Jacob Boettcher

Core Values

accountability. peace. intimacy.

i hope my students leave feeling

grounded in their capacity to journey inside themselves, learn and then move outward to lead in the communities

where i’m from

I am from mountains they called haystacks and native grasses higher than me.

I am a family that sat around the dinner table talking about religion, politics, sexuality, and how we were going to get on the next episode of Steve Harvey's Family Feud.

I am from sitting alone at lunch and learning to be found. I am from imagination that sustained me and dissociation that depleted me. I am from learning to return to my body and to feel.

I am from courageous women who are teaching me to wonder wildly and a tender man who taught me about listening. I am from miners and farmers who cherished the Rocky Mountains and from the tchotchke shops owned by my grandparents. I am from learning to love queerly and learning to sit in messy contradictions of myself.

Jacob received his 200 hour yoga teacher training here at Up in May 2023.

what to expect in class

Balance of nourishing heat with graceful softness. We will encounter goofiness, meditation, and perhaps a little poetry too.