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Certified sculpt instructor focused on functional fitness and intentional movement. I have practiced yoga and strength training for ten years, in various forms and modalities. My goal in this class is to make everyone feel strong and capable in their bodies and to remember that movement can be powerful and playful. My approach to teaching is lighthearted and energetically driven by my students.

I started teaching yoga a couple years after graduating from PNCA in 2004. My favorite style to teach is Vinyasa. I love it because it allows for so much freedom and fun for both teacher and practitioner. It can allow space for fluid strength, flexibility and breath. I feel like the yoga mat levels the playing field for all of us. In addition to yoga I am a Reiki and Quantum Light Wave practitioner. I love connecting and talking with people about common interests.

Katie Zink (she/her) is a community facilitator and creative writer living in Portland, Oregon. She works in Education Publishing by trade, has a Bachelor of Science in Women and Gender Studies with an emphasis in Human Sexuality, and is a trauma-informed, lineage-rooted yoga teacher and ritualist. A student of yoga for almost 20 years, Katie has completed 300 hours of Foundational Yoga Teacher Training with Audra Carmine and The People's Yoga.

Certified Yoga Instructor with additional certificates in Pranayama (traditional yogic breathwork) and Essentials of Ayurveda (yoga’s “sister science”). My goal and promise as a yoga instructor is to help my fellow yoga students sift through the nearly infinite opportunities that yoga offers to find the practices, tools, and mindsets that empower them to embrace their birthrights of contentment, peace, and joy.

DeShawn is a multidisciplinary performance artist who trained at Cleveland School of the Arts, Columbia College Chicago, and Berklee College of Music. After spending time in Tokyo and New York as "DAJ", they now call Portland home, continuing to create across theater, visual art, podcasts, music, and live performance. They earned their Y200 certification in 2023 Y7 Yoga.

Devany’s journey started with a contemporary yoga certification. This style allowed her to cultivate spaces with intention, weaving music and it’s energies as a co-teacher. A divine download led her straight to somatics. Through embodiment she tuned into her trauma. She believes that humans are born with an innate capacity to heal by transmuting their inner chaos into forward movement. She prides herself on bringing ceremony, breathwork, rituals, and more.

Sunray (they/he) is a genderqueer Filipino-American traveling yogi based in the Pacific Northwest. He is a community builder, yoga teacher, retreat leader and nature enthusiast. He has facilitated and taught at various retreats in the US, Canada and Mexico. He shares his unique perspective of Eastern wisdom and spirituality from a Western point of view, combining elements of Tai Chi and Qigong in his teaching styles.

Named Best Sound Bath Experience by Willamette Week’s Best of Portland Readers’ Poll 2025. — A lifelong musician & spirit seeker, Graham has spent the past five years immersed in sound baths, emerging as a master of the form. His background in music, creativity, and spiritual inquiry converge to shape a style that’s as heart-centered as it is skillful. Expect a passionate, playful, and deeply thoughtful guide who brings warmth, curiosity, and authenticity. Creator of the Aloka — Sound Bath House

Yoga has been a central part of my life since I began regularly practicing in 2021. While immersing myself in teaching as well as my own practice, I fell in love with yoga sculpt and had the opportunity to complete a 50 hour training in that format recently. When I workout on my own, I love to blast a fun playlist and combine strength training with plyometrics. To me, working out is fun and empowering or nothing at all! I can’t wait to share this with my students.

Certified Yoga Instructor and teaching since 2010. My goal as a teacher is to make every one feel that they belong no matter where they are on their yoga journey. I want people to know that they are enough, that it is okay to be challenged, that they are part of something wonderful and that they can show up for their community and themselves no matter how they feel.

My ongoing passion is to bridge the ecology of healing traditions with yoga, combining breath, relaxation, meditation, nutrition, community and open-hearted dialogue to create spaces in which we support each other in becoming healthier and happier in all ways..

As a Yoga teacher, educator, and mindfulness practitioner, I help people reconnect with their body, breath, and their inner superpower. I bring a grounded, intuitive approach to every class that blends movement, music, and mindfulness into a powerful, inclusive experience. My Vinyasa-based flows are joyful, rhythm-driven, and for all levels, often infused with storytelling and breathwork. it’s not about doing it perfectly, it’s about showing up, tuning in, and unlocking the magic!

Pronounced "Ava", I am a 500+ hour certified yoga teacher and a lifelong student of wisdom traditions, currently studying Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge (among other things) at Portland State University.