Our story
Remember and realize who you are.
Agni is not a quiet, polished, spa-like sanctuary. It is a real one.
What Agni means
Agni means inner fire. It is the spark, the life force, the part of you that wants to grow, heal, move, create, and become. The practice is not about becoming someone else. It is about remembering what has always been inside you.
Meet the Agni family
The teachers who hold the room.
Co-owners Carrie Guzanick and Vivi Villagra lead a roster of more than twenty instructors across Original Hot Yoga, Hot Vinyasa, Agni Pump, Hot Pilates, Yin, and Sound Bath — plus the team that keeps both studios running.
Carrie Guzanick
Co-Owner — teaches Hot Yoga, Hot Vinyasa, Buti Yoga, Yin, Agni Pump, Hot Pilates, Sound Bath
Opened Agni in 2012, trained in 2008, and holds a Master’s in Marriage & Family Therapy she brings straight into how this studio teaches.
Viviana “Vivi” Villagra
Co-Owner — teaches Hot Yoga, Hot Vinyasa, Agni Pump, Hot Pilates
Third-degree black belt turned teacher and Reiki Master. Her approach: show up, move, breathe, repeat.
Noah Zazulia
Teaches Agni Pump
Former college athlete who found Agni in 2017. His Pump classes are the ones people plan their week around.
Cristina Arámbarri
Teaches Original Hot Yoga
Certified Bikram teacher since 2010 and co-host of the Agni retreat in Ibiza, where she’s from.
Pamela Wasabi
Teaches Original Hot Yoga
Teaches the 26+2 sequence with patience for every body in the room.
Jacqueline Suazo
Teaches Original Hot Yoga, Hot Vinyasa, Yin with Myofascial Release
Pairs long holds with myofascial work for release that lasts past class.
Julieta Ferrero
Teaches Sound Bath
Guides sound journeys where no two sessions land the same way.
Dragana Stanisavljevic
Teaches Hot Yoga, Hot Vinyasa
Precise alignment cues, delivered without ego.
Timothy du Vall-Brown
Teaches Agni Pump, Deep Love Yin
The full range: metabolic burnout one night, deep release the next.
David Flores
Teaches Deep Love Yin
Slow-paced holds built for people who never stop moving.
Mayted Ontivero
Teaches Agni Pump
High-energy intervals with real attention to form.
Brookie Weiland
Teaches Agni Pump
Music-charged strength that never feels like a chore.
Elizabeth Briano
Teaches Agni Pump
Timed blocks, heavier weights, and zero wasted minutes.
Nico Breindembach
Teaches Agni Pump
Plyometrics, bands, and bodyweight work with clean cueing.
Mario Zvala
Teaches Original Hot Yoga
Traditional sequence, traditional discipline, welcoming delivery.
Patricia “Patty” Antuna
Teaches Original Hot Yoga
Great with first-timers who think they can’t do this.
Francesca Dertinger
Teaches Original Hot Yoga
26 postures, 2 breathing exercises, all levels welcome.
Behind the front desk
Iggy Ruiz
Studio Manager
Walked in as a student in 2018, trained as an Agni Pump instructor, and now runs the floor so every person who comes through the door feels like they belong.
Gabriela Sanchez-Silva
Marketing & Member Experience
Part of Agni since 2016. Publicist by training, she tells the studio’s story and greets you at the MiMo or NoMi front desk.
Our pillars
Five things we refuse to compromise.
Feel Everything
Agni is built for people who are done numbing out. The heat asks for your attention, the music moves you, and the silence at the end lets whatever came up actually surface. Joy, grief, frustration, relief — all of it is welcome on the mat. We do not ask you to perform calm. We ask you to feel what is here and stay with it a breath longer than is comfortable.
Come As You Are
There is no prerequisite body, outfit, flexibility level, or belief system. Tattoos or no tattoos, first class or thousandth, twenty-two or seventy-two — you take a spot in the room and the room makes space. Teachers modify out loud so nobody has to raise a hand to be included. You do not have to get in shape to come here. You come here and the shape follows.
Remember and Realize Who You Are
The practice is not a personality transplant. It is a return. Under the deadlines and the roles and the phone, there is a version of you that is steady, strong, and awake. Ninety minutes of heat has a way of burning off everything that is not that. What is left is not new. It is the part of you that was always in there, waiting for enough quiet to be heard.
Movement, Recovery, and Community as Medicine
Intensity alone breaks people down. Rest alone leaves them flat. Agni is built as a full loop: strong movement, real recovery through sauna, cold plunge, red light, and Yin, and a community that notices when you go missing for two weeks. That loop is the medicine. Miss any one of the three and the other two stop working as well.
Love in Action
Love here is not a slogan on the wall. It is a teacher learning your name in week one. It is a member handing you a towel before you ask. It is honest cueing instead of flattery, a text after a hard month, an event where nobody is selling anything. We measure it in small, boring, repeated acts of care — the kind that make a studio feel like a home rather than a subscription.
How we got here
Why we built this
Carrie Guzanick found yoga in Miami and it didn’t stay a hobby. In 2008 she left for a nine-week live-in teacher training, came home, walked away from a career in real estate, and started teaching full time. In 2012 she opened Agni on Biscayne Boulevard — a hot room built on the belief that transformation happens in the body first and that nobody should have to look a certain way to be welcome in it.
Vivi Villagra came in as a student, a third-degree black belt who understood discipline and didn’t need to be sold on effort. She became a teacher, a Reiki Master, and eventually co-owner. Together they grew Agni into two Miami studios and a roster of more than twenty teachers, then added the Fire & Ice Lounge because recovery isn’t a luxury add-on — it’s half of the work.
In 2021 Carrie earned a Master’s in Marriage & Family Therapy, and that training now runs through everything here: how teachers cue, how the front desk talks to a nervous first-timer, how a hard class gets held. Agni was voted Best Yoga Studio in Miami by Miami New Times readers two years running — 2025 and 2026 — but the mission hasn’t changed since the first day the doors opened: remember and realize who you are.
Who belongs here
Different kinds of people. Same fire.
Growth-minded adults who want more than a workout — professionals, creatives, parents, entrepreneurs, healers, artists, beginners, and lifelong yogis. Tattoos or no tattoos, corporate clothes or none at all — everyone sweats side by side and belongs.
