The Holding Practice 

Accessible, trauma-informed Yoga Therapy & Spiritual Counsel

Practical, body-based support to help meet life’s challenges with resilience, presence, and trust. Weekly group Yoga classes, 1:1 Yoga Therapy, and community circles for those navigating significant life changes, chronic stress or pain, or those simply seeking deeper connection and attunement to their bodies, breath, minds, and spirits.

Upcoming Offerings

A community of practice for rest, resistance, and being together in times of struggle.

E X P E R I E N T I A L

Election Day Yoga Nidra Tuesday 11/3 at 6:30pm

Seasonal Yoga and Ayurveda Series: Begins November 15th, 2026

Seasons & Cycles

Pop Up Classes

Polarity Yoga Returns!

Mondays 10/19 and 11/2 at 6:30pm

Join a new community of practice—

Every Wednesday:

12:00-1:00pm, Namaste North, 400 L St, Suite 150

Gentle Flow Yoga

Hi, I’m Merrick! I am a certified Yoga Therapist, an artist by practice, and a poet and writer when I can find the words. I am many things and so are you, which is part of what makes this practice of being so important!

As a queer and neurodivergent person, I naturally see the world through a creative and curious lens. I'm interested in demystifying Yoga and the body by transforming it into an experience that feels less intimidating, more playful and maybe even sacred— a ritual you can return to over and over again throughout your life. 

We recognize that we work and play throughout the unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska.
We acknowledge Anchorage was built upon Dgheyay Kaq’, ancestral territories of the Dena’ina Alaska Native Peoples. We honor their past, present, and future generations by acknowledging the persistence of Indigenous worldviews throughout Alaska, promoting land back, language back, and Indigenous-led causes. We are grateful to those who have held relationship with these lands, waters, plants and creatures for millennia and to whom these spaces, places, and times will forever be homelands.

Inherent Embodiment is committed to the moral obligation to acknowledge, understand, and dismantle colonial practices and systems of oppression, to the benefit of all Alaskans.