About Us
Grow STRONG & STABLE with Support from the Ohana Moon Yoga Team!
Since its inception in 2014, Ohana Moon Yoga has embarked on a remarkable journey to become a sanctuary for all practitioners, regardless of their yoga experience. From the very beginning, our mission has been clear: to create a welcoming and comfortable space where individuals can explore the transformative power of yoga for their health and well-being.
We proudly offer a diverse range of heated and non-heated classes, thoughtfully designed to meet the unique needs of each individual, ensuring that everyone can find their path to wellness. Our expert instructors are dedicated to guiding students through personalized movements that not only enhance strength, flexibility, and balance but also foster a deep connection between mind, body, and spirit.
We believe that yoga is more than just a practice; it is a journey towards personal success and growth. We are immensely proud to have been recognized as the #1 Yoga Studio in El Dorado County over the past 10 years, an achievement made possible by the unwavering support and loyalty of our cherished community. Thank you for being an integral part of our story and for voting us #1!
Check out some of our wide variety of offerings, and enjoy your first week free!
Beginner Classes: Chair Yoga, Yin, Gentle & Kaiut Yoga
Intermediate Classes: Slow Flow, Stretch + Sculpt & Warm Power Flow (heated to 80 degrees)

Our Teachers

Gretta Schmidt
Gretta has a huge passion for movement! It began at 7 years old in her first dance class, and the fire never died. After many years of dancing and teaching dance, Gretta needed a way to heal injuries and maintain flexibility. She took her first yoga class in college and fell in love with the way it made her feel! Yoga became a dance of the soul and spirit, a low impact way to feel strong and graceful.
In June 2014, Gretta opened Ohana Moon Yoga. Her goal is to offer the community a warm and friendly studio where students can move their bodies and feel better. Gretta especially enjoys teaching students who are new to yoga, encouraging them to explore movement, breath and meditation to build their mind, body and breath connection.
In order to teach, Gretta believes that she must always be a student. She has successfully completed 1,000+ hours of Yoga Teacher Trainings in Vinyasa, Yin, Hatha Vinyasa, Buti Yoga and Omni Flow and continues to educate herself on and off her mat.
As a teacher, Gretta hopes to provide fun and powerful classes where students may face their fears and find courage. In her classes you will hear lots of music of all varieties, see energy, and feel encouragement. Gretta hopes her classes help you experience your best and ignite your spirit!
Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy joined the Ohana Moon Yoga family in March 2020. Her mom and dad (Gretta and Jesse Schmidt) adopted Miss Daisy from the El Dorado County animal shelter and are over-the-moon for their sweet pup!,p>
Daisy’s favorite classes are Chair Yoga and Yin. During Chair Yoga and Yin, Daisy sunbathes and takes a nap in her special ‘nest’ bed. Catch her at Ohana in the morning on Aloha Fridays!

Joyce Kilburg
Joyce shares yoga the way she was inspired and hopes to inspire someone else, and so on and so on. The yoga classes she teaches are designed for her students to experience the unity of mind and body that are bridged by breath.
Joyce has been practicing yoga for her spiritual growth, following the teachings of her Guru Paramhansa Yogananda for many years. Some of her greatest teachers have been her students and family.
Joyce is also a practitioner of Thai/polarity bodywork, another modality she practices to open pathways and help clear blockages within the energy body.
In her spare time, Joyce likes to spend time with her husband of nearly forty years. They enjoy growing their own fruits and veggies and playing in the kitchen.


Kari Hargon
Kari’s yoga journey began over 14 years ago, rooted in her struggle with anxiety. A friend’s suggestion to try yoga opened a door to a world where she discovered a profound sense of freedom and connection, both to herself and to a welcoming community. For over nine years, Ohana Moon Yoga has been her heart and home, a sanctuary where she’s blossomed into the inspiring soul she is today.
In 2020, she achieved a significant milestone by becoming a certified yoga teacher (RYT 200) through Spotted Dog Yoga, the very studio owned by her first yoga teacher—what a beautiful full-circle moment! Since then, she has continued her yoga education with two additional Yin Teacher Trainings with Joyce Kilburg, Gretta Schmidt and Joe Barnett.
With a BA in child development from Sac State University, Kari brings a nurturing spirit to her classes, especially in her beloved Yin yoga, inviting everyone—yes, even those who think yoga isn’t for them—to find their place on the mat. Her light-hearted approach, combined with a genuine passion for her practice, makes every session feel like a cozy gathering with friends, complete with the warmth of shared laughter and community. So, if you’re ready to discover joy and connection, Kari can’t wait to welcome you to Ohana Moon Yoga, where every body and every journey is celebrated!
Marilyn Depue
Marilyn’s yoga journey began in 2015, when she retired from 26 years of Taekwondo as a student, and instructor and a school owner. Looking to stay active, she started a yoga journey. After trying many studios, she found Ohana Moon Yoga, where it feels like an extended family with lots of love and energy. At first she was just enjoying the exercise of the Slow Flow classes and routinely showed up two or three times a week and nine years later she is still here.
Six months after the loss of her husband, of 52 years, she was approached by Gretta to think about YTT training. She completed the 200 hundred hour YTT in April 2022 with Gretta and Joyce. That training literally transformed her life. She discovered there is so much more to Yoga than the exercise. Learning to love who she is and to value the powerful ways yoga can help her become a more mindful, positive, kind person. She is stronger and more present. She believes yoga has the ability to heal the body and the mind.
Marilyn has learned to control her stress and to be more compassionate with herself through breath and listening to her inner voice. She loves teaching classes because giving back is the best way for her to move forward. She loves the connection with the students and other teaches and staff at Ohana Moon and strives to open her heart to learning more every day.
She believes that in bringing fun, laughter, enthusiasm and energy into her life she has enhanced her physical and emotional well-being. Life is short and she is learning to accept and let go and celebrate every day. Marilyn is grateful to be a part of Ohana Moon Yoga and invites you to join her in a Gentle or Chair Yoga class.


