Enter into the yoga hall ready to connect with the physical body, tune into the thinking mind, and integrate present awareness. We offer regularly scheduled weekly classes as well as specialized workshops and trainings. As you step into the studio, we invite you to let go of your expectations, judgements, and worries. Together, and with guidance, we hope to help one another find exactly what we need in the present moment. Come early, stay mindful, leave centered! Please arrive early, give yourself time to set up and be ready for the start of class. A reminder class is a shared space, so please limit strong perfumes/fragrances in respect of others
Regular Schedule
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**Denotes monthly classes
Dynamic Flow
This strong and dynamic flow class is meant to ignite and fuel your inner fire. You'll move in a way that warms your body and prepares you for more energizing postures. Expect a quicker paced class, the opportunity to practice more complex poses and transitions, and the use of breath to invigorate your energetic body. Be prepared to gain strength and flexibility, be challenged, and relish that end-of-class shavasana. If you are new to yoga, trying a Gentle Flow or an All Levels Flow class first is helpful, but not required
Gentle Flow
Gentle Flow focuses on a slower paced flow, students will be able to move with a sense of ease from one posture to another, coordinated with the breath. This softer pace will allow you to be more present with each posture. Designed to create space to explore your practice, to find the play between strength, stretch and flexibility, stability and ease, and to gain greater understanding of alignment and balance in the body. This class will include lying, seated as well as standing postures. Props are encouraged to help the body release (ie, mat, blocks, blankets, strap, etc). This class is great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.
Mindful Meditation
Class runs monthly on the 3rd Monday of the Month
As a Zen saying goes: ""Don't just do something--sit there!"" In this workshop we'll offer an introduction into the ancient and profound practice of just sitting. We will open the space with gentle movements to help prepare the body for stillness. The class will then be guided through 30 minutes of sitting or laying in stillness, cultivating awareness of the body breathing. All levels, abilities, and postures are welcome. Come early for 1-1 suggestions on posture.
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Gentle Flow
Gentle Flow focuses on a slower paced flow, students will be able to move with a sense of ease from one posture to another, coordinated with the breath. This softer pace will allow you to be more present with each posture. Designed to create space to explore your practice, to find the play between strength, stretch and flexibility, stability and ease, and to gain greater understanding of alignment and balance in the body. This class will include lying, seated as well as standing postures. Props are encouraged to help the body release (ie, mat, blocks, blankets, strap, etc). This class is great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga invites practitioners to find deep rest and restoration through passive, supported poses. Students are able to calm the nervous system by holding comfortable positions for extended periods of time while being supported by props such as blankets, bolsters, and blocks. Postures are all close to the floor in a lying or seated position, often the wall is used for support and there is an element of sound/music to help encourage release and softening. This class is for all levels and anyone seeking to rest, relax, and renew.
Dynamic Flow
This strong and dynamic flow class is meant to ignite and fuel your inner fire. You'll move in a way that warms your body and prepares you for more energizing postures. Expect a quicker paced class, the opportunity to practice more complex poses and transitions, and the use of breath to invigorate your energetic body. Be prepared to gain strength and flexibility, be challenged, and relish that end-of-class shavasana. If you are new to yoga, trying a Gentle Flow or an All Levels Flow class first is helpful, but not required
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Restful Yin
A fusion of Yin and Restorative Yoga, designed for deep relaxation and tranquility. This class leans towards the restorative side of Yin, offering a soothing experience for all students. Passive, meditative poses encourage slowing down and connecting with the body’s subtleties. Using props like blankets, bolsters, and blocks, students sink into fully supported poses for 5-10 minutes of blissful rest with a little bit of gentle movement between poses. Suited for all levels, this practice promotes subtle flexibility and activates the parasympathetic nervous system for ultimate recharge.
