Our Community of Teachers
Are you a Certified Yoga Instructor looking for a place to share your gifts? Join our kula!
Marcie Costello
Marcie founded Kula Yoga in October 2023, following the closure of Bayview Studio in September 2023. Kula Yoga was established out of a renewed commitment to fostering community connection through the shared passion for yoga and movement.
As a 500-hour certified and registered instructor with Yoga Alliance accreditation, Marcie has a solid foundation in yoga education. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in 2006 and advanced her skills with a 300-hour Teacher Training in 2018 at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja, Mexico. Additionally, Marcie holds a variety of certifications that enhance her teaching, including SUP Yoga and Paddle Instruction, Flight Foundations Aerial Yoga, Clinical Somatic Movement, as well as being a Certified Reiki Master and a Certified Roll Model Method Practitioner.
Dedicated to lifelong learning, Marcie remains a devoted student of yoga. She practices full-time as a Licensed Massage Therapist and runs a successful private practice in downtown Langley. For those seeking a more personalized experience in yoga, Marcie offers private sessions (1:1 or 1:2) with focus on chronic pain relief, injury recovery or a deepening of a personal yoga practice.
Her teaching style is gentle and introspective, guiding students through classes that emphasize the deep connections between body, mind, and breath through mindful movement and safe alignment. In addition to her teaching career since 2006, Marcie has also led numerous domestic and international yoga retreats since 2018.
Click the link to learn more about her past and upcoming retreats or to inquire about therapeutic massage services.
Necole King
Nécole has been practicing yoga for over twenty years, and is trained in both Hatha and Vinyasa. In her teaching, Nécole guides classes through joyful, mindfully crafted flows, with an emphasis on being present to where each of us are in our practice, and building strength from there. She gained her 200-hr Yoga Certification from Your Yoga Flow in
Nécole encourages students to tap into not only outer, physical strength, but also an inner vitality, and in doing so, ultimately radiating a unique joy and lightness out into the world.
Dr. Gina Bernal
Dr. Gina Bernal is a holistic physical therapist with a passion for education. She has first-hand knowledge of surgery preparedness as a surgical patient as well as professional experience both in the hospital setting as well as in the outpatient setting. Dr. Bernal's approach to preparing for surgery takes into account the entire physical body as well as the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health. By providing this level of education and guidance, her patients have demonstrated a better surgical experience, easier healing, and better outcomes.
Beth Williams
Beth Williams has been dedicated to the pursuit of inward growth for much of her life. Her spiritual meditation practices began in 1994 and she incorporated Vipassana techniques in 2015 after attending a 10-day retreat at the Northwest Vipassana Center. With her continued focus on self transformation and healing, she also became a Reiki Practitioner in 2013. Now as a Certified Vipassana Meditation Instructor, Beth is honored to join Kula Yoga to assist others in their own purposeful path forward.
In her beliefs that meditation is a direct pathway to the continual discovery of awareness, Beth’s introductory workshops and meditation sessions will guide and facilitate you along your way to find the mindfulness and insights that lead to inner peace.
Your breath in meditation is a guide that is always with you, come find joy in sharing this experience together in community. Meditation is always at your own pace, so whether it’s your first time or you are a seasoned meditator, our sessions are here for you to continue your journey. If the group sessions don’t work for you, private sessions are available as well.
Willow Jo River
Willow is a spiritual guide, RYT-500 / E-RYT 200 yoga teacher, and breath-based teacher-facilitator. Her classes are shaped by lived experience, daily spiritual practice, and a self-honest, heart-centered way of being. She brings a contemplative, grounding presence to her teaching, inviting students into a space of softening, deep listening, and natural unfolding.
In Willow’s classes, students can expect gentle guidance in releasing tensions often long held in the body, along with the imprints, habits, and conditioning carried in the mind. Many of us have grown used to tension as a normal state. Through breath, movement, rest, and inward attention, we explore what becomes possible when the body softens, the mind quiets, and relaxation begins to feel safe, familiar, and natural. Students are welcomed into an accepting space that supports self-discovery, new phases of being, and the integration of what is discovered in practice into everyday life.
Willow’s work is informed by the yogic three-bodied approach — physical, astral, and causal — the koshas, or layers of self, and an Ayurvedic understanding of body and mind. Yoga Nidra, somatic practice, breath awareness, mindful movement, and practices that invite the mind to settle are woven into her classes as pathways for clearing space in body and mind, softening old patterns, and returning to the quiet presence beneath them.
Willow has spent much of her adult life immersed in yogic practice, meditation, self-study, and spiritual inquiry, including 25 years living in a yoga-centered spiritual community. She teaches from devotion, direct experience, and a lifelong commitment to healing, awakening, and coming home to oneself.