A Functional Approach to Movement

Reconnect with Your Body’s Wisdom

At Lakeside Yin, we embrace a functional approach to yoga and mindful movement, prioritizing how poses feel in your body over how they look. This perspective encourages deeper trust in yourself by moving beyond prescriptive ideas of yoga and embracing practices that honor the uniqueness of every body.

By focusing on function, our sessions create space to release cultural pressures around striving and perfectionism. Instead, we cultivate self-acceptance and self-knowledge—essential ingredients for fostering health, joy, and ease. Yoga becomes a practice that resonates far beyond the mat, offering tools for resilience, balance, and well-being in daily life.

With options to include yoga, somatic movement, and energy-based practices, our offerings meet you where you are, helping you align with your values, restore balance, and find clarity.

Yin & Yang

Finding Balance Through Practice

Guided by the wisdom of Eastern traditions, Lakeside Yin embraces the dynamic interplay of yin and yang. Yin yoga emphasizes stillness, introspection, and release, while yang practices bring movement, strength, and energy.

"Yin is the stable, unmoving, hidden aspect of an object. Yang is the changing, moving, revealing aspect of an object. Our yoga practice should be alive and adaptable to our needs as we go through the seasons of our lives."

—Paul Grilley

By blending grounding stillness with energizing motion, Kathryn’s approach honors the rhythms of life, creating practices that adapt to your evolving needs.

Our Approach

A Range of Modalities to Support You

At Lakeside Yin, we integrate a blend of ancient wisdom and modern science to create practices that resonate with your unique needs. Each modality is designed to enhance mobility, build resilience, harmonize energy, and nurture overall well-being.

Yin Yoga

A calming, floor-based practice to relax deeply, improve flexibility, and restore balance.

Restorative Yoga

Gentle, supported postures that ease tension, reduce stress, and invite profound rest.

Dynamic Yang Yoga Flows

Energizing sequences to build strength, enhance mobility, and harmonize yin and yang energies.

Somatic Embodiment

Including Focalizing, this client-led, body-centered approach encourages emotional clarity and self-compassion.

Mindfulness Practices

Meditation and breathwork to cultivate awareness and foster a deeper mind-body connection.

Mindful Movement

A holistic approach incorporating somatic exercise, Qigong/Taichi, and walking meditation to support fluidity, grounding, and presence.

Self-Myofascial Release (SMFR)

Techniques using massage balls to relieve tension, improve mobility, and enhance physical well-being.

Eastern Energetic Practices

Rooted in Chinese Medicine, Taoist traditions, and Usui Reiki Ryoho, these practices emphasize energy flow, balance, and harmony.