Traverse Journeys

Michelle is a writer, editor, translator, yoga teacher, and retreat leader. A native Texan, Michelle is a lifelong student of Hatha and Dharma yoga. She has been teaching yoga since 2002. For the past decade, Michelle has lived and breathed deeply with her husband, daughter, and fur family on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Her yoga style is slow flow, and she incorporates Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga, chakra energies, pranayama (breathing practices), dharma (Buddhist teachings), mindfulness, and laughter into the classes she leads.

Allie Reilly began her study of yoga a decade ago while living and traveling through Central America. Years of learning the arts of Ayurvedic tradition and daily practice of Hatha and Ashtanga at a center in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica grounded Allie’s passion in holistic transformation and the healing properties of a consistent yoga practice. Since 2015, she has worked and taught yoga internationally gaining her YYT 200-hour and heavily integrates breathwork practices in her teaching series to complement physical movement with the fundamentals of mediation and mind-body connection.

Lexi brings over 15 years of experience to her yoga practice, offering classes rooted in joy, connection, and mindful breath. She discovered yoga as a way to manage stress during graduate school and has since developed a teaching style that is inclusive, empowering, and accessible to all bodies and experience levels. Raised in Oregon and now based in the Columbia River Gorge, Lexi draws deep inspiration from the natural world, weaving elements of presence and exploration into her teaching at Wild Bloom Yoga. Her background includes a 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification from Jaya Yoga School,