Tabitha Rose
Tabitha's yoga practice has guided her for nearly 20 years, and she has been teaching for the past 16. She has had the pleasure of supporting students of all ages, experience levels, and body types in finding greater space, ease, and peace within themselves. By combining her knowledge of yoga with an understanding of human anatomy, physiology, and psychology, she creates classes that are both inspiring and empowering.
Held Space was created as an invitation to return to your roots, nourish your soul, and cultivate peace of mind. Through mindful movement and intentional practice, it offers a place to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with the present moment.
Elie Barausky
Ula BotanicBorn out of a love for herbs and the gentle nourishment they offer, Ula is an artisan apothecary who creates skin and body care essentials for daily self ritual. Ula is a meditation on plant alchemy, based on traditional herbal wisdom and inspired by ancient healing practices.
The Ula Botanic studio cocoon is within the walls of Held Space. A tranquil treatment room for all of your restorative skincare needs.
Kelly Francis
Kelly Francis is a yoga teacher, creative guide, and lifelong student of the symbolic. Her practice is informed by decades of study and exploration across movement, meditation, and the inner landscape, including Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, meditation, and Jungian psychology. Together, these threads shape her intuitive approach to teaching and practice.
Ritual Yoga is a gentle, all-levels class that invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and cultivate a relationship with yourself through movement, breath, and stillness. No two classes are the same. Each session responds to the season, the energy in the room, and what is asking to be tended to. Come just as you are.
Melanie Trygg
Vinyasa Flow
Melanie is devoted to the practice of yoga as a path of both physical vitality and inner transformation. Her teaching and training blends strength and fluidity with intentions rooted in the Yamas and Niyamas—the ethical teachings that guide the eight limbs of yoga. Through a Vinyasa-based practice. She invites students to move with presence, curiosity, and care, cultivating greater awareness on the mat and in everyday life.
Melanie’s classes welcome all experience levels and offer space to explore the connection between body, breath and spirit.
Djuna Devereaux
Drawing from decades of asana study, Buddhist Dharma, biomechanics, subtle body practices, somatic movement, and Somatic Experiencing, Djuna offers a holistic approach to embodied healing and well-being. She sequences her classes with intention, thoughtfully preparing the body for each asana while encouraging students to discover what feels appropriate and supportive for their own practice.
Her teaching is rooted in Dharma and meditation, honoring the ethical and spiritual dimensions of yoga while creating space for presence, self-inquiry, and deeper connection.
Laura Kussman
Pilates for the PeopleLaura is a senior Pilates instructor with comprehensive certifications from Body Arts and Science International (Orange County, CA) and Power Pilates (New York City). A passionate mover, dancer, and educator, Laura brings more than a decade of blended intuitive and evidence-based practice to Held Space. Her teaching is grounded in the belief that healing is possible, innate, and relational.
Pilates for the People is a mat-based class that blends classical and contemporary Pilates with supportive props and fascial hydration techniques. Designed to be welcoming and accessible, the practice supports a wide range of ages, body types, and physical abilities.
Claira Young
Hot YogaClaira has been teaching and practicing yoga for more than a decade with an evolving understanding of what it means to have a supportive movement practice. They pull from the deep teachings within the T. Krishmanacharya’s lineage blended with the modern understandings of trauma informed movement and the fascial system.
Hot Yoga is about challenging your strength, building your stress tolerance, and settling the mind. We heat the room and build heat within our body through the breath and long-held postures mixed with flowing sequences. All ability levels are welcome and a current movement practice is recommended to participate in this class.
Rooted Archipelago
Mackenzie Sims' relationship with tea began in childhood through a love of English tea traditions, but in 2022 the practice deepened into a path of presence, ritual, and connection. Rooted in traditional methods of brewing and a reverence for the tea plant (Camellia sinensis), tea became a way to return to herself and to the natural world during a season of profound loss. What began as a personal practice has since grown into an offering that brings people together through quiet, intentional ceremony.
Her Tea Ceremony is inspired by Cha Dao—the Way of Tea— is rooted in nature, presence, and shared experience. Through bowls of tea enjoyed in silence, participants are invited into a gentle moving meditation that fosters connection with themselves, one another, and the living world.
Andréia Henigson
Andréia, Attune.You, offers sound healing through a thoughtful blend of science and intuition. Using high-purity crystal alchemy bowls infused with minerals, metals, and gemstones, she creates immersive sound experiences that support nervous system regulation, deep rest, and emotional well-being.
Each session is guided by intention and informed by an understanding of sound, resonance, and the body's natural capacity to heal. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing unfolds when we feel safe enough to soften, listen, and reconnect with ourselves.
Maria Poblet
Rooted in the traditions of Geeta Iyengar and Donald Moyer, María earned a 500-hour YRT certification at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California.
Alignment yoga explores the balance between strength and flexibility, building anatomy-based, accessible sequences. Join Alignment Yoga explores the balance between strength and flexibility that supports resilience in motion.
Saeja Daye
Saeja has been practicing yoga for over 14 years, with roots in Bikram, Vinyasa, and Hatha traditions. Raised by functional movement instructors and traditionally trained as a yoga teacher in India, her approach weaves movement with breath, strength and spirituality. Saeja weaves philosophy, story, and playfulness throughout; bringing a sense of lightness to the practice even when the work becomes challenging.
Saeja offers an all-levels Vinyasa practice blending the fluidity of Vinyasa with the sustained postures of Hatha. Moving with the breath, the practice builds strength while creating space to settle the nervous system and return to a deeper sense of connection within.
Ivona Edry
Vinyasa
Ivona has trained in Vinyasa, Yin, Chair, Narrative, and Prenatal Yoga, with studies spanning Maui, Ibiza, and Santa Monica. Her lifelong relationship with movement began through ballet and gymnastics and has continued to evolve through yoga, music, and dance. As a DJ and ecstatic dance facilitator, music is an integral part of the way Ivona creates and holds space.
Her all-levels Vinyasa classes pair thoughtful, creative sequencing with an inspiring and playful soundtrack, allowing breath and rhythm to guide the practice. Vinyasa is an invitation to move with what is present and discover where the practice takes you.