Lorien Ondre

Over the last 12 years Lorien has been privileged to study yoga with many amazing teachers around the world. She completed her first teacher training with Baba Hari Dass at the Mount Madonna Center in 2001, and in the last 6 years completed 1,000 hours of teacher training in levels 1-5 Maya Yoga intensives with Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane in Maui. She draws inspiration from time spent studying Ashtanga yoga with Sri K Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India, and currently continues to study with senior Iyengar teachers Patricia Walden and Manouso Manos.

Lorien also developed her love and understanding of the body training and performing in a variety of other dance and movement techniques including contemporary modern, butoh and aerial dance.

Her passion for the practice of yoga and for sharing it lies in her personal experience of yoga's profound ability to affect transformation and healing on physical, psychological and spiritual levels. The fruits of this practice can then radiate out into the community and ultimately, the world, illuminating the interdependence of personal and global sustainability.

Her teaching is informed and firmly grounded in the traditions of yoga, as well as being inspired by time spent traveling the world, creating in community, time in nature, in ceremony, and in the garden.

Lorien found Yoga (or did Yoga find her?) at 15 and hasn't been able to stray far off the path since. The practice has provided her with both challenging reflections and a comforting home, revealing the light and the shadows and teaching her to love them both.

Class fuses a dynamic, flowing sequence of postures and breathing
with longer holds and attention to alignment, designed to build
strength and flexibility as well as postural integration and connectivity.
Detail oriented and vigorous, deeply rooted in the traditions of yoga
while maintaining a sense of humor and fun. Wake up body and mind,
go deep, work it out, feel good.