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[Part 1 of 3] Behind the scenes, teaching yoga online, from the arctic 🤗 My first love will always be spending with huma...
08/19/2026

[Part 1 of 3] Behind the scenes, teaching yoga online, from the arctic 🤗

My first love will always be spending with humans in real life here at Arctic Hive | Brooks Range, Alaska — but the sheer distance between my home and... anyone... makes regular yoga classes here impractical.

So, as yoga teacher running North America’s northernmost yoga school, I find other ways to keep busy. Between spending time with my fam (Sean and our 30+ dogs), hosting retreats, and teaching yoga through my online membership (The Yoga We Need), mentorship (The Yoga We Share), and ongoing courses and teacher trainings, life is full.

The funny thing is that I never set out to be an online yoga teacher... the universe tee’ed up my life to make it happen in 2020. On the surface, I seemed to be just following breadcrumbs as Sean and I built our lives in the Arctic — but what I know now as a Vedic Astrologer is that a strong, supportive cosmic current was flowing through my life under the surface.

In Jyotish, we have a tool (not found in Western Astrology) called the Dasha System. The Dasha System calculates your timeline of, what I call, “Cosmic Teachers” depending on your exact time, place and date of birth. This roster of teachers (the 9 planets) always line up to teach in the same order, and each for a unique length of time. Ketu teaches us for 7 years. Saturn for 19. Venus for 20, Mars for 7, and so on. The total time spent learning with all 9 planets adds up to 120 years — so we don’t all get to learn from all of them... instead, each of us is born into this “wheel of learning” at a different spot. And it’s thought that in our next lifetime, wherever we leave off is where we’re born into next.

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[Part 2 of 3] Behind the scenes, teaching yoga online, from the arctic 🤗

So in 2020, I was in the middle of my Ketu Dasha — a 7 year period known for themes of letting go, releasing attachments to material ways of life, pilgrimages, spirituality, and working with ancestral lineage. (To put this in perspective, it doesn’t get more “Ketu Dasha” than traveling to India 3 times, moving to Alaska, selling all four of your yoga studios, and building a retreat cent

Awooo! Wild yoginis — if you feel the call to learn yoga in the Himalayas of the Arctic, my 7th annual signature 200-hou...
08/18/2026

Awooo! Wild yoginis — if you feel the call to learn yoga in the Himalayas of the Arctic, my 7th annual signature 200-hour YTT SHEWild is already half full for April 2027 😳

Dive deep into yoga philosophy, meditation, asana, anatomy, kriya and more over two weekends online and 8 incredible days in person, in the heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range.

Arctic Hive / Arctic Hive | Brooks Range, Alaska is as close to nature as you can get, 63 miles north of the Arctic Circle from the comfort of our cabins and wilderness lodge.

​This experience will change your life⚡️

The dark is coming back to the Brooks Range. By August 21st, we get to see stars again after so many months of the midni...
08/13/2026

The dark is coming back to the Brooks Range. By August 21st, we get to see stars again after so many months of the midnight sun. (These photos are from SHEWild 2022 — the last year the 200hr YTT was held in the fall time.)

I can already feel the turn — that first thinning of the light. In Ayurveda, this is the doorway into Vata season: cold, windy, unmoored, scattered. And if you teach, you know this is exactly when your own practice tends to be the first thing to slip as you attempt to juggle all your roles and responsibilities.

This Saturday inside my monthly teacher mentorship, The Yoga We Share, we’re meeting it on purpose.

We’ll review our body type constitutions, look honestly at what the coming dark asks of us across every area of our life, and land on the question underneath all of it: how do we want to feel walking into the dark this year?

Then we build the practices — the food, the rhythm, the sadhana — to carry you there.

Because The Yoga We Share exists for one reason: So you stay nourished as a teacher instead of depleted. This is the next layer — not learning to teach like me, but learning to teach as you.

