hot 26 & 2 half tortoise pose at aryze hot yoga

At ARYZE

Aryze Hot Yoga provides our Southern Oregon Community with a beautiful space, qualified instructors and the modern technology needed for a satisfying Hot 26&2, Heated Vinyasa or Yin Yoga experience.

Conveniently located at 330 Oak Street in Downtown Ashland, Oregon.

Featuring modern heating, ventilation and humidity systems to bring you a controlled environment to suit the hot (typically 105°) and heated (90°-95°) yoga styles.

Options to purchase or rent yoga mats, towel rental service, and nourishing beverages.

Plenty of parking available.

Meet the Team

In addition to a minimum of 200 RYT hours, our Instructors infuse their classes with their own distinct style and the wealth of experience from their various training backgrounds.


  • Yoga Community Steward, Founder

    Three decades ago, Mia Ferrell embarked on a transformative journey to nurture her mind and body through the transformative power of yoga. She found her love for yoga as foundational movement while recuperating from an auto accident which put a halt to her ballet training. She began her Los Angeles based yoga studies with a regular Iyengar practice which quickly extended into Ashtanga as well. She soon found her mat in front of many of the world’s leading yoga teachers, including Shiva Rea, Kaliji, Seane Corn, Chuck Miller and Les Leventhal.

    Today she stands as a dedicated yoga instructor and primary steward of Aryze Hot Yoga in Ashland. Guided by an unwavering passion, her mission is to educate and empower individuals through the art of movement, fostering a deeper connection with their bodies. Having previously worked as a massage therapist and now holding certification as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Mia possesses a strong foundational understanding of exercise, human performance, and their intricate relationship with the body’s structure and function.

    Remaining deeply committed to her own practice and a steadfast learner, Mia recently furthered her training with Leah Shirley at Agni Yoga School in Portland in 2022. As she continues to explore the boundless realm of yoga and embrace its myriad possibilities, Mia ardently shares her expertise, offering support and guidance to the ever-evolving Aryze Yoga community.


  • Yoga Instructor, Vinyasa

    Crystal is a warm and passionate instructor who knows first-hand the transformational power of yoga.

    Her journey of healing and recovery paralleled her study of yoga. From the world of academia to the foothills of the Himalayas, Crystal’s blend of scientific knowledge, spirituality, and the depth of lived experience is foundational in how she teaches and how she encourages students with authenticity and compassion.

    Crystal is currently a full-time faculty member in the Health and Exercise Science Department at Southern Oregon University. Her yoga teaching experience also includes yoga studios, K-12 schools, fitness centers, and festivals such as Wanderlust, Prana Fest, and the Oregon Country Fair.

    Her educational background includes an MS in Kinesiology, BFA in Dance, Child Development Credential, and several certificates in a variety of yoga, breathwork, and musculoskeletal modalities. Always a student, she is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree in Kinesiology, and her 500+ hour training with Janet Stone Yoga has allowed her to deepen her practice and continue refining her teaching since receiving her 200-hour certificate in a training that culminated with in-depth studies in India in 2012.

    Outside of the classroom or studio, she finds joy digging in the garden, taking ice baths and saunas, traveling the world, and relishing in the ever-expansive wild journey of motherhood, which recently grew to include becoming a foster mom.


  • Yoga Instructor, Yin

    Hillary has been a traveling yoga teacher for 12 years. She specializes in Hot Vinyasa, Power, Hatha, Restorative, Yin, and Water Yoga. She's incredibly passionate about Partner and Acro Yoga. She has also completed her Module Level II training as a Yoga Therapist, where she meets privately and creates customized sequences.

    Overall, yoga has become her purpose from an early age, and yoga has carried her through her own struggles with an autoimmune disease, an amputation, a tumor, multiple surgeries, anxiety, depression, migraines and more. She shares empathy and slivers of knowledge from her entire yogic journey when teaching. Whether it be shares from her personal introduction to yoga, as a 14 year old traveling the PCT, her beginning teachings in 2012 with disadvantaged youth in the Greater Boston area, creating yoga dance routines in S. American schools. Her multiple visits and trainings in India, living and teaching in S.E Asia, workshops stops in Europe, South Africa, Canada, Alaska, or reuniting with her roots on the West Coast. She has now bought a home in Ashland, and is very excited to plant her practice here for now, to create new memories to share, as well as continue learning. She believes everyone is a student, as well as a teacher, always. She loves to have you leave her class feeling rejuvenated, relaxed, and reunited with others. Truly giving and sharing the ultimate gift of yoga. The connection of the breath to the body. Don’t be surprised if you find Hillary on hikes within the hills with her dog, or on the dance floor.

