After practicing for more than eight years, and teaching for nearly three, Carlye now realizes the greatest gift yoga can bring is the courage and grace to stop doing, and just start being.

Carlye has been a lifelong athlete and outdoor enthusiast; a triathlete, bike racer, skier, sailor, mountain bike rider and ocean lover. When yoga found her she was convinced it would be a way to help her to gain flexibility in her overused muscles, allowing for quicker recovery times, better work-outs and race times. A few years into a steady yoga practice, it became beautifully apparent that yoga was not going to be just another work-out, but rather a “work-in”. Carlye trained for three years with Matt Huish and Jody Kurillo in the intensive Yoga Shala of Portland teacher training program and then apprenticed with the lovely, gracious and amazing Lisa Mae Osborn, co-director of the Bhakti Shop in Portland. Carlye bows down every day in gratitude and love to her teachers for guiding her on her path.

When she is not outside having an adventure somewhere, or chasing around her 11-year-old son or 8-year-old daughter, she also serves as an assistant and substitute Physical Eduction instructor at Portland Waldorf School where she finds constant inspiration helping children move, play, learn and “be”.

Yoga has made Carlye a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, student, teacher, athlete and all around person. She is fully convinced yoga helps to give people the strength to by okay with themselves and the world as it throws stuff at them; to be okay with the darkness, knowing beyond it is light.