Dayaalu Center

Integrated Healing Center, Yoga Studio, Private Event Space, Customized Workshops & Intentional Life Celebrations, Kitchen Rental, FAR Infrared Sauna

Welcome to the Dayaalu Center

We are a community of students, teachers and healers on Bainbridge Island that foster transformation through body, mind and spirit. Dayaalu, pronounced dye-AWE-lu, means compassionate in Sanskrit. The Dayaalu Center gives us an opportunity to pause for AWE, illuminating the beauty of life and inspiring gratitude. Our classes include yoga, qigong, dance, music, intuitive arts, meditation, nutrition and more! Our integrated healing center includes wellness education and advocacy, massage, reiki, sound healing, physical, occupational and speech therapy, shamanic healing, infrared sauna and ayurvedic care. We also offer tasty food that will nourish your body and soul. Our vision is to create and share experiences for all ages and abilities that will help us hear, see, smell, taste, touch and move in ways that cultivate AWE-filled moments, compassionate engagement with life and connections to self and others. Here we create, celebrate, heal, teach, learn and shine. Please join us!

02/23/2026

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” —Rumi

Regular Monday classes:
9am Hatha Flow with Meg Ames
10:30am Hatha Flow with Myste Noelle
11:45am Qigong for the Body/Mind/Spirit
with Susan James
1:15pm Gentle/Yin Yoga with Sue Steindorf
5:30pm Yoga Nidra & Pranayama
with Melissa Anne

02/20/2026

Return to Balance with Ayurveda with

Each season of the year requires us making specific adjustments to remain in harmony with Nature. Ayurveda shows us how to do this with ease and joy!

The ancient wisdom of Ayurveda offers practical, valuable tools to reestablish balance in our modern lives.

* Understanding and balancing your unique Ayurvedic constitution in the different seasons of the year.
* Your Daily Routine: Self-massage and other self-care practices.
* Ayurvedic Nutrition: Foods, spices, teas and treats for your doshas.
* Treasured breath techniques to dissolve stress and calm the mind.

Saturday, Feb. 28 • 10:30-1pm (In-Studio)

Cost: $55

More details: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000252
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Sarah Kruse is an Ayurvedic Doctor who is has been committed to serving women, the community and world with Ayurveda for 25 years. She has been fortunate to study with Dr. Vasant Lad and other Ayurvedic doctors in India. Sarah’s daily practice is to keep the joyful balance between her work, daughter and personal fulfillment. Sarah believes that when we heal ourselves, the whole of humanity thrives.

To learn more about Sarah please visit: www.embrace-ayurveda.com

02/14/2026

Human beings are vessels of perpetual change
limited by time and flesh
yet inhabiting life, accidental as it is
with fearless self possession, able to question
and able to believe in the wild necessity of being.
-Maria Popova

🎴Creative Tarot Play with Jenn Gallucci
Sunday, Feb. 15 • 10am-1pm (In-Studio)
Practice, learn, gather, imagine. Pause and give space to your inner world while being in community with other tarot enthusiasts. Practice and play with this amazing tool through spreads, activities, writing, and more. We'll practice reading tarot intuitively and creatively using multiple decks (oracle and tarot). All levels welcome- beginners to experienced tarot folks.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000303

🪬Dance Yourself Free: Community Ecstatic Dance
Once a month on Fridays: Feb. 20 • 7-8:30pm (In-Studio)
Playlist: 🪬Faith in the Mystery🪬
This is an invitation to explore, play, move and feel into your body, your rhythm, your groove. Bring your joy, or your sorrow. We gather once a month with a playlist of diverse music genres intentionally curated by community members. Be in your own space or connect with others. Let’s dance!
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000280

🩷 Temple of the Heart: Sacred Cacao Ceremony with Monica Leonor
Saturday, Feb. 21 • 1-3pm (In-Studio)
Join us in ceremony to explore your inner sanctuary through the heart-opening medicine of ceremonial cacao, illuminating the path that guides you back home to your radiant divinity. The revelatory experience of an open heart is an embodied connection with the divine that lives in all beings, felt through profound self love and a graceful receptivity to all that is.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000311

🧡 We hope to be with you soon.

