This is a list of all currently scheduled classes, workshops, and special events.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Quieting the inner pinball machine
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
YOGA FOR QUEER EMBODIMENT
In this affinity class, open to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we will create a practice to nurture, celebrate, and invite ourselves into a place of embodiment. Embodiment is being in relationship with our bodies, creating space in which we can come into our own experience of ourselves and connect to the essence of who we know ourselves to be.
We will use movement, breath, mudra (hand gestures) and meditation to hold space for ourselves as innately complete and whole.
THIS WILL BE A QUEER ONLY SPACE. The space is fully accessible, and the amenities are all-gender. Practice is adaptable to all mobilities.
Gentle Yoga for Navigating the Cancer Journey
Please join me for this free biweekly online class in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute.
We will utilize the mind-body tools of yoga to reduce stress, ease side effects, and increase physical and mental resilience with gentle movement, breath, meditation, and relaxation. All are welcome, from diagnosis through recovery. No experience is necessary. Chair options are offered throughout the practice. Alternate Wednesdays 1pm-215 PST.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Quieting Your Inner Pinball Machine
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Quieting the inner pinball machine
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Quieting Your Inner Pinball Machine
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
EMPOWERING VOICES: WE ARE ALREADY WHOLE: A yoga therapy and social change coaching workshop for people healing from relational and gender-based violence
Fridays July 11 - August 29
1:30 - 3:30pm
FREE
Cherry Hill, Seattle- fully accessible location disclosed on registration
If you are a survivor of relational/ gender-based violence and you have ideas about how to affect policy around systems, organizing supportive spaces or resources for other survivors, or creating in some other way based on your lived and unique understanding, please join us for this unique workshop.
Yoga therapy utilizes yoga in the process of healing, offering nervous system stabilization as you restore relationship with your essential wholeness. This workshop will combine therapeutic applications of yoga with movement, breath, and meditation for trauma with coaching for social change.
About the facilitators:
Deborah King (C-IAYT) is a yoga therapist certified by The International Association of Yoga Therapists. Currently, she is privileged to create specialized practice for people navigating multiple sclerosis, cancer, and postnatal mental health challenges through Swedish Medical Centers. In addition, she partners with The Dove Project to create yoga therapy offerings for survivors of gender-based violence, and has a private yoga therapy practice on Vashon specializing in interpersonal trauma.
In addition to her vast and diverse background of training in all aspects of yoga, she holds certificates in Embodied Social Justice and Polyvagal Theory applied to yoga therapy. She is the author of the article When Safety is a Privilege, Not a Choice: Yoga Therapy with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, featured on the cover of the 2024 Winter issue of Yoga Therapy Today.
A lifelong practitioner and veteran teacher of 24 years, Deborah uses her understanding of physiology and the nervous system in an experiential way to guide her students in exploring the story and the process of their embodied self, uncovering, unwinding and also celebrating the asymmetries that make us human.
She is the proud mother of two extraordinary humans, who she learns more from every day.
Leigh Lester began working with under-invested communities over 24 years ago. Known for her ability to break big ideas into actionable pieces, Leigh’s magic powers include public speaking, training, networking, collaborating, facilitating and totally out-of-the-box ideation.
With over 20+ years industry experience, her main focus now is helping others create the right action steps to solve their problems. Her approach is hands-on, practical application focused on outcomes, steeped in years of personal experience. As the one minority in the room for many years, she puts her experience to good use affecting policy at the national level. She serves as a community advocate on the board of a national appraisal organization, she is a member of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Project Reach, she is a newly appointed member of HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling’s advisory committee, and she also serves as a Global Advisor with How Women Lead, a Bay Area leadership network that brings together influential women in an inclusive and highly supportive community to connect, learn, and promote the voices of all women and propel their leadership forward.
She is an avid traveler and splits her time between Mexico and Southern California with her canine daughter, Brini.
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Quieting Your Inner Pinball Machine
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
MOVE WITH PURPOSE: a benefit class for Lilith Fund(online via Zoom)
Please join me for a special online benefit class to raise money for Lilith Fund, which supports reproductive rights and care in Texas.
6pm PST/8pm CST/9pmEST
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga for Navigating the Cancer Journey
Please join me for this free biweekly online class in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute.
We will utilize the mind-body tools of yoga to reduce stress, ease side effects, and increase physical and mental resilience with gentle movement, breath, meditation, and relaxation. All are welcome, from diagnosis through recovery. No experience is necessary. Chair options are offered throughout the practice. Alternate Wednesdays 1pm-215 PST.
