Our teachers bring a wealth of experience and knowledge. They have devoted their lives and careers to sharing the benefits of Yoga and Meditation, and embody PranaShanti’s own spirit of continuous education.
Anastasiya
Anastasiya
July 23, 2022
Born in Ukraine and raised in Canada, Anastasiya is a 200HR RYT with a mission to bring healing through the power of Yoga and mindfulness to as many people as possible. Speciali...
Anathele
Anathele
March 22, 2021
Anathèle Zamor is a registered yoga teacher with yoga alliance international, and received her Hatha yoga 200 hours certification from PranaShanti Yoga studio in 2019. Since then, ...
Anna
Anna
March 22, 2021
The desire to live a meaningful life brought Anna to Hatha yoga and Vajrayana Buddhism. In her studentship over the past 15 years, she’s learned that in order to follow this path i...
Anne
Anne
January 22, 2021
Anne Wanda Tessier is an E-RYT 500 certified yoga teacher and trainer. Anne took a leave from her busy routine and set out to complete her RYT 200 hatha yoga teacher training i...
Atmadev
Atmadev
July 23, 2022
Laura Atmadev became a student of kundalini yoga in 2013. At the time, it helped her heal from severe anxiety and find the energy (and courage) to live more fully. Her passion for ...
Cat
Cat
January 22, 2021
Cat loves connecting with people and helping them to feel better physically, mentally and emotionally. She has fused this knowledge with her own experience and has an interest ...
Catherine
Catherine
July 23, 2022
For Catherine, yoga is moving meditation that offers a pathway to self-knowledge and finding balance in mind and body, strength and flexibility, ease and effort. Although yoga is a...
Chantal
Chantal
January 22, 2021
Chantal is a Yoga Alliance-certified 500 hour therapeutic yoga teacher who understands yoga as a practice in awareness of and acceptance of our selves. She offers nourishing...
Christine
Christine
March 22, 2021
Christine's first traditional hatha yoga class, a practice based on ancient yogic teachings derived from the Sivananda Saraswati lineage was very transformational. Even though she ...
Debra
Debra
March 22, 2021
Debra has been practicing yoga regularly for over 15 years.  She started with prenatal yoga classes during her first pregnancy and continued to explore various styles of yoga inclu...
Gabrielle
Gabrielle
July 23, 2022
Gabrielle’s love for yoga, teaching it, sharing it, learning more about it and how to live a healthy and mindful life is matched by her affinity for her students. “Our students ...
Geneviève
Geneviève
September 26, 2022
Geneviève (she/her) studied nursing and took contemporary dance & gymnastics classes before venturing on her yoga journey. She loves anatomy and is a lifelong student always se...
Gitanjali
Gitanjali
July 23, 2022
When guiding a class, Gitanjali integrates different aspects of yoga practice to create a balanced and harmonized practice for the spirit, mind and body. Experience Indian traditio...
Imad
Imad
October 13, 2022
Imad’s teaching focuses on breath work and guided body movement working closely with the mind. His goal is to help his students develop functional movements that help them improve ...
Jane
Jane
January 22, 2021
We all come to the mat for different reasons. No matter what yours is, ‘balance’ is at the heart of everything we do. We often forget to let go of that which we no longer need ...
Jason
Jason
January 10, 2023
Originally trained as a family physician, Jason first encountered mindfulness in 2009 as a way to deal with stress more effectively. He is currently undergoing training in mindfuln...
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
March 22, 2021
I discovered PranaShanti quite by accident back in 2016 while leaving an appointment that was close to our former location in Hintonburg.I just happened to look across the street a...
Karen
Karen
November 21, 2022
Karen is a Kundalini Yoga Teacher with 200-hour certification and is working towards her 500-hour certification. Karen has practiced several types of yoga for many years enjoying t...
Katherine
Katherine
January 10, 2023
Katherine has a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Vancouver, BC. She is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) in Ontario and...
Kethy
Kethy
January 22, 2021
Kethy (she/her) is a Cameroonian – Canadian 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher with a background in ashtanga and vinyasa hatha yoga. She teaches Slow Yoga Flows that are accessib...
Kim
Kim
January 22, 2021
Kim is a 200 hour certified yoga teacher and visual artist with a strong desire to unleash the creativity within her students. Believing that yoga and art are intrinsically lin...
Laura
Laura
January 22, 2021
Laura is a warm and welcoming 200 hour experienced yoga teacher. Although her sequences combine functional movements, traditional hatha postures and movements borrowed from oth...
Laurie
Laurie
January 22, 2021
Laurie was one of those who was unwillingly dragged to a class back in 1988, and Anne Pitman was her first teacher. She loved yoga from the start, though the journey to embraci...
Lucie
Lucie
July 23, 2022
Lucie is a certified teacher in Hatha, Kundalini and Yin Yoga. She is now expanding her knowledge in the Kundalini Level 2 with the Pranashanti Yoga Centre and The Wellness Path Ce...
Maria
Maria
January 22, 2021
María embraces her yogic lifestyle every single day with an open and positive state of mind. She embarked onto the path of Yoga practice while searching for alternatives for he...
Maria H.
Maria H.
July 23, 2022
Maria is a 200hr PranaShanti trained Hatha Yoga Teacher. After teaching 3 to 4 fitness class a day on a regular basis, Maria was in search of a means to help balance out her ver...
Megan
Megan
October 5, 2022
Megan, E-RYT 500, is a highly respected yoga teacher and spiritual leader who has been guiding classes, trainings, and workshops for over fifteen years. She teaches Kundalini, viny...
Melissa
Melissa
January 22, 2021
Melissa has been practicing yoga since 2004 and fell in love with it immediately. Constantly amazed at all the benefits yoga has to offer, not just physically, but mentally and...
Michael
Michael
January 22, 2021
Om Sri Hanumate Namaha Anjaneya, Michael Hutkins teaches traditional Hatha Yoga and meditation classes to students of all ages and abilities. With his foundation of classica...
Mona
Mona
July 23, 2022
Mona is committed to helping people find comfort and ease within themselves. She spent a good part of her career as a college and university counsellor helping students with variou...