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.
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.
Sophie moved to Seattle from Northern Minnesota to attend college. After graduating, she worked as a mental health specialist on an inpatient psychiatry unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital where she sustained an injury.
Yoga helped her heal physically, & to her surprise, mentally as well.
She fell in love with the practice & completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Shefayoga Roosevelt. Sophie loves to meet her students where they are at, always allowing time for breath work & introspection.
When you flow with Sophie, you can expect a slow burn or a challenging, strength-based flow. Her goal is to cultivating the mind, body & breath connection, creating space to heal & find freedom in each posture.
Sophie’s classes end in a spa savasana- a cool, lavender scented towel placed on your forehead.
Ashley Zimmerman is a dancer, somatic psychotherapist and yoga facilitator. She invites people towards embodiment practices that offer a sense of renewal. Ashley creates a safe and inclusive atmosphere where students can feel welcomed and supported in their joy of movement, while integrating the unique interplay between the mind and body connection. Her classes are mindful of anatomical alignment and the healing power that breath work can have in calming the nervous system. Using body-affirming cueing, she supports each participant towards strengthening their personal sense of empowerment. Ashley received her 200-RYT from Adrienne Rabena’s YTT and 50hr Trauma Informed Restorative training from the BodyWise Foundation. Favorite self care rituals include: exploring farmers markets, getting lost in a good book and being captivated by the beauty found in nature.
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.
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Melina is a Seattle native and former competitive basketball player who could barely touch her toes for the majority of her life. She found yoga while on a journey to heal her relationship with movement and exercise and quickly realized the practice was a unique way to challenge her to balance her fiery energy with moments of self-compassion. Melina often describes her classes as “spicy”—she likes to bring humor and high energy to help her students feel strong and empowered, reaching new heights, and finding both physical and energetic release. Her sequences often require students to walk the line between strength and flexibility to find functional mobility, which she found to be key in unlocking more advanced shapes. She believes that challenging movements and strength work can facilitate a new level of mental toughness, cultivating confidence that enables us to conquer our fears and climb any mountain we face off the mat. Chances are this won’t feel like your typical yoga class!
Olivia is a healer by nature. She completed her 200 RYT in Akron, Ohio in March of 2020. She has continuously taught both in studios and independently since then. She is Reiki level II certified and completes her doctorate in chiropractic medicine in December 2023. She is also a singer/songwriter. She loves to pull knowledge from her various backgrounds into her flows, creating classes designed to challenge both the mind and the body while staying true to the foundations of yoga. She aspires to help her students transform into the best possible versions of themselves physically and mentally.
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.
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.
