Catherine took the Yoga Works Teacher Training with the program originators Maty Ezraty & Lisa Walford and went on to assist the program several times with Maty, Lisa and Chuck Miller. She taught her first YW Training in 2003 in Orange County with James Brown and has enjoyed each subsequent training more than the last. Catherine was a teacher at Yoga Works In Los Angeles for several years before returning to her native Vancouver, B.C. where she now resides with her husband and son Ian. 

The practice of yoga has helped Catherine transition through some of life’s challenges with strength and introspection.  She is deeply grateful to her teachers for the passion and inspiration they instilled in her for both practice and teaching.

Irene Alexander
Irene Alexander has been studying yoga since 1998, and teaching yoga in Seattle since 2004.   She completed her teacher training at Pacific Yoga and has continued her training in the Anusara tradition with Denise Benitez, drawing inspiration as well from Donna Farhi, Shannon McCall, Buddhist meditation and modern dance.  Along the way, she has been continually blessed and inspired by the ways she has seen yoga transform lives and bodies, including her own.  In August, she will complete massage school, and she brings her knowledge of anatomy and a deep fascination with movement into her teaching.  Her classes offer students a chance to come into their bodies, play, explore, and experience themselves in a new way, while building strength and grace.

Ellen Boyle

A warm welcome and a space of compassion, playfulness and joyful focus are the first things you'll notice about Ellen's classes. Each student is honored, respected and encouraged to take the practice at their own pace while exploring subtle details of alignment, breath/body/spirit connection and the radiant expression of their true nature. Students support one another, laugh together and are lulled into svasana by Ellen's beautiful chanting. (She is also a professional actor and Associate Professor of Voice and Speech and Cornish College of the Arts). Ellen incorporates the whole of yoga's teachings into her classes: asana, pranayama, chanting, devotion and philosophy.

As she explains it, "I teach yoga because I want to share this healing art by creating a space where people can practice acceptance, challenge what they perceive as their limitations, experience community and realize what is highest in all of us."

One of Ellen's regular student's commented, "you will experience incredible growth. I am a better person for knowing her and having learned from her."

Ellen first practiced asana 25 years ago as part of her graduate school training in Acting. Immediately she felt the difference the poses made in her alignment, actions and attitude. Longing to deepen her practice she completed the 200 hour Samadhi Yoga Teacher Training with the wonderful Kathleen Hunt in 2002 and was asked to teach immediately at Samadhi. Grateful for the opportunity Ellen continued to study and in 2007 completed a 500 hour teacher training with the brilliant Robin Rothenberg of the Yoga Barn in the Vini Yoga Tradition. Like any great artform, yoga continues to unfold, deepen and enrich Ellen's life and she is currently studying with the radiant Denise Benetiz at Seattle Yoga Arts in the Anusara tradition.

In addition to her work as a yoga teacher, voice and speech teacher and actor, Ellen founded a small animal rescue here in Seattle. Committed to educating and raising consciousness about the responsibility we have towards our animal brothers and sisters, Ellen rescues mostly pit bulls but has an open door to any furry one who needs some help. Animals are some of her greatest teachers and she feels so blessed to honor them in this way.

Jennifer Cabanero
Jennifer’s students describe her as wise, approachable, intuitive and supportive. She infuses her classes with poetry and chanting, and with a profound insight into the workings of the body and the nature of the human spirit. In her own life, she has used yoga to heal from a severe back injury, and to nurture herself as she supports her husband, who lives (and thrives) with cancer. She is known for her infectious laugh and her abundant garden (those are her beautiful flowers you see each week at the studio). In addition to brightening the studio with her plants and personality, she is the studio manager and housekeeper extraordinaire, working overtime to make sure the space is always clean and inviting, and the blankets and mats are folded in just the right way (folds to the front, fringes to the back!). If you’re lucky, she’ll bring chocolate to class for a taste meditation, or just guide you into a state of yoga nidra inner calm that is sweeter than any chocolate.

Jennifer has been teaching yoga since 1998. She is inspired by Donna Farhi and also has trained extensively with Richard Miller in the art and craft of Yoga Nidra (iRest). Come to her Tuesday morning or Friday night classes to find out more about this profound practice of restoration and self-inquiry. In addition, she practices reflexology, treating clients in our treatment space behind the studio.