Pilates
This class will help you tone your body, feel revitalized, and move with ease and awareness. Pilates is a mind-body exercise system that addresses muscle strength and flexibility to improve postural analysis and coordination. Pilates conditioning techniques help prevent injury and improve strength while maintaining long, even muscle tone. these mat exercises can help you develop optimal strength, flexibility, endurance and posture, without building bulk or stressing joints. No prior experience is needed for this class, and many of the movements are minimal and take place while lying on the mat.
Gentle Flow
Gentle Flow focuses on a slower paced flow, students will be able to move with a sense of ease from one posture to another, coordinated with the breath. This softer pace will allow you to be more present with each posture. Designed to create space to explore your practice, to find the play between strength, stretch and flexibility, stability and ease, and to gain greater understanding of alignment and balance in the body. This class will include lying, seated as well as standing postures. Props are encouraged to help the body release (ie, mat, blocks, blankets, strap, etc). This class is great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Alignment Focused Yoga
An Iyengar inspired class that is suited for students with prior yoga experience wanting to find more depth and refinement in their postures, build greater strength and flexibility and learn more complex pose variations. Students can expect to gain a better understanding of the subtle actions in each pose and learn new ways to use props to both support and deepen postures. A variety of seated, standing, and lying poses will be incorporated into each class. This class will have strong focus on structural alignment, offering a supportive way to build strength, balance, and ease, while holding poses longer. This is slower moving, non-flow class, but we call it “sneaky hard”, vigor will be built by longer holds and deeper variations. Students will learn how small adjustments can create big shifts in how you feel, bringing more freedom to your breath, clarity to your posture, and calm to your mind.
Dynamic Flow
This strong and dynamic flow class is meant to ignite and fuel your inner fire. You'll move in a way that warms your body and prepares you for more energizing postures. Expect a quicker paced class, the opportunity to practice more complex poses and transitions, and the use of breath to invigorate your energetic body. Be prepared to gain strength and flexibility, be challenged, and relish that end-of-class shavasana. If you are new to yoga, trying a Gentle Flow or an All Levels Flow class first is helpful, but not required
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga invites practitioners to find deep rest and restoration through passive, supported poses. Students are able to calm the nervous system by holding comfortable positions for extended periods of time while being supported by props such as blankets, bolsters, and blocks. Postures are all close to the floor in a lying or seated position, often the wall is used for support and there is an element of sound/music to help encourage release and softening. This class is for all levels and anyone seeking to rest, relax, and renew.
Happy Hour Yoga Flow
Come celebrate the end of the work week with this uplifting and fun yoga class. Expect the sequence to be playful, integrating both familiar yoga postures with dance like movement. Class will move at a pace that is assessable to all levels, with options to add vigor and options to add ease. You will flow to the beats of a variety of music. There could be laughter, and there might be community connection. A perfect way to ease into your evening or close out your day.
All Levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Gentle Flow
Gentle Flow focuses on a slower paced flow, students will be able to move with a sense of ease from one posture to another, coordinated with the breath. This softer pace will allow you to be more present with each posture. Designed to create space to explore your practice, to find the play between strength, stretch and flexibility, stability and ease, and to gain greater understanding of alignment and balance in the body. This class will include lying, seated as well as standing postures. Props are encouraged to help the body release (ie, mat, blocks, blankets, strap, etc). This class is great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.
Connect to the Breath
Class runs monthly on the 1st Saturday of the Month
Experience the transformative power of your breath with this all-levels class! Join Kat, certified Breathwork & Meditation Facilitator, on the first Saturday of each month to learn accessible breathing techniques designed to support your nervous system, release and reduce stress, clear stagnant energy, and nourish mind, body, and spirit. Each month will focus on a different theme or intention, incorporating a variety of different of breathwork practices, so be sure to join us monthly and learn how to harness the power of your breath! Classes consist of 30-40 minutes of breathwork followed by an integration period.