02/10/2026

Discover a variety of DIY tools—including breath work, movement, stillness, sound, and visualizations—to help you cultivate a deep sense of inner calm. Enhance your personal wellness toolbox with practical, peace-filled exercises designed to foster centeredness and curiosity during challenging times. By quieting the mind and focusing on these restorative practices, you will gain the ability to return to a place of well-being whenever you desire.

Peace-Filled Practices: A 3-Part Series for Empowering Inner Calm with Susan James (In-Studio & Zoom)

Thursdays: February 12, 19 & 26
6:30-8:00pm

Cost: $75 for all three sessions

More details: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=161&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000079
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Susan James enjoys teaching, coaching, and empowering people with different modalities to enhance their wellness. She is a Holistic EFT practitioner, Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, LifeForce Energy practitioner, ThetaHealing Master, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and 500 RYT Yoga Instructor who practices here on Bainbridge Island.

To learn more about Susan and her services, please visit her at www.susanjames.me

02/09/2026

Our culture sees the world through a dualistic lens, so when we hear the word ‘pure’, it’s natural to immediately move into judgement about what’s impure. Even more problematic is how swiftly we shift this focus to things outside of ourselves.

Saucha prompts us to ask, “What am I holding onto that is creating suffering?” Through this practice, we are invited to become aware of our relationship to each moment—to know the difference between being pure with something and trying to make something pure. This approach to purity invites us to release our ideals and expectations, and even drop our image of purity in order to fully experience this gem.

🪷 Explore this yogic teaching with us this month as we dive deeper into this Niyama, which is part of yoga’s eight-limbed path. We have been using Deborah Adele’s book The Yamas and Niyamas, which you can buy from our studio store. It has been an amazing guidebook to study these timeless teachings!

02/04/2026

"Hope opens the door to possibility and allows us to envision change, particularly change that we desire. But hope alone will not affect change—that requires movement." Andrew Mellen

🪷 Feeding Your Demons®: A Monthly Group Practice with Ann Strickland
Thursday, Feb. 5 • 6:45-8pm
Feeding Your Demons® is an accessible approach for dealing with challenging emotions, obstacles, fears, self-defeating patterns or pain—anything that seems to be demanding your attention. This accessible and effective method has helped thousands of people transform negative emotions, anxiety, depression, anger and habitual behaviors.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000170

🐚 An Evening of Journeying with Will Whitesmith
Friday, Feb. 6 • 6:30-9:30pm
A Shaman is someone who has a foot in many worlds, the one we see and the other worlds that are ever present but invisible to our ordinary consciousness. Their role is to help shift our consciousness and guide us through these worlds, where we can meet ancestors, spirit helpers and nature guides. Experience universal connection, deep healing, and a reunion with your true self.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=117&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000064

🕸️ Morning Sadhana with Sue Steindorf and Ann Strickland
Saturday, Feb. 7 • 9-11:45am
Yoga means union or to connect. In this sadhana we will be weaving together the heart opening practice of chanting, embodiment of asana, peace of yoga nidra, cleansing of pranayama and the power of meditation. Individually, these practices are potent- and when practiced together, they deepen your experience and pave the way for the profound feeling of unity that is the essence of yoga.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000224

🧡 We hope to be with you soon!

02/04/2026

Feeding Your Demons® is an accessible approach for dealing with challenging emotions, obstacles, fears, self-defeating patterns or pain—anything that seems to be demanding your attention. This accessible and effective method has helped thousands of people transform negative emotions, anxiety, depression, anger and habitual behaviors.

Lama Tsultrim Allione (American author and teacher who has studied in Tibetan Buddhism’s Karma Kagyu lineage) developed Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) as a five-step process that guides the practitioner to identify and transform their shadow parts into protective allies through a sequence of illuminating questions and creative visualizations. FYD is an adaptation of the ancient Tibetan Chöd ritual practice developed by the Tibetan Buddhist nun Machig Labdrön (1055–1149). FYD deftly synthesizes Chöd, parts-work, somatic therapy, Gestalt therapy and Jungian depth psychology.

