Being Yourself on Your Mat
Yoga is just a tool for being present and becoming a calmer, connected version of yourself, nothing more.
It’s breath and strength, difficulty and ease, but it’s not easy.
The transformation you experience with yoga can manifest in many ways, but at it’s core, yoga cultivates connection. You can aim for connecting different aspects (like breath and heartrate to lower your blood pressure) or you can see where it takes you. Many people do both.
As your yoga teacher, I aim to cultivate space for body, heart and mind transformation with yoga. We’ll find the flow in your body’s range of motion, challenge your muscles to build strength a little at a time, and journey to the rest and connection your heart and mind have been looking for. You will leave class with feeling better.
All classes take into account the reality of bodies that have lived through a variety of experiences—so there is no one-size-fits-all approach. I know a few. We can work together. And we’re always learning more.
We experiment with movement. We find our own groove. We connect.
Linda DeVries, Owner & Teacher
I started my yoga journey in 2006, and followed the teacher training path from Yahweh Yoga in 2020. Training in faith-based yoga was important to me because Jesus is the center of my life, and all the healing, strength and life-change that benefit our lives from the tool of yoga, is not because of anything you or I can do, but through Christ.
The tools of yoga and movement have been incredibly healing to my body, mind and heart over the years. Working as a public school teacher, moving far away from family, two pregnancies and births, postpartum life, motherhood, and now, entrepreneurship, have taken a toll on my body. And my mind, if I’m being honest. I realized I needed a little help restoring some of the compensations, tightness and weakness being a mother brought to my body. Various yoga methodologies, meditating on scripture and gentle corrective exercise have helped me immensely in rediscovering ease and strength in my body and becoming a calmer version of myself.
My life in the current season beyond cultivating space for yoga for my students is family and homeschooling. You can also find me perfecting my coffee-making techniques, biking with my kids and attempting to learn gardening.
My creds (if it’s important to you):
Yahweh Yoga Teacher, 200 and 500 hr., 2020
Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, Core Exercise Solutions, 2021
MA in Curriculum and Instruction, Concordia University, 2011
BA in English Literature, Cal State Long Beach, 2005