Leah inspires people to live their truth and to be who they are truly meant to be. She leads from the mindset of abundance. Her passion is building community, bringing together people through yoga. Her mission is Community. Growth. Discovery.
Leah is an accountant turned entrepreneur. She was a
CPA working in Corporate America for 15 years with a Masters in Taxation. She went through a personal transformation and in that process found yoga. She opened her first studio hauteyoga Queen Anne in 2009, her second studio shefayoga Roosevelt in 2013 in Seattle, WA, and her third yoga studio, shefayoga Venice in March 2020 in Venice, California. She plans to open more studios through personal ownership and boutique franchising.
She has also created Sendatsu Evolution which holds teacher and leadership training. She leads international yoga retreats across the world. Her book titled “Seen: a memoir” was published and released October 2018.
Years ago, Morgan Zion traded her career as a UX Designer to teach yoga and create full time. She began practicing yoga as a collegiate soccer player to help improve her flexibility and mental focus. She continued to practice for many years before she began her teaching journey. She has traveled around the world to learn from the best yoga, fitness and mobility teachers in the game, which has given her a wide range of knowledge for her students and personal practice.
Morgan’s classes are energizing, athletic, challenging and infused with high-energy music. She prepares and builds up her classes for advanced postures, inversions, and arm balances.
Morgan is also a muralist and paints in Seattle and around the world. No matter when you catch her, she is upbeat and always ready to make moves.
Samar began exploring her yoga practice at 18 in the Washington DC area, but found a more regular practice as a way to reconnect with her breath and body during her first year of elementary school teaching. She quickly fell in love with the practice and all that it offers to the mind and the body and wished to share this joy with others. Her curiosity and joy for learning carried her through over 500 training hours where she learned a balance between the functional and spiritual anatomy of the practice. She values the importance of practicing compassion and connecting awareness in the body and mind through her yoga practice. The practice has taught her many lessons, but the most meaningful lesson to her has been how to breathe through challenges that come up during everyday life and hopes to pass this practice on to her students. Students should expect a fluid, balanced, and slower, but powerful flow.
Ferrah has always been drawn to encouraging others to see their light and she has instilled this philosophy into her life’s work. After earning her degree in Psychology, she has worked in various areas of counseling and education. She earned her yoga teacher certificate with Alchemy of Yoga in 2013 and enjoys designing creative flows that build up towards more advanced postures. Her classes infuse mindfulness exercises, intentional movement and self-awareness techniques as you move through the physical practice. Each class is curated to progress to a peak pose with plenty of time to build up strength with a meditative focus on the breath. Fun fact, Ferrah has been a student of haute yoga queen anne since 2010 and shefa yoga since it first opened its doors in 2014. Her bubbly personality and all levels classes allows her students to feel welcomed at any stage of experience.
Meg took her first yoga class with her dad when she was 13 years old. As a former college cross country and track runner and avid snowboarder, she always kept some sort of yoga practice in her routine. Meg practiced mostly hot 26 until she found shefayoga in 2020 and began to practice vinyasa on the regular. She was on the path to becoming a special education teacher when she really fell in love with the practice and decided to deep dive into yoga. Meg, studio manager at hauteyoga Queen Anne, offers a slow burn vinyasa. She invites her students to focus on the sensations and feel of the postures in her classes, rather than worrying about striking the perfect pose. Meg believes that yoga is not just about the Asana practice, but that yoga is a lifestyle and a philosophy and she strives to live it on and off the mat.
Melina is a Seattle native and former competitive basketball player who could barely touch her toes for the majority of her life. She found yoga while on a journey to heal her relationship with movement and exercise and quickly realized the practice was a unique way to challenge her to balance her fiery energy with moments of self-compassion. Melina often describes her classes as “spicy”—she likes to bring humor and high energy to help her students feel strong and empowered, reaching new heights, and finding both physical and energetic release. Her sequences often require students to walk the line between strength and flexibility to find functional mobility, which she found to be key in unlocking more advanced shapes. She believes that challenging movements and strength work can facilitate a new level of mental toughness, cultivating confidence that enables us to conquer our fears and climb any mountain we face off the mat. Chances are this won’t feel like your typical yoga class!
