Harley Muscarella

I was born and raised in southeast Michigan. I have always been involved with athletics, riding bikes has always been a passion of mine as well as team sports such as baseball, football, lacrosse, and rugby. I got involved with yoga for the first time while studying architectural design in Grand Rapids, MI toward the end of 2015 but my practice really took hold in 2017 when I moved back to the east side of Michigan. There I started practicing diligently at a hot studio that offered a variety of ashtanga, vinyasa, and bikram-influenced styles of yoga. Shortly after starting I was encouraged by several of the teachers to join an upcoming 200 hour teacher's training they were hosting, which started that September and ended January of 2018. The curriculum for that training was rooted in ashtanga and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. After there I practiced at and eventually ended up teaching at two other studios. At one studio I leaned into a more restorative, yin style of teaching and the other was a former Bikram studio where I refined my athletic-based style of teaching combined with what one of my mentors started to call my personal style: hatha flow. That was a funny, experience based learning period for me which went on up until March of 2020 when both studios were closed down indefinitely. One thing led to another, and in January of 2021 I ended up moving to Charleston, SC where I am now teaching restorative, vinyasa (hatha flow), and power yoga classes at another hot studio located in Mt. Pleasant. I still maintain my passion for bicycling by commuting everywhere, and even began a new hobby of training and competing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Still very much connected with the athletic passions that were prominent in my younger days, just planting and growing in new fields I suppose.