Our Community of Teachers
Are you a Certified Yoga Instructor looking for a place to share your gifts? Join our kula!
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 connections 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. With a teaching career spanning since 2006, Marcie has also led numerous domestic and international yoga retreats since 2018.
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Marcie also practices full-time as a Licensed Massage Therapist and runs a successful private practice in downtown Langley. For more information, click the link:
Marcie Costello
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.
Necole King
Tanner Hansen
Tanner has been practicing and teaching yoga since 2014 and has studied Hatha, Yin, Vinyasa and Ashtanga traditions. In 2016, he earned his 200-hour Hatha certification through Yoga Oasis in Tucson, AZ, followed by a 30-hour Yin Yoga certification in 2017. His journey deepened in 2019 when he traveled to India and had a chance to practice Ashtanga on the beaches of the Indian Ocean. Beyond the Indian take on the world of Yin Yoga showed him a Chinese elemental view of the practice which led him to studying and practicing Qigong which he enjoys weaving into his offerings. The practice he shares is accessible to all bodies and abilities. He pulls his yogic background and experiences into each class with the intention to open the body, mind and heart.
Alisa Burpee
Alisa Burpee is a former psychologist and current yoga instructor, Body Pump instructor and Personal Trainer. She graduated from the 8 Limbs Yoga Teacher Training program in 2024 and enjoys teaching various styles of yoga including Hatha, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra. She, her husband, and mini-Aussie Nova moved to Whidbey Island one year ago to create a simpler life more connected to nature. She is also a writer and painter.