An online community yoga studio.

Founder and creative heart behind The Refuge, Meg has spent more than 25 years teaching yoga, meditation, and the wisdom traditions that inform them. Her work has taken her around the world through classes, workshops, festivals, teacher trainings, retreats, and communities, where she has witnessed firsthand the profound healing that happens when people practice, learn, and gather together.

She created The Refuge from a deep belief in the power of community and connection, rooted in one simple question: how do we each embody these teachings to live authentic, connected, vital and meaningful lives?

For more than two decades, Crystal has walked the path of yoga, as a student, teacher, and lifelong seeker. Her journey began as an act of personal healing and has blossomed into a devotion to share yoga’s transformative power with others. Through classes, workshops, yoga teacher trainings, and yoga retreats around the world, she invites students to rediscover their innate wholeness and to live from a place of deep connection.

Crystal completed her 200-hour teacher training with Wanderlust Studios in Austin, Texas, and Olympic Valley, California. She is an E-RYT 500 and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). She was the guiding heart of True North Yoga Studio in Paducah, Kentucky for ten years.

Her teachings weave together mindfulness, embodiment, and soulful inquiry. Crystal holds sacred space for students to soften, awaken, and listen for the quiet wisdom that lives within. She believes that yoga is a practice of remembrance, guiding us home to gratitude, compassion, and the truth of who we are.

As a mother, grandmother, and community nurturer, Crystal carries the essence of yoga into every aspect of her life, honoring it as both a practice on the mat and a way of being in the world.

Jeymi loves sharing the practices of Yoga Nidra and meditation, and loves to discuss non-dual yoga philosophy with anyone who wants to join. She also guides gentle, accessible asana practices that support the mind, mood, nervous system, and subtle body.

Her own journey with yoga began in 2008, while healing from lower back pain. It became a path of deep transformation, study, practice, and service that continues to unfold.

Jeymi is deeply grateful to all of her teachers (Uma Sergeant, Gaby Zermeño, Rod Stryker and Meg McCraken) and honored for the opportunity to share these practices and teachings, so others can explore, experience, and discover them for themselves.

She is deeply sensitive to life and beauty, whether it is nature, art, poetry, or the simple wonder of watching life continually emerge in her garden terrace. Above everything else, she loves movies. All movies.

Jen’s skill and passion weaves an invitation through 20+ years of yogic and somatic practices, psychological study and the performance arts, to honor the power within and celebrate your unique connection with life.

For the past 10 years, Jen has been steeped in the Sri Vidya tradition, where she is supported by her teacher Meg McCraken and that lineage.

Jen is currently practicing as a somatically oriented associate psychotherapist. She loves all things expressive movement, writing, nature, and the power and beauty of the human spirit. She is inspired and excited to offer the space and tools to ground, digest, embrace and enliven all the layers of our human experience, so we may live more connected and free.

500 hour RYT, R-DMT, APCC, MA in clinical counseling and Dance Movement Therapy.

Crystal grew up in a small town in Montana. She played tennis and basketball throughout childhood and college. She grew up in a spiritual household, and yoga was a way to merge her physical background with her spirituality.

Crystal aims to engage daily with the wisdom of Ecclesiastes, loosely quoting: eat good food, drink good wine, enjoy good company, and love God.

Trei is a Virginia native now located in Los Angeles, and creator of The Seal of Peace. His philosophical approach to life is simply to be mindful of how he leaves people and places. He loves to create spaces in which wisdom, laughter and freedom of expression flow naturally.

His offerings center around meditation, breathwork and dharma. No matter how faint, the pulse of the teachings is alive in each and every living thing in nature, and he loves to help others remember that pulse. Trei sees the practices as little workouts that increase our capacity for presence in the throes of everyday life.

His journey has supported him in being more present when creating and recording music. His guiding intent is to help others create the space within themselves that enhances their capacity to create, all from a place of wholeness.

A few of his favorite things include acoustic strings, classic R&B, capturing the perfect melody, hearing the perfect harmony, deep belly laughs with friends, landing a ball on the green, sports, and his home state of Virginia. Trei believes the teachings are ever present, here before he was born and remaining long after he is gone. He has a 300 hour yoga certification.

Lauri is devoted to offering a sustainable and accessible approach to wellbeing through yoga, meditation, and bodywork. Life-affirming philosophy and mindful living guide her daily life and her teaching.

She has been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation since 1999, and focused her studies initially in Iyengar yoga and then therapeutic yoga, yin yoga and mindfulness meditation. She deeply honors her past and present teachers for their wisdom and guidance: Meg McCraken, Uma Sergeant, Josh Summers, Eric Rubin, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.

As an outdoor enthusiast, in her off-time you will find her trail running, hiking the mountains, exploring the wilderness, and fawning over every dog she sees. Lauri has lived most of her years in the mountains, and nature has always been and continues to be her greatest joy, teacher, healer, and refuge.

Dr. Mike Lane’s passion is guiding people into their bodies, so they feel empowered to take care of themselves intelligently and effectively. He is a chiropractor, orthopedic massage therapist and anatomy teacher.

He also teaches Foundation Training, a performance and postural program designed to optimize health through movement and awareness. Dr. Mike is the founder of AnatomySense, a dynamic approach to teaching anatomy in yoga teacher trainings that inspires the avid student’s quest to understand themselves and their students.

Clare has been leading yoga classes for the past twenty plus years. The gift of teaching yoga has taught her that learning, growing and evolving informs not only her teaching style, but also this precious life.

Clare enjoys the creativity of sequencing, incorporating her Hatha style yoga classes with somatic movement, alignment based asana, flow, pranayama and meditation. She also offers Yin and Restorative poses as well as Yoga Nidra. She loves to bring these elements together with the goal that students end their practice feeling enlivened, peaceful and uplifted.

Off the mat Clare enjoys gardening, hiking, swimming, traveling and spending time with family and friends. Being in nature is paramount to her wellbeing, and she is a strong advocate for protecting and conserving our precious resources. She is an E-RYT 500 registered yoga teacher and a YACEP through Yoga Alliance.