Instructors

Madeline Keller-King – Fiber Arts & Natural Dyes

Madeline Keller-King, known across the internet by her social media handle Wooly Witch of the West, is a fiber artist and natural dyer. While her fiber journey began with knitting it has since expanded to include her true loves – handspinning and natural dyeing. She works from her home in the woods of Northwestern Montana where she is blessed to be in community with many small scale fiber producers & have an abundance of dyestuff growing in her own backyard. Every time she steps outside is a hunt for color! Madeline is a regular contributor to Spin Off Magazine, regularly vends her naturally dyed yarns and fibers at fiber events, and teaches knitting, handspinning, and natural dye classes.

a rainbow spectrum of naturally dyed handspun yarns hung in a row

A rainbow of Madeline’s naturally dyed handspun yarns

Madeline, a fat pale woman wearing an icelandic wool sweater and glasses, admires the scarf she's just pulled from an indigo vat, which is drying on a bush

Madeline talking about the wonders of indigo at Yarn & Yoga 2019

a coil of naturally dyed handspun yarns on the seat of a chair

Some of Madeline’s Naturally dyed Handspun

Madeline, a plus size pale woman in a yellow shirt and chartreuse apron, sits behind a spinning wheel and spins

Madeline at her wheel at Yarn & Yoga 2017

Kelly Baraby – Yoga

Baraby_headshot Kelly Baraby has been a student of yoga since 1993. She became a licensed and certified massage therapist in that same year, and was certified as a yoga instructor in 2000. She held the position as primary educator of yoga at Big Sky Somatic Institute until their closing in July 2007. She was also an assistant teacher at the massage school for nine years. Kelly has over 2,500 hours of professional and accredited education in teaching and twelve years of study under Judith Hanson Lasater, one of the world’s leading teachers in restorative yoga.

Kelly continues to study how to better meet the students’ functional movement in Asana. She co-created the Dancing Lotus Center in Helena, MT, and has recently opened a new studio location: Helena Community Yoga.

Teaching yoga has become Kelly’s voice of yoga’s deeper healing, allowing her to share her love and curiosity for the human form and spirit.

If you have questions, contact kraraby@gmail.com