About Us
Hi! We’re Zach & Heather. We are both RYT-200 certified yoga instructors who earned our certifications from Ananda Luna RYS. We are fortunate to be in eastern Maine, an area abundant with opportunities for yoga instruction, and we’re thrilled to be part of this community. Our voices are two of many – and if our voices don’t resonate with you, we can probably help you find a class, studio, or instructor who does! We believe that all yoga is good yoga.
Meet Zach
My name is Zach, and I’m a Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Instructor. 
I earned my RYT-200 from Ananda Luna RYS, at Yoga DownEast in Orland, Maine in February 2020. I have also completed a Restorative Teacher Training through the Yoga & Ayurveda Center’s Online Yoga School based in San Antonio, TX.
I have spent over a decade using and abusing my body as an automotive technician at a fast-paced car dealership, and it has taken a toll on my body and my mind. I am a born problem-solver and I felt like I needed to find a solution for these issues I was experiencing. For me, yoga was the solution that I was seeking to reverse some of the damage that I have done and continue to do to my body and my spirit. I gravitated towards the slower-paced classes, particularly restorative, and my life changed. My yoga journey has definitely not been typical. Before teacher training, I did not have an established practice of any kind. I would sporadically go to some classes with Heather, but never really took the initiative to seek it out myself. In this way, I feel that yoga, ultimately, found me.
I’ve always chased my purpose in life, and feel that my true calling is as a teacher and healer, which I strive for and hope to convey in my teaching. My focus is on a slower-paced practice, and my ultimate goal is to offer a trauma-informed restorative practice, to allow my students to really dig deep into themselves and bring everything to the surface.
I am thankful for my fellow YTT classmates, Judy and Clarissa, as our small-but-mighty class of three. I am humbled because of them, and grateful to them, for the growth I experienced during the course of my training. I am unspeakably grateful to my teachers, Kasia Moffett and Krista Hastings, whom I’ve taken most of my classes from. And to Krista specifically, I offer extra gratitude, as it was her training that has allowed me to become the Yoga Teacher I am today.
I am also eternally grateful for the students that I have shared the gift of yoga instruction with, as it is you all that make me a better teacher.
Meet Heather
I have been a practicing yogi since 2015. I stumbled into yoga accidentally, after a roller derby injury left me looking for something I could do with an ankle that needed some low-impact activity. I signed up for an aerial yoga workshop at Om Land Yoga in Brewer, Maine, having never set foot in a yoga studio in my life. I fell in love with it, and started going as often as I could. A few months later, my husband installed an aerial hammock for me in our house.
When my dad was sick and subsequently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I could always find a few moments of peace at the studio. I started expanding my class attendance to include regular yoga, or as I affectionately called it, “floor yoga.” I tried out meditation classes and then went to my first yoga nidra – another practice I fell in love with. I considered the idea of earning my RYT200 for years, but the timing was never right. When one of my teachers, Krista Hastings, announced that she’d be offering one at her studio (Yoga DownEast) as a weeknight/weekend format (meaning I could work it around my job), I signed up right away. I earned my RYT 200 certification from Ananda Luna RYS in Orland, Maine in 2019, alongside six of the finest people I’ve ever had a chance to know. I also completed Yoga Philosophy Level 1 Teacher Training with ShivaShakti School of Yoga in February 2020.
My path is a bit different, as I completed the training to deepen my own practice, but found myself wanting to teach alongside my full-time career in marketing for the automotive industry. I am making plans to start teaching in-person classes by spring/early summer 2020.
I am thankful for all of my teachers who have supported, guided, and shared this journey with me so far, especially: Krista Hastings, Kasia Moffett, John Celmer, Christine Mihan, and Holly Twining. I will be also be eternally grateful for the love and friendship of my RYT200 cohort: Shaun, Amie, Martina, Alex, Melon, and the late Ray.