Teachers

Studio location

138 North Beach Road
Orcas Island, WA
360.298.0218

Investment

5 Class card - $70
10 Class card - $120
20 Class card - $200
Drop in - $18

Private Yoga and Bodywork Sessions

Available for Individual,
Groups or Special Events
Contact: 360.298.0218 or
info@orcasmandala.com

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Learn from inspiring, compassionate, thoughtful Certified Instructors who will guide you on a journey to better health and well-being. Our teachers offer detailed instruction for both new students and advanced. We also host guest teachers who bring their own styles to share in workshops and classes.

SUZI ZOBRIST ~Certified Forrest Yoga Guardian & Mentor Teacher, E-RYT 500, CMT, CSB ~
Forrest Yoga, Transformational Bodywork, Holistic Lifestyle Consultant, Craniosacral Work, Shiatsu-Anma Therapist, Scar Tissue Remediation, Sacred Ceremony & Certified Sexological Bodyworker.

Suzi Zobrist celebrates a vibrant and passionate life filled with sunny days at the beach with her daughter, Solana and sweetheart, Bernard. Forrest Yoga has helped Suzi heal from ovarian cancer and has kept her breathing throughout motherhood. Her Yoga practice is about embodying her truest self and living as bold, bright and beautiful. Suzi is a multi-faceted Healer, integrating her knowledge and experience of Forrest Yoga, Craniosacral & Transformational Bodywork, Holistic Lifestyle Coaching, scar tissue remediation bodywork, Sacred Ceremony and somatic sex education into a dynamic and inspiring practice.

Suzi has been teaching Forrest Yoga since 1999 and is the Founder of Orcas Mandala Yoga & Bodywork Studio on Orcas Island, where she has a thriving yoga and bodywork practice. Suzi intimately touches the lives of her students and has been building community and creating a sanctuary for healing in her small-town yoga studio. She brings her openness and honesty to her classes and teaches with passion for the magnificence of our lives. Celebrate!

Suzi uses yoga and bodywork to support you on your Healing Path and works one-on-one in the discipline most helpful for your needs, whether it is healing from cancer surgery, increasing energy flow and vitality to the body, losing weight or gaining strength and flexibility, learning to feel sexually vibrant again, or to gain a deeper understanding of your path in life.

Suzi teaches all over the West Coast from Canada to California. In addition, she travels with Ana Forrest, helping to teach Forrest Yoga's vision of healing. Suzi was hand-picked by Ana Forrest to serve as a Guardian of the Legacy of Forrest Yoga and a Mentor to the Hoop of the Teachers. Suzi leads year-long Forrest Yoga Mentorship Programs, 3-day Continuing Education Trainings and Hands-on-Assist Clinics.

Deep Gratitude to my Mentors ~ Ana Forrest, Hugh Milne, Ellen Heed, Vincent Medici, Alex Turtle, Chenoa Egawa.

You can contact Suzi at suzi@orcasmandala.com, or 360.298.0218.

Ranna McNeil has a lifelong passion for art and contemplative practice, which are the threads that eventually led her to become a teacher of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms moving mediation practice. She has been dancing the healing power of the 5Rhythms since 2004 and completed Gabrielle’s teacher training program in 2011 with over 1700 hours combined Waves practice and advanced workshops with Gabrielle and all of the core 5Rhythms teachers.

Ranna is interested in the potential that the practice offers towards embodiment of our ecstatic being as a healing force in the world. She is devoted to expressing beauty, both in her visual art and her dance and she loves to inspire and ignite others into their own truth and beauty.

Lana Moore is a 200 hour Forrest Yoga graduate and also has a BFA in Fine Art from California State University Stanislaus. She is currently designing art and yoga classes that reflect her belief in the healing benefits of art and a strong asana practice, which have played an essential role in helping her overcome both mental and physical wounds. She believes the spiritual path begins with healing the self and from this place she is able to assist others with truth, honor and compassion.

Arron Redford received her 200 hour Yoga Teaching certificate in 2006 through the Saltspring Centre of Yoga on Saltspring Island, BC. The Centre was founded in 1981 by teacher and Master Yogi, Baba Hari Das, who currently resides and continues to teach at the Mount Madonna Centre in California. The teachings are most commonly referred to as Classical or Traditional Ashtanga Yoga (ashta=eight, anga=limb) as described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. The asana (posture, seat) limb of these teachings contain poses taken from the HathaYoga system. The Sanskrit word “Hatha” means sun/moon and implies a balanced Yin Yang in yoga.

