Hope Hamling

FOUNDER & teacher

Certified Yoga Teacher, Certified Qigong Teacher, Movement For Trauma Level 1 Teacher

Hope Hamling has been devoted to a regular yoga practice since 2000.  She believes that everybody can do yoga, and that you can be exactly where you are: flexible or unable to touch your toes, calm and centered or a scattered multitasker, healthy or sick.  Everyone can do it, and everyone can benefit. Hope graduated from Happy Buddha Yoga's teacher training program under Kelly Kamm, and has taken additional trainings with Bernie Clark, Jane Clapp, Gil Hedley, and Bryan Isacks. She’s worked with thousands of people over the years from all walks of life. She is a mom to a teen and a tween, and a lover of nature, music, poetry, and art. She spends some time every day seeking out beauty and magic, and guiding others to do the same.

Through the years, the practice of yoga has been her heart's home, providing a creative outlet, a shelter from the demands of life, a learning laboratory, and a lens through which to view the world.

She is a huge fan of the Coen Brothers movie The Big Lebowski and sees many parallels between the practice of yoga and the life of The Dude. Truly, movement and meditative practices have tied her whole life together and help her to abide all the strikes and gutters that happen. The name of the studio and the studio philosophy are inspired by the film.

Hope's classes explore creativity and curiosity, offering both challenges and rest in perfect balance with one another.  She is available for teacher mentorship, private and semi-private yoga sessions, parties, events, and corporate yoga. Hope designs personalized private sessions, home practices and daily routines for folks who live with anxiety and who are recovering from trauma, and women who are going through divorce. Hope also offers sessions for people facing major health scares, to help them find their strength and inner peace through truly scary times.

Hope currently teaches six classes per week at Abide Larchmere and Abide West:

Music is Medicine All Levels Flow, Monday 6:30 pm (Larchmere)

Belly, Monday 7:45 pm (Larchmere)

Moving Forward, Tuesday 9:30 am (Larchmere)

Yin Yoga & Qigong, Friday 10:00 am (Lakewood)

Music is Medicine All Levels Movement Practice, Saturday 9:30 am (Lakewood)

Intuitive Yin Flow, Sunday 9:00 am (Larchmere)

You can also catch her co-leading How to Abide 200 Hour YTT, and the Moving Forward Immersion.

Or work 1:1 with her in private, skill building sessions, Re-wire: Stabilizing Practices for Anxiety Management.

You can find Hope (and Abide) on instagram at @abidehope and @hopeisafourletterword.