Yoga
We take the best parts of the Ashtanga yoga and Iyengar yoga pedagogies, and combine traditional asana with modern biomechanical and anatomical knowledge to safely power your mobility, strength, and mental clarity. With small class sizes, we strive to take our asana practices beyond a workout by incorporating philosophy, mindfulness, and compassion.
Group class schedule
Take part in our group yoga classes at our studio in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. You can also stream live classes from the comfort of home or check out our on-demand class library.
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About our classes
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Cultivate more durability and awareness in your body with Stability Flow. This class has a gradual warm up to activate the whole body before flowing into classic yoga poses that challenge mobility, strength and balance. This movement intensive practice prepares you to be flexible and nimble in your passions and challenges off the mat. This sustainable habit fosters longevity and connection in your body and community.
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Get in touch with your adventurous spirit! Peak Flow is designed like climbing a mountain. The summit is a pose(s) that presents technical challenges. Just as you train for your outdoor adventures, this class carefully prepares the body for the challenge and leaves it up to you to decide how far you go. The focus is on the journey not the destination! You will enjoy the benefits of more strength, focus, mobility and confidence.
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Cultivate ease, introspection, and relaxation with Meditation Flow. The slow pace of this flow prepares your body to settle into a 10-15 minute meditation. Breath work and repetition prepare your mind to ground too. A variety of meditation techniques will be explored- potentially seated or reclined. The benefits of a PAUSE in your busy day are increased energy, clarity, creativity and focus.
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Athletic and/or injury recovery requires as much intention as training for optimal performance and improvement. Restore and Recover Flow carves out the time for your body to adapt to the stress of exercise (or life), restore muscle energy sources and repair tissues. The focus on flexibility and mobility may include resting in supported poses, stretching, self fascial release with TuneUp balls and breathwork.
Private yoga instruction
Get 1-on-1 yoga instruction with one of our dedicated teachers. Private yoga can deepen your asana practice by providing a supportive environment to explore more challenging poses, or give you the space you need to help use yoga to heal from an injury. Receive hands-on assistance to guide your journey and discover a tailored experience meant for you.
Classes on-demand
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Our yoga teachers
Carlie Bae
Pronouns: she/her
Carlie’s yoga classes provide a unique and challenging environment to explore your range of mobility and strength while holding a sense of playfulness with philosophical underpinnings.
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Carlie found yoga in her teens. It made her feel empowered and strong and graceful in ways that she hadn't had access to before. As she started a journey into healthcare as a massage therapist in 2005, she was not allowed to prescribe movement - although she knew it could help her clients as much as it had helped her negotiate injury, stress and anxiety.
After some searching, Carlie met Catherine Munro in 2012 and was introduced to a method of yoga that was more careful AND challenging than what was popular in the gyms and big studios in Seattle. That’s when she decided she needed to share classes that touch on more than the physical "doing" and truly integrate the limbs of yoga into a practice that is accessible and realistic for all of us in this modern world.
Outside of yoga, Carlie spends a lot of time outdoors skiing, paddle boarding, hiking, and more, often accompanied by her husky, Nook. She is a dedicated mom, finding time to support her business and family in equal measure.
Michelle Befus
Pronouns: she/her
Michelle’s yoga classes are accessible, grounded and integrate anatomical precision, thoughtful vinyasa transitions, breath awareness with intelligent sequencing
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For over 20 years, Michelle has studied movement, breath and balance; earlier as a professional ballet dancer and as a yoga teacher today. Her accessible, grounded classes integrate anatomical precision, thoughtful vinyasa transitions, breath awareness and intelligent sequencing. Michelle’s articulate, down-to-earth approach educates and inspires, offering techniques that facilitate healthy movement patterns and elevate mind-body awareness. She is inspired by her teachers, Theresa Elliott and Kathryn Payne of Pacific Yoga, with whom she completed her 500 hour Advanced Studies Certification and continues to study with today.
