About Flowing Tree Yoga
You are safe here.
Flowing Tree Yoga exists to empower those seeking hope and help from chronic pain and trauma through the practice of yoga.
About Anna
Every day I am honored that people trust me within this deeply vulnerable and sacred space of pain and trauma.
As a teacher, mentor, and yoga therapist, my primary desire is to serve my students and clients. I have been blessed by the many servant-teachers who have guided me on my own healing journey and desire for my students to feel the same sense of ease and integrity I have felt with my own mentors.
This space is for you and about you.
My own yoga practice began in 1998, when I was a young mother suffering from a serious back injury and an inability to lead the productive, healthy life I longed for. I was facing surgery with lifelong implications to my mobility. While at the library with my daughter one day, I found a VHS tape with two yoga practices, only one of which I could complete, and I began to practice daily. After six weeks, my surgeon was astonished by what this simple habit had done for my recovery and dismissed me as a surgical candidate. This began my lifelong study and practice of yoga and it’s many benefits, which eventually gave way to Flowing Tree Yoga.
There is hope! I’m living, breathing proof. Yoga can help.
When not practicing yoga, I stay busy with my family and three children, along with our two dogs. I am a classically trained pianist (sometimes I even compose and play for our meditations) and love creating music, writing poetry, and am very active in my faith community.
If we cross paths, and I hope we do, it is my intention that you will find safety and connectivity as together we discover a renewed sense of your innate wholeness.
About Flowing Tree
I did my very first registered yoga teacher training in beautiful Costa Rica, where I walked along the beach each morning at dawn to our daily practice, through a picturesque jungle of trees. Each day as I walked one particularly marvelous, old tree continued to draw me in. I wondered what all it had seen and weathered in its years. Who had sought shelter beneath it before me and who would after me? What stories had it overheard? What history had it withstood?
I began to call this tree the flowing tree, as I became enamored by its long, dancing branches, and imagined it’s deep, nourishing roots. The Flowing Tree inspired me in how firmly grounded and planted it was in the earth’s soil, yet able to flex, ebb, and flow with nature’s unpredictable elements. I turned that image into a mantra for my own practice and a desire for the students of what is now Flowing Tree Yoga.
Today, the Flowing Tree Yoga studio space exists in Spokane, Washington but I have taught in various states and countries, and still love to travel with my practice whenever I can. I also offer online services to those who are unable to come to the studio.
If you are interested in booking me for a travel session or retreat, please contact me.
About the Studio
Flowing Tree Yoga studio was intentionally designed to be a place for safety and well-being.
A welcoming space with sunlight pouring in at various angles, I have a private office where I can meet individually with private yoga therapy clients and an intimate studio space for group classes of no more than ten students. Security and simplicity cover the space with it’s gentle color palette, frosted windows, and intentional layout. Classes and group sessions are carefully arranged with the intended safety and groundedness of each individual participant in mind.
Meet the Teachers
Meggan Roberts
Meggan Roberts (RYT-200) is known for her calm, steady and fun-loving personality. She believes that yoga is a practice available to students of all levels, and that it can bring balance, peace and wholeness to one's body, mind and heart. Creativity is her passion, from weaving poses together in fun and playful ways to weaving yarn together into scarves and hats and all other things to keep one warm and comfortable. She loves spending her free time cozied up with an epic fantasy novel and her adorable cat Jasper. She finds great joy and depth in her yoga practice that she is honored to be able to share with others.
Amanda Russell
Amanda Russell MS, LMHC, RYT-200 was initially drawn to asana, the physical practice of yoga, over 6 years ago. As this practice grew, she came to understand the innate wholeness in herself and others, prompting her to explore all limbs of yoga philosophy. In addition to personal growth, yoga has impacted her career as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in helping children and families who have experienced traumatic events. The benefits of body-based interventions to address mental health permeates Amanda's goal as a yoga teacher, to create classes that are open and accessible to all ages, body types and backgrounds. She teaches with a trauma-informed approach, which means creating a safe, welcoming space in which students can learn ways to manage feelings and physical sensations through connections with the breath and increased body awareness. Amanda loves incorporating creativity both on and off the mat, through sewing, gardening, caring for her six chickens and two Golden Retrievers, or anything else she can get her hands on.
“When I walk in, it feels like an exhale.”
Flowing Tree Yoga Client