Seattle cathedral offers free yoga to hundreds each Monday

Seattle cathedral offers free yoga to hundreds each Monday

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November 12, 2025 / 3:43 pm

Up to 200 people practice yoga at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral on Monday nights in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

The Rev. Steve Thomason is dean and rector of the church. He said that the program started as a smaller classroom-sized group on Sunday nights, and is now a packed cathedral on Monday nights.

“For whatever reason after COVID, it just clicked. And what was in those early years, 20 or 30 people has mushroomed to usually over 100, sometimes 175, taking up most of the floor space in the cathedral to make it work every week,” Thomason said.

Thomason said part of that accessibility is to accommodate all levels and experiences, and another is to ensure yoga is