Lauren Duke grew up in Northern California playing a variety of different sports. On a rainy day in the middle of her highschool gym class, Lauren began a lifelong love with yoga. At first, it was just a physical practice and an easy A. Then she began studying bahkti flow yoga in San Francisco with Rusty Wells. From there, her practice was transformed and soon after she moved to Costa Rica and studied at the Nosara Yoga Institute with Don and Amba Stapleton. She realized that everything she learned on her mat she could take into the real world to cultivate a deeper relationship with herself and the people around her. Lauren has studied many forms of yoga including, hatha, vinyasa and interdisplinary. She has recently been getting inspiration through the anusara yoga practice.
Her hopes for her students is to share with them that yoga is so much more than simply just the asana. She wants to help facilitate an experience for people to discover what it is like to be fully in their body within all the elements of the self. She teaches a Vinyasa flow class where she implements a variety of different styles and music to keep it playful, fun and rhythmic. She says that the human experience is to feel; and that is what yoga is all about.