Come As You Are

Hello, Friend.

I'm Sasha Miksis, a community builder, yoga instructor, counselor, birth worker, plant nerd, and mom. I'm the heart behind Yoga Botanica.

I've spent my life bringing people together and holding space for others, guided by a deep belief in the body's innate capacity to heal. As the founder of Ombolt: Yoga Fest Humboldt and Yoga Botanica, my mission is a simple and enduring one: to cultivate places where people feel supported, connected, and inspired.

Yoga became my anchor in 2004 at Yoga Vermont, where I studied Ashtanga under Kathy McNames. In 2012 I earned my certification through the guidance of Lori Snyder, Max Strom, Baron Baptiste, and Hala Khouri, and I've been teaching across Humboldt County ever since. My classes live in the space between energy and ease: strong, dynamic movement met with compassion and accessible calm. My intention never changes. I hold a safe container on the mat, so you can go live your fullest life off of it.

My love of plants took root early, through farming, growing food, crafting herbal remedies, and following the healing wisdom of plant medicine. I live, quite literally, with my hands in the dirt, happiest when I'm sharing what I know with my people and my kids. That lifelong devotion is what grew into Yoga Botanica, a sanctuary where yoga, community, and nature come together.

"Let your breath set the tone for your practice. Let your practice set the tone for your life."

Learn More About Sasha

Yoga Botanica offers a grounded, accessible approach to practice, one that meets you exactly where you are, no matter your experience level. Every class is guided by teachers who value presence, compassion, and connection over performance.

Our approach blends strong, dynamic movement with breath, stillness, and space to simply be.

We offer a range of classes to meet you where you are:

Beginner Flows for building confidence and finding your footing
Grounding Flows for presence, breath, and calm
Power Flows for heat, strength, and challenge

If you've been looking for a practice that meets you where you are, challenges you to grow, and connects you to something deeper, you've found it.

Come as you are.

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Our Studio: A Full-Circle Story

This space has always been meant for gathering, growing, and coming back to yourself. That feeling doesn't happen by accident. It's been built, layer by layer, by people who've lived it.

Before it was Yoga Botanica, this room was home to Om Shala Yoga, the studio where our founder, Sasha, trained as a teacher and found her voice years ago. These walls have held years of practice, of community, of people learning to trust their own bodies again. When Sasha returned to open Yoga Botanica in this very space, it felt like closing a circle rather than starting from scratch, and that history is part of what you feel the moment you walk in.

Yoga Botanica is a new chapter built on real roots: a living sanctuary where movement, healing, plants, and community keep growing together, and where you're invited to grow right alongside them.

The Botanica

True to the meaning of the word, our botanica is a boutique of thoughtfully curated ritual tools, herbs, books, and goods that support intentional living and spiritual practice. It's here for the parts of your wellness that live beyond the mat: the ritual, the remedy, the reminder to slow down.

Every plant in this space is chosen with care, not just for how it looks, but for the calm it brings into the room. That care comes from somewhere real. Sasha's connection to plants began early, through growing food, crafting herbal remedies, and learning the wisdom of plant medicine, and that lifelong devotion is woven into every corner of this space.

This is more than a yoga studio. It's a place to move, gather, and grow, at your own pace, in your own way.