Michele Loew

Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher & practitioner of Hatha & Tibetan Yogas & the co-founding director of the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist & Indic Yogic Studies where sheco-teaches with Professor Robert A.F. Thurman at Menla & abroad.

She has taught, practiced, & studied avidly since 1998, and continues to run her longtime yoga school and beloved studio, The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon. She is also on the Board of  Tibet House US  and is devoted to supporting His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s mission, as well as preserving Tibetan Culture and Dharma. You can find her often in New York sharing yoga at Tibet House or upstate at Menla Mountain Retreat.

Her love and commitment to the unexcelled yoga tantras of Vajrayana as a path we can take towards perfect enlightenment and the integration of those teachings with the Hatha yogas more broadly practiced today, seeing both as powerful and not separate extensions of one another, infuses her work with great joy &  commitment to a more compassionate and awakened world.

She honors the lineage of teachers she comes from and bows to her longtime Hatha & Classical Yoga teacher,  Richard Freeman  for elucidating the middle path of love with the utmost clarity and kindness. To Robert Thurman, her beloved principle teacher in Buddhist science and her root guru His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the deepest bow for empowering her in the anuttara yogas.

Michele teaches regular classes and 200 & 500 YA trainings in Yoga & Yoga Nidra in Portland &; New York, as well as retreats and workshops internationally. Follow her on instagram @micheleloew

Upcoming Programs by Michele Loew

Yoga Nidra Winter Solstice Retreat

December 18 - 21, 2026

Join us for this 3 night retreat on the practice of Yoga Nidra (enlightened sleep) and the sister sciences of Tibetan Dream Yoga and Clearlight Sleep Yoga. Michele will share inspiring talks and a Yoga Nidra practice at each session to take us into deep meditative mode to heal, relax, and restore. Whether you are […]

RADIATING 2027: The Light of the Compassionate Heart

Also With Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Arjun Bruggeman, Lea Garnier, Paul Bloom, John Campbell and Nena Thurman

December 27, 2026 - January 1, 2027

As we enter the Year of the Fire Goat, we are invited to cultivate compassionate courage and heartfelt connection. This year's energy encourages us to lead with kindness, embrace our authentic nature, and welcome the year ahead with purpose, harmony, and joy. Join friends of Tibet House US | Menla for an 19-year tradition as […]