Shanti Om Yoga

We are so excited for our Yoga Teacher Training next month co-led by ! Bhakti is an experienced yoga teacher and a Certified Ayurveda Wellness Practitioner.

This YTT will be a deep, wonderful, and awakening opportunity for students to grow personally and spiritually. Students will learn knowledge to deepen and nurture their practices. Come learn what Yoga means for you on and off the mat.

Email [email protected] or DM for more information!

It's true! Yoga teacher training (YTT) is coming to Shanti Om! A YTT is a beautiful way to nurture, grow, and commit to your own practice and well-being. Whether or not you are interested in teaching, this training will forever change your practice.

DM or see our website for more info!

We can't wait to start studying with you, September 7th.

Get your Saturdays going with Jessica. Yoga clicked for Jessica when she started delving into yoga philosophy and meditation. Once she realized that yoga asana is a way to calm the mind and get in touch with the sacred, it took on much more meaning than just exercise or stretching. Yoga has since been an important core part of Jessica's life. She studied at the Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja, Mexico in the fall of 2018.

Hello Everyone!
I am so excited to be offering a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training again at Shanti Om Yoga along side my beloved teacher Swami Divyananda, and my amazing son, Austin Jai. Please join us! If you have any questions let me know!
Om Shanti 💞

We are so excited to welcome Ash Dahl to the studio!

Come pause thought through movement with Ash on Saturday evenings. In this class, students will synchronize their breathe through movement creating a dynamic flow that is both energizing and meditative. All postures are accessible, with modifications provided to deepen the practice and others offered to give some ease depending on how you're feeling on any particular day. Ash will generally model all asanas, so even if it's your first yoga class you'll be able to follow along!

Ash has been practicing yoga since 2015, and began teaching in 2020 after completing their 200 hour teacher training from YoYoYogi in the Pearl District. As of 2024 they are completing their 500 hour training. While their classes are movement oriented, you can expect an emphasis on breathwork and ways to bring your yoga practice off of the mat. Outside of yoga and teaching, Ash loves the simple, grounded things in life. Having a few cups of tea in the morning with friends, taking their dog to the lake, foraging for edibles and medicinal plants in the woods and playing board games with their wife. They also practice and teach tai chi and hapkido martial arts as a way to further cultivate their prana, qi or ki.

Summer can bring the energy we need to free our body, mind, and soul in new ways. Come see how you can deepen your practice with our summer workshop series with Kerrie Hawkes. For one Saturday in June, July, and August for 2.5 hours, find what new energy awaits you in backbends, inversions, and hip openers.

More information coming soon! Mark your calendars and DM/comment below if you are interested and want to stay in the loop! Workshops will be $50 for each or $135 if you sign-up for all three (10% off!).

Kerrie Hawkes has been teaching yoga for nearly two decades. She brings a wealth of information to help her students feel alive and engaged in their bodies, no matter their ability level. Kerrie's teaching style is firm and approachable, direct and clear, and invigorating and deep. If your practice could use a new wave of energy, Kerrie's classes are for you.

Stephanie has been teaching yoga since 2014, graduating from East West College in 2010. In addition to yoga, Stephanie is an experienced massage therapist and offers different wellness workshops for yogis, clients, and anyone looking to learn more about self care, their body, and how it works. She has a vast knowledge of how the body can feel when muscles have been under or over-worked. This allows her to meet the needs of each student's body during every class.

Stephanie went into massage therapy and the healing arts to help people relax and bring both their body and mind into the current moment. She feels like this world pushes us so hard to be our best at any and all expense, that we forget to take the time to focus on what we need to nourish ourselves.

Come practice with Stephanie on Sundays and Tuesdays! Choose your own adventure as she teaches both a Power Vinyasa and Deep Stretch back-to-back. Or stay for both!

Allison Kirley is a free-spirited, joy seeking, nature-loving, spiritual ju**ie and hula hoop dance enthusiast. She is on a twisty, non-linear journey following and discovering her soul's purpose. She has been intuitively led to practices that ground her and help her connect to her body and calm her busy mind.

Allison teaches a slow vinyasa class on Wednesdays at 12pm. She is a certified yoga teacher, health coach, and a licensed massage therapist. Allison has personally used all the modalities that she practices and they have helped her navigate her human experience journey thus far. She is honored you are here and can’t wait to share her work with you.

