Erin is a breathwork guide, reiki healer and sound therapist at Claro on beautiful Vashon Island. She creates loving spaces and created Claro with the intention of bringing a studio to Vashon where those looking to heal through somatic practices can reach deep in to their intuition to find their own unique medicine. Through years of training in mental health and certification as a breathwork guide, Erin comes alongside you to provide loving support as you meditate deeply through conscious connected breathwork. Her presence is gentle and supportive, guiding you to self-knowledge, empowerment, and deep healing.

Sound healing with Erin is a time to relax and allow the binaural beats created by the sounds of crystal singing bowls to guide you in to a theta brain wave state, where deep healing happens.

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Toni received her first yoga certification in 2010 and her advanced yoga teacher training in Shamanic Therapeutic yoga in 2017. Her classes have an emphasis on alignment, the energy body and the elements. She is a spiritual mentor, a reiki practitioner and a retreat leader. When Toni isn't teaching, you'll find this Oregonian riding her mountain bike, creating beautiful food, gardening and spending time under the trees with her dog Patrick. Toni hosts Yoga Teacher Trainings at Claro. If you are interested in the next YTT that starts in October 2024, please reach out to her directly to inquire by visiting her website: mybarefoootbliss.com

Linda is a yoga teacher and plant-forward chef living and coaching embodied wellbeing and lifestyle. Linda found yoga while living and working in NYC as a CPA, where with her first yoga class, she found calm within the chaos. Decades later, under the advice of her mentor Ronly Blau, Linda trained for her 200 YTT at Synergy Yoga and Ayurveda in Seattle to deepen her practice on and off the mat. Linda blends together decades of yoga experience across modalities, including vinyasa to hatha to kundalini, integrating her certifications in Yoga for Healthy Aging, Trauma-Informed Yoga, to create an open, safe space to explore and listen. Strength, agility, balance, and equanimity are available to every body.

Layla teacher vinyasa yoga at Claro on Monday evenings. She has been a student of yoga since 2007, and she is double-certified at the 200 hour level (2023, 2024). Layla loves helping students find clarity, ease, and joy in their practice, and she loves to laugh. Her teaching emphasizes alignment, the connection of breath to movement, and a blend of energetic flow sequences with grounding, nurturing postures. Layla organizes classes around themes such as the eight limbs of yoga, elements, chakras, seasons, and the tarot, all delivered with spirit of levity and curiosity over judgment. No matter style of the class, Layla works to create a safe yet expansive container for your yoga practice.

Layla lives with her family on Vashon Island and loves to read, write fiction, and go to concerts. When she is not teaching at Claro, you can probably find Layla strolling around Island Center Forest, enjoying a latte at one of our local coffee shops, or poking around the Vashon library.

After many years of cross training in Pilates and yoga to enhance her dance career, Madelyn transitioned into teaching movement. She received her certification in mat and reformer Pilates with Vitality Pilates in Seattle, WA and later completed her 200 hour YTT. Madelyn also holds a BFA in dance from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Fordham University. She now draws on these techniques to teach a variety of group classes. In fall of 2023, Madelyn opened Vashon Pilates where she teaches private reformer Pilates. In her free time, Madelyn enjoys biking, cooking and learning to play the drums.

Meet Liz Sorensen, a woman with many interests, from skiing to dancing, but yoga has been the most enduring. Ever since she took her first yoga class at the age of 23, she was HOOKED and thought, “This is so amazing. How cool would it be to be a yoga teacher and do this all the time!” After 20 years of a dedicated yoga practice, she earned her teaching certification from Toni Larson and jumped right in to teaching at Claro on Vashon. 

Liz enjoys an active, sweaty, and challenging practice that incorporates the 8 limbs of yoga because, for her, it makes space for the deepest savasana, which is her favorite pose. 

Come start your day strong and experience Liz’s ashtanga inspired 60 minute flow on Wednesdays at 7:30am. You’ll move, you’ll sweat, you’ll die… I mean, your ego will die, just a little.

Nick is a Vashon Island based Vinyasa yoga teacher who has been practicing yoga since 2012. He discovered yoga while working in San Diego and found the mental, physical, and spiritual experience supported every other part of his life. In Spring 2024 Nick received a 200 hour YTT certificate from Claro's own Toni Larson, with the goal of bringing the benefits of yoga to other athletes, leaders, teachers, and everyone else that shows up on the mat. He believes that yoga is the perfect antidote to the stress of modern life.

Nari Baker, RYT-200, has been practicing yoga since 2009. She completed her yoga teacher training with Elizabeth Rainey and Denise Benitez at Seattle Yoga Arts in 2012. In the past, Nari has taught in prison, BIPOC-only healing spaces, parent-baby classes and for refugee women.

Gabrielle is a professional artist, healer & reiki master known for her paintings honoring the sacred feminine. She leads creative movement classes at Claro, including Ecstatic Dance and Temple Dance (a women's-only offering). Movement not only keeps us healthy, it also stimulates creative flow in every area of our lives. Gabrielle has practiced dance and yoga as a compliment to her studio art since childhood. She has been teaching movement classes since 2011 and incorporates her Tantric and Yoga background into all her offerings.

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