Pilates
This class will help you tone your body, feel revitalized, and move with ease and awareness. Pilates is a mind-body exercise system that addresses muscle strength and flexibility to improve postural analysis and coordination. Pilates conditioning techniques help prevent injury and improve strength while maintaining long, even muscle tone. these mat exercises can help you develop optimal strength, flexibility, endurance and posture, without building bulk or stressing joints. No prior experience is needed for this class, and many of the movements are minimal and take place while lying on the mat.
Kundalini Yoga
This class focuses on building inner radiance and vitality. Using the tools of movement, breath, meditation, and mantra, we will energize and strengthen all of the systems of the body - the muscular-skeletal, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, and immune systems, as well as the electromagnetic field. Classes are stimulating, invigorating, relaxing, and calming all at the same time. The techniques build a stronger connection to our authentic selves, creating a deeper experience of equanimity, allowing us to stay calm and centered even when life throws us curve balls. The movements are simple and can be adapted for any ability level; some previous yoga experience is helpful.
Yoga Nidra
Class runs monthly on the 2nd Sunday of the Month
Yoga Nidra class guides you through a progressive journey from gentle movement and breath into deep, conscious rest. By preparing the body and nervous system first, the mind is able to settle more easily—allowing awareness to move from everyday thinking into deeper states of calm, clarity, and restoration. Yoga Nidra supports stress reduction, better sleep, enhanced creativity, emotional processing, and a stronger connection to intuition. Practiced consistently, Yoga Nidra builds focus and concentration while training the nervous system to downshift more efficiently, accessing deeper states of calm, awareness, and healing over time.
Extend your experience with a sit in the garden and cup of tea before and after to help decompress and unwind. Don’t forget to allow time to add-on a sauna experience, pre-book online to secure your spot. For Information on our cancellation policy or instructions on canceling/rescheduling please visit our FAQ page
Pricing
$20
per class
$90
5 class punch pass.
$35
14 days unlimited classes with new student special
$55
14 days unlimited classes AND sauna with Wellness Bundle
$98 a month
unlimited classes with membership, cancel anytime
Gift Cards Available
$110-250
Private or small sessions available – 60min Sessions
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
- Sakyong Mipham
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Weekly Classes
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga invites practitioners to find deep rest and restoration through passive, supported poses. Students are able to calm the nervous system by holding comfortable positions for extended periods of time while being supported by props such as blankets, bolsters, and blocks. Postures are all close to the floor in a lying or seated position, often the wall is used for support and there is an element of sound/music to help encourage release and softening. This class is for all levels and anyone seeking to rest, relax, and renew.
Restful Yin
A fusion of Yin and Restorative Yoga, designed for deep relaxation and tranquility. This class leans towards the restorative side of Yin, offering a soothing experience for all students. Passive, meditative poses encourage slowing down and connecting with the body’s subtleties. Using props like blankets, bolsters, and blocks, students sink into fully supported poses for 5-10 minutes of blissful rest with a little bit of gentle movement between poses. Suited for all levels, this practice promotes subtle flexibility and activates the parasympathetic nervous system for ultimate recharge.
Yin Yoga
Yin is a passive, meditative yoga practice that offers an opportunity to slow down and listen to the body. Using a variety of seated and reclined poses, as well as deep breathing, yin yoga focuses on connective tissues, like fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones, to create more flexibility, awareness, and energy flow. This class is ideal for all who wish to bring more balance to their yoga practice. Suited for all levels, from beginners to seasoned practitioners.
Gentle Reset
Reset your nervous system and support prana/energy flow through gentle asana (postures). Explore ways to bring mini-practices into your life that include centering, mudra, mantra, and the ancient wisdom of yoga. Practice lying, seated, and standing gentle yoga flow, yin, and restorative postures for all levels incorporating use of props to encourage confidence and fuller expression of postures. Nurture a sense of gratitude and compassion to embrace on and off the mat. The last class of the month (excluding May) will include yoga nidra, a guided meditation, for deep relaxation and rejuvenation.
