08/20/2025
TEACHER SPOTLIGHT: Meet Pam: an energetic yet calming presence and a truly beautiful soul in our Union Yoga community.
1. What inspired you to start practicing yoga and what keeps you coming back to the mat?
🧘♀️It feels so silly to say now, but I was originally inspired to start yoga by a few Instagram accounts I followed. At the time, I was really getting into rock climbing and exploring exercise for the first time, and I quickly noticed a difference in my body on the days that I stretched after a workout vs. when I didn’t.
2. What’s something surprising or fun fact about you outside of yoga?
🧘♀️Something surprising about me is that I was not a particularly active kid. I walked the 15 minute mile that was required to pass gym class, and I didn’t do sports. The most activity I got was walking to friends’ houses and riding my bike around the neighborhood. Now I can hardly go a day without getting some sort of intentional movement in.
3. What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
🧘♀️My favorite way to spend a day off is catching up with friends, or spending time outdoors. I love kayaking, I enjoy hiking and pointing out all the mushrooms, insects, and flowers, I rock climb, and occasionally dabble in acro-yoga.
4. Favorite book or podcast?
🧘♀️One of my favorite books is called Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee. The tagline is “The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness” and in the book she discusses ways that we perceive joy from ordinary/mundane things.
5. What do you love most about being part of Union Yoga?
🧘♀️ What I love most about being a part of Union Yoga is the community! The space and the folks that enter it are inviting and welcoming to all - you can feel it in the way attendees chatter before and after class with each other and with instructors.
6. Yoga has taught me…. ?
🧘♀️Yoga has taught me so many things I could probably write a book about it. One of the biggest and most important of those things is to be intentional. From the way I breathe, to the way I move, the way I teach, and off the mat in the way I interact with others - I always do my best to be intentional.