We are so excited to welcome Julie Collura to our studio for a special workshop! Julie is a social worker, musician, and expressive arts therapist. She believes that everyone is innately creative and that each person has within them what they need to heal and change. She uses the practices of movement, visual art, music, writing, and mindfulness as therapeutic tools to initiate healing and change. Since this work is based on the creative process and not the resulting product, no background or training in the arts is required to benefit.

We would love to see you join Julie on Saturday, April 20th for a special workshop to Experience Expressive Arts.

Sign up in the bio of , DM us, or comment below with a 🎨 We can't wait to be in creative community with you.

Creativity lives in each of us, but sometimes we need help remembering that. Julie Collura is a musician, licensed social worker, and registered expressive arts therapist. On April 20th, come by the studio and find movements you haven't known before or perhaps long forgot in Julie's workshop for experiencing expressive arts. We are so excited for this special workshop. All are welcome no matter your background.

To sign up, go to the link in the bio at , comment below with a 🎨, or DM us for the link :)

If you are seeking a knowledgeable and challenging yet accessible teacher, look no further than Kerrie Hawkes! On Mondays and Fridays, Kerrie leads students through an invigorating and deep yoga practice. Kerrie has been teaching yoga for nearly two decades and has intently studied three different styles of yoga: Ashtanga, Iyengar and Desikachar. She is a 500-hour certified teacher and will soon be completing an 850-hour training to become a Certified Yoga Therapist. Kerrie believes that yoga is for everyone and seeks to nurture an environment where students can truly build a practice.

On Fridays, Kerrie's Level 1 Vinyasa leads students into a culminating final peak pose that is uniquely expressed by every body, with or without props.

On Mondays, find a deeper level of practice with Kerrie's Level 2 Vinyasa through more inversions, arm balances, sun salutations, and challenging holds/poses.

For over a decade, Stacy Tumarkin has been in awe of the clarity, devotion, and opportunities for self-reflection yoga brings to her life. As she deepened her practice, Stacy has studied with Rusty Wells, Luke Ketterhagen, Noah Mazé, Jason Crandell, and Yoga Medicine. At Shanti Om, Stacy's classes blend creative and fun sequencing with a healthy dose of challenge. Stacy loves sharing the gift of yoga with every student.

Come by on Tuesdays (tomorrow!) for Stacy's Aligned Vinyasa Flow class, an active, vinyasa-style class linking breath and movement to build a graceful, evolving sequence of hatha yoga asanas—all set to an up beat, eclectic playlist! Come develop greater confidence and postural awareness to take with you on and off the mat.

What we love about our studio is the way each of our instructors' bring their personalities and life experiences to class. Here, .c offered students the opportunity to pull a tarot card before her Monday hatha class for a moment of insight and reflection.

What could persistence, opportunity, or cunning mean for you today?

Ayurveda has been India's traditional medical system for over 5,000 years. According to the Cleveland Clinic, an estimated 1.2 billion people in India use some form of traditional Ayurvedic medicine to maintain health and wellness. By balancing the energies in the body through exericse, food, herbs, and more, Ayurveda specialists help support people's health.

Bhakti Purvine, Shanti Om founder & instructor, is a Certified Ayurveda Wellness Practitioner and has been studying Ayurveda for over 20 years in the US and India. During her classes, she incorporates Ayurvedic lessons to help students find relief and soothe discomfort. Come by her class if you are curious how Ayurveda and yoga work together!

For over twelve years, Bhakti Purvine has been offering the practice of yoga to communities in both Virginia and Portland, Oregon. As the founder of Shanti Om, Bhakti helped grow the studio into a collective of passionate and unique teachers who each share their style and wisdom to the community. Now as an instructor, Bhakti teaches throughout the week at Shanti Om, bringing a gentle and meditative approach to all her classes. As a Certified Ayurveda Wellness Practitioner, Bhakti will often share Ayurvedic lessons to her students between asanas.

We hope to see you in one of Bhakti's classes this weekend!

Karen Jyothi Mertens trained as a yoga instructor right here in our very own studio! Yoga has brought Karen many gifts--mindfulness, strength, and balance--and she hopes to now share those gifts with her greater community.

