Savannah Sellick brought her love for yoga to Mattituck in January 2025. As she celebrates a year of business on the North Fork, she continues to aim to make her studio a space where connection and peace thrive and every level of yogi can practice in harmony.
“I love being able to bring peace to people,” she says.
In addition to owning and operating Yoga Folk (13175 Main Road, Mattituck, 631-502-3217, yogafolkny.com), Sellick teaches Vinyasa Flow classes. Her studio offers a variety of morning and evening classes including slow-flow yoga, yoga sculpt, heated power vinyasa, restorative, ashtanga and posture strengthening classes — plus Pilates and barre, all taught by a variety of experienced instructors.
A former guidance counselor in New York City, Sellick found her passion for yoga in 2021 and went through an intensive training to lead people in the practice shortly after. She taught nearly 20 classes a week across Long Island before moving to the North Fork and opening Yoga Folk. As part of our story about locals’ paths toward becoming yogis on p. 50, we dug a little deeper with Sellick about what makes practice beautifully imperfect.
What made you want to start yoga?
I wanted to constantly move through every single day. No matter what challenge or obstacle is going to come my way, I can move through it with peace — inner peace.
Do you have a favorite type?
Vinyasa. Just the flow of vinyasa, the traditional — we know exactly what the sequence is — it just completely opens me up. If I do a sun salutation A, sun B (warm-up and strength-focused sequences), I am just on a different level. If I do three rounds in the beginning of class, I’m like, ‘There it is.’ I’m back to myself.
Do you have a favorite North Fork spot for pre- or post-yoga fuel?
Macchiato (13175 Main Road, Mattituck, 631-298-7455). Every day they make my life better. They have the most amazing croissants. It’s unbelievable that they opened right there because my lifelong favorite food has always been croissants and they have the most amazing croissants right next to my studio, plus smoothies and coffee. Breakfast food is my favorite food.
Do you think anyone can practice yoga?
Oh my god, yes. Every single human being on this earth can do yoga, whether you’re two years old or 100, whether you’re deaf, whether you’re blind, no matter who you are, your gender. Literally everyone can do yoga and you can just start doing it in your own life and living it.
What do you think is the biggest misconception about yoga?
People always say, ‘Oh, I’m not flexible,’ and I’m like, you don’t have to be flexible. You just have to be on your mat and breathe. If you’re not flexible, you just start by trying and then you’ll realize that it’s so much more than being flexible. It’s more about your mental health and coming back to yourself. Or, ‘I can’t sit still, yoga’s boring,’ and then I’m like, ‘Have you ever taken my class?’ You’re not going to be bored, you’re going to have so much fun, you’re going to want to sing along to music and you’ll feel like you’re in a dance.