    "Yoga creates a special energy, a way which we all cultivate together, simultaneously as a class and as a community. Yet then that energy powerfully transcends into our personal practices, and our life off the mat." ~hillary

  • Christine loves teaching and helping others live a vibrant, healthy, happy life. Her health & fitness background includes: certified Bikram Yoga instructor (Fall 2009), certified Inferno Hot Pilates Instructor (2015), certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayuryoga teacher (2013-14), certified PSYCH-K® facilitator, certified Pilates instructor (2002), co-founder of Aradia Fitness, and studies in Ashtanga and Sivananda Yoga.

Erik Fulkerson, Aryze Hot Yoga Hot 26 instructor


  • Aryze Instructor, Hot 26+2

    Erik discovered yoga in his 20’s and began studying meditation and basic Hatha Yoga postures on his own. Introduced to yoga and meditation by his neighbor, who studied the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, Erik studied Yogananda’s Self Realization courses, solidifying his understanding of meditation, health, and a deeper connection with yoga and laying the foundation for a lifelong practice of yoga.

    He discovered Bikram Hot Yoga in 2003 and began practicing in his friend's Traverse City, Michigan studio. From there, he traveled to Puerto Rico, began teaching surfing, and led a beachside Vinyasa Flow Yoga class while still practicing Bikram Yoga on his own in the heat of the tropics.

    Upon returning to the States in 2010, living in California, Erik decided to attend Bikram Yoga Teacher Training. On his 40th birthday, he began the 9-week journey to becoming a certified 500-Hour Bikram Yoga teacher in San Diego. Erik has been a teacher and studio owner in Puerto Rico and California. In the past few years, Erik has been practicing the Art of Jujitsu and Tai Chi and is looking forward to continuing his journey as a lifelong yoga student and teacher.


  • Aryze Instructor, Hot 26+2 Yoga

    Having discovered a profound love for yoga over a decade ago, particularly in the 26 & 2 series, Denise has found solace, healing, and mental clarity through its practice. Even during both pregnancies, she maintained a dedicated yoga regimen, practicing the 26&2 series up until the day of her second child's birth. Now, as a mother to two young boys, her yoga practice holds even greater significance in her life.

    Yoga gives her the patience and strength to handle any situation life throws her way. Denise feels that yoga always brings such peace to her entire life when she practices regularly.

    From the moment she first experienced the 26&2 class, she harbored a deep-seated aspiration to become a teacher. Upon encountering an opportunity for teacher training at Agni Yoga in Portland, OR, she eagerly seized it, feeling an innate connection to the role. Since then, she has been sharing her acquired wisdom with the yoga community, fulfilling her calling with joy and fulfillment.

    In 2021, the practitioner and her family relocated to Southern Oregon, embracing the vibrant community with enthusiasm. When not on the yoga mat, she delights in exploring the outdoors with her two adventurous boys, engaging in activities such as gardening, hiking, camping, and simply enjoying each other's company.

Sara Taylor, Aryze Hot Yoga Power Vinyasa Instructor


  • Personal Trainer, Vinyasa Yoga Instructor

    Sara has been a strength and conditioning specialist for 18 years, mastering individual and small group programs in some of the most renowned fitness clubs and cities in the country. She climbed to the top of a competitive fitness team at Pura Vida Fitness & Spa in Denver, while simultaneously managing the Holistic Nutrition Department before re-establishing her career in three small gyms on the west coast and landing her private studio Oso Wellbeing in Ashland, Oregon. Sara has been a student of yoga for two decades and gained her 200 hour teacher training in 2023. With a niche in performance, functional strength, yoga, and holistic nutrition, clients working with Sara value the individualized care and attention to detail in her unique approach to fitness programming, and strength inspired power vinyasa flow classes.

    When Sara is not in the studio you can find her fulfilling her ultimate role as Mama Bear to her 3 children. When "free time" exists, mossy forests, ocean coastlines, and her own yoga practice keep her grounded.


  • Aryze Instructor, Yin Yoga

    His first “yoga poses” were taught to him by a college sports medicine professor in 2012, and then he stumbled upon a Kundalini Yoga master in a metaphysical bookstore in Tulsa, Oklahoma while recovering from substance and religious addiction in 2014.

    He has since immersed himself in the practice ever since, studying hatha, kundalini and yin “styles” with the focused intention to uncover the Self and explore Its limits. By chance, he was initiated into an ancient yogic lineage on Mt. Shasta and by developing his own practice with youtube and many other scriptures, was redirected towards a more traditional practice within the Sivananda lineage.

    Studying and living at the ashram, in 2018 confirmed the need for a spiritually infused practice of physical and mental/emotional upkeep. He taught classes in Mt Shasta and opened his own studio in the Shasta Valley, from 2018 until the lockdown of the pandemic. Now, alongside a rekindled mala making meditation, he feels honored to share this deeply personal and profound practice of wholly health and wellness with a sense of community and collective creativity.