Gentle Flow
Gentle Flow focuses on a slower paced flow, students will be able to move with a sense of ease from one posture to another, coordinated with the breath. This softer pace will allow you to be more present with each posture. Designed to create space to explore your practice, to find the play between strength, stretch and flexibility, stability and ease, and to gain greater understanding of alignment and balance in the body. This class will include lying, seated as well as standing postures. Props are encouraged to help the body release (ie, mat, blocks, blankets, strap, etc). This class is great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners.
All levels Flow
This class explores a series of postures, one flowing seamlessly into the next, uniting body, mind, and breath. Designed as a moving meditation, every flow class is unique, creating the opportunity to become stronger, more flexible, and balanced, while practicing being present to the moment. Options will be given throughout class to either bring more challenge or more ease, meeting the needs of the students in the room. Suitable for just about any level but some prior yoga experience is recommended
Happy Hour Yoga Flow
Come celebrate the end of the work week with this uplifting and fun yoga class. Expect the sequence to be playful, integrating both familiar yoga postures with dance like movement. Class will move at a pace that is assessable to all levels, with options to add vigor and options to add ease. You will flow to the beats of a variety of music. There could be laughter, and there might be community connection. A perfect way to ease into your evening or close out your day.
Summer Bliss Flow
This fun and light hearted all levels yoga class invites students to tap into joy and authentic movement. Expect to move your body and breath in ways that feel nourishing to you in each moment. A selection of uplifting music will be played to inspire a playful yoga practice. This class will celebrate the beauty of our natural surroundings, and the power of practicing in community. Classes will be held outdoors in our large garden space when weather allows, otherwise we will gather in our beautiful yoga studio. This class is truly suited for everybody and anybody seeking to cultivate a greater sense of inner joy and happiness through yoga.
Kundalini Yoga
This class focuses on building inner radiance and vitality. Using the tools of movement, breath, meditation, and mantra, we will energize and strengthen all of the systems of the body - the muscular-skeletal, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, and immune systems, as well as the electromagnetic field. Classes are stimulating, invigorating, relaxing, and calming all at the same time. The techniques build a stronger connection to our authentic selves, creating a deeper experience of equanimity, allowing us to stay calm and centered even when life throws us curve balls. The movements are simple and can be adapted for any ability level; some previous yoga experience is helpful.
Dynamic Flow
This strong and dynamic flow class is meant to ignite and fuel your inner fire. You'll move in a way that warms your body and prepares you for more energizing postures. Expect a quicker paced class, the opportunity to practice more complex poses and transitions, and the use of breath to invigorate your energetic body. Be prepared to gain strength and flexibility, be challenged, and relish that end-of-class shavasana. If you are new to yoga, trying a Gentle Flow or an All Levels Flow class first is helpful, but not required
Alignment Focused Yoga
An Iyengar inspired class that is suited for students with prior yoga experience wanting to find more depth and refinement in their postures, build greater strength and flexibility and learn more complex pose variations. Students can expect to gain a better understanding of the subtle actions in each pose and learn new ways to use props to both support and deepen postures. A variety of seated, standing, and lying poses will be incorporated into each class. This class will have strong focus on structural alignment, offering a supportive way to build strength, balance, and ease, while holding poses longer. This is slower moving, non-flow class, but we call it “sneaky hard”, vigor will be built by longer holds and deeper variations. Students will learn how small adjustments can create big shifts in how you feel, bringing more freedom to your breath, clarity to your posture, and calm to your mind.
Pilates
This class will help you tone your body, feel revitalized, and move with ease and awareness. Pilates is a mind-body exercise system that addresses muscle strength and flexibility to improve postural analysis and coordination. Pilates conditioning techniques help prevent injury and improve strength while maintaining long, even muscle tone. these mat exercises can help you develop optimal strength, flexibility, endurance and posture, without building bulk or stressing joints. No prior experience is needed for this class, and many of the movements are minimal and take place while lying on the mat.
