Michele Loew
Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher & practitioner of Hatha & Tibetan Yogas & the 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
300 Hour Vajra Yoga School
Also With Robert A.F. Thurman
Our 300 Hour Vajra Yoga School course will be held November 11th, 2024 to April 6, 2025. This is a unique Yoga Alliance Certification program sponsored by Menla and Tibet House US that incorporates the classical yogic inner sciences from India and Tibet to give people the tools to have a better life and share […]
Vajra Yoga Fall Retreat
Also With Robert A.F. Thurman
Join us for a week of inspiring dharma and yoga practice as we immerse ourselves into the meditative inner science of Vajra Yoga. Bob will give daily dharma talks examining the comparative inner sciences of the Buddha and the yogis. Michele will teach alignment-based Hatha, Vinyasa, and Tibetan yoga sequences and share the subtleties and transformational technology […]
Breathing 2025: Annual New Year’s Dharma, Pranayama, Yoga, Kirtan & Astrology Celebration
Also With Robert A.F. Thurman, Matteo Pistono, Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Alexander Mallon, Paul Bloom and Lea Garnier
Celebrate with friends of Tibet House US | Menla, a 17 year tradition, as our community gathers in person to ring in the new year in the magic garden secret valley of the Medicine Buddha, Menla. Practice, pray and party with us across five days of teachings, breathwork, yoga, astrology, devotional chanting and more. Join […]
Yoga Nidra: Enlightened Sleep Yoga Practice Retreat
An in-person retreat at Menla on the enlightened sleep yoga practice of yoga nidra and comparative Tibetan sister sciences. Join us for this four-day retreat on the enlightened sleep yoga practice of yoga nidra and the sister sciences of Tibetan dream and clearlight sleep yoga. Michele will share inspiring talks and a yoga nidra practice […]