Movement
9/30 through 12/30 rotating Saturday 10am pop up classes are happening! Check schedule for details
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.
$20
per class
$90
5 class punch pass.
$35
14 days unlimited classes and sauna with new student special
$89 a month
unlimited classes with membership, cancel anytime
Gift Cards Available
$110-250
Private or small group yoga – 60min Sessions
+ $10
add-on a sauna experience
Come early, stay mindful, leave centered! Please arrive early, give yourself time to set up and be ready for the start of class. The grounds are open for you to decompress and enjoy before and after class. Don't forget to add on your sauna experience, just ask your instructor to add a drop-in.
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
- Sakyong Mipham
Schedule
Click enroll on the schedule to get access to any of these pricing options. All pricing options expire 1 year after purchase. Memberships, and passes are non-shareable / non-transferable
Trouble Enrolling?
If you have any trouble, or receive an error on checkout feel free to call/text and we will help you. If the “enroll” button is missing, it means our class is full, but we do offer a waitlist which you can call/text to be added to.
Cancellation Policy
For Information on our cancellation policy or instructions on canceling/rescheduling please visit our FAQ page: bowsanctuary.com/faq#policy
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.
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 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.
Align & Flow
This well-balanced class places emphasis on proper physical alignment in yoga postures through an understanding of your own unique anatomy. After a short warm up you will be guided through a few yoga postures in a workshop “how to style”. There will be time to ask questions, learn variations of these poses and ways to use props to both support and deepen. The next part of class will be a mindful flow integrating this handful of postures so that you can begin to embody your own unique ways to move and breath. Establishing proper alignment allows for a safe and intentional exploration of yoga movement. This class is suitable for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine and deepen their practice.
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
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
Taoist Qigong and Internal Alchemy
Qigong is an ancient Chinese practice aimed to quiet the mind and body through meditative movement. By pairing movement, intention and breath we can reach deep relaxation and lasting health benefits. This practice allows us to connect on a deeper level to ourselves and ultimately all living things by deepening our relationship to nature and how we can live harmoniously in an ever changing environment. This class moves slowly with clear instructions and is suitable for beginners and as well as seasoned practitioners
"teacups" - takes the shoulders through full range of motion to promote mobility and health
Instructors
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 Baye 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.
Marren Baye
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!
Lindsay Dickes
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Lindsay has been facilitating somatic healing space as a yoga and meditation teacher since 2008. She is a somatic coach, nervous system witch, licensed trauma psychotherapist and earth-based shamanic trance facilitator. Her deeply grounded, invitational and compassionate presence helps students to cultivate personal sovereignty through curious, courageous and loving relationship with their bodies and unique nervous systems.
Her classes are soothing, grounding and nourishing as she weaves the wisdom of the nervous system with yogic philosophy and the art of surrender. She inspires students to live from a place of personal power, pleasure and presence in their bodies as more fully expressed sensual humans immersed in the mystery, magick and wonder of life. She believes that it is through ongoing curious relationship with your body that personal and collective liberation are possible. When not at Bow Sanctuary, you can find Lindsay talking with the trees out in the woods, playing by the ocean with her partner, Andrew, or cozied up with a good book and cup of tea.
Clara Elliott
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Clara has been a student of yoga for more than a decade, and at the end of 2020 in the unknowingness of the pandemic she decided to explore this passion, and went to school to receive her RYT 200 certificate through Ashtanga Yoga School. After moving to Saint Petersburg, Florida with her now husband they returned home at the end of 2022 to find a new local gem, Bow Sanctuary. Ever since, this community has continued to open doors for Clara and has given space for her to share her gifts. Besides seeing her teaching in the Yoga hall or taking morning classes with her Dad, you can find Clara all over the property helping with administration as well has managing our social media pages.
Liliana Franz
she/her
Liliana completed a multidisciplinary degree in Somatic healing and Visual Arts from Fairhaven College in the early 2000’s. Her studies included a variety of modalities and practices, including Qigong, that supported traumatic release and healing through movement. Her education supported her personal experience in healing using practices such as meditation, breathwork, yoga and Qigong. First hand, she discovered the depth and power of these resources to untangle the patterns that we hold in the body and mind that do not serve our higher selves.
