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Leah inspires people to live their truth and to be who they are truly meant to be. She leads from the mindset of abundance. Her passion is building community, bringing together people through yoga. Her mission is Community. Growth. Discovery.
Leah is an accountant turned entrepreneur. She was a CPA working in Corporate America for 15 years with a Masters in Taxation. She went through a personal transformation and in that process found yoga. She opened her first studio hauteyoga Queen Anne in 2009, her second studio shefayoga Roosevelt in 2013 in Seattle, WA, and her third yoga studio, shefayoga Venice in Venice, California. She plans to open more studios through personal ownership and boutique franchising.
She has also created Sendatsu Evolution which holds teacher and leadership training. She leads international yoga retreats across the world. Her book titled “Seen: a memoir” was published and released in October 2018.
Years ago, Morgan Zion traded her career as a UX Designer to teach yoga and create full time. She began practicing yoga as a collegiate soccer player to help improve her flexibility and mental focus. She continued to practice for many years before she began her teaching journey. She has traveled around the world to learn from the best yoga, fitness and mobility teachers in the game, which has given her a wide range of knowledge for her students and personal practice.
Morgan’s classes are energizing, athletic, challenging and infused with high-energy music. She prepares and builds up her classes for advanced postures, inversions, and arm balances.
Morgan is also a muralist and paints in Seattle and around the world. No matter when you catch her, she is upbeat and always ready to make moves.
Alicia first found yoga in 2012 when she found herself overwhelmed and stressed from opening a restaurant in San Diego. She fell in love with the peace, strength and deepened relationship with self that it brought to her. She got her 200 hr teaching certification in 2015 and started teaching fairly quickly after that.
She moved back up to the PNW in 2019 and decided to take a break from teaching to focus on her own practice and new found real estate career. She loves the relationship and bond she builds with her clients and the ability to support and encourage them. She started missing teaching and went on a search to find a studio that she feels at home with and found it with Shefa and Haute!
Alicia’s classes are fun and music driven. Vinyasa flow with emphasis on balance and movement and connection to self. She loves being in this yoga community and bringing support and care to her students as she also does with her clients.
Ryan Cooper is a Seattle native. His initial exposure to yoga came through Martial Arts as a youth, offering him a foundation for understanding movement and the mind-body connection. While pursuing his education at the Art Institute of Seattle, Ryan balanced a career as a professional competitor in the World Long Drivers of America.
In 2020, Ryan completed a 200hr Sendatsu training program. This formal training deepened his knowledge of yoga, and he recognized the profound mental and physical benefits that the practice could offer, not only for athletes but for anyone seeking well-being.
Ryan’s classes are known for their worldwide music selection and a thoughtful warm-up progression that gradually challenges participants, earning him the reputation of offering a “sneaky challenge” suitable for individuals of all levels.
Rooted in focus, intention, and authenticity, Jamie’s class will help you cultivate your mind-body connection so you can improve your performance in all areas of life. Jamie has a background in aerospace engineering which always kept her in constant search of more, better, faster… However, she eventually came to a point where that way of being was no longer sustainable. Yoga was the practice that allowed her to change her mindset and habits in order to lead a more balanced life. Her vinyasa classes are centered around these experiences and will guide you through mindful and intentional movement. Jamie earned her 250-Hour certification through shefayoga in 2021. With a lifelong personal practice, she brings valuable experience. She welcomes individuals of all body types, whether you’re an experienced yogi or new to yoga.
Meghan first stepped on a yoga mat over 20 years ago and immediately fell in love. Having always been active, Meghan found yoga to be a new kind of movement that really spoke to her – it taught her that she could slow down, turn inward and feel at home in her body. Meghan completed her 200-hour yoga teacher-training program through YogaWorks under the expert guidance of Annie Carpenter in 2010, where she learned intelligent sequencing and alignment principles that have been invaluable to her as a teacher. Since then she has trained in trauma-informed yoga, yin yoga, Buddhist meditation, Yoga Nidra, and completed a 150-hour yoga mentorship.
Meghan is also a mother of two young girls as well as Seattle-based psychotherapist/coach/group leader with a thriving private practice. Her classes aim to be soulful, creative, grounding and joyful – with a little challenge thrown in there too.
Meg took her first yoga class with her dad when she was 13 years old. As a former college cross country and track runner and avid snowboarder, she always kept some sort of yoga practice in her routine. Meg practiced mostly hot 26 until she found shefayoga in 2020 and began to practice vinyasa on the regular. She was on the path to becoming a special education teacher when she really fell in love with the practice and decided to deep dive into yoga.