🕗 Saturday, Aug 15 · 8am AK / 10am MT / 12pm EST · live on Zoom (replay always posted)

A mentorship for teachers trained in Himalayan Kriya. If you’re called to this next layer, applications are open — link in bio. ❤️

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night — bleary eyed — to tend to the dogs or to p*e … I never *want* to get out...
08/11/2026

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night — bleary eyed — to tend to the dogs or to p*e … I never *want* to get out of bed, but when I do, I might get to see a sight like this one from a few weeks ago 🤩

It’s a long summer under the midnight sun… and we still won’t see stars for another few weeks here in the Brooks Range. But this moon was gorgeous — and got me excited for darker days ahead.

There’s something about catching the moon unexpectedly, half-asleep, that puts you right into your senses. Which feels fitting, because that’s exactly the invitation of this week’s cosmic alignment.

Eclipse season is here, and the new moon this week lands in Ashlesha, the embracer. As Dr. Katy Jane writes in Moon Signs for the Soul (love her book!), Ashlesha’s name means “she who possesses the sixth sense” — and with the nodes so active in overtaking the luminaries, that sixth sense is exactly what’s being called forward to “see in the dark”.

When we so boldly go under the surface of the layers of our self, it can be jarring to see what’s there. We feel exposed, and raw — even though others may not even realize the demons we battle. Think about what happens when you touch a snake and startle it — it curls in on itself. That’s our instinct too, when we feel exposed. But this month is an invitation to open instead of curl in — to embrace the change rather than brace against it.

If you’re shedding a skin, don’t be afraid to feel your way through the dark. Your intuition knows the way — if you can listen to her ❤️

Join my monthly membership, The Yoga We Need, for $21/month. Use code INSTA for a 7-day free trial + $3/month off, for as long as you’re a member.

08/06/2026

Juneau! I’m excited to return to southeast AK this month and share a little more kriya yoga with you at Auke Bay Yoga’s downtown location.

Our sled dogs are concluding their time on the glacier on September 1st, so it’s an exciting time for me — filled with potential — and my hope is to bring that energy to class. We’ll talk about Kundalini as a concept, and we’ll use kriya, asana, pranayama and more to FEEL what kundalini is like on the inside. No experience necessary — just come as you are ❤️

DM me with any questions!

08/05/2026

In 2021, I made a conscious decision to add more woman authors to my yoga teacher training textbook list. I’m so grateful to these women for putting pen to paper, and inspiring me — and my students! — to dive further into the yogic teachings.

This is by no means an exhaustive list… see my favorite books at the link in my bio.

And: Tell me in the comments … who’s your favorite?

Deborah Adele | Yoga Philosophy
Nischala Joy Devi
Ann Swanson, MS
Caroline Shola Orewa

Weeks ago, I was hot, itchy and masked as I put up batts of fiberglass insulation in our Arctic Hive | Brooks Range, Ala...
07/14/2026

Weeks ago, I was hot, itchy and masked as I put up batts of fiberglass insulation in our Arctic Hive | Brooks Range, Alaska lodge addition. I typically blast loud music in my ears to get through the more challenging (albeit mindless) tasks of building.

Suddenly, Katy Perry - Roar came on my Spotify. I could clearly visualize in my head chanting HAT HARI to the beat with a field of yogis twisting through the kriya (IYKYK)… I knew what needed to be done 😏

This vision came to life in Griffin Park during my class this weekend for the 9th annual ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL, and it 👏 was 👏 glorious👏

I love teaching “The Yoga We Need” so much.

Much love to everyone who came out to be a part of this community event — new friends and familiar faces — and to my fellow organizers for doing the most to make it all happen, Teal Belz Emily Sloth Brooke Broder.ick ❤️ Cheers to another year of fun, friendship and growth together!

Loved making malas 📿 with all these curious yogis today — what a way to kick off ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL 2026!Big thanks to...
07/10/2026

Loved making malas 📿 with all these curious yogis today — what a way to kick off ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL 2026!

