Lauren Carly is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with highest honors; She has taught at least 1,600 hours of asana and restorative classes; Lauren started her life-long practice in 1966; In addition to her 2019 RYT-200 course, she has taken quite a number of specialty yoga classes, including with Tom Hess, owner, Yoga Center of Chico (YCC), where she completed Tom Hess's 2 year-long Apprentice Program to deepen her teaching and practice. She has led the Elk Creek Yoga group since 2011, going on-line with the advent of COVID. She also co-leads the yoga philosophy group once a month at the YCC since January 2023; she is in the middle of a 100-hr yoga nidra teacher training.