Hatha Flow yoga is a perfect fit for Karen's teaching style. Her classes center the importance of connecting our mind, body, & breathe, the ability to undergo challenge without strain, and the opportunity to access ease & comfort.

Find Karen at our studio (and online!!!) Mondays at 9am.

Amelia first began exploring her relationship with her body through dance. In 2012, she found her body was speaking to her in a subtle language. So began her devotion to yoga as she embarked on her practice to find out what her body had to say.

On Thursdays (today!!!), Amelia shares and offers a hatha flow to our community. With a somatic lens and yoga asana shapes, students can bring awareness and curiosity to the subtle layers of their bodies that are asking to be known and witnessed to. This 75-minute class will guide you to bring your intention and breath to a movement practice at the pace of your own noticing. Amelia aims for a balance of effort and ease and allows for heat and rest. The last part of class will explore restful shapes and an invitation for our minds to follow. This full body class is inspired to bring wakefulness to our embodied presence.

We are so excited to welcome our newest instructor to the studio, Alexly! You may recognize Alexly at some of our classes throughout the week or at the University of Portland where she also teaches. Starting this Monday (tomorrow!!!) she will be offering an all-levels Monday hatha flow at 12pm.

This is a fantastic opportunity to start with a class from Day 1. Enjoy the opportunity to voice your needs, get to know your instructor and fellow yogis, and to shape the energy of this offering.

Austin Jai has been practicing yoga for nearly his entire life, since he was four years old. Decades of practice has led him practicing and teaching with his mother and yoga teacher Bhakti Purvine. Find Austin at the studio today at 4:30pm for an afternoon Restorative flow. He is also here every Friday and Sunday morning teaching Gentle Yoga.

Hope to see you there!

Big heart ♥️ openers tomorrow (Valentines day) 9am with Bhakti ♥️

When Jess realized that yoga asana is a way to calm the mind and get in touch with the sacred, yoga took on much more meaning than just exercise or stretching. Before, Jess had practiced yoga on and off for years, but yoga is now an important core part of her life.

Jess will be teaching her Saturday 12pm Vinyasa Flow class at the studio! Come for a moderate flow moving your whole body and feel into your weekend. We also have Feel Good, Gentle, and Hatha classes.

Hope to see you in the studio!

Whether the sun is shinning in the peak of summer or the moon is high in the depths of winter, students come to Dria's Monday night prana + yin class ready to meet their bodies and minds. Dria's class is a complementary balance of flow and rest. Movement and stillness. Within these moments are glimpses of both tension and peace. An edge and a center.

Dria is teaching a new course once a month at the studio including this Sunday(!!!!) on inversions. Come find her in a new perspective-taking class.

So happy to see clearer skies this week! How has your energy changed?

Tonight, Stacy () will offer her active, vinyasa-style class linking breath and movement to build a graceful, evolving sequence of hatha yoga asanas—all set to an energizing playlist!

And tomorrow we have our Wednesday classes!

Hatha with at 9am
Yoga Reset (Slow Vinyasa) with at 12pm
Restorative Yoga with Austin at 430pm
Hatha Flow with at 6pm

Hope to see you in the studio!

What are you working with this week? On this Wednesday, we have three classes for rest and flow.

Yoga Reset with
Restorative Yoga with
Hatha Yoga with

Hope to see you there!

We are so happy to have yogis back in our studio! We hope everyone is enjoying the great thaw out and reconnecting with movement + community.

This week we have our full offerings of hatha, gentle yoga, level 1 & 2 vinyasas, restorative and more. We hope to see you this week!

We are open tonight! Be safe if you are joining us.

5pm Level 2 Vinyasa
630pm Prana + Yin

Stay warm and safe this weekend, friends! We have one class today at 4pm and several others offered online this weekend if you're staying in.

Mondays are better with yoga. Come ease into your week with classes at 9am, 5pm, or 6:30pm. We hope to see you there!

Peace for all for the new year.

You're making it through the first week ✨️ We have seven classes tonight through Sunday for whatever you need: Vinyasa, Hatha, Gentle, and Feel Good.

New year new classes! Amelia Weesies Thursdays 6pm. Kerrie Hawkes Mondays 5pm and Fridays 4pm.