Lauren Carly is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with highest honors; Lauren started her life-long practice in 1966; In addition to her RYT-200 course, she has taken quite a number of specialty yoga classes under Tom Hess, owner, Yoga Center of Chico (YCC); She completed Tom Hess's 2 year-long Apprentice Program to deepen her teaching and practice.; She has led the Elk Creek Yoga group since about 2011. She also co-leads the yoga philosophy group once a month at the YCC since January 2023.