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I founded The Shala as a place to practice living yoga — gently, intentionally, and in community.

 

My name is Trisha Hill. I am an E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP, RPYT, yoga therapist, cross-country coach, and USATF Level 2 track coach.

 

My yoga journey began over six years ago when I started bringing yoga into my athletes’ training to support flexibility, balance, strength, lung function, focus, and recovery. Over time, I began to understand that yoga was not just something we “do” on a mat. Yoga is something we practice in the way we breathe, move, respond, listen, and live.

 

As my own practice deepened, I found more value in teaching yoga to my athletes rather than simply doing yoga with them. That shift changed everything.

 

Today, yoga has become more than a physical practice for me. It is an internal journey of awareness, steadiness, compassion, and coming back to my true nature.

 

At the heart of my work is community. I am passionate about making yoga accessible and creating a space where people feel safe to arrive exactly as they are — a space to move, breathe, grow, soften, and let go.

 

When I am not coaching athletes or teaching yoga, you can usually find me in the kitchen making Ayurvedic meals or running the trails in and around Steuben County.

 

“Yoga is a journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”

— Bhagavad Gita