Find Your Light on Mineral Avenue in Libby

Mineral Avenue in Libby is home to a new business. The Find Your Light Yoga studio opened up July 1. Danielle Spillman, the owner and yoga instructor for the studio said that the first few weeks of business has been great.

“It’s been wonderful,” she said. “All the classes have been really well attended. I’ve been teaching about three classes a day, along with one on one classes.”

Spillman and her boyfriend moved to Libby from Portland, Ore., to help open Cabinet Mountain Brewing Company.

“My boyfriend and I moved to town to help open the brewery,” she said. “He is the brew master and I’m the marketing coordinator.”

Opening her own yoga studio has been a dream of Spillman’s for quite some time.

“I started doing yoga when I was young,” she said. “When I was in college I started doing it more and more. I was going to school for English and anthropology and wanted to teach. I’m obviously not doing that, yet I’m still making an impact on people’s lives. I was doing yoga on the side out in Troy and I made the decision to open my own studio here in Libby. There was definitely a need for it in Libby. I received a lot of support from the community and decided to pull the trigger. Opening my own studio has been exciting and very fulfilling.”

Individuals who would like to take part in the yoga classes at the studio have a number of options available to them.

“If they are interested in taking part in one of the classes they have a couple of options,” she said. “They can get a punch card which is 10 classes for $75, or they can get five classes for $45. There is also the drop in option that is $10. A one on one session is $45 an hour. The one on one classes are for people that are nervous to be in that group setting and for those that need more adjustments or more attention.”

Aside from the classes she has in her studio, Spillman will be leading a number of events in the community.

“I will be doing yoga at the Libby Care Center with the elderly people,” she said. “I’ll also be doing yoga with the girls from the high school and hopefully getting the boys involved at some point.”

Now that she is a couple weeks in, Spillman is planning a number of events for the end of the month and August.

“I will be doing some workshops at the end of the month,” she said. “I’ll also be doing an all men’s class. I’m trying to get more men involved. I think men can be leery about coming and doing yoga with a class full of women.”

Spillman said that the studio is open to everybody of all yoga levels.

“Find Your Light Yoga studio welcomes creativity, authenticity, movement and love,” she said. “Come learn what yoga is all about in a calming, cozy accepting studio. It’s open to everybody of all yoga levels. It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or an expert.”