History
Imagine Yoga with Lorri
"Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in little things, here and now ---B.K.S. Iyengar
I received formal teacher training (200-hr) from Pacific Yoga in 2001-2002, with Kathryn Payne and Theresa Elliott (www.pacificyoga.com). At the time, Emily Navar was teaching the Anatomy portion of the training. I am grateful to all three of these gifted teachers for their vast yoga knowledge and their dedication to yoga as an art and practice. Their personal teaching styles were very different even though they came from a similar yoga base ~ Iyengar. They taught me a great deal about yoga, yes. But they also taught me the art of teaching and how to be a good teacher (if I do say so myself...!).
Soon after graduating, I was very fortunate to meet an influential and long-time Seattle yogini, Kat Allen, while attending a Pacific Yoga grads get-together at the home of one of my classmates. Kat owned a well-respected local studio called Kaya Yoga in the Seward Park neighborhood and needed someone to fill-in for a summer-vacationing teacher. I agreed to the "sub" request, since I felt I needed all the practical experience I could get and the rest, they say, is history.
The following year, Kaya Yoga studio was sold to another local yogini, Maia Laverty ~ she re-named the studio Lotus Yoga (www.lotusyoga.biz). Through the transition of new business names and owners I continued teaching a weekly class on Sunday mornings that I dubbed "Serenity". The gentle class became popular and attendance grew. The class name stuck when I decided to open my own yoga studio in downtown Auburn and soon the dream of Imagine Yoga was born.
Although the studio storefront of Imagine Yoga has closed, I still teach the Serenity class every Sunday at Heartbeat Healing Arts in Kent.
I look forward to meeting you!
