Free Spirit Wellness Collaboration
(Formerly known as Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze)
MOVEMENT, MINDFULNESS & COMMUNITY
Welcome to Free Spirit Wellness Collaboration!
(Formerly known as Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze)
A community space to find movement, mindfulness and community to support you on your wellness journey with the help from Free Expression Studio, Blue Sky Pilates and other guest instructors and guides. You will be able to find monthly class series, pop-up classes and workshops including practices such as Trapeze, Yoga, Pilates, Qi Gong, Dance and more.
You can learn more about our current offerings and how to join us at the studio by browsing our schedule below.
Located in Historic Downtown Prosser
1215 Meade Ave
Prosser, WA 99350
Class Series | Workshops | Pop-Up Classes | Private Coaching
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Meet Our Instrctors
Megan Tyler
| Yoga & Trapeze |
(Owner of Free Expression Studio - Collaborative Storefront)
Megan Tyler was born and raised locally in Sunnyside, moved to Seattle in 2009 to attend the University of Washington where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and Communications. Possibly better known in association to her creative ventures through Free Expression Studio - Megan Tyler is a Mindfulness Guide specializing in yoga, breath work, meditation and artistic expression. Combining these tools within her teachings, she aims to share ways in which you can cultivate deeper connections internally and externally while discovering how to live a more mindful life.
Megan’s journey with yoga started with practicing hot yoga in 2012 - An athlete most of her life, she never would have thought this practice would become what it is to her today! Finding it at a time in her life when in need of self-acceptance, healing and growth most, it quickly became more than just exercise; Over the years finding love, forgiveness, compassion and so much more while on her mat. Yoga itself is an amazing teacher if you let it be! With a personal practice of almost 10 years in the making her teaching journey officially got its start in March 2019 with a RYT-200 certification in Vinyasa followed by becoming a Certified Breath Coach® and certified in Yoga Trapeze® in May of 2020. Inspired to share through her teachings the shifts she’s felt through this practice, if only hoping to support her students in finding themselves a little bit at a time, whole once again.
Sara Hazzard
| Yoga & Trapeze |
(Owner and founder of Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze)
Sara Hazzard is the owner and has been the primary instructor at Free Spirit Yoga and Trapeze for over 5 years. Her practice has been almost 7 years in the making and started as a simple fun date which ended up a place of peace and refuge. In yoga, she found a much needed place to escape her mind. Sara had always enjoyed exercise, but yoga provided more than just a workout. She found it to be personally medicinal: it increased her mood, eased her mind, and relieved tight muscles due to sitting at a desk all day.
Sara spent 10 years in the Washington Army National Guard where she became a Master Fitness Trainer in 2016. As a result of this experience, she found enjoyment leading group fitness, yet it wasn’t exactly what she hoped to do as her life’s work. Seeking a rich life experience, Sara attended and was certified through Yoga Teachers College in Barcelona, Spain in January of 2018, earning her 200 hour RYT certification. In March of 2018, Sara finished a 50 hour Yoga Trapeze Teacher Training Certification also through Yoga Teachers College.
When she left the Military in June of 2018, Sara came back to Prosser where she was born and raised. Sara saw a need for Yoga in the lower valley, and she is excited to be able to share this passion with the community!
Guest Instructor: Shari Ammerman
| Yoga/Pilates & PhysioBall |
(Owner of Blue Sky Pilates - Private/Duet Classes)
Shari has always loved movement! Dance, gymnastics, the outdoors, and wide open spaces. She has practiced Pilates and Yoga since her teen years, and has found her personal practice as a place of healing, grounding, and strength while raising 4 children.
Certified Body Arts and Science International (BASI) Pilates Instructor(Comprehensive 500 hour) since 2012. Certified Yoga Instructor, YA 200 hour Sellwood Yoga Portland 2017.
Owner of Blue Sky Pilates (right across the street from Free Spirit in Historic Prosser WA) a fully equipped Pilates Studio specializing in full body strengthening, mobility, balance and breath. In her classes you will find a blend of strong, mindful, aligned movement and breath, along with mobility and myofascial explorations. She desires to create a safe space for all levels of movers, and give lots of modifications and variations to build “a way in” to the movement for everyone. She desires to always bring strength, balance, and harmony to her classes, and to her own life.
Guest Instructor: Angela Benjert
| Trapeze & Trauma Sensitive Yoga |
(Owner of Unveiled Yoga)
Angela Benjert began practicing yoga 4 years ago and it has transformed her mind and body. As a person who has struggled with anxiety and depression since childhood, yoga has offered her a quietness of the mind while providing strength and flexibility of the body.
Angela received her Yoga Trapeze Teacher Certification in May of 2019 from Yoga Teacher’s College. In October 2019, she completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through YogaFaith. She also provides Trauma Sensitive Specialty Training and offers yoga therapy to survivors of all kinds of trauma including domestic violence, trafficking, and PTSD.