The work transcends spiritual constructs, serving as a meaningful tool for anybody, regardless of religious affiliation or personal philosophy.

Each class is its own: Attend one, some sessions or all.

Feeding Your Demons: A Monthly Group Practice with Ann Strickland (In-Studio & Zoom)
Thursdays, 6:45-8pm: Feb. 5, Mar. 5, April 2, May 7

Cost: $30 per session
$25 for students & seniors

Details/ https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000170
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Ann Strickland, LMHC, is a certified Feeding Your Demons® facilitator and practicing psychotherapist on Bainbridge Island. Ann has also been leading the sacred practice of chanting from temples in India to yoga studios on Bainbridge Island since 2013.

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01/28/2026

Aparigraha sthairye janma kathaṃtā sambodhah

“When non-attachment is established, a thorough illumination of the why and wherefore of one's birth comes.”

This practice of letting go opens the door to fully receive life with open-hearted curiosity. This way of being gives us a deeper understanding of the purpose of life and our place in it. We live our dharma, and like a fractal, we set those around us free to do the same. Aparigraha teaches us to embody love as a way of being—a quality of presence—that has no bounds.

🪞Excerpt from Sue’s recent newsletter. Read “Aparigraha: The Essence of Presence” here: https://conta.cc/3Ln6AS7

01/21/2026

Practice, learn, gather, imagine.

For the past three years, Creative Tarot Play has been a space for tarot enthusiasts to gather and play. This offering is an opportunity to pause and give space to your inner world, while at the same time being in community with other tarot enthusiasts.

Tarot is life. Tarot is change. Tarot helps me see the rich various-ness, the multiplicity, that is the tapestry of me and existence. Tarot is a way for me to meditate, contemplate, observe, pay attention, make connections, broaden my understanding and have more compassion for myself and the world of relationships and experience around me.

Creative Tarot Play invites you to discover more about this amazing tool through practice and play. In this 3 hour gathering, I offer many ways to engage with your decks through spreads, activities, writing, and more. We’ll practice reading tarot intuitively and creatively using multiple decks (oracle and tarot).

Creative Tarot Play with .gallucci
Sunday, January 25 • 10am-1pm

Cost: Sliding Scale $30-$50
Limited to 12 participants. Register in advance to save your spot!

What you’ll need: Tarot and oracle deck(s) Journal

For more details: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000303
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Jenn Gallucci is a creativity coach, tarot teacher, lunar wisdom guide and maker. She has 10+ years of practice and study in the area of creativity, tarot, intentional living, intuition, yoga and personal spirituality and growth. Her training includes: Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching, Mama Bliss Coaching, Martha Beck Coaching, 200 hr. Yoga Teacher Training, and The Moon is My Calendar Moon Guide Training. She is currently earning her graduate degree in Transpersonal Psychology. She lives on Bainbridge Island with her two teens and two tuxedo cats.

01/16/2026

Tap Into Optimal Wellness: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) & Muscle Testing with Susan James

Learn for the first time OR take a deeper dive into meridian-based tapping (if you already know about EFT tapping)!

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping is a self-applied sequential tapping process to acupressure points which can help reprogram the subconscious and dissolve stress and limiting beliefs, negative emotions, disturbing memories, pain, phobias, motion sickness, reduce anxiety/depression, procrastination, and physical ailments. It can also be used as a self enhancement practice to aid in relaxation, healing, positive thoughts and wellbeing. In this workshop you get to create your own personal style of tapping that cultivates clarity, energy, joy, and peace.

You will walk away from this workshop informed, inspired, and empowered with various hands on EFT techniques to bring yourself into balance and harmony. A portion of this workshop will cover muscle testing, also known as applied kinesiology, which is a non-invasive technique used to assess the body’s energy systems and identify imbalances that may be contributing to health issues. EFT is a transformative practice at your fingertips which you can then “pay forward” by teaching it to friends, loved ones, clients...anyone who is open to learning it!

Saturday, Jan. 17 • 2-5pm (In-Studio)
Cost: $75
Please register in advance

More details or to register: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000079 . .

