Yoga House of Bellevue

Brian Bales Playful, Creative, Aligned

Contact Brian:425-644-8885
b1yogi@mindspring.com

Founder and Creator of The Yoga House of Bellevue. Brian has devoted more than 20 years to various healing modalities, including massage, yoga, mediation, and energetic healing.

Brian was born in Houston, but spent most of his childhood years in Kansas City. Brian’s Dad, Nathan, first taught him to meditate when he was only 10 years old. It changed his life in ways that he only now can recognize. The next big change for Brian was when he began to study Tae Kwon Do with Master Chon Lee, one of the few 8th degree black belts in the country at that time. Through this experience he was introduced to the importance of energy, flexibility and foundation and for the first time Brian excelled to the top of his class. Brian felt honored to study under Master Lee. At the age of 15, He began traveling on his motorcycle & covered thousands of miles from coast to coast North & South. He was in awe of the beautiful and magnificence sights he encountered, & the silence of traveling solo for long periods at a time. After many years of living in Sedona, AZ. working as a carpenter, Hospice care, nurse & eventually massage therapist. He moved to WA state in 1992 to continue massage school & seek advanced studies in many forms of body work.

Brian feels blessed to have studied with some of the World's Greatest YOGI'S. Through their Teachings, Blessings and Many Gifts, Brian developed his own, unique style of Yoga, called B1 Yoga, in the tradition of Tantric Hatha Yoga. Brian's yogic path has been most inspired by David Life and Sharon Gannon and therefore, his classes are similar to a Jivamukti class! Brian is honored to spend time with David and Sharon and to be given the gift of their wisdom. Brian feels that they are his Yogi Parents, Teacher's and Guru's, all rolled up into one!

Brian has completed teacher trainings with Ana Forrest, David Life, Mitchell Bleier, Sieanna Sherman & John Friend.

Brian wants to share the Joy filled Freedom of Alignment with Source, that he has come to live, through the practice of Yoga!

Here is a list of some of Brian’s teachers that he has been studying with, some of them over 10 years: David Life* & Sharon Gannon, Ana Forrest*, Gurmukh, Bryan Kest, Pretzel, John Friend, Mitchell Bleier* & Sianna Sherman*, Doug Keller* , Douglas Brooks, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, Erich Schiffman, Darma Mitra, M. Govindan, Rod Stryker, and Krishna Das.

In addition:

Brian has completed a 10 day Vipasana (Silent meditation retreat 10 hours a day for 10 days straight of silent meditation)
Kriya Yoga level 1 & 2 initiation with Marshal Govindan
Mueller College of Massage in Calif. Graduated with all A's & 1 B
Bellevue Massage School and the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine for continuing education courses
Brian was licensed by the states of California, & has been licensed in Washington 14+ years, He is also Nationally certified in massage.
He has also trained to become an EMT Emergency Med. Tec.

Other Coursework: Acupressure (levels 1, 3 & 5 of 6), Chi Nei Tsang (internal organ massage), Neuromuscular release training (with Monk Barazone), Anatomy and Physiology, Pathology, Kinesiology, Cranial Fluid Dynamics, Foundation Opening Human Potential, Touch for Health I Certification, Accelerated Healing, The Foundation Cranial Sacral Level I, First-Degree USIU System Reiki (Sedona, AZ), Second-Degree USIU System Reiki, Foot Reflexology, Barbara Brennan Hands of Light (Bellevue, WA)

Brian Bales and Laura Sycamore are committed to empowering and building each student’s self-esteem, while inspiring light-heartedness. They blend their knowledge, passion for yoga, and love for life into each class! Brian and Laura were married in July of 2004 and blessed with their first son, Jai Everest March 13 of 2005! Their second child was born on Sept 26th 2006 at their home in a warm water tub!