Above all else, Angela has a heart for people. Making others laugh and encouraging people to reach their full potential is an endeavor that she has dedicated her heart to. Angela believes that yoga is for everybody and every BODY. Self-love, body confidence, fun, and variety are her top priorities when instructing a class. Be well. Do Good. Speak Life.
Guest Instructor: Mikki Symonds
| Gentle & Strength Vinyasa, Guided Relaxation |
Mikki has been practicing yoga for roughly 25 years, receiving her 500-hr yoga certification from The American Viniyoga Institute in 2008.
Her passion for yoga grew from connecting movement to breath and feeling calmer.
Mikki enjoys teaching vinyasa styles with her own additions of creative flow and relaxation techniques allowing for students to feel comfort within their bodies.
Guest Instructor: Virginia Norton
| Qigong and Tai Chi |
Virginia is a certified instructor with the Ling Gui International School of Healing Qigong, studying under Master Liu He from the Liu family lineage. Virginia has been with the Ling Gui School since 2017, learning several of the Liu family methods as well as several classical forms. These forms lead us into the most powerful technology we own, our own body-mind-spirit.
She is fascinated not only with Qigong’s capacity to heal the body, but also how it develops strength, energy, and a calm mind. She teaches Qigong and Tai Chi classes in Prosser. Qigong and Tai Chi have made such a positive difference in Virginia’s life that she is eager to share this healing art with the Yakima Valley community.
Virginia is also a certified Qigong instructor through the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi having completed 200 hours of training under Dr. Roger Jahnke in 2016, attending in person trainings in Jacksonville, FL; Hudson, NY; and Santa Barbara, CA. She is a 2nd degree black belt through the Ching Yi King Fu Association, having studied Qigong, Tai Chi, Xing Yi, Ba Gua, and Chinese kung fu under Kraig Stephens from 2011 to 2019. In addition, Virginia has studied with qigong masters Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson, Sifu Fa Jun Shakya, and Lee Holden.
Guest Instructor: Georgia Sanford
| Dance & Functional Pilates |
Georgia Sanford’s teaching practice centers the joy of movement and the creation of spaces for connection and expression. Training from a young age, Georgia came up through the competition dance scene. Through Westlake Dance center in Seattle, she had the opportunity to work with prominent choreographers such as Mary Ann Lamb, Mandy Moore, and Ryan Heffington. Upon moving to New York, she immersed herself in the underground dance and music scene working with local choreographers and traveling globally with artists such as Jessica 6, Princess Superstar, Zebrakatz, and AB Soto.
Georgia then went on to receive her Pilates mat and equipment certification under the tutelage of Kelly Kane at The Kane School of Core Integration. She has continued her education with programs such as the KinectEd Residency Program, FAMI (Functional Anatomy for Movement and Injury) at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, and Movement for Trauma with Jane Clapp. She celebrates movement as a deeply poetic and meaningful medium for communication and connection.
Guest Instructor: CXRMN Cardenas
| Dance & Healing Movement |
Carmen (CXRMN) has over a decade of dancing experience ranging from competitive events to hosting workshops; Throughout the years he’s learned various styles and is passionate for teaching others!
Where is all started…
Sara Hazzard was the founder and primary instructor at Free Spirit Yoga and Trapeze for over 4years. In yoga, she found a much needed place to escape her mind and a place of peace and refuge. Sara has always enjoyed exercise, but yoga provided more than just a workout. She found it to be personally medicinal: it increased her mood, eased her mind, and relieved tight muscles due to sitting at a desk all day.
Before Megan even made her move back to the area after living 10 years in Seattle, she attended classes at Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze as a student with her mom trying the Trapeze for the first time, falling in love with the added twist to her practice! She quickly recognized the power of community at this studio and felt right at home.
Sara soon welcomed Megan in to host her first ever Meditate & Create workshops in 2019 after being newly certified as a yoga teacher giving her the chance to share her love for not only yoga but artistic practices as well.
Fast forward through some major changes in both their lives and there has been no denying that the Universe brought Free Expression Studio and Free Spirit Yoga & Trapeze together for a specific reason - aligning in our values to create a space for movement, mindfulness and community.
Prosser, WA is a small town with big heart - the need for movement and mindfulness resources was apparent in the surrounding area and this magical team of soul sisters stepped up to the answer the call with open hearts.
As life usually does, twist and turns came our way starting with the COVID-19 pandemic and since then we’ve had to evolve a few times over in order to find a sweet spot to sustain our studio space upstairs.
So we decided to team up with fellow instructors from our community and surrounding areas to absorb the responsibilities of running a space like this… we are setting out on our newfound adventure and are so thrilled to see what comes next!