"I've always felt at home in classes at BYMC. I love how they hold space to feel and reflect. I appreciate the racial justice work and supporting BIPOC teachers and students." - BYMC Student
ABOUT
Our yoga and movement practices can be healing salves and portals for exploration. They are transformative agents that help us be with the complexity and richness of our current circumstances, histories, and possible futures. Let's move, breathe, grow and build together!
Our Classes
We welcome all of you: your laughter, tears, and desire for rest and connection. We resist perfectionism and the ways that Western yoga and wellness industries have caused harm by centering white, skinny, cis gendered and able-bodied people. We are students first and always and share what excites us in our own practices to help inspire yours. We are well-studied in anatomy and trauma-informed approaches and utilize props and creative explorations to deepen practice.
Tara Sonali Miller and Zeyah Rogé stepped into leadership at the Center in the Fall of 2021 with their passions for generative collaboration and critical engagement. They hope to curate a space that sustains and inspires folks to engage with themselves and others in more just, intentional, and generative ways.
The text on the studio wall is in Sanskrit and can be translated to, “A leaf, a flower. fruit. water—whatever is offered to me with a pure heart, I accept that devotional offering.” ~Bhagavad Gita v. 9:26
We offer classes that are suitable for the absolute beginner, such as Accessible Yoga and Slow + Steady. We also offer classes that are great for anybody who wants to jump in without as much explanation on the basics, such as Align + Flow. We have strength classes and rest-based classes along with enriching workshops each month.
Our teachers bring their unique perspective and approach - check out our bios and take our classes to learn more!
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Meet our teachers
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BYMC Co-Owner, Educator and Editor
"I feel and believe in the liberatory power and potential of yoga. In its capacity to move us deeper towards individual and collective healing, into true interdependence with each other and with the earth."
BYMC Co-Owner, Somatic Psychotherapist
"As I studied yoga and somatics in more depth, I learned that these traditions were developed and practiced by rebels who were interested in liberation from internal and external systems of oppression."
BYMC Studio Manager, Yoga Therapist, and Artist,
"learning yoga has been a process of unlearning much that I held to be true. in this process, i began to hear my own voice and trust my inner knowing."
Artist and Educator
"I am interested in working deeply with principles of skeletal, muscular and energetic alignment, while also sharing the rich mythical, spiritual, and historical lineage from which yoga asana descends."
Meditation Guide, Trauma Informed Instructor
"All I desire in this life is to help people heal and grow like my teachers helped me, and to care for the environment like it’s cared for me."
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Therapeutic Yoga Coach, Teacher Mentor
Anna empowers her students to be curious, to move in embodied ways that they might not otherwise, to remain present with all that arises, and supports them in discovering their own unique way of being
Culinary Artist, Space Holder, Yoga & Cultural Appropriation Educator
"I create space to honor pleasure, while acknowledging the reality of pain (both physical, emotional, spiritual), and deep rest and healing."
Pilates teacher and Dancer
"I aim to offer a safer, encouraging, and supportive space for all bodies. I have taught people living through a wide array of chronic conditions, injuries, intentions, abilities and experience/s to help them to strengthen their bodies from the inside out."
Yoga Teacher & Therapist, Chocolate Artist, Software Developer
"My teaching is deeply inspired by trauma-informed and somatic approaches, the wisdom of the nervous system, and the possibility of creating spaces where everyone feels included."
Spanish Language Teacher
“I’m originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and I moved to Portland in 2015. Ever since then I have watched my yoga practice shape me constantly, both on and off the mat.”
Nature educator and movement guide
“Her classes offer a container for thoughtful and fun movement series that build from simple shapes and gentle flows into more complex shape and form"
Movement teacher and personal trainer
“My classes] provide a space where participants can come to feel strong, capable, empowered, & perhaps most importantly, more at home in their own body."
Full Spectrum Birthworker, Community Herbalist, Fertility Educator, Yoga Teacher
"My practice is constantly shifting from slow and sensual to vigorous and sweaty depending on the seasons and my bodily cycle."
Yoga Teacher, Body Worker, Cat Lover
"Elayna's classes are a slow burn of gentle movement. Classes aim to address the whole person, from the fascia, to joints, to breath, to the energetic body."
Animal lover, nature lover, movement lover
"Brianna's classes encourage curiosity and playfulness while exploring the limits of the body and mind."
Retired Engineer
"After a long career as an engineer, I knew the next phase of my life had to involve work from the heart."
Natropath and Childbirth Educator
"Birth is not only about making babies. It's about making mothers; strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength"~ Babara Katz Rothman
Mental Health Therapist
“Yoga makes sense to me, but mostly it makes sense of me.”
Yoga Teacher
"Tanvi's practices are inspired by teachings of yogic philosophy, the natural world, and a vision of liberation for our communities."
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Vegetable Farmer, Facilitator, Preschool Guide
Jihelah's classes focus on slow, accessible movement and mindful presence.
Birth worker and Yoga Therapist
“It has been my experience that through the practice of yoga there is an opportunity to embrace and seek greater understanding and integration of the many facets of being human.”
Sales Manager and Yoga Instructor
"The idea of deepening my yoga studies was born through the early days of reopening during the pandemic. In the face of the unknown and constant change, it was my yoga practice that allowed me to keep going and to help others do the same."
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Physician, Acupuncturist, and Childbirth Educator
"I love to learn and will never stop enriching my understanding of the human body.Through this long journey, meditation and yoga have been the saving grace for my own health."
Earth Scientist & Community Advocate
"Practices are rooted in exploring our real & perceived physical boundaries as a gateway to glimpsing our true selves and the community we share."
Contemplative Practice Facilitator + Grief Worker
“I have been a dedicated practitioner of Yoga for more than half my life...I attempt to be a humble guest on this path and bow deeply to the lands whence it comes.”