Friends are planning two vigils this evening to remember Tricia McCauley, a local yoga teacher and actress.

Every Tuesday at 5:15 p.m., Tricia McCauley led an hour-long yoga class in Bloomingdale. The class this evening will instead be transformed into a vigil for the yoga teacher and actress, who went missing on Christmas Day.

Her body was found just after midnight in West End. A suspect has been arrested in the case, though his name has not yet been released.

“She is gone. We love her and our lives will never be the same. Her life was a blessing to all who knew her,” a friend wrote on a widely shared Facebook post.

The 46 year-old was last seen around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. She missed a Christmas dinner, but friends said they weren’t alarmed because she had slept through it one year. But the next day, McCauley missed her flight out of Ronald Reagan National Airport to visit family.

Police released a photo shortly before 11 p.m. last night of a man, described as 5’9” tall with an athletic build, who may have been driving McCauley’s Toyota Scion.

They received a tip that the car was seen near 22nd and M Streets in Northwest, and officers confronted the suspect at a CVS nearby. When police searched the car, they found McCauley’s body, which showed signs of trauma. The case has not yet been ruled a homicide.

“We do not believe at this time that the suspect knew the victim,” said interim Police Chief Peter Newsham.

McCauley worked as an herbalist, wellness coach, yoga teacher, and actress at a number of local institutions. “In life and in class, she strives to find a healthy balance between reverence and revelry; self-nurture and pushing to the edge; movement and stillness; and community and inner work,” reads her yoga teacher biography.

Her regular class at Yoga District this evening will instead be a “community-led vigil celebrating her life and love that lives on in all of us forever.”

At 6:15 p.m., there will be a candlelit procession from the studio to a nearby park at 3rd and Elm Streets NW, where McCauley gardened and served as an herbalist for Common Good City Farm. At 7 p.m., another vigil will take place.

“At the park feel free to share drawings, poems, plants, lotions, incense, words, skits, or any mementos that celebrate and honor Tricia. The park vigil will feature a couple chants, a couple short speeches, a period of silent mourning with candle lighting, and hopefully some howling at the moon,” the invitation reads.

“To all of her D.C. family, I know she truly thought of you that way, thank you for being there for her all these years,” wrote her brother, Brian McCauley. “Hang on to each other.”

The vigil will begin at 5:15 p.m. at Yoga District Bloomingdale (1830 1st St NW). At 6:15 p.m., there will be a candlelit process to a park at 3rd and Elm Streets NW. Another vigil will begin there at 7 p.m.