The teachers at Room to Move are attentive to the diverse abilities and needs of the individual students who attend our classes. Until recently, the tradition of teaching yoga was one on one—in contrast to the group classes that are common today—and much of what was transmitted was based on the relationship that developed between teacher and student. The yoga practice is a dynamic process that changes according to the condition, needs, and intention of the practitioner. It is our intention to provide a class setting that encourages inquiry through the practice of asana (seats/postures), pranayama (breath), mantra, (sacred sound), and dhyana (meditation). We invite you to go inward to discover and cultivate a deeper connection to yourself and to the world around you.

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Ilana Smith — Teacher & founder of Room to Move
Ilana began her study of yoga and "moving from the inside out" in the late ’60s while she was performing and teaching various forms of traditional and improvisational dance and movement arts. Since her arrival in Port Townsend in 1982, she has taught dance, therapeutic movement, Authentic Movement, and yoga. She also has maintained her private practice in Integrative Psycho-structural Bodywork. Ilana has offered classes and workshops locally; regionally in Seattle, and Oregon, and abroad in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and elsewhere. For the past several years, Ilana has been assisting Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten during their yoga workshops in the United States and in Greece.

Ilana's early formal yoga training was in the tradition of Ashtanga and Adaptive Yoga with master Indian teachers Pattabhi Jois, TKV Desikachar, and Baba Hari Das, and their American senior teachers. Later, she continued to study yoga with Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten. For the past 20 or more years of experience with Angela and Victor, Ilana's practice has continued to evolve with a sense of curiosity, personal discovery, improvisation and wonder.

Ilana values and enjoys both traditional and unconventional approaches to yoga, and blends these into her teaching. Her personal practice and teaching is imbued with the yoga principles of ahimsa (non-violence), and aparigraha, (non-hoarding, non-attachment). She has a deep understanding of experiential anatomy and movement and has trained in adaptive yoga therapy, and Thai Yoga Massage, both of which can aid in movement re-patterning and injury rehabilitation.

Her motivation for teaching arises from her passion to share and witness the transformational potential of the yoga practice. With a sense of humor and compassion, Ilana invites students to explore and savor yoga's moment-to-moment process... to explore the balance between stira (effort) and sukha (ease/joy)... and to experience and refine a connection to the internal strength and wisdom of the body.

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Tinker Cavallaro — Instructor
Tinker Cavallaro started practicing yoga at the age of 13, when her older sister returned from college and showed her some basic asanas. Tinker loved the practice and has continued it through the years. Twenty years ago, she attended her first yoga class in Port Townsend, with Colleen Swantner. Tinker feels that the strength, flexibility, focus and stamina she gleaned from the practice have supported her in living a physically active and demanding life as an organic farmer and gardener.

In 2003, Tinker completed the yoga teacher training with Baba Hari Das at Mt. Madonna Center in Watsonville, CA. Tinker feels fortunate to have participated in the training and considers it an honor to share what she has learned.

Regarding Tinker's class fees, please contact her directly, 360-379-2882,

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Connie Segal — Instructor
Connie Segal discovered yoga at an early age growing up in San Francisco. Since then, her life has been infused with yoga, dance, martial arts, acupressure, massage and bodywork, along with world travel and a passion for the arts. She began teaching yoga in 2004, and completed the teacher training course at the Living Yoga Program in Austin, Texas, the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Training, and Pilates Training of the Physical Mind Institute. She has further studied with Gary Kraftsow, Angela Farmer, Heather Duffy, Sarah Joy, and Klaus Lehrach, among others.

She continues to further her education in yoga and dance, bringing an eclectic, joyful and creative approach to her teaching style, emphasizing gentle respect for differently abled bodies, allowing for self inquiry and loving acceptance.

Connie is also an artist, vegetarian chef and Licensed Esthetician. Her focus is on healthy living through mind, body and spirit, and she incorporates this philosophy into her yoga practice and teaching. You can visit her at ConnieSegal.com.

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Lyn Glaviano — Guest Instructor
Lyn Glaviano has been practicing Hatha yoga for over 30 years. While practicing for many years with Julianne Rice at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, CA she applied her skills and enrolled in several teacher training courses with Erich Schiffmann, David Swenson, Tracey Rich and Ganga White. She has attended several Yoga Journal Workshops in Estes Park, CO where she was able to study under Ana Forrest, Baron Baptiste, Elise Miller, Judith Lasater, and Rodney Yee. In 2000, she completed her teacher training coursework at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA.

Lyn emphasizes a vinyasa, or flow series approach in her classes while incorporating Hatha asanas. Movement and breath are synchronized as students move into poses using Sun Salutation. She stresses a safe practice emotionally and physically and works with students to help them begin their personal exploration of yoga.

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Selah Martha, M.A. — Guest Instructor
In my early twenties I found Kundalini yoga (as taught by Yogi Bhajan) and fell in love with its rhythmic complexity and direct spiritual energy. I have practiced Hatha and Iyengar yogas, Tantra, and other embodiment modalities geared to uniting our earthly natures with the Divine. My Kundalini Yoga practice reclaimed my heart five years ago. With gratitude I am a Level I Instructor proceeding through the Level 2 training. I know this yoga will sustain me on every level for the rest of my life.

I am a psychotherapist and educator, a singer, a mother, and a gardener. I need lots of breath, flexibility and presence every day, and yoga creates a seed happiness for my whole life. I will sign off with a mantra common in Kundalini Yoga, which means Truth is my Identity. It is a salutation to your highest being: Sat Nam!

Regarding Selah's class fees, please contact her directly 360-379-0311, SelahMartha.com