Coming Soon: Love Yoga Fest

New owners, New Website Platform

A fresh take on a beloved organization

Love Yoga Fest has hosted annual yoga festivals on Cape Cod, featuring the best teachers from around the country for a number of years. As we all know, 2020 and the pandemic required businesses to pivot dramatically. In 2022 LYF was purchased by a new set of owners with the vision to revive the festival.

Their original site was on Wordpress, but with so much new stuff to talk about, it made sense to consider a whole fresh take on the brand. We took the opportunity to move the site onto Squarespace which would give the owners more confidence in maintaining the site long term.

A lot is in the works for 2023, but the owners were eager to get the site live. We opted for a landing page to collect emails in the meantime. In a few weeks the full site will be live. Check back then.

Warrior Within Yoga Project

Squarespace Website for nonprofit

A project Close to my heart

I constantly recommend Squarespace to others, so of course, when a new nonprofit I was developing needed a website, I built it on Squarespace.

Integrated Donations

This site has a lot of custom CSS, as many of the sites I design do, but having a Business subscription was absolutely key to be able to add embeddable widgets throughout the site. In addition to needing to add a booking widget for veterans to book free yoga classes, we had to make sure collecting donations from supporters was a seamless experience. Whenever you can keep someone on your site, you should. Our donation software has multiple types of widget buttons to allow clients to stay on our own site.

Hanna Harlin

new site for a holistic energy healer

A great user experience

All the wellness providers I’ve worked with - whether they are yoga instructors or reiki masters are all very passionate about what they do. They all have a unique approach to what they do and a vision of how they want their clients to feel after working with them.

Websites have a very specific purpose: for a potential client to take action. Yes, of course, we want to talk about what we do, provide content and make things look pretty, but when designing a website its not so much WHAT we are saying but rather HOW it is laid out in a way that keeps the person visiting your page engaged visually, but also that prompts them to click that call to action button.

Hanna and I worked closely together from the early stages of the project. I provided some initial templates, design ideas and guidance on how she might want to share her offerings. With Squarespace’s easy to use interface, she has been able to modify her content has she’s developed her programs.

Shiva Rea

New site for A whole new online class course

From sEO Mess to Top ranked site

Shiva Rea is one of the most renowned yoga teacher across the world. I had been working with some clients who needed help integrating Union.fit’s booking widget onto their site. Shiva is one of Union’s clients, but needed a whole lot more than adding a widget.

When we first started working, Shiva actually had multiple websites, for multiple arms of her business (her teacher training, online courses, etc). She also sold her content through other streaming services. But if you did an online search for “Shiva Rea” her own sites ranked fairly low.

Developing a whole new site for a new online membership was in order. Using Squarespace 7.1 I designed, from scratch a new site to highlight her vibrant personality and make it easy for client to register for class.

Since launching, her team has added a lot more content to the site and with the SEO optimization I added, it is now ranking in the top 3 in Google search.

Class Booking Widget

Any wellness provider using third party booking software (Mindbody, Wellness Living, Union, etc) can integrate their booking widget directly onto their Squarespace site. In order to have this sort of customization, you must subscribe to the Business subscription of Squarespace.

We embedded code from Shiva’s booking provider, Union.fit so clients could easily book into one of her online yoga classes.

Andrew Tanner Yoga

Brand refresh and upgrade to Squarespace 7.1

Brand Refresh

I’ve been working with Andrew since 2017 when I designed his original Squarespace site. In fact, it was one of the first gigs I secured after deciding to freelance.

By 2021 Andrew’s yoga business had changed dramatically, and he was now operating a new space of his own in the Berkshires. With all new content to share, new classes to offer and a whole new brand, and a recent update to Squarespace, Andrew was ready for something fresh. Inspired by the beauty of the Berkshires we brought in a natural and moody aesthetic to his new site.

Custom Widgets

I’ve been working with Andrew since 2017 when I designed his original Squarespace site. In fact, it was one of the first gigs I secured after deciding to freelance.