Mission Yoga - Scranton

* please note the start time of 6:30pm

Join for a magical spring🌸🌸 evening of sustained, supported rest postures and assisted relaxation.

As twilight descends, a special two hour Restorative practice will feature hands-on healing touch and curated Aromatherapy with essential oils.

Please wear loose, comfy-comfy layers (light pajamas are encouraged!), and feel free to bring a sleep mask, eye pillow, or favorite soft blanket and/or pillow for additional comfort.

Space is extremely limited for this pop-up experience so don’t delay to reserve your spot.

Preregister on our MINDBODY schedule under workshops.

start again tomorrow! Head over to our page and check out to learn about her, get inspired, and have some fun.

🌸Today is the last day to purchase!! 🌸

Spring is here, and it’s the perfect time to elevate your practice!

Join us for Yoga, HIIT, or Aerial classes with our limited-time 5 Class Pass for just $49. Ready to take it further? Our 10 Class Pass is available for $89. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to flow into the season!

Want to try something new? Our reformers are waiting for you! 5 class passes are on sale for $139 (regularly $169)

Please note the following terms:
*** Yoga/hiit/aerial passes are Not valid for reformer classes
*** Passes activate at purchase and cannot be extended.
*** Sale ends May 10th at Midnight.
*** 3 per person, please
*** Passes are valid for 6 months

Purchase at mission-yoga.com or via the MINDBODY app.

Spring is here, and it’s the perfect time to elevate your practice!

Join us for Yoga, HIIT, or Aerial classes with our limited-time 5 Class Pass for just $49. Ready to take it further? Our 10 Class Pass is available for $89. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to flow into the season!

Want to try something new? Our reformers are waiting for you! 5 class passes are on sale for $139 (regularly $169)

Please note the following terms:
*** Yoga/hiit/aerial passes are Not valid for reformer classes
*** Passes activate at purchase and cannot be extended.
*** Sale ends May 10th at Midnight.
*** 3 per person, please
*** Passes are valid for 6 months

Purchase at mission-yoga.com or via the MINDBODY app.

As this week comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how I got here.

I keep coming back to how grateful I am to teach at Mission.

For Kelly, who saw something in me early on and chose to invest in it. 🙏

To the students who trust me with your time, your energy, and your experience, you encourage me to be a better teacher. You make me want to keep refining, keep learning, and show up with more care.

I’m grateful for friends who stand beside me, raw and honest, the ones who aren’t afraid to sit me down and be real with me. 🫶

For my family, who keeps me grounded.

And for the teachers who guided me with incredible patience, and continue to cheer me on.

Somewhere along the way, I started to see that every interaction holds something. Every person, in their own way, becomes a teacher.

I’m also grateful for the growth that didn’t always come easily.

Thank you for being here this week. 💙

📸 : Kathleen Gilhooley Photography

Thoughts on my teaching style:

I’m not overly rigid, but I’m not hands-off either.

There’s a structure to the class and within that, there’s space.

Sometimes I’ll guide your focus.

Other times, I’ll invite you to follow what feels interesting or stay with something a little longer.

In my aerial dance classes, I encourage you to find your own movement voice rather than becoming a version of someone else.

It’s not all serious. There’s lightness in it, too.

I’m there to shape the experience, without needing to control every part of it.

At the end of class, I always offer a moment of gratitude just to acknowledge the time and energy you gave to yourself.

That part feels important to me.

Outside of the studio, my life is full in a different way.

I’m a mom to four adult kids, a wife, and last year I became a grandma to the sweetest little boy.

My dad lives with us, so my days are often shared, busy, and a little unpredictable. And, somewhere in there is my small, very loved pup, Rover.

Because of that, my practice doesn’t always look the way you might expect.

Some days it’s a full, spacious flow.

Other days it’s a few gentle shapes, a dance to one song, or a moment to pause and breathe in between everything else.

I’ve learned to stop waiting for the “perfect” time.

For me, it’s about finding small pockets and returning to them, again and again.

Hi, Susan here. 😊

I teach slow flow vinyasa, aerial yoga, and aerial dance and movement at Mission Yoga in Scranton.

I didn’t set out to become a teacher.

I originally took an aerial yoga training to better understand the hammock and support my existing circus-style silks practice. I was looking for something more sustainable, something I could grow with over time.

Teaching wasn’t really on my radar.

On the last day of training, I was offered a position.
I sat with it for a bit before saying yes, not fully realizing how much that yes would shape what came next.

Not long after, Kelly reached out needing a sub. That opportunity led to classes of my own, and I’ve been teaching consistently since 2015.

Thousands of teaching hours later, that initial yes still echoes through it all.

What started as one training quietly grew into more, including 200-hour, 300-hour, and additional studies in restorative, yin, and even paddleboard yoga, with quiet influences from other movement modalities woven throughout.

These days, my approach is simple:

movement rooted in feeling, not formula.

📸 : Kathleen Gilhooley Photography

💜❤️Join starting tomorrow as she takes over the Mission Scranton Instagram! Stay tuned... ❤️💜