Teachers

Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and practitioner of Hatha and Tibetan yogas. She has taught, practiced, & studied avidly since 1998, and ran her longtime beloved yoga studio, The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon, from 2006-2025.  You can now practice with her online or at in-person retreats, yoga immersions, and teacher trainings.  

She is known as a teacher's teacher and is respected for her 200 & 300 hr Yoga Alliance Certification schools and her ability to integrate modern therapeutics and cutting edge science with lineage based traditional yoga practices.  

She is the co-author of "The Yoga of Niguma" with H.E. Kalu Rinpoche and shares Niguma's yoga practices and the dharma around the world.  

Her love and commitment to the unexcelled yoga tantras of Varayana and the sister science of Hatha Yoga as paths we can take towards perfect enlightenment, seeing both as powerful interconnected traditions, infuses her work with great joy & commitment towards sharing yoga and spirituality to create a more compassionate and awakened world.  

She honors the lineage of teachers she comes from and bows to her longtime Hatha & Classical Yoga teacher Richard Freeman for elucidating the middle path of love with the utmost clarity and compassion and His Holiness the Dalai Lama for sharing the "religion" of kindness.  

Her Clearlight Yoga school continues to educate teachers around the world on the enlightened sleep yoga practices such as Yoga Nidra and Dream Yoga and the 6 yogas of Niguma and Naropa.  

Katherine has dedicated over 15 years to the practices of yoga and meditation. She earned her initial 200-hour yoga teacher certification with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee in 2018–2019, where she studied safe sequencing, alignment, pranayama, and how to truly see and understand bodies.

She completed the Vajra Yoga 300-hour Intensive Studies with Michele Loew and Robert Thurman in 2022–2023, as well as an additional 300 hours of advanced training in Meridian Yoga and Five-Element Theory.

In her classes, Katherine invites students to cultivate both strength and ease through alignment, breathwork, self-inquiry, and equanimity of mind. She designs practices that attune to the unique energetic qualities of each season. Rooted in the exploration of nonduality and interconnection, she approaches teaching as a living process—sometimes manifesting as a guide, always as a student.

Lyra is a devoted yogini and orthodox contemplative. 

Her work as both practitioner and teacher focuses on revealing the shared essence of Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, and presenting their teachings as timeless truths that transcend culture and era.

Her yoga classes interweave both classical & modern sequencing with meditative techniques that invite fellow practitioners to craft lives of meaning, service, and presence.

Lyra is a graduate of the inaugural Tibet House US’ Vajra Yoga 300 hour teaching training program, led by Michele Loew & Dr. Robert Thurman from 2020-2021. She has continued participation in subsequent Vajra Yoga programming since its inception, as well as completed Michele’s Clearlight Yoga Nidra teacher training. Lyra holds E-RYT 500 & YACEP designations with Yoga Alliance, and has been actively leading classes for over a decade.

In addition to teaching yoga classes, Lyra currently serves as Assistant Director of Evercenter's School of Contemporary Buddhist Studies - an organization that provides community programming rooted in concepts and practices outlined in traditional texts, and made accessible to a contemporary mindset.