Our Caring Team

Amy Johnson Chong has worked as a community organizer in the Dominican Republic, a clinical social worker with trauma victims, a massage therapist, a yoga instructor and a stay-at-home mom. Opening Mindful Body of Maitland, LLC comes from a personal journey toward wellness and a deep desire to combine her three passions: children, massage therapy and yoga.

Amy provides massage therapy services, upbeat yoga classes for children and peer mediation courses for school age children. Amy’s adult yoga classes will combine traditional Hatha yoga (incorporating breath, mindfulness and asanas) with a flow vinyassa format. Amy is 200 Hour Certified from The Yoga Matrix and Edely Wallace. Amy is certified in Radiant Child Yoga Levels I and II. Amy is nationally certified in Therapeutic Massage and Pre- and Peri-Natal Massage. State of Florida License No. MA 55303. She holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work and a Masters Degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

From Amy Johnson Chong, founder of Mindful Body of Maitland, LLC:

“I hope that my deep compassion and desire to build community and holistic wellness will come through daily at Mindful Body of Maitland. I am a mother of two children and understand directly the multitude of physical and emotional benefits massage therapy and yoga can bring to a stressful life. Over the years I have found myself constantly referring massage clients to yoga classes in order to achieve long-term health and holistic balance. For that reason, I decided to learn more about yoga on a deeper level. What an amazing journey! I am looking forward to continued personal growth through my yoga practice and through personal relationships with all of you!”

Debbie Parsons is the founder of Yoga Beyond Boundaries.  I Non for Profit organization bringing yoga to populations otherwise unable to attend community classes (prison settings, homes for abused mothers, etc).  Debbie has been practicing yoga since 2002, beginning as most people do with a desire to get in shape physically. She explored many types of yoga including Power Yoga, Kundalini, Bikram’s, and Ashtanga. But it was in a class that she took in India, overlooking the Himalayas when she realized how yoga was much more than just a workout. Soon she began to witness how her own confidence boosted, her self-image improved, and her ability to simply love life blossomed. The saying “find the peace within” finally made sense! She truly believes that world peace begins with a decision that each individual makes to take responsibility for their own happiness.

It was a simple decision for Debbie to take her passion for the yoga teachings and turn it into a career. She received her 200-hour teaching certification in May 2007 and continues to expand her knowledge of yoga seeking instruction from such masters as Doug Swenson, Max Strom, John Friend, Larissa Carlson, Paulie Zink, and Amrit Desai. Her classes have been described as “nurturing” and ”explorative”, giving you the freedom to grow and discover your own practice with her guidance. She also creates and facilitates several workshops taking her instruction beyond the asanas (postures), showing you how to apply the lessons of yoga off your mat, and into your everyday life.