Our Team New - PranaShanti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...