LITTLE MOUNTAIN YOGA

Located in the heart of Marlinton, WV, Little Mountain Yoga Studio offers a welcoming and peaceful environment for new and seasoned yogis. Located on the 2nd floor of Rivertown, formerly CJ Richardson’s Hardware, LMY studio offers classes for all levels, as yoga is for every body.

Our teachers at LMY are lifelong learners who continually strive to deepen their own practices, which makes their teaching styles unique and authentic. Whether you are coming to your first class, recommitting to, or deepening your practice, LMY teachers will meet you where you are and guide you on your yoga journey.

CLASSES

MONDAY | 6pm - 7pm | Power Yoga
SATURDAY | 8:30am - 9:30am | Yin
SATURDAY | 10am - 11am | Vinyasa Flow

• All classes are $10 
• Class pack available $40 for 5 classes

INSTRUCTORS

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Alison Safrit

Owner | Yoga Instructor

  • Alison founded Little Mountain Yoga in 2018 when she completed her yoga teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center. Alison taught for several years in the community before opening LMY studio at Rivertown in 2022. Alison is a mom, potter and gardener thriving in the mountains of West Virginia. She loves building community through yoga and art.

    She has her 200 hr YTT training and an additional certification in Yin Yoga. She has experience with all levels; power vinyasa flow, slow mindful flow, beginners, chair yoga, Yin and prenatal/postpartum yoga and also experience working with students with injuries and mobility limitations.

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Laurel Dilley

Yoga Instructor

  • Laurel is a passionate yoga teacher who combines her love of movement and mindfulness with a dedication to education and family life. She holds a Yoga Alliance 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) certification as well as an additional Yin Yoga endorsement. Her approach to teaching yoga is rooted in creating balance—both on and off the mat.

    In addition to her yoga journey, Laurel is a high school math and computer science teacher. She enjoys leading the PCHS Yoga Club and sharing the benefits of mindfulness and yoga with teens. Laurel lives with her husband and two daughters on their family farm, where she enjoys hiking, gardening, and outdoor recreation.

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Danielle Lackenbauer

Yoga Instructor

  • Danielle is a fun loving yoga teacher and practitioner who recently moved from California to West Virginia. She received her 200hr RYT certificate in San Diego through Miracosta College and specializes in Power and Vinyasa flow. Danielle loves helping people deepen their practice through movement and strengthening. In addition to yoga she is a fisheries technician and loves all things outdoors including hiking, gardening and foraging.

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Katie Workman

Meditation

  • Katie Workman is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. Since late 2019, she has been on the winding path of her healing  journey, which began with cultivating a meditation practice.  Through meditation she has found healing that has opened her to a continual thirst for truth and wisdom and the desire to help others connect to their own truth.   She draws inspiration from a vareity of Spiritual and Earth Wisdom Traditions that she weaves into her meditations all of which center around a common theme of Divine Love.  She has worked closely with her primary teacher and mentor Jill Lemke a shamanic practitioner, including a recent retreat with Jill in Sedona, AZ. 

    Katie leads meditations Saturday mornings at Little Mountain Yoga and is the founder and owner of Mountain Medicine Massage located within Headwaters Spa in Marlinton, WV. Katie deeply believes in the mind, body, soul connection; and that everyone has the potential and ability to heal themselves, which in turn heals the world.

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