May Rose Huntley
Yoga Untamed facilitates individual empowerment through retreats, yoga instruction, and dogsledding adventures in beautiful, wild natural settings.
They say the 20’s are hard because you have NO idea how low the lows can be OR how high the highs can be let alone the fact you have no idea if or when they will ever end. Naivety can be freeing as well as paralyzing. Coming back to the breath, back to the earth, and back to the present is our goal. Peace in the mind is the only way to bring peace to the rest of the world around you.
Yoga empowers
me.
Wilderness
empowers
me.
Separating ourselves from the whole is exactly how we isolate and retreat. Thinking we are alone in our struggles is just not the truth but it is a human tendency. By reconnecting to the wild earth we live in our world we remember, “you don’t have a life, you are life.” We need to feel and smell the flora and fauna, embody the strength and wisdom of the mountains, mimic the easy rivers flow, breathe steady like the glassy lakes, dance in amazement under the stars, and remember we are a part of the circle of life by observing animals in their nature habitat. We are a part of the whole, we are a part of the wilderness.
Dogs
empower
me.
When people can’t reach people, animals can. Being a human in a world moving faster than we can possibly comprehend can instigate insatiable anxiety. But, what wolf are you going to feed? It is easy to let the worst parts of the soul creep out and attack at the most inopportune times making it difficult to love yourself let alone anyone else. Working with sled dogs demands coming back to the breath, back to the earth, and back to the present moment. Unconditional love that an animal provides can not be compared to any other love; pure and beautiful.
Empowerment in our mental world, bringing peace to the mind through mindfulness and meditation. Empowerment in our emotional world, through training ourselves to feed into the love. Only love. (The same unconditional love we receive from sled dogs). Empowerment in our physical world, by adventuring into the natural world and learning new skills such as dog mushing, backpacking, water travel, and more. Empowerment in our spiritual world, by practicing yoga asanas in incredible locations, affirming we are a breathing, loving, productive part of the whole.
With love,
May Rose Huntley
May Rose Huntley | RYT 500
Born in Daniel, Wyoming (pop. 150), May Rose was raised in the foothills of the Wyoming Range. After completing a BA in Missoula Montana, broadening her international horizons through numerous language and sustainable tourism courses in Asia and Central America, bicycling across the United States a few times to raise money and awareness for affordable housing, and starting her dog mushing career on the Juneau Icefield, the need to bridge the mind, body, and spirit became apparent to her. Embracing her love of physical and emotional challenges,
May was in search of a profession that empowers each human to learn how to Love. May returned to her homeland in 2015 to complete her yoga teacher training at Inversion Yoga in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Throughout a year-long 500-hour training program, she studied with many incredible teachers. Ariel Mann taught the basics of vinyasa and teaching styles. Darcie Peck and Sarah Klein shared the 26 postures of the hot yoga series. Sarah Klein, a teacher for decades and a professional counselor, shared her knowledge about the devout Kundalini practice.
May so loved her experience with Inversion Yoga that she returned multiple times over the years to continue her education with their seasoned instructors. May has been teaching yoga since 2015. She has facilitated youth yoga camps and adult hot/vinyasa classes for Wind River Yoga in Wyoming. In Juneau, Alaska, she worked with Shelly at Juneau Yoga teaching regular vinyasa classes, as well as facilitating warm up yoga for the high school ski team and beach fireside yoga as a fun way to warm up after a long day on the hill. In Denali, Alaska, where she currently resides, she directs kids yoga camps and adult hot/vinyasa classes.
In 2019, May began leading her own retreats in the Arizona desert in collaboration with Darcie Peck, owner of Wind River Yoga. She then integrated her love of sled dogs with yoga, partnering with Paige Drobney and Ryne Olsen to run Women Mindfulness Mushing retreats near Denali, Alaska. Today, May is excited to be facilitating yoga retreats throughout Alaska, across her homeland of the Rocky Mountains, and in the incredible Arizona desert.