About Us

Lavender Lotus Tucson studio opened on November 1, 2021. We proudly offer group Yoga and Mat Pilates classes and private Pilates and Yoga sessions throughout the week by appointment. Please see the class schedule for exact times and days.

You don't have to be bendy. You don't have to be super strong. Just step inside. We'll help you with the rest. 

I love to move but I REALLY love to teach, learn, and help others move and feel their best. I am fascinated by the minutiae of movement and seek to pass the joy of attention to these details to students and clients. I'm a 200 RYT (Yoga) and a Certified Fletcher Pilates teacher. I endlessly seek new knowledge on the practices, the body, meditation, and spirituality. I take classes from other brilliant Yogis and Pilates instructors, ride horses, hike, hang with my son and husband, and tend to our menagerie of animals.  

In 2002 I fell in love with Yoga’s moving meditations that allowed my busy mind to focus, and my restless body to relax. I became a certified Hatha RYT-200 instructor so I could expand my understanding of this ancient practice and share its benefits. Healing is my calling. I am an Integrative Medicine Doctor and fascinated by how movement, healthy food, restorative sleep, and a balanced life can combine to create a healthy mind, body, and spirit. When not on my mat I spend time growing food, creating ceramics, guiding others through outdoor adventures, hiking with my sweet dog Ayla, and laughing with my husband. 

 I began a hot Yoga practice in 2006, to build physical strength, flexibility, and good health. After several years I discovered the vinyasa style, and quickly became a devotee. In 2011 I graduated from The Arizona School of Yoga and became a E-RYT-200 with the Yoga Alliance and have been teaching in the Tucson area and out-of-state ever since. I love to teach challenging, nurturing and light-hearted classes with student needs in mind. A short meditation or bits of yoga philosophy may also enrich our time together. I enjoys spending time with family, friends and pets, hiking, gardening, kite boarding, stand up paddling, e-foiling, cooking, reading, traveling, and studying drawing and painting. 

 Yvonne came to Yoga seeking relief from a multitude of health issues because it helped when nothing else did.  Yvonne completed a 200- and 300-hour hour training programs. Her joy in her personal practice is stillness, but she’s happy teaching all styles from slow power to restorative and meditation. Yvonne loves to help people discover that Yoga is for everyone (no matter what they may have previously thought,) and showing them how to go even further. Yvonne feels it’s an honor to guide others in their practice and on their journeys — Hopefully touching others with kindness, love, acceptance, and hope.