Susan James enjoys teaching, coaching, and empowering people with different modalities to enhance their wellness. She is a Holistic EFT practitioner, Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, LifeForce Energy practitioner, ThetaHealing Master, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and 500 RYT Yoga Instructor who practices here on Bainbridge Island. To learn more about Susan and her services, please visit her at www.susanjames.me

01/08/2026

We are so delighted to announce that beloved teacher Ann Strickland is offering two series of classes…

🐒 Learn the Hanuman Chalisa: A 12-Week Satsang (In-Studio & Zoom)
The 40-verse hymn to Hanuman is a song which embodies the essence of devotion, love, strength, loyalty and open-heartedness. Learning the Chalisa is a lifelong practice—we will attempt to get the basics down in 12 weeks—with joy and devotion! We will learn 3-4 verses per week with LOTS of home practicing! The practice of chanting the Chalisa is a transformational journey into the heart, opening us to receive, give and experience the love that connects us all.
Sundays, 5-6pm beginning Jan. 11
(see link below for full class schedule)
Cost: $275 for full 12-week series
$225 for students & seniors
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=50&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000170

🪷 Feeding Your Demons: A Monthly Group Practice (In-Studio & Zoom)
Feeding Your Demons® is an accessible approach for dealing with challenging emotions, obstacles, fears, self-defeating patterns or pain—anything that seems to be demanding your attention. This accessible and effective method has helped thousands of people transform negative emotions, anxiety, depression, anger and habitual behaviors. The work transcends spiritual constructs, serving as a meaningful tool for anybody, regardless of religious affiliation or personal philosophy.
Thursdays, 6:45-8pm: Feb. 5, Mar. 5, April 2, May 7
Cost: $30
$25 for students & seniors
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000170

🧡 We hope you can join us soon!

Ann Strickland, LMHC, is a certified Feeding Your Demons® facilitator and practicing psychotherapist on Bainbridge Island. Ann has also been leading the sacred practice of chanting from temples in India to yoga studios on Bainbridge Island since 2013.

01/07/2026

How do we move through life loving deeply and engaging fully without getting attached? What if we could trust life like we trust the breath? What if we could take in all the nourishment of the moment and then let it go fully, trusting that more nourishment will come? -Deborah Adele on ‘aparighara’, from The Yamas & Niyamas

🐚 An Evening of Journeying with Will Whitesmith
Friday, Jan. 9 • 6:30-9:30pm
A Shaman is someone who has a foot in many worlds, the one we see and the other worlds that are ever present but invisible to our ordinary consciousness. Their role is to help shift our consciousness and guide us through these worlds, where we can meet ancestors, spirit helpers and nature guides. Experience universal connection, deep healing, and a reunion with your true self.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=117&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000064

🪞 Shamanic Soul Readings with Will Whitesmith
Saturday, Jan. 10 • One-on-One, by appointment only
In this 60-minute one-on-one reading, Will tunes into the field of your greater consciousness and invites your spiritual guides, teachers and mentors to come and share their wisdom and insights with you. Through stories and metaphoric images, they will reflect your true essence and reveal the innate gifts and abilities with which you are blessed.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=144&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000064

🌟 Evening Sadhana with Ann Strickland & Sue Steindorf
Saturday, Jan. 10 • 5-7:30pm
We’ll gather to open our hearts and deepen our connection to ourselves, each other and the world through wisdom traditions, chanting and meditation. Then we’ll share a potluck dinner to foster community and nourish our souls.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000322

🐒 Learn the Hanuman Chalisa: A 12-Week Satsang with Ann Strickland
Sundays, begins Jan. 11 • 5-6pm (In-person & Zoom)
(See link below for full class schedule)
The 40-verse hymn to Hanuman is a song which embodies the essence of devotion, love, strength, loyalty and open-heartedness. Learning the Chalisa is a lifelong practice—we will attempt to get the basics down in 12 weeks—with joy and devotion!
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=11167&stype=-101&sVT=50&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000170

🧡 We hope to be with you soon!

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159 Wyatt Way NE
Bainbridge Island, WA
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+12064369388

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http://dayaalucenter.com/

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