Denise Carrico, BFA, Certified Integral Yoga Teacher, CBC-Y, Chaplain in Training    A life-long artist & seeker, Denise found her spiritual ‘home’ in the beautiful, heartful practice of Yoga and has been offering classes, workshops & retreats for over 30 years. Her hope is to make the teachings & the practices open to all who wish to deepen their relationship with themselves, to become kinder and more intimate with their own bodies & hearts, and to expand that out to the wider world as well. Her practice is a rich, integrated one – using breath, mindfulness, Metta meditation, Yoga therapy, somatic movement, stillness, rest, poetry – and is both gentle and therapeutic.
As the Yoga Teacher-in-Residence at Harmony Hill Retreat Center, in Union WA, Denise co-facilitates three-day Cancer Retreats, two-day Health Professional Renewal Retreats and leads daylong & weekend Wellness Workshops. She also offers weekly Yoga & Meditation classes for the local community as well as serving as a Hospice volunteer. She is also a trained Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider & a Chaplain-in-Training at Upaya Zen Center.
She walks the quiet woods of Harmony Hill every day as a spiritual practice with her dog & her cat and hikes the mountains of the Olympics as often as possible. And cherishes what is holy & beautiful in this world: her grandchildren, the body in motion, calligraphy, the mountains, poetry, kindness, love. These words of St Teresa of Calcutta guide her life & work: “We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”