Our Story
Lynden Yoga Collective was born in 2022 out of a deep need for something more than movement, a space where people could come home to themselves in North Whatcom County.
After walking through a season of profound disorientation, personally, spiritually, and professionally, our co-founder Kyle Kloostra found himself asking life’s harder questions. Questions about meaning, connection, suffering, and the body’s wisdom. What began as a private reckoning with loss and identity slowly transformed into a vision: to build a community where people could grow not by escaping their pain, but by learning to sit with it, breathe through it, and emerge wiser.
Our classes reflect this ethos. Whether you come for gentle movement, restorative stillness, heated intensity, or meditative inquiry, you will be met by teachers who hold space without judgment. Teachers who walk their own paths of practice. Teachers who know that growth does not come only from pushing harder, but also learning how to soften wisely into resilience.
At LYC, we integrate ancient contemplative practices with modern science and trauma-informed approaches. We are building a new kind of yoga community, one that values depth over trend, process over performance, and belonging over branding.
We hope when you walk through our doors, you feel it:
A sense that you can exhale.
That you do not have to be anyone but yourself.
That you are not alone on the path.
This is a collective. A gathering of stories, practices, and people who believe that presence is powerful, the body is wise, and the spiritual life is not somewhere else. It is right here.
With Gratitude,
Kyle and Kristin Kloostra