Sam Clark
Pronouns: she/her
Sam’s yoga classes provide a steady pace and concise instruction to guide you through your practice, letting you explore how each asana feels in your body.
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Sam loves the mindfulness, challenge, and joy that yoga brings to her life, and especially loves sharing it with others. Sam did her teacher training with Carlie and Catherine at Body Reflects in 2019, and feels so thankful to be teaching in this special studio now. She takes pride in using her background as a counselor in creating a safe space for students of all abilities and bodies to practice yoga.
In addition to being a yoga teacher, Sam is also the mom to a spunky two-year-old, freelance editor, previous middle school counselor, enthusiastic book club member, mediocre trivia player, and avid wine drinker. She loves living in Seattle and being a part of the BR community.
Chris Harnois
Pronouns: they/them
Chris’ yoga classes are funny and playful. Their goal is make you sweat and to make you laugh in equal measure. Hopefully you learn something new along the way.
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Chris tried yoga for the first time back in 2010, in college. They had no idea what was happening in that class yet felt drawn to try it again. After years of maintaining a home practice through online classes, they started attending Body Reflects in 2019 and knew they had found their studio.
They are drawn to the yoga’s ability to provide physical and spiritual wellbeing and aim to provide that within their own teaching. Additionally, they recognize everyone’s varied abilities partially through the lens of their own wellness journey that has involved years of chiropractic care and physical therapy.
Off the mat, Chris is an avid outdoors person, gardener, and musician. Professionally, they are a marketing strategist and program manager. Fun fact - they built the Body Reflects’ website!
Amy Hirtzel
Pronouns: she/her
Amy’s classes are sequenced to take you on a fun and challenging journey of exploration. She hopes you learn something new about yourself in class.
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Amy’s first yoga class was a 90-min hot hatha class in 2013 where she discovered her right big toe! This new self-awareness sparked an insatiable curiosity in human anatomy and embodiment that she has satisfied over the last 10 years through extensive study with yoga and science teachers, physical and occupational therapists, anatomists and through her own healing of injuries. She uses this knowledge to cue to your unique alignment in yoga asana.
Although she came to yoga to strengthen her physical body, she soon developed deep respect for the softer benefits of yoga - the quieting of her mind, the space to choose intentional actions, and a more compassionate heart towards herself and others. Her classes will have you working hard while taking it easy on yourself.
Outside of the studio Amy is an avid library user and enjoys sewing garments, watching cricket, wearing big earrings and eating snacks. She likes bright colors and long naps. Her favorite pose is savasana.
Janet Geissler
Pronouns: she/her
Janet’s yoga classes offer you the opportunity to claim the space to honor yourself through both the physical and philosophical practices of yoga.
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Janet is passionate about sharing the healing benefits of yoga for both the physical body as well as the emotional body. She began yoga as a means to release her tight muscles and increase her range of motion, but quickly realized that a yoga practice offers so much more. Both the physical practice and philosophy of yoga encourage Janet to honor everything about herself and the honoring of oneself is what she hopes to share with students in her classes. She received her 200 hour yoga training through YogaWorks and has completed Trauma Informed Level One training through Yoga Behind Bars.
Veronica D’orazio
Pronouns: she/her
Veronica’s yoga classes encourage students to move with intuition, curiosity, and ease. Her slow-flowing sequences are interspersed with poetry, humor, and space for silent reflection.
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Veronica has taught yoga in Seattle since the early 2000s. Her classes encourage students to move with intuition, curiosity, and ease. Her slow-flowing sequences are interspersed with poetry, humor, and space for silent reflection. She cultivates an inclusive atmosphere where students feel free to trust their own unique rhythms and modifications within a group setting, and she draws inspiration and guidance from her continued studies of the fascial system, somatic movement, and psychology. Veronica is also a florist and enjoys exploring the parallels of form and pattern in humans and in nature. She is the author of two books, Fleurish and The Gardener's Yoga, both published by Sasquatch Press.
