Hey There!

Teaching yoga classes, workshops, and teacher trainings fuels my purpose: helping high-powered, ambitious women to slow down, go deeper, and reconnect with what truly matters. I guide women who are hell-bent on achieving to rediscover the spaciousness of simply being… to face their shadows with courage… and to listen for that quiet whisper of joy dancing in the heart. Yes, it might sound a little “woo-woo,” but when I’m doing this work, I feel most alive — and my best self.

And if you're wondering whether I live in the "real world" — I do.

I am a high-powered, ambitious, career-driven executive with 30+ years of experience in community planning, environmental consulting, and water resource management. I’ve been a yoga studio and wellness business owner, a manager and shareholder in an engineering and architecture firm, and I currently serve as the Butte County Director of Water and Resource Conservation.

I’ve walked with one foot in two worlds: the grounded, structured path of career, upward mobility, management, and leadership — and the soulful, meaning-seeking path of yoga, inner growth, and personal development. And for me, neither path is whole without the other.

I believe when you live, love, and work from a place of intention — when you know your "why" — you live with more grace, kindness, laughter, and joy.

If you're ready to learn, grow, reconnect with who you are, and shine even brighter — I’d be honored to walk with you.

More About Me

My Story

In 2008, I created the Integrative Dynamic Yoga (IDY) Method and launched my first 200-hour teacher trainings in Chico and Sacramento, CA. Yes, I taught two trainings every other weekend for nine months straight. Normally I would say "overachiever" but being in the mindful seat of the teacher for 20 hours over a weekend, well, it's transformative.... Today, I still serve as the lead trainer for all IDY Yoga Teacher Trainings. It took me eight years and thousands of hours of teaching before I felt truly qualified to train teachers (hello, imposter syndrome). Now, 25 years into teaching, I’m honored to be called a “teacher’s teacher” — and I still learn from every student and every class. I teach to learn. I learn to grow. I grow to become the best version of myself.

My love for fitness and wellness began early — doing Joanie Greggains’ “Morning Stretch” at 6:30 a.m. with my mom, sweating through high-impact gym aerobics in high school and Jane Fonda in college, I eventually found yoga, meditation, and functional fitness in graduate school. These experiences are the foundation of the IDY Method.

In 2000, I took the leap into full-time yoga. I quit my job, completed a 21-day residential teacher training with Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT), and opened Santosha Yoga Studio — Chico’s first standalone yoga studio (outside of the fitness clubs). (Would I recommend doing it that way? Probably not.) I expanded my training with Anusara Yoga, became a Certified Massage Practitioner, and trained in Thai Massage to deepen my anatomical knowledge. I also offered prenatal yoga, childbirth education, and doula services through my Joyful Birth program. I also did part-time community planning consulting on the side — I only took on projects that I felt would actually benefit small rural communities.

After five transformative years, I sold Santosha in 2005 to study and teach abroad during a major life shift (aka: divorce). I studied Tibetan Buddhism at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal and taught yoga to support a nonprofit in Cusco, Peru. When I returned to Chico — a mom and back in environmental consulting — I still returned to yoga; I became Yoga Program Supervisor at In Motion Fitness and a Savvy F.I.T. Academy Instructor (providing therapeutic movement for clients with serious soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries). This work echoed my early efforts at Santosha: using yoga for creating community and a tool for health and healing.

Over the years, I’ve built IDY Teacher Trainings and Workshops into some of the most comprehensive, transformational programs available. Whether I’m leading a training, a class, or a workshop, my approach is always to honor, serve, guide, and inspire. I help students greet their edge, expand their limits, and connect to their inner wisdom, strength, and joy. My mission is to help practitioners and aspiring teachers to find their voice, embody their truth, and shine from the inside out.

Coaching, Too

In 2018, I earned my coaching certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) — an ICF-accredited program — initially to improve my leadership skills in my roles as a department manager and shareholder of the engineering and architecture firm. True to form, I didn’t stop there. I continued with certifications in OOLA Life Coaching, Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Coaching, and Jay Shetty’s Life Coaching program. Why? Because I wanted to feel truly qualified as a life coach (aka imposter syndrome) — and because personal development, in my mind, is the path to happiness. I also believe in walking my talk.

Now, I integrate all of this training into yoga classes, workshops, and teacher trainings to help women align their lives with their values, build habits that become rituals, and show up as their whole, empowered, authentic selves.

In 2026, I will launch "Life on Purpose" — a yoga immersion and training program that has been three years in the making. This program fuses yoga principles with modern coaching frameworks and includes:

Monthly yoga workshops
Live weekly zoom or in-person yoga classes
9-month Yoga Teacher Training (to deepen one's personal practice and/or to become a yoga teacher)
Daily 5 to 15 minute mindset, meditation, and journaling practices

Real Talk

Yoga is how I bring my whole self into everything I think, say, and do. Yoga has helped me balance my life of doing "all the things" and align by my seemingly separate paths; the path of performance and progress, and the path of presence and purpose. This is what I bring to the seat of a teacher — the intent to help others live with courage, meaning, purpose, and joy.

Come learn, grow, and shine with me.

kamie@kamieloeser.com