(E-RYT 500, YACEP, LMT)
Founder // Director of Yoga // 200-Hour Yoga School Faculty
VINYASA // HATHA

Claire Zurbrugg is the Founder of Bellingham Yoga Collective and Co-Founder of Lynden Yoga Collective offering public classes, workshops, retreats and trainings in Bellingham and abroad. Her intent with the spaces she stewards is to offer a heart-full sanctuary where we can gather in community to be in relationship with source wisdom, accessed from inside each one of us.

(E-RYT 500, Anusara-Inspired™)
Director of Student Experience, 200-Hour Yoga School
VINYASA // HATHA // PRENATAL

Jacque Sweet is a yoga instructor, a mentor, and a director and educator in yoga immersion and teacher training programs at BYC. Her teachings stem from her extensive study with Karen Sprute-Francovich in the Anusara Yoga Methodology. Anusara is a Hatha style of yoga with strong emphasis on alignment starting in the foundation of a pose, a deep connection with our breath and upholding quality of heart while integratively moving.

(E-RYT 500, YACEP, M.A.)
Director of YTT Programming, 200-Hour Yoga School
VINYASA // HATHA // YIN

Liza Higbee-Robinson is a weaver of movement, breath, and heart themes drawn from the ancient wisdom teachings of Yoga, made relevant to us in the world we inhabit now. She encourages her students to explore through all layers of their aliveness, from the still, spacious depths, to the most mundane and surface level thinking, feeling, and doing. For nearly a decade, Liza has devoted herself to sharing her love of practice with others as an asana instructor, mentor, trainer, and retreat leader.

(E-RYT 500, YACEP)
Contributing Faculty, 200-Hour Yoga School
VINYASA // YIN // BREATH, MEDITATION + MANTRA

Jen loves to teach with devotion to enliven creativity. Her vinyasa classes incorporate Sanskrit chanting, functional asana sequencing, and practical application of yoga philosophy. Her yin classes live at the confluence of modern day neuroscience and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She holds a deep reverence for Yoga as an Indian and South Asian practice with deep cultural traditions. In Jen's classes, one can expect a clear theme, accessible sequence, and opportunity for challenge—delivered with care and warmth.

(E-RYT 500, YACEP)
Contributing Faculty, 200-Hour Yoga School
GENTLE YOGA // YIN // HATHA

Kendall is first and foremost a human being who believes deeply in the purpose and meaning found in connection and belonging. They have a deep dedication to the practice of compassion and accountability made possible through community healing. Kendall is a Yoga and Mindfulness teacher, meditator, and trauma-conscious facilitator. Their approach is rooted in many years of practicing Zen meditation, Yin Yoga, and personal work in somatic therapy modalities including internal family systems, attachment theory, and embodied healing.

(E-RYT 500)
Contributing Faculty, 200-Hour Yoga School
VINYASA // HATHA

Dani brings a unique mix of movement and meditation as well as a contagious energy to her classes. Dani's mission is to empower people to feel safe and at home in their bodies while also celebrating their own unique gifts and selves.

(RYT-200, Anusara-Inspired™)
GENTLE YOGA // HATHA

Susan is an Anusara-Inspired™ Yoga Teacher and Certified Engaged Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator who has been practicing and teaching yoga for over 30 years. She studied many different types of yoga before she discovered Anusara Yoga and believes that Anusara, with its heart-lifting philosophy of seeing the good in everything, allows yoga to be more accessible and enjoyable for beginners as well as long-time students.

(E-RYT 500, Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher Trainer)
ANUSARA

Christina Sell has been practicing asana since 1991 and teaching since 1998. She is a certified Anusara yoga teacher and author of three books on yoga and body image. She maintains an active teaching schedule locally, online, and nationally offering classes, workshops, and trainings for practitioners and teachers of all levels and abilities. Christina loves playing with dogs, lifting weights, trail running and spending time with friends.

(RYT-500)
HATHA // VINYASA

Jonathan is a passionate yoga teacher with decades of experience in movement and somatic practices. He is a former professional dancer and choreographer, born on the island of Oahu and raised in Hawaii, among a variety of locations along the West Coast. Growing up, Jonathan was instilled with a deep connection to the natural world. He has sought throughout his life to understand and better integrate himself as a small part of this greater community. He sees the practice of yoga as direct access to this connection.

(RYT-500)
VINYASA // YIN + RESTORE // HATHA

Mackenzie has been building and deepening her relationship to yoga & the healing arts for over 15 years. Her classes are thoughtfully and creatively sequenced with the intent to build presence, deeper awareness, and loving acceptance within oneself. Through her teaching, she invites students to lean into their edges to build strength and resilience, while also inviting in softness to experience deep nourishment on all levels.