  • Yoga Instructor, Gentle Hatha Yoga

    Ria found her personal yoga path in her 50’s through the encouragement of her three daughters, and as a side benefit, she found that it helped her through menopause with ease. Throughout her eight youthful decades of life so far, Ria has enjoyed sharing with people above all, and is not one for sitting still… so it only seemed natural for her to teach!

    Ria first began teaching yoga to others in the 1990’s in the gym/fitness club environment. Her first Yoga Teacher Certification was in 2007 through Aura Yoga, and then again in 2016 through YogaFit. She has been a yoga instructor at Club NW in Grants Pass for the past 21 years, and teaches to small groups at a couple of her local churches.

    She offers gentle beginning and intermediate Hatha Yoga and is personally committed to helping folks regain youthful vitality no matter what stage of life they are in. She finds that helping others find this youthfulness in turn helps her maintain her own.


  • Aryze Instructor, Yin Yoga

    Gabby found yoga during her college years as a way to quiet her active mind and feel more grounded in her body. She quickly fell in love with the way it made her feel both physically, mentally, and eventually spiritually. Upon graduating college in 2019, she traveled to India where she studied traditional Ashtanga yoga and pranayama. After a few months of personal practice, she completed her 250 Hour Teacher Training in Ashtanga and Hatha yoga with Barat Shetty at IndeaYoga in Mysore, India.

    Gabby taught yoga for a year into the pandemic; however, she eventually took a break to focus on her own healing. Here, she explored other modalities such as breathwork, yoga nidra, chanting and meditation. She is currently in the process of completing a breathwork certification program in Portland, OR and has just finished a Yin and Restorative Training with Yandara Yoga in Mexico.

    Gabby loves weaving the philosophy of eastern yoga into her teaching. She is also fascinated by the intersection between psychology and yoga, and how we can use both to heal our minds and bodies. Gabby will be attending Pacifica Graduate Institute in the fall of 2024 studying Depth Psychology. Her intent is to eventually combine somatic work with more traditional talk therapy.

    When she's not studying or teaching, Gabby loves to spend time with her Goldendoodle, Beau, hike, cook, and paint. Gabby is excited to teach here at Aryze Hot Yoga and looks forward to connecting deeper with the Ashland community.


  • Aryze Instructor, Yin Yoga

    Sarah found yoga in 2018 while studying at the University of Tennessee- Chattanooga. When she started her only intention was for an alternative exercise routine. However, she quickly realized how powerful the practice was positively impacting her mental state while dealing with the stresses of college life. After a few years of deep personal practice, she felt as though she was called to share what she had learned with others. In 2021 she attended a 200hr YTT at Yoga Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee where she was trained in Hatha style yoga. Since then, she has found a love for Yin and Restorative practices.

    Sarah believes movement is medicine. She also believes yoga is for everyBODY and is passionate about making yoga accessible for anyone willing to receive it. Sarah is kind, compassionate, and authentic. You can expect her classes to be fun, relaxing, intuitive, and inclusive.

    When not on her mat, Sarah works as a professional river guide during the spring and summer season and can be found frolicking in the snow during winter. She also finds joy in baking, knitting, and traveling the world.


  • Yoga Instructor, Hot 26 & 2

    Sandy began her yoga practice in 2012 by diving into a 30-day challenge at a local Bikram studio. She quickly experienced the abundance of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits that came along with this sacred practice — especially in supporting her healing through on-going challenges from fibromyalgia, autoimmune disease, spinal injuries, depression & anxiety. Her 30-day commitment grew to 60 days before evolving into a lifelong dedication to the path of yoga, Soul-growth, and holistic healing.

    Sandy completed her first teacher training in Santa Barbara, receiving her 500-Hour Certificate to teach the 26+2 from Evolation Yoga. During this life-changing experience, it was revealed to her just how expansive the study of yoga and the Self could be. She continued her yoga studies and completed a 250-Hour Certificate in Vinyasa Flow to expand her ability to serve outside of the 26+2 series, as well as 200 hours certification in Hatha Yoga.

    Sandy also serves as a yoga teacher trainer, soundbath facilitator, astrologer & bodyworker… offering tools to empower trauma release and transformational Soul growth.

    Sandy’s passion for helping people align with their highest vibrational Self comes through in her teaching. Her yoga classes artfully blend energetic & spiritual insight with functional movement & concise cueing to guide you with grace, ease, and a greater sense of connection to your body, mind, and Soul.

    You can connect with Sandy online at www.sandybeachholistics.com and on Instagram @sandybeachholistics