class collective. His use of the Djembe, which he brought back from Ghana, congas, bongos, Sudanese Acholi lyre, Indian bells, tambourine along with an eclectic array of tonal instruments, makes for a healing musical journey.

He has co-facilitated classes, workshops and retreats at the Omega Institute, Kripalu Center, Alvin Ailey Dance Center, Boston Yoga and Chant Festival, Caribbean Yoga Conference, Maui yoga retreat, and Forestdance, to name a few.

In addition to his role at Afro Flow Yoga®, Jeff has enjoyed a career as a professional musician for over 20 years and comes from a lineage of three generations of accomplished musicians. He has been blessed to travel the world performing on many continents and has played various musical genres and venues such as Scullers Jazz Club, The Supper Club NYC, Windows on the World, Berklee Performance Center and Mile High Stadium.  He has performed for the inaugurations of President Barack Obama and Governor Deval Patrick and has opened for greats such as Little Richard and Al Green.

Jeff produced and engineered two wellness DVD’s Core Strength: back to basics and Core Power: radiate the energy within, which he co-created with Leslie Salmon Jones.

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Dawn comes to Afro Flow Yoga® with over 30 years of administrative support experience in the corporate world and her goal is to ensure Leslie and Jeff have an effective, efficient, and streamlined daily practice.

Dawn Langfield has been friends with Leslie Salmon Jones for over 30 years. During one of their many reconnections, Leslie invited Dawn to work with Afro Flow Yoga® as an administrator. It was Divine timing for Dawn and she knew this was the perfect move for her.

Dawn is outgoing and detail-oriented and skilled at building and maintaining professional relationships. She offers loyalty, transparency and fun and is an asset to the Afro Flow Yoga® team.

Gina is an Afro Flow Yoga® Certified Teacher and a licensed clinical social worker. The daughter of Haitian-born parents, Gina recognized the benefits yoga as means of coping with a demanding job. She obtained both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in social work from Mercy College and Fordham University, respectively. She aims to serve her community the type of spiritual food that connects the mind to the body.

By trade, Melina is a healing facilitator who has been in professional practice since 2010. She is an Orthopedic Massage Therapist, an energy worker and Reiki Master, and a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Herbalist. She has had the privilege to learn from a few elders and medicine people in oral traditions, ritual and ceremony of First Nations people across points of North America. She has sung Algonquin water ceremony as far north as Alaska and has traveled as far south as Mexico to support in an Aztec fire ceremony. Her life’s work has taken on a blending of many cultural medicines, and she channels these threads of wisdom from different lineages into her practice of Afro Flow Yoga® as well.

Melina was introduced to Afro Flow Yoga® through Spirit and ceremony in 2013. In the twilight hours one autumn night, she and Leslie Salmon Jones danced barefoot around an outdoor sacred fire to the drum beats of Jeff Jones. The morning that followed was her first Afro Flow Yoga® experience, and the rest is history (herstory.) Through sweat, laughter and tears, Melina found home, within herself, and she steadily committed to becoming a part of the Afro Flow Yoga® community. Now, over a decade later, Melina is still dedicated to supporting the Flow. She has assisted in workshops across the country, has been one of Jeff’s stalwart roadies, and has even provided technical and administrative support over the years.

To learn more about Melina, please visit: www.iamfixedearth.com

Since 2021, Betty Arrington has been an Afro Flow Yoga® certified teacher and is a 200-Hour Professional Level Yoga Teacher.

Betty is formally educated in Psychology and Organizational Leadership, as well as trained in the Social Work and Education disciplines.

Betty has honed this unique background to inspire well-being through affirming sessions, mentoring groups, and wellness workshops.

Morley weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor — the sound wave of a life lived with uncommon devotion to human rights and environmental justice.
 

Raised in vibrantly multicultural Jamaica, Queens, and educated at the United Nations School, Duke Ellington High School for the Performing Arts and Alvin Ailey, Morley travels the world to sit with and sing for visionaries on the frontiers of social change.
 

Her music has appeared on network television, commercials and in human rights documentaries, and it has moved minds and spirits as diverse as His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, entrepreneur Richard Branson, Nobel laureates Betty Williams and Jody Williams. Morley has graced stages as wide-ranging as the Nomad Women’s Festival in the Sahara Desert, The United Nations and Carnegie Hall.
Morley has been a featured performer + speaker at TEDWomen and TEDx gatherings nation wide. “Circle Round Dignity, Courage and Survival“ a performance based round table which Morley produces has been generously commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Atrium.

Morley spearheaded the successful fundraiser “Borderless Lullabies” that continues to be a source of revenue for the pro-bono legal defense fund, KIND: Kids – In – Need – Of – Defense, to aid reuniting children with their families after being separated by ICE.
 

To date, Morley has released seven albums of original songs via Sony, Universal and independently. Six of which she self-produced as well as co-produced.

She is currently in the cast of Toshi Reagon’s. “Parable Of The Sower – The Opera” and recently wrote and performed the theme song for “That Kindness – A play for and by the Nurses of America” V (Formerly Eve Ensler).
Morley also uses music as a tool for dialogue facilitation and conflict resolution when working with survivors of human trafficking and war.