Expand Yoga

08/20/2025

Gong Bath w/ Wayne Marto
Sunday 9/7: Tacoma Studio l 2-3:30pm
Sunday 9/14: Federal Way Studio l 1-2:30pm

Join us for a transformative 90-minute experience of deep rest, healing, and vibrational alignment.

💫 Allow the pure, penetrating sound waves of the gong wash over you, cleansing your subconscious, calming your nervous system, and connecting you to your intuitive power.

✨You can expect:
• Wayne will introduce the healing power of the gongs
• 62-minute Gong Bath
• A Dove chocolate “no nuts” & optional community connection + time with gongs

🌟 Benefits include:
– Deep relaxation & stress relief
– Energetic and emotional release
– Enhanced creativity, confidence & clarity
– Support for meditation, healing & self-discovery

Please bring things to help you feel comfortable lying on the floor. Past participants have brought camping pads, extra yoga mats, blankets, pillows, eye masks, even camping chairs. You are welcome to use our blankets, bolsters and props, but we sometimes run low.

🧘‍♀️ Space is limited

💸$40 in advance | $40day of

08/17/2025

There are just a few spots left in the next 200hr RYTT beginning next month!

Expand Yoga’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is designed to take your personal practice to the next level and provide you with knowledge and skills to lead an intelligent and informed class. Our training provides you with the foundation to better understand the tradition of yoga, the bio-mechanics of the body, and ultimately to gain a better understanding of yourself. From anatomy training to in-depth movement education, you will gain a deeper appreciation of your practice, your body and learn how to communicate this with others.

LEARN from the beast & TEACH a live class!

Dates:
🌟September: 19th,20th,21st | 26th,27th,28th
🌟October: 3rd,4th,5th | 10th,11th,12th | 24th,25th,26th
🌟November: 7th,8th,9th | 14th,15th,16th
🌟December: 5th,6th,7th | 12tg,13th,14th

For information regarding tuition pricing, visit our website!

07/04/2025

🎇4th of July Modified Schedule!🎆

There are two chances to get in some awesome yoga tomorrow before 4th of July festivities start!

💙 8:30am Hot Vinyasa w/
🤍10am Original Hot (60min) w/

*all other classes canceled for the day. Regular weekend schedule!

Enjoy your holiday and we look forward to see you in the studio soon!

06/30/2025

Gong Bath w/ Wayne Marto
Sunday 7/13: Tacoma Studio l 2-3:30pm
Sunday 7/20: Federal Way Studio l 1-2:30pm

Join us for a transformative 90-minute experience of deep rest, healing, and vibrational alignment.

💫 Allow the pure, penetrating sound waves of the gong wash over you, cleansing your subconscious, calming your nervous system, and connecting you to your intuitive power.

✨You can expect:
• Wayne will introduce the healing power of the gongs
• 62-minute Gong Bath
• A Dove chocolate “no nuts” & optional community connection + time with gongs

🌟 Benefits include:
– Deep relaxation & stress relief
– Energetic and emotional release
– Enhanced creativity, confidence & clarity
– Support for meditation, healing & self-discovery

Please bring things to help you feel comfortable lying on the floor. Past participants have brought camping pads, extra yoga mats, blankets, pillows, eye masks, even camping chairs. You are welcome to use our blankets, bolsters and props, but we sometimes run low.

🧘‍♀️ Space is limited & there is a $5 discount if you reserve your spot before Sunday. We hope to see you there!

💸$40 in advance | $45 day of

06/04/2025

☀️Summer Solstice Event with Ashley Anderson
✨Yin & Yang - 90 min blend of yin & vinyasa yoga asana
✨Friday June 20th - 5:30-7pm

A 90 min practice joining yang & yin asana in celebration of the peak of summer. The summer solstice is the sun’s longest expression of light, illuminating the full bloom of our hearts joy and vitality. To move in alignment of nature’s rhythms, this is the time to celebrate our fullest expression of joy, gratitude and abundance within. The summer solstice is yang energy. Our practice will embody this with strength building and heart openers. To balance the yang we will transition into yin yoga for the second half of class. This dynamic practice will celebrate the heart of summer while cooling the waters within, helping to ground the body, quiet the mind and cultivate gratitude.

05/29/2025

New Schedule at Expand Yoga ✨Federal Way Only✨Starts June 2nd!

Same great classes, same fabulous teachers, now at more convenient times.

📅 Monday – Friday:

7am: Hot Yoga Sculpt
9am: Hot Pilates (Mon, Wed, Fri) / Original Hot (Tue, Thu)
12pm: Hot Vinyasa (Mon, Wed, Fri) / Hot Yoga Sculpt (Tue, Thu)
4:30pm: Original Hot
6pm: Hot Yoga Sculpt
7:15pm: Yin

📅 Saturday:

8:30am: Hot Yoga Sculpt
10am: Original Hot

📅 Sunday:

8:30am: Original Hot
10am: Hot Vinyasa
5pm: Yoga / Barre
6:30pm: Yin (90 min)

🧘‍♀️✨ Stay connected with your practice—download the Expand Yoga app or visit our website to check schedules, see who’s teaching, and track your classes!

We can’t wait to see you on the mat! 💕

05/26/2025

📸Flash back to our first studio on Pacific Ave circa 2015!

