The students have welcomed me there with open hearts and minds. I’ve enjoyed teaching at her beautiful studio space over the past several months and look forward to teaching more there in the year ahead. Sarah is a gem and I respect her teaching and her leadership. I’m very excited and inspired about announcing this new partnership for Shakti! We are collaborating with Sarah Goble, the owner of SOL yoga in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle. Let’s celebrate what we’ve created together and welcome what is opening for us ahead.Īs you know, when we close one door, we open new doors of possibility. I recognize that in letting go, we can all step into new possibilities and create the next successful chapter and whatever that leads us to. I have held on for so long and it is time for me to let go, release, and close two decades of service with our Shakti Vinyasa Yoga studios. I have worked hard over the past two years with my management team to find a way to continue Shakti in this new shifting environment.

We are so grateful to each of you for being willing to be flexible, open, and adaptable to practicing in this new way. We have had a small yet dedicated group of students who love our classes and continue to show up online even after almost two years of zooming. Since closing the doors of our beautiful studios, our dedicated team of Shakti instructors have been teaching daily live-stream classes and continue to serve our community. Since I founded Shakti in 2003, Shakti has been my vision, my home, my passion, and my offering to the world.

I just finished watching the videos from our closing class and ceremony of Shakti Vinyasa Yoga Bellevue, the final of the three yoga studio spaces to close on May 22nd, 2021. Seeing the faces and hearing the words of our Shakti teachers reminds me of the past 18 years of service and positive impact that we have offered the yoga community all around Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, and beyond. Let’s come together and remember how good it feels!Ī LETTER FROM SHAKTI FOUNDER, LISA BLACK DECEMBER 2021Īs I write this letter, tears of gratitude are coming down my face. Please join me on March 12th from 2-4pm for my Foundations of Inversions workshop with a focus on healthy alignment for success going upside down.

Saturday afternoon workshops offer a perfect time for you to come to reconnect with me and each other and learn something new. You can choose from over 170 recorded classes with me, Evi Watson, Tina Templeman, Jodi Boone, and Sarah Goble and her full teaching team at SOL yoga.įinally, I’m offering monthly workshops that are open to students of all levels. If you’re not able to join me in person, I invite you to join our monthly virtual on-demand classes. It feels grounding, energizing and magical. Then I savor going into the warm heated studio to lead students as we create energy and positivity that uplifts our lives. I invite you to join me for a creative, powerful, uplifting class Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday mornings 9:30am at SOL Yoga.Īre you ready for a new routine? I love my new ritual of walking on the shores of Lake Washington to connect with the beauty of the natural elements of water, sky and fresh air. It’s been a joy to see many of you stopping in to say hello and to practice together. It’s close to where I grew up and it’s right on the shores of Lake Washington and the community has welcomed me here. I have landed in a new yoga studio home at SOL yoga in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle. After directing Shakti Vinyasa Yoga for the past 20 years, it was a profound change in my life to close the studio doors on May 31.Īs of January 2022, I am opening new doors and creating new possibilities. A lot has happened in the past few years for all of us and it is the perfect time to stretch and grow in new ways. I miss seeing YOU and practicing with you! I invite you to join me for a class so we can reconnect.

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