Kevin and Larissa Darcy stike a pose in their new Sutra Yoga Studios at 636 NW Sixth St. in Redmond. The practice opens March 1 with a grand opening celebration planned for March 4.

REDMOND — It was love of yoga that brought Larissa and Kevin Darcy together and now they hope to share that with Remond residents.

The Darcys will be opening Sutra Yoga Studios at 636 NW Sixth St. in Redmond on March 1 with a grand opening event planned for Friday, March 4.

“I’m from Chicago and was in school for liberal arts, but should have been studying yoga all the time,” laughs Larissa. “I was skipping all my classes to do yoga teacher training. I just love the practice.”

Both 31, the Darcys met in Austin, Texas, where Kevin, at first, was reluctant to try the practice.

“I was into football, lifting weights and thought I’d never do yoga,” he said. “But Larissa brought me to my first class and I fell in love with it and have been practicing it for eight years now.”

“It’s a wonderful activity because you are using your body weight for strength training,” Larissa said. “We like to call it cross-training for life.”

After traveling around the country for a few years, including in a remodeled bus for a tiny home, the pair decided to relocate to Redmond from Flagstaff, Ariz.

“We came here with very little expectations, but wound up falling in love with the town,” Larissa said.

Both are real estate agents for Engel & Volkers based in Bend, but in their spare time they’ve remodeled the studio in a mini-mall off Sixth and are ready to accept students. They are also seeking yoga teachers.

The studio will offer three types of classes: Power Vinyasa, Flow Vinyasa and yoga with light weights.

“We believe in a really good healthy sweat. It gets you deeper faster. It’s good for the muscles and good for detox. It’s sort of our bread and butter,” Larissa said.

Yoga with weights, “is a real burner,” said Kevin, so be prepared to push some limits.

The studio will offer two to three classes a day, and plans to expand that to four or five classes by summer. It will be open seven days a week, offering weekend classes.

For more details and pricing, visit the website sutrayogastudios.co or call 541-420-7101.