Monthly Classes
Yoga Nidra: The Practice of Conscious Rest
This monthly Yoga Nidra class guides you through a progressive journey from gentle movement and breath into deep, conscious rest. By preparing the body and nervous system first, the mind is able to settle more easily—allowing awareness to move from everyday thinking into deeper states of calm, clarity, and restoration. Yoga Nidra supports stress reduction, better sleep, enhanced creativity, emotional processing, and a stronger connection to intuition. Practiced consistently, Yoga Nidra builds focus and concentration while training the nervous system to downshift more efficiently, accessing deeper states of calm, awareness, and healing over time.
Connect To The Breath
Experience the transformative power of your breath with this all-levels class! Join Kat, certified Breathwork & Meditation Facilitator, on the first Saturday of each month to learn accessible breathing techniques designed to support your nervous system, release and reduce stress, clear stagnant energy, and nourish mind, body, and spirit. Each month will focus on a different theme or intention, incorporating a variety of different of breathwork practices, so be sure to join us monthly and learn how to harness the power of your breath! Classes consist of 30-40 minutes of breathwork followed by an integration period.
Mindful Meditation
This all-levels meditation class provides a welcoming, non-judgmental environment to explore the art of mindfulness and mental rest. Whether you are completely new to meditation and think your mind is “too busy,” or you are a seasoned practitioner looking to deepen your regular practice, this class is designed for you. Each class blends simple breathing techniques, accessible guided imagery, and present-moment awareness exercises. Together, we will learn how to observe our thoughts without getting caught up in them, effectively lowering stress, boosting mental clarity, and regulating the nervous system. Come sit with us, release physical tension, and leave with practical tools to cultivate calm in your everyday life.
Private Experiences
Private Sessions
Interested in some of the work happening in our yoga hall? Leverage the expertise and passion of the vast network of Bow Sanctuary practitioners by requesting a private session. Whether you are a beginner working out some jitters to a new practice, or an expert looking to deepen your practice, a private session is a big step on your wellness journey.
Instructors
Phoebe Anderson
she/her
Phoebe is a certified Hatha + Vinyasa Yoga Instructor (RYS 200). After practicing yoga for 15 years, she finally got her teaching certification at Gayatri School of Yoga in the Canary Islands in 2024. While the first decade of her practice was limited to the westernized, fitness-based practice found in gyms, something deeper always drew her back to yoga again and again. Over the last 5 years of her practice, she encountered authentic yoga teachings, in which rather than only sweaty power flows and flexibility contests, there was stillness, breathing, presence, curiosity, and gentleness. This challenged the fundamental ideas she held about what it meant and felt like to be in her body, and how to begin listening to it rather than ignoring its signals or pushing through pain.
As a teacher, her goal is to help students begin learning the unique language that only their body speaks. Always striving to connect with the roots of yoga, which comes from the Sanskrit yuj, meaning to unite, she invites students to unite the mind and body, the movement and breath, the human and the rhythms of nature. In her classes, she balances tradition and intention with playfulness and challenge.
Marren Baye
she/her
Marren’s journey with yoga has not been linear, yet it has always led her back ‘home’ – to a state where she once again feels connected to her mind, body, and spirit. She strives to bring the ancient teachings of yoga to others, so that they too can feel reconnected with themselves and come back to a familiar sense of peace, joy, and ease.
Marren first began practicing yoga ten years ago in the redwood forest, which lead her to complete her RYT-200 while living on a permaculture farm in Costa Rica in 2019. There, she discovered how to incorporate the essence of yoga into her everyday life, through food, relationships, breath, and creating ceremony. A few years later, she began to experience some health difficulties and her connection with yoga was one that helped her heal and come back to a healthy state of balance. These intense challenges led her to complete her RYT-500 in 2022 with complementary certifications in yin, restorative, chair, senior, and ariel yoga. She is now currently enrolled in a two-year C-IAYT Program to become a certified yoga therapist.
Marren’s teaching style often intertwines the ancient and philosophical teachings of yoga with new and up-to-date discoveries and knowledge – weaving together a teaching style that is holistic, trauma informed, adaptive, and mind-body-focused.
