Retreats, Workshops and small LIVE Zoom group classes customized for attendees. Softer, safer yoga. Meditation, Breath and Restorative Yoga
Beginners Yoga, Semi-Active Hatha Yoga, Healing & Restorative Yoga, Plus Size - Large Body Yoga, Yoga for Trauma, Injuries & Chronic Conditions, Adaptive & Gentle Yoga, Specialized Workshops, Private Sessions, Chair Yoga.
01/21/2026
The women below have explored many styles of movement and yoga over the years, yet they've made Lanita's gentlest classes their yoga home.��
When Lanita asked why they continued to choose her classes, especially since she considers them “more physically fit” than she is, their answers were simple and deeply meaningful:
✨ Open-mindedness�✨ Non-judgement�✨ Peace of mind�✨ MIMSY opened a spiritual path for me�✨ You have made movement joyful and sacred
This is the heart of A Gentle Way: movement that meets you where you are, and stays with you as life changes.
Join us for our weekly Zoom classes, or at our Feathered Pipe Retreat in Montana, June 13-20.
A Gentle Way senior teachers Lanita Varshell & Diane Ambrosini are back at the Pipe to lead another week of deep rest and reflection, joyful movement, and an exploration of how much we can open our hearts to love. This is an unforgettable week that will stay with you forever. Set up a free appointment to chat with Lanita to see if this week is a great fit for you.
Email: agentlewayyoga@gmail.com
01/10/2026
The Feathered Pipe Ranch has been a safe, loving space where all are welcome. Yoga teachers find great rest and inspiration here, while those brand-new to yoga or seeking to care for their bodies find a gentle path into health and joy. Diane and Lanita welcome you with open arms to their June Retreat. This is a gift that will last a lifetime! Have questions?
Set up a free phone session with Lanita.
email: agentlewayyoga@gmail.com
01/08/2026
Need help getting started? Low-cost Zoom private sessions are now available with Lanita Varshell, Founder of A Gentle Way.
Weekly group Zoom classes are here to support you.
Email for a free consultation. agentlewayyoga@gmail.com www.agentleway.com
01/08/2026
Ready to treat yourself to a week of pure heaven on earth?
The land of Feathered Pipe is magical.
The lodge you are looking at is filled with the loving energy of Feathered Pipe’s founder, India Supera, and all the amazing teachers who have taught here at this great Lodge and on this sacred land.
Lanita Varshell and Diane Ambrosini host the week of June 13-20. A week with no judgments, no expectations. Where all ages, sizes, abilities, and body types are welcomed with loving arms. A Gentle Way - where love is all there is!
You will never regret investing in yourself and supporting this healing land.
Are you ready to return to small, intimate yoga classes where your instructor gets to know your body and tailors the movements to your needs?
Are you missing your yoga support group?
MIMSY classes are more than just asana. They are a small, loving community that inspires you every day while releasing deep physical and emotional tension.
No sincere seeker of yoga is ever turned away. If you cannot afford our published prices, pay what you can. Would you like to have a conversation about this?
We are here for you! www.agentleway.com
01/06/2026
Need help getting back on your path of self-care?
Join Lanita for a slow, nurturing class tonight.
Can't afford our $16 drop-in?
Use the coupon code SAVE for $8 off.
Sign up now! www.agentleway.com
01/03/2026
What Is the one thing you would like to remember about yourself? I ask this question hoping that you will respond, because as I sit here, trying to communicate with you all again, the loud voices in my head keep trying to remind me of all the things they think I should have done last year that I did not do. Without my yoga practice, I wouldn't be able to access the quiet voice that brings me peace, despite what the louder voices shout out. For me, it is that I deserved ALL the rest I gave myself. It was not laziness, it was re-charging my battery, it was deep self care. How about you? What is the one thing you would like to remember about yourself? 💜
01/03/2026
New to A Gentle Way live Zoom classes, or wishing to return? Start with this limited-time special: $50 for 30 days of unlimited group classes. Click the link to purchase:
Classes: PST-Pacific Standard Times
SATURDAYS
8:30 AM - Joyful Awakening - Diane
SUNDAYS
8:30 AM - Gentle & Classical Asana - Lanita
10:30 AM - Gentle & Meditation - Lanita
Go to our website to see all our classes. www.agentleway.com
Join us for Feathered Pipe’s annual LOVEfest —
a free, online gathering celebrating community, connection, and the love that has held us for 50 years.
🗓 Sunday, December 14, 2025
⏰ 9am PST | 10am MST | 11am CST | 12pm EST
📍 Live on Zoom
✨ Guided meditation with Jillian Pransky
🎶 Music from Ravi Marsolek
📖 A reading from Kelly & Zia’s latest Feathered Pipe Stories
💛 Gratitude, laughter, and shared love across the globe.
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We do not believe that one style of yoga, or one way of teaching a pose (asana) fits all. We are known for customizing our classes for the students who walk into our Center each day, not just teaching yoga asanas or routines.
We focus on safe, slower traditional asanas, and specialize in softer, healing, stress reducing and therapeutic classes that help balance the central nervous system.
Our founder Lanita Varshell began teaching yoga full-time in 1996. She began teaching in Diet Centers, Gyms, and Karate Studios, bringing students into yoga who never dreamed they could practice yoga or become healthy again.
Even fit, experienced yoga students loved her gentle, joyful approach to exercise, and soon she had developed a faithful clientele of over 100 students just in the East County San Diego area. "A Gentle Way Yoga Center" first opened its doors in 2000, adding more classes and different teachers and styles so that students could have a well rounded yoga practice. Since then we have offered a sanctuary for people from all walks of life to practice safe, personalized yoga.
Our active yoga classes will increase your flexibility, improve your muscle strength, and teach you to connect with your body and breath. Our gentle classes will calm your mind, melt away stress, and release areas in the body that hold tightness and tension.
Yoga breathing techniques and philosophy will open you to a world of inner and outer and health in a way that you have never experienced your life, your body, and the world before.
A quiet, clean sanctuary where you escape for an hour or two from your everyday stresses of life. We are a place where "the fit keeping fit to learn to balance their life and advance their practice safely. We are a haven for students who do not "fit into" traditional exercise or other yoga classes.
Yoga can be used as a tool to create balance in your life, and promote a deep sense of inner peace. Each of our instructors is trained to make yoga work for your specific body. We believe that anyone can (and should) do yoga - regardless of age, size, gender, or physical limitation. Yoga is experiential, and offers a unique journey for each individual.
Begin yours today! We look forward to getting to know you.