Big thanks to Little Owl Café for hosting, and thanks to my mala caddy Emily Sloth for hauling my bead boxes 💛

Many long nights have been spent on this patio outside the Fairbanks Public Library.Through COVID, life in the arctic ma...
07/08/2026

Many long nights have been spent on this patio outside the Fairbanks Public Library.

Through COVID, life in the arctic made teaching yoga online possible for me and, at times, really hard. When I pivoted from teaching in person in MT and WI to teaching virtually, I started recording everything. Ever since, I’ve been hyper-aware of my internet, Zoom and upload capacity in order to connect with students around the world.

Turns out uploading gigabytes at a time takes a steady connection — and the best internet in Fairbanks? The public library. 📚

Here’s the thing: I don’t even live close to Fairbanks! Home is 7 hours north. I’m only ever here for supply runs (or special events like ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL!) — so this patio has witnessed years of me passing through.

Years ago, the library was under construction and closed for a year — but never turned off their Wi-Fi. So I’d sit outside for hours uploading mini-course videos. One night I even hauled a lawn chair up to the door!

Mercury retrograde comes ~three times a year — a chance to look back and reframe the past. Uploading two videos in this exact spot today (a fresh Kali Satsang + new Kali Meditation) brought all those nights back. Was it frustrating? Absolutely. Did it make me a more grateful teacher now that satellite internet follows me everywhere? Also absolutely.

But the real lesson those nights taught me: life isn’t spent on the internet — it’s out there, being lived. All those hours uploading were never the point. They were just how I got free to go live my best life in the arctic 🥰

This is what the Dasha Mahavidyas teach. The ten wisdom goddesses don’t ask us to live clean, curated lives. They meet us in the mess... the frustration, the waiting, the lawn chair outside a construction site. Kali especially (the first of the ten) strips away everything false and asks us to stand in what’s real. To live through the divine feminine is to let life be raw, unpolished, fully felt — and resisting the urge to escape the mess, and instead, meeting her IN IT.

New Kali Satsang + Meditation go live 7/14, + link in profile to join the Shakti Kriya sadhana — three levels to meet you wherever you’re at on your journey!

Four years ago, I told my friend Teal Belz that I wanted to be more involved with ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL. 2022 was my seco...
07/06/2026

Four years ago, I told my friend Teal Belz that I wanted to be more involved with ALASKA YOGA FESTIVAL. 2022 was my second year teaching at the festival, and I’d come to cherish my experiences getting to know yogis from all over Alaska. Bringing people together makes me happy — and I knew I had some time and love to give.

That August, the AKYOGAFEST board was born :-) Teal, Emily Sloth and Brooke Broder.ick and I gathered at Arctic Hive | Brooks Range, Alaska and forged a bond that would carry us through the years. This crew has been through milestones together — pregnancy, juggling motherhood, engagements, surgeries, growing dog teams (🙋🏼‍♀️), moving, running businesses, self growth, you name it. Through it all, we continue to show up each year together — alongside an amazing crew of educators and volunteers from around Alaska, for a cause that’s become so much bigger than any one of us. 💛

This festival is small compared to others in the lower 48, but it’s mighty! It’s like gathering for the day with all your besties, many of which you meet on the mat throughout the day. It’s not a who’s who — the event is truly just about having fun and learning things from whoever is on the mic. Educators and yogis descend on Fairbanks from across the state (some have a 7-12 hour drive time!), all for a unified purpose of sharing these teachings we love so much. The best part? All proceeds of the event benefit an incredible nonprofit in the Fairbanks community, RCPC.

From Laughter yoga to sound baths, kids’ yoga to sensual movement and “The Yoga We Need” (😉) — there’s something for everyone.

So proud of this event. See you all Friday (for my workshop at Little Owl Café) and all day Saturday at Griffin Park!

(If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, go to www.akyogafest.com!)

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