Jessica Bowman
Physical, psychological, and spiritual health have always fascinated Jessica. She has studied medicine, psychology, religion, and behavior at UC Davis. Through her studies, she learned the value of mindfulness, positive thinking, social support, breath work, and regular exercise as integral therapeutic tools. 10 years ago while living in Canada, Jessica fell in love with yoga while taking classes at an intimate studio in Calgary. Since then, daily yoga has significantly improved her physical and spiritual health. Sharing the benefits of yoga is what encourages Jessica to teach.
Her personal healing through yoga sparked a desire to complete a Vinyasa Style Yoga Teacher Training. Since completing the certification in 2015, Jessica continues to enjoy growth as a student and instructor of Yin, Slow Flow, Power, Gentle Flow and Meditation. Instructing yoga allows her to share the many blessings yoga has to offer. In turn, each student inspires her as well. Jessica is grateful to be part of the Ohana Moon community and looks forward to seeing you on your mat.
Molly Oser
After a 20 plus year career as an Urban Planner, Molly is fortunate to be able to embrace a second passion. She has practiced yoga for nearly as long as her urban planning career. About eight years ago, Molly took her first yin class. Upon losing her first passion of planning, Molly took a giant leap (on a bit of a lark and a challenge by her teacher) and went to a yin yoga teacher training in Sweden. Never intending to teach, just to learn and to feel her transitions, Molly returned home and got the phone call from a studio owner. So…she started teaching. And she realized that selfishly, she had a new passion. Molly subsequently went to an additional yin training in France and found that she wanted to learn even more.
Shortly thereafter, Molly met Karen Miscall Bannon and started learning about embodiment. That is to say feeling yoga from the inside. Not just the poses but deeper, the whys, the more enriched understanding of the body and Molly felt complete; it was enough. Molly had been trained in yin by one the top four teachers internationally and she is able to experience and study Embody yoga with one of the originators. How very fortunate. At this point, Molly has completed 125 hours of strict yin training, 300+ hours of embodiment, and 65 hours of vinyasa and yin assisting.
But not quite satisfied. Upon the suggestion of her teacher again, Molly leapt to study Kaiut yoga. Knowing absolutely nothing about it, she showed up in Toronto in mid-winter for a new adventure. And then she showed up again and again completing a 300 hour Kaiut Yoga certification. And Kaiut Yoga has put it all together for Molly. It combines yin and vinyasa in the true embodiment. This yoga allows and encourages you to feel from the inside, it is challenging, but meditative and fully meets you where you are. And you can do it your whole life letting the passion live on.
Molly feels incredibly fortunate for the opportunities as she continues to learn from her students, teachers, and practice. She feels so lucky to be able to be a guide to others perhaps providing some relief or just some peace in their day.


Cassey Wagner
“To know yourself as THE BEING underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and the joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” -Eckhart Tolle
When Cassey arrives to her yoga mat there is a sense of coming home, her goal is to lead you to a similar space. Cassey views yoga as the journey inward. Yoga has helped Cassey distinguish the difference between her inner self and her mind/ego. Cassey believes that when all is said and done the body diminishes and the inner self, THE BEING (spirit) lives on, and that our actions while inhabiting Earth matter.
Cassey discovered the physical practice of yoga in her early 20’s when a friend invited her to a Bikram Yoga class, at that time it was solely a sporadic physical practice. It was nearly a decade later in 2013 when Cassey discovered Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga which was life changing, from that point forward yoga became just as much a spiritual practice as a physical one. Cassey has been practicing yoga consistently since 2013, expanding her personal practice in 2017 when she took Yoga Assistant Training and again in 2019 when she received her 200 hour RYT certification from Yoga Alliance. Cassey has been teaching Flow Yoga since April of 2019. Cassey is a compassionate human being who relates to the ethical and physical practices of yoga, modeling this in her lifestyle by eating a plant-based diet and treating ALL kind as she wishes to be treated, with love and respect.
Cassey believes that yoga has the ability to heal the body, clear out stale energy and bring oneself in touch with their most inner being. Cassey believes that her role as a teacher is to guide the students through the asanas while encouraging them to move in a manner that feels authentic in their body, moving them closer to home.
Cassey believes that yoga has the ability to heal the body, clear out stale energy and bring oneself in touch with their most inner being. Cassey believes that her role as a teacher is to guide the students through the asanas while encouraging them to move in a manner that feels authentic in their body, moving them closer to home.
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