YOGA FOR QUEER EMBODIMENT
In this affinity class, open to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we will create a practice to nurture, celebrate, and invite ourselves into a place of embodiment. Embodiment is being in relationship with our bodies, creating space in which we can come into our own experience of ourselves and connect to the essence of who we know ourselves to be.
We will use movement, breath, mudra (hand gestures) and meditation to hold space for ourselves as innately complete and whole.
THIS WILL BE A QUEER ONLY SPACE. The space is fully accessible, and the amenities are all-gender. Practice is adaptable to all mobilities.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Quieting the inner pinball machine
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Quieting Your Inner Pinball Machine
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga for Navigating the Cancer Journey
Please join me for this free biweekly online class in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute.
We will utilize the mind-body tools of yoga to reduce stress, ease side effects, and increase physical and mental resilience with gentle movement, breath, meditation, and relaxation. All are welcome, from diagnosis through recovery. No experience is necessary. Chair options are offered throughout the practice. Alternate Wednesdays 1pm-215 PST.
YOGA FOR QUEER EMBODIMENT
In this affinity class, open to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we will create a practice to nurture, celebrate, and invite ourselves into a place of embodiment. Embodiment is being in relationship with our bodies, creating space in which we can come into our own experience of ourselves and connect to the essence of who we know ourselves to be.
We will use movement, breath, mudra (hand gestures) and meditation to hold space for ourselves as innately complete and whole.
THIS WILL BE A QUEER ONLY SPACE. The space is fully accessible, and the amenities are all-gender. Practice is adaptable to all mobilities.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Quieting the inner pinball machine
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Quieting Your Inner Pinball Machine
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
Yoga for MS: Self-Care and Inner Resilience (ONLINE, FREE)
This 6 week class uses gentle yoga practices adapted to all bodies and movement ranges to focus specifically on the needs of people with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological challenges. This practice is chair focused, offers chair variations throughout class, and is adaptable to any level of mobility. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga for Navigating the Cancer Journey
Please join me for this free biweekly online class in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute.
We will utilize the mind-body tools of yoga to reduce stress, ease side effects, and increase physical and mental resilience with gentle movement, breath, meditation, and relaxation. All are welcome, from diagnosis through recovery. No experience is necessary. Chair options are offered throughout the practice. Alternate Wednesdays 1pm-215 PST.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Quieting the inner pinball machine
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Grounding and Letting Go
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
Yoga for MS: Self-Care and Inner Resilience (ONLINE, FREE)
This 6 week class uses gentle yoga practices adapted to all bodies and movement ranges to focus specifically on the needs of people with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological challenges. This practice is chair focused, offers chair variations throughout class, and is adaptable to any level of mobility. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Medical Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.
Gentle Yoga for Navigating the Cancer Journey
Please join me for this free biweekly online class in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute.
We will utilize the mind-body tools of yoga to reduce stress, ease side effects, and increase physical and mental resilience with gentle movement, breath, meditation, and relaxation. All are welcome, from diagnosis through recovery. No experience is necessary. Chair options are offered throughout the practice. Alternate Wednesdays 1pm-215 PST.
YOGA FOR QUEER EMBODIMENT
In this affinity class, open to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community, we will create a practice to nurture, celebrate, and invite ourselves into a place of embodiment. Embodiment is being in relationship with our bodies, creating space in which we can come into our own experience of ourselves and connect to the essence of who we know ourselves to be.
We will use movement, breath, mudra (hand gestures) and meditation to hold space for ourselves as innately complete and whole.
THIS WILL BE A QUEER ONLY SPACE. The space is fully accessible, and the amenities are all-gender. Practice is adaptable to all mobilities.
IN- PERSON on VASHON Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- befriending our bodies: Grounding and Letting Go
This is a slow paced, all-levels hatha yoga class with therapeutic elements interwoven through practice around a theme. All bodies welcome! Space is fully accessible!
Therapeutic Yoga Explorations- Online and by-donation! Therapeutic theme: Grounding and Letting Go
Please join me for a basic class with therapeutic focus, Friday mornings 930-1045am PST
Join me each week for a basic, nurturing practice with a therapeutic emphasis.
This class is by donation.
Yoga for MS: Self-Care and Inner Resilience (ONLINE, FREE)
This 6 week class uses gentle yoga practices adapted to all bodies and movement ranges to focus specifically on the needs of people with Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological challenges. This practice is chair focused, offers chair variations throughout class, and is adaptable to any level of mobility. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
Gentle Yoga & Wellness ONLINE through Swedish Multiple Sclerosis Center
This class is designed around the needs of MS and other neurological challenges, but also appropriate for anyone who might need an especially gentle, chair-friendly and wheelchair-friendly class. Standing and floor work is optional, and all of the practices are adapted to the needs present.