Emily Rose
Pronouns: she/her
Emily strives to promote an atmosphere of comfort, support, and expression in her yoga classes. She has studied movement as an art and therapeutic practice for several years and enjoys working collaboratively as an educator, performer, and therapist. (prenatal and reiki)
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Emily strives to promote an atmosphere of comfort, support, and expression in her yoga classes. She has studied movement as an art and therapeutic practice for several years and enjoys working collaboratively as an educator, performer, and therapist.
In her growth as a yoga instructor, Emily has specialized in prenatal yoga and restorative yoga: including exploration in the healing art of Reiki and energy work. Emily has grown passionate about teaching prenatal yoga to women in all stages of pregnancy. It is her hope to empower women in this transitional stage of life to confidently discover their intuitive wisdom as well as prepare for the process of labor with greater awareness of themselves and their baby. Ultimately, Emily loves guiding students in a safe space to relax, release, and indulge while connecting to body and heart.
While delving deeper into the body/mind/spirit connection Emily was pulled to the city of Chicago to study Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling at Columbia College Chicago where she completed a master’s and thesis study exploring medical trauma and the integration of yoga and Dance/Movement Therapy as a method of healing and transformation. As a result, Emily has grown passionate about how yoga and movement can serve as a ritual for selfstudy, healing, and emotional grounding.
Claudia Saunders
Pronouns: she/her
She continues to see her classes as a place to safely explore body, breath and emotion. She strives to set up intentional sequences to meet and challenge every student exactly as they are
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Claudia was first introduced to yoga in 2002 while searching for a way to help heal after years of competitive athletics. As a commercial Interior Designer, she has intimate familiarity with the physical and mental obstacles of being in an office environment. Her practice has continued to evolve reflecting her current knowledge and passions while staying a consistent part of her life. Claudia completed her first 200 hour teaching in 2010 in Arizona and her second 200 hour training through Yoga Works in 2018. She continues to see her classes as a place to safely explore body, breath and emotion. She strives to set up intentional sequences to meet and challenge every student exactly as they are. When not on her mat you can find her designing buildings, sliding down snowy mountains, hiking in our many mountain trails, or snuggling up at home with her clowder of cats.
Katrina Sukola
Pronouns: she/her
In Katrina’s classes, students will experience thoughtfully sequenced, alignment-based classes, finding balance between effort and ease, and building physical strength while providing a space for physical and mental relaxation.
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In Katrina’s classes, students will experience thoughtfully sequenced, alignment-based classes, finding balance between effort and ease, and building physical strength while providing a space for physical and mental relaxation. Katrina has had a lifelong relationship with movement, dancing ballet from a young age, and later other dance styles including flamenco, and aerial dance, and competing in various sports. Her teaching is strongly influenced by her practice of yoga, combining Ashtanga’s focus on connecting movement with breath, Iyengar’s attention to precise alignment, and other movement modalities. Katrina received her 200-hour teacher training in 2009, and has completed several additional teacher trainings including restorative teacher trainings, and is a certified Yoga Tune Up® teacher including the Roll Model Method Therapy Ball trainings. Her interest in movement and anatomy led her to study Ortho-Bionomy, a gentle, osteopathic-based form of bodywork to reduce chronic stress, injuries or pains associated with postural and structural imbalances. Favorite place in lower Queen Anne: The Masonry
Sarah Lakey
Pronouns: she/her
Sarah's yoga classes are gentle and accessible, encouraging warmth and ease both physically and mentally.
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Sarah is a passionate educator and has been teaching yoga and dance for decades. Her time as a professional dancer led her to seek out the healing benefits of yoga in the midst of a demanding career. Sarah received her yoga and meditation certifications through D'ana Baptiste in SLC, UT and YoYoYogi and Meditation for Life in Portland, OR. These days, Sarah's classes are gentle and accessible, encouraging warmth and ease both physically and mentally. Sarah is also an Arts Administrator and works as the Company Manager for the Pacific Northwest Ballet.
“Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.”
— B.K.S. Iyengar