Writer, yoga teacher, dog mom, backcountry skier, world traveler, & lover of all things business, Mollie Busby has been empowering leaders & coaching others through experiential education & yoga since 2004. ​

Mollie is a driven entrepreneur with the spirit of a summer camp counselor and a kind, midwestern smile. Mollie is a seasoned yoga and meditation teacher and off-grid home builder with her husband, Sean. Although the pair now calls Alaska their home, the have deep roots in the Flathead Valley, and Mollie commutes back to Montana to manage her three yoga studios called Yoga Hive.

Wherever they are, the Busbys choose to live close to the land off-the-grid and pursue their life’s work. The pair started Riding On Insulin, which Mollie ran as Executive Director for 7 years, until Sean took over in 2017. It was then that Mollie shifted much of her focus to Yoga Hive, and now, to Yoga Hive Studios, taking the brand beyond Montana. Yoga Hive is known for its inviting vibe, friendly instructors, and willingness to show anyone that yoga is for everybody and every body.

Regardless of the method, Mollie sees her purpose on this planet as cultivating community in small groups of women — whether in a yoga retreat setting or during the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Trainings she runs in Montana, Colorado and beyond. She enjoys spending time outdoors skiing in the winter, hiking in the summer, and playing with their dogs all year round: Daisy (a Weimaraner), Glacier (Border Collie/Great Pyrenees Mix), Milo (husky/Shepard mix), Powder (Alaskan Husky) and Coldfoot, or Coldie for short (Alaskan Husky). 

She and Sean have built a dynamic off-the-grid homestead in the heart of Whitefish, Montana, that’s been featured on HGTV, the DIY Network,  Discovery Channel, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, and more. They've also built off-grid homesteads in Homer, Alaska and now, Arctic Hive, Alaska.

Hailing originally from Wisconsin, Mollie brings to Montana her warm, midwestern hospitality mixed with a wide range of yoga training. Her teaching draws inspiration from the Baptiste Yoga community, Unnata Aerial Yoga, and a mix of Tantric Kriya and mantra-based meditation from Sattva Yoga Academy at the foothills of the Himalayas in India.

​This unique mix gives her classes a magical feel, with a love for teaching the basics to anyone willing to learn, layered with a profound gift of teaching for transformation.

Scroll through this page to read more about the Busby family of businesses!

Yoga Hive: Welcome to your yoga home

Yoga Hive was born out of a desire to find a judgement-free place to access the ancient teachings and traditions of yoga & meditation in a modern and fun application, geared at everybody and every body. As our studio family grows across the country and online, we welcome the diverse gifts and interests of our ownership, while honoring the dynamic needs of the individual communities we serve. 

We believe that just as the bumblebee is a pollinator of many flowers, our movement at Yoga Hive represents the interconnectedness of our yogis, the communities we serve, and seriously: The world. By moving together, embracing inclusion, and grounding ourselves, we are improving our own physical and mental well-being, while empowering one another to take grace and goodness from the mat, into our lives as messengers of light, love and service.

Yoga Hive Studios® was created by Mollie Busby in Whitefish, Montana in 2015. She founded three studios in less than three years in the Flathead Valley, and through a series of serendipitous events, met fitness entrepreneur, Blaine Wilkes, who went on to open the first Yoga Hive® outside Montana in Louisville, Colorado.

In 2020, the company launched yogahiveconnect, your yoga home, wherever you are. This way, Yoga Hive® community members can gather together in community from all over the world! 

YH Wisconsin

YH Montana

YH Colorado

Yoga Hive Connect

Yoga Hive Studios

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The Busby Hive: A Montana Homestead

​Founded by Mollie and her husband Sean, The Busby Hive is rooted on a foundation of practicing what they teach—making it a priority to thrive through healthy lifestyle and simple abundance, experiencing cultures around the world, and creating sustainable, life-fulfilling businesses focused on success from a place of service.

The pair has been featured on Goal Zero's En Route for their off-grid yurt, on HGTV's House Hunters Off Grid, and DIY Network's Building Off Grid: Tiny House on a Lake (which you can watch below!).

Follow the Busby's Adventures 

Although their Instagram feeds are based in Alaska now that they've moved away from Montana, Mollie and Sean still keep updates going to The Busby Hive on Facebook. 

@SeanBusby:

@MollieoftheNorth:

Arctic Hive: An retreat center in the Brooks Range of Alaska

Mollie and Sean built their Alaskan Retreat Center in 2019, and are currently open for business, hosting yoga retreats through Yoga Hive, and hosting other adventure retreats. Guests travel seven hours away from the nearest grocery store, cross the arctic circle, and travel 63 more miles north to the village of Wiseman, an area deemed as having some of the best northern light displays in the world.

Arctic Hive is nestled between two major pristine arctic wildernesses: Gates of the Arctic National Park and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which provide an absolutely serene setting to dig your feet into nature and breathe deep — wildlife abound and crystal blue rivers around every corner.

Arctic Hive on Instagram:

Sean and Mollie use the Arctic Hive instagram account to post photos and videos solely of life in Alaska's Arctic!

Follow @ArcticHiveAK on Instagram

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Riding On Insulin empowers, activates and connects the global diabetes community through shared experience and action sports. In addition to establishing a comfortable environment, we strive to help families explore new passions, challenge T1D, and celebrate each other’s successes. 

Founded by pro snowboarder Sean Busby in 2004, ROI was born out of Sean's desire to give back to kids who inspired him to keep snowboarding after his own complicated diagnosis of type 1 diabetes at age 19 — an autoimmune disease with no cure. After Sean and Mollie fell in love in 2010, Mollie incorporated Riding On Insulin an a 501c3 nonprofit, and serves as its Executive Director till 2017. Today, Sean serves in the role as ED, while Mollie works in a supportive, part-time role with the company. It serves over 450+ kids and teens around the world, showing them that anything is possible, despite T1D!

Riding On INsulin