Lauren Bowman
she/her
Lauren grew up dancing in a small town in Kansas. She found yoga and fell in love with it when she started college in 2008. She has been practicing ever since, trying different styles and classes in every, country, state and city she has lived in. She enjoys a flowing vinyasa practice as much as a relaxing and opening Yin Yoga practice and has gone through phases of taking group classes as well as practicing alone at home on her bedroom floor before bed. She did Karma work at Yoga Riot in Portland, Oregon and got her 200-hr Teacher training from Siddhi Yoga. She has been teaching Restorative and Hatha flow classes at the Minam River Lodge in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Northeastern Oregon the last two summers.
Lauren has lived in the Blanchard neighborhood since 2020 and is excited to be on the schedule this year after returning from the remote lodge. She is also a licensed massage therapist and attended many movement classes last winter and looks forward to seeing everyone again, all the new members and how the Sanctuary has grown!
Cayenne Carocci
she/her
Cayenne, a certified Mat Pilates instructor from the jungles of Hawai‘i, has been instructing classes since she was 16 years old. Her diverse range of experience includes hula workshops, senior strength, yoga, and performing arts. She also holds a NASM CPT and a 200-hour YTT certification.
Cayenne’s teaching style blends the precision of classical Joseph Pilates with the fluidity of energy awareness, resulting in classes that are both playful and intentional. Music is her co-pilot, and every class is a safe haven for body diversity. When she’s not teaching, you’ll find her on a paddle board—or in the kitchen mixing up a little culinary alchemy (give or take a pinch of magic).
Jessica Gigot
she/her
Jessica is a mother, poet, and farmer and became a RYT-200 in 2019. She appreciates how yoga, especially restorative and yin approaches, can empower students to find their own sense of belonging both on and off the mat. After birthing two children and several physically demanding seasons on her farm, Jessica realized she needed to walk in the world differently.
Jessica found that her yoga practice offered her a path to healing, body awareness, and deep inner strength that she is excited to share with others. When not in the yoga studio, you can find her tending her flock of sheep, playing music with her husband, or running around outside with her daughters.
Courtney Klop
she/they
Courtney is a queer woman bridging the space between self-care + community-care. All their classes offer an all-levels self-care experience; so you can begin to understand what it means to know + care for yourself. She has been a certified yoga instructor since 2015 and life-coach + personal trainer since 2012; with an eclectic background including zen practice, culinary studies, nutritional therapy, functional movement, trauma-informed education, social justice, and more.
Courtney loves to learn, is enamored by life, nourishing traditions, and the human experience altogether. Their teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves to live a fulfilled and empowered existence, no matter who you are, where you find yourself right now or what your background + history contains. All aspects of Courtney’s work revolve around creating a stable foundation in mind, body and spirit, that you can return to and build from for the rest of your life.
Kris Layman
she/her
With over two decades of teaching, Kris offers classes that are intuitive, adaptable, and rooted in presence. She aims to listen closely to the room— shaping each practice to meet students where they are—whether that means slowing down, building heat, adding breathwork or meditation, or bringing in a touch of playfulness. Her intention is to help students deepen their relationship with themselves and cultivate the ability to listen to their own bodies for what they need. Kris guides practices that support inner awareness and self-trust, so students can bring these tools and insights into the moments of everyday living
Leslie Lekos
she/her
Leslie Lekos has been a student of Yoga since 2000 and became an instructor in 2009. She is a certified Iyengar Yoga Intermediate Junior 1 teacher, meaning she has passed three assessments. She taught at Yoga Northwest for many years and is excited to join the Bow Sanctuary Community. She loves the healing from a yoga practice that is based on mindfulness, deep listening and challenging.
