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 — Instructor & 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, and has maintained a private practice in psycho-structural bodywork. Ilana has offered classes and workshops locally; regionally in Seattle and at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon; and abroad in several locations in Mexico.

Her early formal yoga training was in the tradition of ashtanga and vinyoga with master Indian teachers Pattabhi Jois, TKV Desikachar, and Baba Hari Das, and their American senior teachers. Later, she continued her training with Ana Forrest, Angela Farmer and Victor Von Kooten. For Ilana, these more recent teachers imbued her practice with a sense of personal discovery and improvisation.

Ilana values and enjoys both traditional and unconventional approaches to yoga, and blends these into her teaching. She has a deep understanding of experiential anatomy and movement and has trained in adaptive yoga therapy, 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, exploring the balance between stira (effort) and sukha (ease/joy), and to experience and refine the connection to the inner strength and wisdom deep within 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.

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Connie Segal — Instructor
Connie Segal was introduced to yoga early in her life while growing up in San Francisco in the ’60s. She has been involved in yoga, bodywork, dance, and martial arts ever since. Connie began teaching yoga in 2004, and in 2005 she completed the teacher training course at the Living Yoga Center in Austin, Texas.

She brings an eclectic, joyful and creative approach to her teaching. Connie is also an artist, vegetarian chef and licensed esthetician.

Visit her website at www.conniesegal.com.

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Jen Bates — Instructor
I have deep respect for the body; it is a profound vehicle for enlightenment. My personal practice and teaching style are founded in ahimsa and tapas for I believe that compassion and discipline are the paths through our muscles and bones to inner spaciousness and freedom; something we all long to feel.

Hatha yoga is fitness for realization! My classes are challenging; are accompanied by inspiring music and develop awareness, flexibility and strength through meditation, devotional chanting, breath work, innovative sun salutations, and slow, sustained stretches.

I completed my yoga teacher training at Samadhi Yoga in 2009. I'm also a ticketed journeyman sailmaker and hold a Masters degree in sculpture. Thank you to the following teachers for the development of my yoga practice as it is today: Ilana Smith, Sogyal Rinpoche, Kathleen Hunt, Selah Martha, and Angela Farmer. Without their guidance I would be unaware of the potential that the body holds.

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Lyn Glaviano — Visiting 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.