I attended yoga teacher training at Namaspa in Bend, Oregon, and am a certified and registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. I'm working in collaboration with Namaspa to provide our John Day community with a range of classes including Power Vinyasa Flow, Vin/Yin, Healing Flow, and Evoke Energy Yin.

Since completing Namaspa's intensive 200 hour yoga teacher training in Spring 2018, I attended additional trainings including Unstoppable Baptiste Yoga for Youth through the Baptiste Foundation and Art of True North Alignment by the Baptiste Institute along with two rounds of Advanced Yoga Teacher Training focusing on Power Vinyasa Flow and Yin/Healing Flow. I'm currently enrolled in Namaspa's Dare U: 100 Hour Yoga Teacher-Leader Program.

Baptiste Yoga is made up of Asana, Meditation, and Inquiry. The combination is potent. I started YTT with tightness in my back that, at age 35,  prevented me from standing straight up in  the morning. Repetitive motion and nerve damage through my right arm, wrist, and neck meant a lightning bolt of pain through my entire arm when simply opening a water bottle. That is no longer the case. I attribute the transformation of my body, mind, and life to this practice. 

I moved to John Day, Oregon from Montana in April 2016. I feel at home among the mountains and I love being on the river. I am dog mom to Miles and an amateur gardener. My initial entrepreneurial venture as a wedding, family, and boudoir photographer began in 2011 in Bozeman, Montana. I currently sell landscape and abstract nature photography around town, at ashleystevick.com, and at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center in Baker City.