The yoga luna story

A woman in a yoga studio stretching in the middle of a yoga routine, Women’s Health, Yoga Luna .

Yoga Luna was founded in 2024 by Maddie Adams out of a heartfelt desire to provide community centered yoga that honors our cyclical nature and tends to the seasonal rhythms of our lives.

Maddie has been a student of yoga since 2004 and has been teaching since 2011. After many years of studying, teaching and practicing yoga that was vigorous and physically challenging, Maddie felt that something was missing from her practice and it needed to evolve. Through her experiences with pregnancy, birth, postpartum healing, parenting, and adrenal fatigue, she came to value the aspects of yoga that are nourishing, nurturing, and introspective.

She recognized that the best yoga helps us to find a balance in our lives between action and rest, challenge and recovery. Our culture tends to emphasize the former and disregard the latter, leading to the epidemic of exhaustion, burnout, addiction, and chronic illness that we see today. Her life experiences have helped Maddie develop a new skill set for deep healing with the power of cyclical awareness, rest, nurture, and self compassion. With this skill set and recognition came along a desire to partner with other experienced and dedicated teachers and offer these healing tools to the community at large.

And so Yoga Luna was born! At Yoga Luna, we acknowledge and affirm that we are all cyclical beings and that our lives and wellbeing are tied to and dependent on the many cycles of nature, from the big cycles of yearly seasons to the lunar cycle, menstrual cycles, day/night cycles, down to the smallest cycles of the breath and heartbeat.

We believe that a yoga practice that honors and tends to these rhythms has the unique capacity to awaken us to our own indwelling intuitive knowing (or vidya). By honoring the cycles of our lives, Yoga Luna seeks to embrace the wholeness of who we are at every level of being and nourish our capacity for deep healing and clear awareness.

Meet the team

  • Maddie Adams, a certified yoga therapist at Yoga Luna in Beaverton, Oregon.

    Maddie Adams

    C-IAYT, E-RYT500,
    YOGA NIDRA FACILITATOR

    Maddie is a certified yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is also certified at the 500 hour level with Yoga Alliance. Her yoga journey started more than 20 years ago and she has been teaching since 2011.

    She is passionate about the multidimensional healing that yoga can offer. Her classes draw on Ayurveda, seasonal wisdom, and traditional yoga philosophy and weave these elements together with chanting, mindfulness, breath, and Yoga Nidra. She also offers private yoga therapy for individuals and small groups. You can find more info about her yoga therapy practice at maddieadamsyoga.com

  • Erin Hennessy, a yoga instructor at Yoga Luna in Beaverton, Ore.

    Erin Hennessy

    YOGA INSTRUCTOR

    Erin has been immersed in yoga practices for nearly three decades & has been teaching for 16+ years. Her journey with these practices began at age 12 & have only become more treasured to her over time. Erin has trained with World renowned teachers in various forms of yoga, spiritual/mystic studies, mindfulness & embodiment practices, myofascial release~Aquastretch Therapy, neurolinguistic programming, and more.

    Whether in workshops, group classes, or private lessons, Erin provides a safe space to slow down to remember your intrinsic wisdom, rhythm, & flow. You can find her on Instagram @exploreblissyoga

  • Lila Martin Bergroth

    LMT, MELT AND YOGA INSTRUCTOR

    Lila has been a yoga teacher and bodyworker since 1994. Her passion is empowering her students and clients to return to their native state of wellbeing through simple and effective tools. In addition to her experience with yoga and massage, she is trained in Melt Method, Nia, and Reiki.

    Lila considers joy and fun to be essential in healing, and brings these elements into all her classes. Through a blend of Melt and yoga, she helps students connect with body and breath through functional movement to create a sense of internal spaciousness and freedom.

  • Julie Lucas, IRest Yoga Nidra teacher

    Julie Lucas

    IREST CERTIFIED YOGA NIDRA FACILITATOR

    Julie had her first encounter with Yoga Nidra in 2015. In awe of its ability to bring her home to herself, she felt called to study and share this transformative practice. As a certified iRest® yoga nidra teacher, Julie creates space to explore your moment-to-moment experience with kind curiosity – gracefully remembering the truth of your wholeness.

    Weaving together her training in iRest, Mindful Schools, and Imagination Yoga, Julie offers practices for both adults and children, in-person and virtually. Whether she's teaching in a 7th grade homeroom, a yoga studio or an elementary gymnasium, Julie brings her whole heart to the collaborative adventures. You can find more information at
    withinwonder.com