Gabrielle’s love for teaching, sharing and learning about yoga and how to live a healthy and mindful life is matched by her affinity for her students.
“Our students are the golden threads that tether us into a deeper sense of community, self-love and connection to one another. Yoga brings to us more joy, more freedom of movement and an intense knowingness of our true selves. Yoga was always intended to be shared. Through sharing, our students join us on this journey and in return we become better versions of ourselves.“
Forever a student of life, this lifelong learner enjoys being both the teacher and the student. Her yoga journey began in Okinawa, Japan while teaching English to the great-grandchildren of the longest living humans on the planet, which led her to an Ashtanga yoga teacher training with David Swenson in Tokyo, Japan.
Okinawa taught her that movement, diet and lifelong service was the secret to longevity, wellness and happiness. Yoga taught her how to remedy a decade worth of snowboarding injuries and decades more of faulty breathing and posture.
By 2011, she had returned to Ottawa, completed Hatha yoga training and began teaching full time. Today she is an E-RYT, E-RCYT and a RPYT with training and experience in multiple yoga disciplines, functional anatomy, mobility, resistance stretching and intuitive movement. Her classes are a mix of traditional and non-traditional movements and sequences in order to move the body and energies in creative ways.
Always ready to share her passion for anatomy, body mechanics and alignment, she teaches from the heart, with compassion and with a few giggles along the way. Her offerings are supportive and welcoming with an inclusive, all ages and abilities approach to every class.