Memorial Day Schedule🇺🇸

📍Tacoma:
✨10am: Original Hot
✨4pm: Original Hot
✨5:30pm: Hot Vinyasa

📍Federal Way
✨10am: Hot Pilates
✨12pm: Hot Vinyasa
✨4:30pm: Original Hot

all other classes are canceled for the day! We wish you all a safe and happy Memorial Day!

05/16/2025

✨ This Weekend at Expand Yoga ✨

Ready to clear what’s heavy, connect with your breath, and light your own fire? We’ve got three offerings this weekend across both studios — designed to transform, energize, and ground you. 🌬🔥🔔

🌬️Somatic Breathwork + Gong Bath
💫TONIGHT 💫
Friday May 16 | 7–9pm | Tacoma

Let go of what no longer serves you and create space for love, clarity, and expression.
Begin with guided breathwork by Elle Pavlenko to release stored tension, then drop into a powerful 8-planet Gong Meditation with Wayne Marto for deep integration and restoration.

🎟 $45 advance / $50 day of
📍3909 6th Ave, Tacoma
✨ Bring a mat, blanket, small pillow and anything you need to feel cozy on the floor. Elle will supply eye masks, or feel free to bring your own.

🔥Yin Yoga Workshop: Fire Element
Sunday, May 18 | 2:30–4:30pm | Tacoma

Week 3 of Tomio’s 4-part elemental Yin Yoga series. This week, we focus on the Fire Element—awakening vitality, passion, and transformation through long-held postures and energetic awareness.

🎟 $50 advance / $55 at the door
📍3909 6th Ave, Tacoma

✨ Please purchase tickets under each attendee’s name. Need help? Call or text us @ (253) 886-7820 and we can help!✨

04/22/2025

Introduction to Original Hot with

📆Saturday, 4/26: 1-3pm
📍Tacoma Studio

The Workshop will open up with a demonstration of Tara’s 2025 international comp routine followed by question answer. For the following 90 min she will introduce the 26&2 practice & what comes next. This part will be interactive both practice and dialogue. Let’s pick out your favorite 6 postures that demonstrate different ways we posture ourselves in the practice & break it down! This workshop will meet a beginners needs & at the same time inspire those of you interested in more! I’d love to share a piece of my practice with you and help you feel inspired with your personal practice or simply show you how to get started. Come one come all!

04/18/2025

Join instructor, Di Inman this weekend for Yin Yoga!

🗓️Saturday, April 19th l 1-2:30pm
📍Tacoma Studio
💲30 in advance or $35 day of
🎟️Sign up @ expandyoga.com

Yin yoga is a calmer, more meditative type of yoga that uses long-held, passive

stretching poses, typically while you’re seated or lying on your mat.

From a Western World perspective, people practice Yin for a variety of reasons

including:

- Relief for tight muscles

- Desire to reduce or eliminate pain in the body, including joints

- Improving the immunity system

- Reduction in anxiety and/or depression

- Increase quality of sleep

- Reduced likelihood of contracting illness and disease

- And more.

From an Eastern World point of view, Daoist Theory/Chinese Medicine, Yin stimulates

the meridian lines to eliminate blockages and/or stagnation of the flow of Qi aka Prana. Yin also can help to release tension in one’s connective tissue (fascia) resulting in improved physical and emotional well-being. The free flow of Qi/Prana is critical for one’s overall health both short and long term.

This workshop is presented by Di Inman, certified Yin instructor. Di has taught Yin at Expand Yoga, retreats, cancer recovery groups, workshops, and at health clubs. Her youngest student to date was 8 years old and the oldest, to date, is 90. Di believes that most people would benefit in ways beyond their imagination by practicing Yin regularly.

Come to this workshop and find out why!

03/31/2025

Expand made the News! Fox 13 Seattle put together a fantastic feature on the benefits of yoga—highlighting Tara Johnson and the power of this practice. They captured some beautiful moments from our 10 AM class and interviewed Matt too!

We’re so grateful to have this opportunity to share what we love with a wider audience. Check out the segment below and let us know what you think!

For this edition of True Northwest, photojournalist Michael Driver takes us to Tacoma, Washington, and introduces us to a woman who has stretched her yoga journey farther than she ever imagined. And it could put her - literally - on top of the world.

03/25/2025

And Allan’s shorts steal the show! 💚

Yesterday, Channel 13 stopped by to film a special on Tara (), who is headed to the Yoga World Championships in Kuala Lumpur! She’ll be competing on April 5th & 6th for the title of Yoga World Champion - already holding the title of U.S. Champion.

Thank you to everyone who showed up - whether to practice, cheer on Tara, or just be part of the energy. We appreciate you! We can’t wait to see the special, which is set to air this weekend.

And what an incredible crew - many of us have been working together for 12+ years!

✨ Patrick taught the very first class at Expand (besides Matt & Liz) and is now building an incredible retreat center, Moss Terra () on the Key Peninsula.

✨ Anna () has two beautiful children since we first met, keeps the studio running in countless ways, and runs her own same-day wedding coordination business.

✨ Tara amazing mama, hairdresser, and of course, a yoga champion!

✨ Allan () musician, incredible teacher, and a huge part of keeping Expand going behind the scenes.

✨ Tomio (.blakey) who never fails to make us smile and is also a fantastic real estate broker and fabulous father.

There are so many more amazing people - both staff & students - who make Expand what it is, but it was extra special to have so many of our original crew together yesterday.