(RYT-500, E-RYT 200, RPYT)
VINYASA + MANTRA // GENTLE YOGA // BREATH, MEDITATION + YOGA NIDRA

Cat’s yoga journey began in the early 2000s when she discovered Rodney Yee tapes in the family basement. She started teaching in 2015 and while her early experiences included fiery Vinyasa and Power classes, her practice more recently has been grounded in meditation, Yoga Nidra, Buddhist philosophy, and Bhakti traditions. Cat believes in the power of ritual and community, and that a consistent practice helps us live with integrity and awaken to our lives. Her classes are stimulating and creative, curious and inviting.

(RYT-200)
VINYASA // PRENATAL

Jenna believes yoga is a powerful tool with which we can meet ourselves and learn to listen to our own bodies. Her classes create a space in which students are encouraged to follow their own rhythms and callings and to deepen their connection with their intuition. She strives to offer trauma-informed and inclusive practices without shying away from the alchemy of moving through challenge.

(RYT-200)
VINYASA // YIN

Kenna’s intention is to provide accessible and genuine yoga experiences that serve as a lens for self study. As such, she teaches asana in the context of all limbs of yoga with an emphasis on empowerment and inquisition. She encourages students to hold space for themselves in each facet of the practice, be that intensity, play, or rest. Kenna has taught yoga throughout the Northwest and infuses her classes with place-based reverence and knowledge.

(MPT, PYT, NBC-HWC)
Yoga Therapy // Ayurvedic Wellness
THERAPEUTIC YOGA

Brandis began practicing as a Physical Therapist over 19 years ago and always felt that something was missing in the traditional healthcare model. After training as a Professional Yoga Therapist and relieving her own chronic pain she knew she had found the missing link. By combining principles of Physical Therapy and Yoga Therapy with her training in Functional Nutrition, she found that addressing a person as a whole, versus only treating their diagnosis, helped clients get back to the life they loved.

(C-IAYT)
GENTLE YOGA // THERAPEUTIC

Cat has been on the yogic path for over 35 years, and has been offering her wisdom and experience in Bellingham since 2002. She apprenticed with Judith Lasater, and incorporates the riches of Iyengar, Prajna and Anusara traditions into her teaching. In her classes and workshops, she encourages students to open to the subtle body, often weaving poetry, yogic and Buddhist philosophy into the movement and breath practices.

(C-IAYT, YACEP, LMT)
THERAPEUTIC YOGA

Gentri is a yoga therapist, massage therapist, and long-time yoga teacher with over 17 years of experience and more than 1,500 hours of training in yoga teaching and yoga therapy. Drawing from rich personal life experience, yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and contemporary understanding of the body and mind, her approach is infused with wisdom, intuition, and compassion, offering practices that nourish both body and soul.

(RYT-200)
YOGA FOR ALL SIZES // HATHA // GENTLE

Adrianna has been practicing yoga for over 15 years and set out to showcase larger bodies in a teaching specific yogic space. Using a strength based practice, her goal is to bring representation and agency to students with bodies who may need or benefit from pose alternatives, prop usage or other modifications based on unique anatomical constraints and differences.

(RYT-200)
YIN + MANTRA // VINYASA

Amber’s yoga journey started 15 years ago and through all this time, she has continued to come back to her practice as a way to manage stress and anxiety, and to keep her body strong. Amber has used yoga as a lens to modify the way she identifies with the natural world and connects to each being within it. Her love and devotion for yoga drove her to complete her 200-hr YTT in 2022 so she could share this practice with others within our community.

(RYT-200)
GENTLE YOGA

Yoga is a living thing, a human institution. As such it can be freely accessed, used, and modified to fit the needs of each student. In other words, yoga is open source. It belongs to those willing to honor the true tradition and spirit of yoga: change.

(E-RYT 500)
HATHA

Diana is the founder of AliveAnew Yoga and Fitness and has more than 25 years of teaching experience. Inspired by movement and light, her teaching draws from decades of study with influential teachers, experiences, and coaching work, along with her love of poetry and nature to create nurturing and uplifting, alignment-based slower flow vinyasa classes, as well as grounding Yin Yoga practices. Her passion is creating space for students to experience greater connection to their own joy, beauty, and freedom through yoga.

(RYT-200)
FLOW & RESTORE // VINYASA

Time and time again, the practice of yoga has set Sydney free; this essence ripples through her teaching approach. Her focus is anchoring students to the undercurrent of their own intuition and resilience. She sees the mat as a place to experience awe, challenge and uncertainty in sustainable doses, widening the threshold for all seasons of life.