Meet Mary Susan

Mary Susan Stults

E-RYT-500+ Renowned Yoga and Meditation Educator, Teacher Trainer, Mentor, Entrepreneur, and Forever Student of Life

Founder of Of the Earth Yoga and Wellness, Float & Flow Yoga & SUP, and Adventure Yoga For Kids, Strong as a Woman Summit, Mermaids at Work, Kaua’i SUP Yoga~

Been hanging out on the yoga mat since 1985.

Born in Fort Payne, Alabama, Mary Susan Stults Sassone was raised in Cedar City, Utah. After moving to Colorado in 2001 to attend CU Boulder, she made Colorado her mountain home for nearly 20 years until she followed her heart to Kaua’i, Hawaii.

In 2018, after meeting Brandon in Australia, she traded the mountain life for island life and moved to Kauai, Hawaii where she lives with her husband and their three cats, Tuxedo, Sir Wobbles, and Starscream the lil kitty.

Mary Susan’s yoga and meditation practice and path began early in life with her mother as a child at home in 1985 as a baby, and continued at home with her mother as a child until she attended her class in the studio at the age of 14 in 1997 with the practice of Hatha Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Mary practiced Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, and Iyengar Yoga throughout highschool and early college and in 2002 began practicing at Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor's studio, the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. Years later, Mary had the blessing and privilege to find Master Teacher and Mentor Maty Ezraty with whom she studied intensively, mentored with, and assisted until her recent passing in 2019. Over thousands of hours and many years of study and practice, Maty shaped and influenced Mary Susan’s practice, teaching, and life on and off the yoga mat and continues to to this day.

Mary Susan teaches at home in Hawaii and across the U.S as well as internationally, and is an experienced and renowned Senior Yoga & Meditation teacher, educator, mentor, and practitioner. She is a certified and experienced Yoga & Meditation teacher, educator, and practitioner, a Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, a WPA/Paddle Into Fitness Certified Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP) and SUP Yoga teacher, certified Kids Yoga teacher, certified Adaptive Yoga teacher, and is known by all for her enthusiasm, heart, grounded nature, and positive outlook and energy.

She teaches a knowledgeable, dynamic, and refreshing Hatha yoga practice that intelligently weaves and marries together the traditions of Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. She also enjoys teaching Pranayama, Yin, Restorative Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Vipassana/Insight and Mindful Meditation, SUP Yoga, and Stand Up Paddleboarding.

Many describe her energy as contagious, finding her nurturing, intelligent, dynamic, and patient style of teaching to be welcoming, inclusive, transformative, educational, and supportive. Her yoga and meditation offerings, and all that she shares, are infused with her grounded yet light-hearted nature. When she is not teaching herself you can often find her in a training or Yoga intensive with one of her teachers or mentors, or out in nature with her husband Brandon at home in Hawaii. Mary believes wholeheartedly that yoga is for everybody, and at the end of the day, yoga is life. It’s how we are living and being, and it’s good to remind ourselves that we are already experienced practitioners and students without ever having stepped on a yoga mat.