As her main work, she is the director and founder of Wildroot Botanicals, a local herbal medicine school and herbal medicine company that focuses on bioregional medicine. She guides people through the mountains and surrounding areas teaching about the medicinal and edible uses of plants. She believes whole-heartedly that knowing how to live from the land in a thankful and respectful way is an essential part of coming back into right relation with the land and all people. She also contracts as an herbalist for the diabetes prevention and wellness program at Tulalip Tribes.
In addition, since 2004 she has served the community as a birth doula and specializes in teaching prenatal yoga and is the co-author of the book, Yoga for Pregnancy. She is passionate about empowering people during the childbearing time.
Jess Mailliard
she/her
Jess is an adventurous soul with a wild & free spirit. She loves to get her hands dirty and keep her feet bare, trying her best to experience this human life as closely to the earth as is modernly possible. To Jess, yoga is a way of life, a practice both on and off the mat that brings joy, tranquility, and stability to all areas. She will never claim to be perfect, but rather is a constant student of life; practicing love, kindness, and authenticity. She has been practicing yoga since 2011 and completed her 200 hr YTT in Granite Falls, WA in 2015.
Having taught a variety of classes, vinyasa and upbeat flows are her sweet spot. In a dynamic class setting is where Jess was first able to fully drop in and simply be, releasing past trauma and diving deeply into the now. She believes that this art of meditative movement can be a magical tool in your emotional REI, and has a great passion to be alongside others in their journey of healing and growth. Building and growing community is of utmost importance, and she can’t wait to share space and energy with you!
Beth Rusk
she/her
Beth received her RYT-200 teacher certification in power yoga in 2016, and is presently working towards her 500RYT in Prajna yoga. Beth’s passion lies in helping others move optimally and be at home in their bodies. Her many years of practicing a variety of yoga styles and an intimate knowledge of anatomy as a massage therapist, enables her to focus on alignment while creatively weaving together postures and yogic philosophy.
Her flow based classes are slow, strong and focused around being present and aware. She approaches yoga as a moving meditation, bringing strength, flexibility and mindful movement into each class. Beth’s light hearted spirit welcomes all levels of yogis and invites us to approach our practice with playfulness and acceptance to what is. Show up to her class ready to breathe, connect, flow and discover.
Misha Sakura
she/her
Misha has been practicing yoga for over 30 years. A near fatal accident in 2001 left her significantly disabled, learning to walk all over again. She became a massage therapist and yoga instructor on her healing journey as they were the most powerful modalities in her recovery. She has since raced in Triathlons, climbed mountains, and given birth to two baby boys at home. She is a huge believer in the power of overcoming personal challenges through the power of yoga. Her instruction focuses on proper alignment and breath work to ensure a sustainable practice. Her hobbies include music, art, cold plunges in Lake Whatcom, and having fun with friends.
Lindsey Swope
she/her
Lindsey Swope took her first yoga class in 1986 at the age of 21 and was immediately hooked. She started teaching in 1997 when she moved to the Methow Valley, where she lived and taught for over 20 years. During that time, she completed four yoga teacher trainings in various different styles, including Iyengar and Kundalini. Lindsey has a strong connection to the world of Nature, holding degrees in Geology and Geography, and she has been walking a path of Earth-based spirituality for over 25 years. Weaving these influences into her yoga helps her students find an experience of alignment and connection both within themselves and with the world around them.
Lindsey believes in the healing power of laughter and loves to combine structure and play in her classes, creating a safe place for inquiry and experimentation. Yoga has been an invaluable tool in her journey through life and she deeply appreciates the wisdom gained over more than thirty years of practice.
Kat White
she/her
Kat MacIver is a certified Holistic Health Coach, Breathwork & Meditation Facilitator, Biologist, and the founder of Nourished Roots Health wellness practice. Specializing in digestive health and nervous system regulation, her integrative approach to wellness combines scientific and spiritual modalities to support whole-person growth and healing in every aspect of her client’s lives. Kat is passionate about empowering others to rediscover and reclaim their own wellbeing through nourishing mind, body, and spirit and tapping into the innate transformative power of our breath