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Ferrah has always been drawn to encouraging others to see their light…
Melissa began her practice of yoga in 1999 at the Iyengar Yoga Institute…
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.
Melissa began practicing yoga in 1999 at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and spent more than a decade immersed in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Mysore tradition. Since beginning to teach in 2019, her approach has evolved to integrate restorative, somatic, Hatha, and Tantrik influences. Her personal experience with injuries, surgeries, and working in corporate environments has shaped her emphasis on nervous system regulation, mindful movement, and learning to listen to the body. Her classes weave together breath awareness, strength-building, and meditative practices to support flexibility, inner stillness, and overall balance, creating space for deep listening, embodied awareness, and a return to ease and presence.
Nicole is a Seattle native with a lifelong love for music, movement, and the feeling of being fully present in her body. With a background in fitness, she found herself drawn to Pilates and lower-impact movement after navigating personal health challenges and quickly fell in love with the way it transformed not only how she moved, but how she felt. Her classes are rooted in intentional movement, rhythm, and energy – blending strength, mindfulness, and music in a way that feels both grounding and empowering. For Nicole, movement has always been more than exercise; it’s connection, release, expression, and joy. She’s passionate about creating an experience that feels welcoming, inspiring, and deeply human, while helping others reconnect to themselves through movement. Bringing that energy into hauteyoga and shefayoga feels like a natural extension of the things she loves most: music, movement, community, and creating spaces where people can feel strong, present, and connected.
Aili’s journey in the shefayoga & hauteyoga community began when she was in high school navigating the demands of competitive sports and school. Yoga gave her a space to slow down and reconnect with her body. At 16, she started working the front desk, where she grew up in the studio community – learning not just the flow of classes, but the rhythm of the practice, the students, and the space which she would later teach in.
After graduating from the University of Washington, Aili completed her 200 hr through Sendatsu Evolution and has since pursued continued education in biomechanics, voice work, and leadership. Her teaching is shaped by her roots as a collegiate rower and love for the practice. You can expect to move with the kind of intensity that leaves you feeling grounded, clear, and fully in your body.
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.
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.
Bridget came to yoga after years of playing competitive sports, like volleyball and basketball. In yoga she found deep strengthening, greater flexibility, and mental relaxation that improved her well-being over many decades. She brings her love of body awareness and physiology into her classes, focusing on careful cueing and the joy of growing our abilities from exactly where we are each day.
Bridget completed her 200-hour Sendatsu Evolution training at ShefaYoga Seattle, as well as 50-hour Next Level Leadership and additional training in Hatha Yoga. She’s a graduate of Stanford University and enjoys the outdoors, performing comedy and music, and teaching intuition development.