Before moving to Orcas Island in the fall of 2010, Arron resided on Saltspring Island, where she met her husband in 2006. On Saltspring, Arron worked as an Ayurvedic massage therapist at the Salt Spring Spa Resort. It was here that she began her training of this holistic healing system which includes yogic practices, as well as dietary recommendations, internal cleansing practices, lifestyle adjustments and individualized herbal formulations.

Since 2003, Arron has been providing home care for persons with physical or mental disabilities, as well as for the elderly. Their stories and the many experiences he has had in this work have completely transformed her outlook on life, what life has to offer and what she is capable of giving back. Her clients have been, and continue to be, Arron’s inspiration for her practice; they provide the energy and the encouragement that sustain Arron’s passion for sharing her life lessons and yogic philosophy.

In Arron’s classes, students will be compassionately encouraged to build strength, increase their flexibility and improve balance, often moving beyond previous personal limitations. Postures are presented individually, as well as in Vinyasa flow; combining endurance and stability with movement and mobility. Partner Yoga is often encouraged in class, in order to give students the opportunity to teach and work with each other. The postures and the structure of the class cultivate a meditative and peaceful state, and students will leave feeling calm and refreshed.

The purification of body and mind thru the practices of Yoga (sadhana) will lead the practitioner to develop a greater understanding of themselves and a deeper sense of connection to the world around them. In addition to the presentation of postures (asanas) to help balance the physical body; spiritual readings, methods of breathing (pranayama) and meditation (dhyana), will also be offered.Through the unification (Yoga) of the body and mind, students can improve their internal awareness and realize their own true nature, which is Peace.

“The sole meaning of life is to serve Humanity” ~ Leo Tolstoy

Louise Simmons came to yoga through performance arts and a fascination with the body/mind/breath connection. She studied Iyengar yoga in India in the 80's and spent time in solitary retreat; over-wintering in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh awakened her to our deep connection with all that is alive in our universe.

She traveled to the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland in 1990 and began to share her yoga. She qualified with the British Wheel of Yoga as a teacher and with the Yoga Biomedical Trust as a yoga therapist, but it was when she met her mentor, Diane Long (a primary student of Vanda Scaravelli 'Awakening the Spine') that the potential of yoga freed from 'method' came alive. It was an experience of "coming home" and brought about a radical healing of chronic health problems. She has been exploring and teaching this 'Scaravelli' approach to yoga since, traveling internationally, offering workshops, classes and individual tuition. She lives between Orcas Island, WA and the Findhorn Community in Scotland.

She passionately believes that everyone can benefit from the exploration of creative process in our bodies, constantly renewing, and approaches yoga practice with a sense of joy, delight and playfulness.

You can contact Louise at:louiseyoga@lineone.net

Megan Stocklin has a passion for exploring the beauty and mysteries of life both on and off her yoga mat. Her desire to go deeper- in her yoga practice, self discovery, and connection to Spirit- led her to complete the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training in Chicago in October 2010. She looks forward to helping others on their own healing paths by sharing the gifts of Forrest Yoga.

SARAH DOMKE
Passion, humor, breath, healing-touch and honesty are the foundations of Sarah Domke’s teaching. Sarah works with students to find the most beneficial ways to work poses in their bodies; to heal and manage injuries; to strengthen in a way that supports feeling good; to help release holding patterns in the body; and begin tuning their bodies and spirits to brighter sweeter frequencies.

Trained in Forrest yoga, Sarah incorporates abs to warm up the core and support the back, re-training the neck to relax, standing pose series, and vinyasa flow in her classes. In addition to completing the Forrest Yoga Foundation Training with Ana Forrest and Guardians Talya Ring and Steve Emmerman, Sarah has completed the year-long Forrest Mentorship Program with Colleen Millen, studied & practiced Yoga for Depression with Colleen Millen, and completed Continuing Education for Teachers with Ana Forrest.

Forrest Yoga does not require strength or flexibility, it only requires that you bring a willingness to learn how to feel authentically and respond honestly -truth be told- we're all in this together! Come practice with Sarah Domke to get into your body, move some energy, sweat out some toxins, and relax your neck!

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