Liliana continues a devoted practice of Medical Qigong, including the study of energetic healing, Taoist philosophy and its foundational roots in Chinese Medicine. Her ambition to teach this powerful practice is to amplify our vibration through community practice. She is steeped in the innate knowing that by healing ourselves, we ultimately contribute to healing human kind and our planet.
Eugénie Frerichs
she/her
Eugénie completed her RYT-200 in 2020 in her hometown of Portland, OR, where she has been studying yoga with her teacher and mentor, Michele Loew, for nearly two decades. She first came to yoga by way of a career as a professional modern dancer, and has over time developed a practice that combines teachings from the Kundalini, Iyengar, Vinyasa, and Ashtanga lineages. After enduring a surgical snafu in 2010 that left one leg partially paralyzed, abruptly ending her chapter as a dancer and mountain athlete, Eugénie’s practice deepened to one of both physical and emotional rehabilitation. She credits this unexpected need to relearn the mechanics of her body as an adult the greatest and most valuable yoga lesson of her life (so far!).
Today, she is excited to meet students wherever they are in their own yoga journey, offering a class that combines continuous flow with longer-held poses and a good amount of play, to encourage awareness of breath, core strength, alignment, and a taste for breaking the rules when it works better for our bodies. She lives on Samish Island with her partner Ken and their two pups, Frankie and Tilly, and escapes to the ocean every chance she can get.
Jessica Gigot
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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.
Amanda Grove
she/her
Amanda is a life-long learner and she completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in 2019 at Yandara Yoga Institute. Seeking to delve deeper into her personal practice, she has completed 100 hour trainings in: Bhakti yoga; Restorative and Yin yoga; and Sound Healing and Yoga Nidra.
Bringing life experience into her teaching and practice, Amanda encourages self exploration through movement and breath. Her presence is nurturing and her guidance focuses on personal awareness of healthy alignment in postures and self care of body, mind, and spirit.
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.
Ashia Radke
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A lifelong lover of learning, Ashia began practicing yoga in 2015 and found it to be an incredible avenue toward health, healing, growth, curiosity, and a more compassionate relationship with self. She completed her 80-hour acro yoga teacher training in 2020 and her 200-hour vinyasa yoga teacher training in 2021. She has since earned certificates in aerial yoga, yin yoga, children’s yoga, restorative yoga, and chair yoga, and became an RYT-500 in 2023. Ashia gravitates toward strong, playful sequencing and teaches with a focus on innate wisdom, skillful alignment, exploration, mindfulness, perseverance, and joy.
Through yoga, Ashia strives to offer opportunities for play, connection, challenge, and introspection. She uses gentle guidance, problem-solving, precise cues, and oodles of encouragement to create a container in which students can find balance, enter flow state, and experience authentic moments of peace.
Beth Rusk
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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.
Rachel Scheib
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Rachel strives to make a comfortable place for everyone to move, breathe, and maybe try something a little different. Born and raised in California, Rachel came to Bellingham in 2014 to attend WWU, and graduated in 2018. Rachel’s teaching style is informed by her own practice, as well her experience using yoga to aid recovery from a blunt force spinal injury— an incident that ultimately showed her how essential a personal yoga practice can be on the road to recovery. Through this Rachel found that yoga is not only useful in a recovery sense, but also a preventative sense, as well as a present sense, and now she aims to hold a space where people can benefit from all of these aspects. Rachel creates an atmosphere where students can feel present and comfortable to find their own balance between effort and ease, whether in challenging themselves or easing into whatever suits their movement needs that day.
Rachel received her 200 hour certificate in 2021 from Yandara Yoga Institute in Mexico, and is delighted to now bring her teaching to Bow Sanctuary. Her classes are structured in a vinyasa-like style, where ample time is given to settle in and warm up before moving into creative flows and breath-to-movement standing sequences.
Lindsey Swope
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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.