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Supporting people to be their best by providing state-of-the art massage therapy and yoga instruction services.

A Little About Our Company

Homegrown Yoga & Massage LLC was founded by Laura Collins and launched through the support of many people at the YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park Center in the spring of 2012. Due to popular demand, a second studio was opened in the front range in Longmont in the Winter 2025. Massage and yoga services are conveniently located on the actual grounds of the YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park Center. In Longmont we are located just north east of Ken Pratt and Hover. Homegrown Yoga & Massage was inspired by the belief that spirituality is actually embodied and that the human body is a continuous growing gift, created by God, some people call light or divine or pure loving intelligence. It’s our belief that we are each here for a purpose.

Yoga & massage work complimentary to promote health, helping you to shed what is no longer serving you and embrace the light and life giving peace that you are. From this place of peace and deep connection, your well being flows and benefits yourself and others. Namaste

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A Little About Laura Collins

Laura is a highly trained, deeply grounded practitioner of the healing arts with over two decades of experience in massage therapy, yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice. Her work is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to understanding the intricate relationships between the body, mind, and spirit—and how healing truly happens when all three are honored.

With a Master of Science in Public Health (Community Health Education) from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Laura blends scientific insight with intuitive wisdom. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist, trained at the esteemed Boulder College of Massage Therapy in Colorado, where she studied a wide range of modalities including Swedish, prenatal, myofascial release, lymphatic drainage, shiatsu, trigger point therapy, and more.

Laura holds two yoga teacher certifications—one from the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, and another in Journey Into Power, a Baptiste Power Vinyasa approach. Her teaching is both physically intelligent and spiritually attuned, creating a safe and welcoming space for students of all levels to connect with their bodies and breath.

What truly sets Laura apart is the presence she brings into each session. Grounded, calm, and attentive, she creates an environment where people can soften, release, and reconnect with themselves. Her years of personal practice in meditation, yoga, and contemplative study inform every touch, every cue, and every moment of stillness in her classes and treatments.

Her path has included:

  • A six-month Yoga & Community Service immersion at Mount Madonna Institute (Watsonville, CA)

  • One month of residential volunteering at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center (San Francisco, CA)

  • Six months living and studying at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA)

  • Lay ordination in the Bodhisattva Initiation Ceremony in the Soto Zen tradition and two years of residential practice at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (Sausalito, CA)

Raised Catholic and affirming to all, Laura draws strength and guidance from her ongoing relationship with God, aspiring each day to live out her purpose with humility, joy, and service. Her work invites others to do the same—to listen inward, connect deeply, and embody their own path toward wholeness. The holy trinity in action! 

 

Whether guiding a yoga class, offering therapeutic bodywork or wellness coaching, Laura offers far more than a service—she offers a space of refuge, clarity, and authentic connection.

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Meet Laura: Your Guide to Yoga, Peace, and Possibility

Laura enjoys working one on one and leading group yoga classes at the YMCA, helping people to relax in their bodies, renew in their mind and strengthen their spirit. Joy, peace and possibility are always available within one’s unique, creative, and precious life. Yoga classes offered are either a part of the YMCA weekly seasonal schedule or you can book Laura’s skills anytime for your own private yoga gathering.
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The Power of One: Laura’s Story of Transformation and Impact

Prior to working as a massage therapist and yoga instructor, Laura served as a health educator. Most notably, Laura worked in California on a four person leadership team to pass the first state-wide smoke- free bar and restaurant law in the world. Now nearly the entire world has smoke-free indoor public spaces and it is a cultural norm! Through this public health policy experience Laura witnessed first –hand what an impact individuals can have if they follow their own interests and work collaboratively with others on common goals. There is nothing we can not do if it is in the healthy interests of all, even to the point of defeating the most powerful of corporate industries (tobacco industry in this case) to protect health. The logo created for Homegrown Yoga & Massage symbolizes this creative gift of life, celebrating the focus that each person has in order to live life fully for the benefit of oneself and the benefit of all. In the yoga world, this focus is called “samadhi” or divine absorption.

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A Life of Joy, Purpose, and Possibility

Outside of work, Laura can often be found in a yoga class, skiing in Colorado’s beautiful mountains, traveling to Italy/learning Italian, playing classical piano, learning to play the drums, or designing ways to benefit the world with friends. She loves working collaboratively and fully believes that each person is endowed with gifts for a given purpose, empowered by God. It is by cultivating and sharing one’s gifts with the world, together, that we come to realize ourselves and each other more fully, leaving the world a better place, with more love, then when we came. Creating heaven on earth, is within our God given reach – Amen, Amen!
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Find Your Flow, Embrace Your Peace

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