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.