Meg, studio manager at hauteyoga Queen Anne, offers a slow burn vinyasa. She invites her students to focus on the sensations and feel of the postures in her classes, rather than worrying about striking the perfect pose. Meg believes that yoga is not just about the Asana practice, but that yoga is a lifestyle and a philosophy and she strives to live it on and off the mat.
Chelsea is a Seattle-based yoga teacher, sound bath practitioner, and shefayoga Roosevelt studio manager who specializes in cyclical living practices. Like many, Chelsea began her yoga practice as a healing modality. After a pedestrian vs. pickup truck accident triggered a severe chronic pain response, yoga not only helped her get back into her body, but was also the catalyst for a much deeper mind-body connection that initiated her lifelong yoga journey. Chelsea continued her personal yoga practice in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga for 7 years before making the decision to deepen her connection to the 8 limbed path of Yoga through teacher training.
Chelsea completed her initial 200hr training in 2017, and has since completed 150+ hours of Yin Yoga teacher training and 150+ hours of additional yoga teacher and sound healing training. About a year after she started teaching yoga, Chelsea made the leap from her career in Education to teach yoga full time, and developed a style of yoga she has coined Lunar Yoga, which syncs with the lunar cycle, and is deeply rooted in the cyclical nature of the seasons, the wheel of the year, and the phases of our own bodies and lives.
Chelsea uses the Organic Sequencing Method that she designed to structure her Vinyasa and Hatha classes, meaning that each class organically evolves from the previous one. No two classes are exactly the same, but you can expect creative, intuitive sequencing that incorporates some components that are familiar from the previous class and some that are new. Chelsea’s classes are fluid, with a mellow, vibey soundtrack. Her teaching emphasizes breath to movement connection and individuated functional, intuitive alignment. Chelsea’s greatest intention as a teacher is to hold space for her students to remember that they are active co-creators of their Practice, meeting themselves where they are and moving with intention in the direction they want to go; and to leave with a deeper felt sense of connection to all that resides within them, and all that surrounds them.
Bri Hastings teaches Rasa yoga, an alignment-based yoga class infused with mantra, mudra, meditation and pranayama. Rasa yoga is founded by Sianna Sherman who studied closely with Pattabhi Jois and BKS Iyengar. Brianna has been teaching for six years, and practicing for about eight. She primarily teaches private yoga to students all around the greater Seattle area, Bri loves working 1:1 with students.
She is continuously inspired by the people she meets in the yoga community and is inspire by the amount of passion yoga has brought to her life thus far. Some of her most influential teachers include Greta Hill, and Desiree Rumbaugh. Brianna Graduated her first 200 RYT certification in 2018. Since then she has taken another 200 hour training with Greta Hill, as well as her 300 hour. She is dedicated to her adhikara (studentship) as you are forever a student in the practice of yoga.
You can expect a vinyasa style class with healthy and safe bio-mechanics, with an uplifting flow and soothing music to help you settle into the present moment.
Madeleine believes the experience of yoga can help oneself get “out of the mind and into the body.”
With a background in science and engineering, she is deeply analytical and philosophical in nature. While this helped her accel in academics and the high-tech startup space after graduating, she found it difficult to unwind the mind from its constant problem-solving state. Madeleine noticed that the most effective means for shifting her mindset was movement. And the combination of intentional breath and movement that yoga offered was profound in helping her move through stuck emotions, shift perspectives and return to the version of herself where she felt most authentic.
Since 2011, Leah has been sharing movement, meditation, and breathwork practices to foster the biology of being well. In addition to supporting those facing cancer, she is deeply committed to serving the healthcare workforce. No matter what you’re holding, we can all benefit from somatic practices that support resilience, connection, and joy.
As a yoga teacher trainer and mindfulness facilitator, Leah’s goal is to help others discover their unique blend of effective, resonant modalities for sustainable nourishment, holistic vitality, and balance. She offers international retreats and training in Yin Yoga, functional breathwork, pranayama, meditation, and Ayurveda
Sylvia’s Earth-based yoga flows weave together science, spirituality, and storytelling. Drawing on her background in arts and environmental studies—and years of teaching in K-12 and university settings—she explores the intersection of anatomy, neuroscience, and ancient archetypes to create deeply grounding and empowering practices.
Yoga has been a cornerstone of Sylvia’s life since her teenage years, offering strength, agency, and a sense of sovereignty amid the chaos of growing up. This ancient practice not only helped her survive but has become her way of sharing healing and transformation with people from all walks of life. Sylvia’s classes honor yoga’s roots while creating space for students to reconnect with their bodies and the earth.
