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 are the golden threads that tether us into a deeper sense of community, self-love, awareness of how connected we are to one another and gifts us with an enhanced personal yoga practice. Yoga brings us more joy, more freedom of movement and an intense knowingness of our true selves.”
Forever a student of life, this self professed lifelong learner enjoys being both the teacher and the student. Her yoga journey began in Okinawa, Japan where she taught English to the great-grandchildren of the largest group of the longest living humans on the planet. Surrounded by like minded souls and this wise aging population she learned that movement, diet and lifelong service was their secret. This led her to take her first yoga training with Doug and David Swenson (early disciples of...
Anastasiya has taught at five 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings and assisted in a 300-hour YTT while completing her 500-hour certification. She holds the RYT 500, E-RYT 200, and YACEP credentials through Yoga Alliance. With over 1,200 teaching hours, Anastasiya brings extensive experience in guiding both students and teachers to deepen their understanding of asana practice.
Known for her focus on smart, effective sequencing, Anastasiya’s classes are intentionally crafted with meticulous attention to detail. This ensures students experience a supported and meaningful exploration of each pose. Her passions include alignment, pose mechanics, Ayurvedic principles, Saiva Tantra philosophy, and meditative practices. Anastasiya aims to help students step fully into the present moment, uncover their true nature, and embrace the power of awareness and observation....
I believe that everyone is whole and complete even as the desire for change is present. My purpose is to remove the barriers to your belief in your infinite potential. My yoga, meditation, yoga therapy and life coaching programs are designed to increase the resilience of all persons, especially those working in high-stress environments, and to alleviate symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. My approach is based on two key cornerstones of invitation and inquiry. By offering choice and encouraging curiosity, I guide you to fully inhabit your body in the present moment, thus empowering you on and off the mat.
WHO AM I?
I’m a Registered Professional Yoga Teacher (E-RYT-500) with over 1000 hours of training. I’m a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and I’m certified to teach Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Chair Yoga. I have over 2000 hours of teaching experience.
I'm a Certified iRest® Yoga Nidra Teacher. I’ve been leading iRest classes since 2014. I’m a meditation practitioner and have studied and taught other styles of meditation and mindfulness.
I'm a Certified Warriors at Ease...
E-RYT 500, YACEP
Barrie Risman is an internationally-recognized yoga teacher, public speaker, and author. Her best-selling book, Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice, is a guide for teachers and continuing students to deepen, expand, and integrate the benefits of yoga in their lives. Widely regarded as a teacher's teacher, she's the creator of online classes, courses, and trainings that fuel the inner journey of yogis around the globe.
Barrie is well known for her ability to convey the essence of the wisdom teachings of yoga with exceptional clarity, insight, and relevance to students of all levels and from all walks of life. As unpretentious and down-to-earth as she is wise and inspiring, Barrie teaches with a remarkable combination of rigor and challenge balanced with sensitivity, humor, and compassion.
Her events weave together the technical precision of refined alignment-based practice with an ever-present awareness of the great wisdom of yoga philosophy distilled from decades of intensive study and practice.
Teaching since 1999, Barrie shares the depth of her experience...
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 it’s important to study, practice, and continually apply the teachings to our everyday life.
Anna’s practice and teachings are rooted in classical tantra. She teaches yoga that reflects this vision of reality. Tantra gives us tools to evoke as much energy and insight from our experiences as we can. Using an integrated somatic approach of body, breath, and mind, Anna offers classes that establish a strong and stable foundation in the physical body while expanding the wisdom energy of the heart....
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 embracing the practice fully was bumpy, to say the least. Over time, yoga has become one of the most potent tools to help her navigate through life. Some of the things she loves most about yoga is that there is no end point and that the “perfect” asana is the one you can do with how your body feels at the time. It doesn’t have to look good to feel right.
Under the guidance of many skilled teachers and following her own unending curiosity, Laurie’s practice continues to unfold and evolve. She started to teach almost as soon as she returned from completing her first 200 hour teacher training at the Kripalu Yoga Centre, in 2005.
Yoga opens doors and pathways for awareness, expression and acceptance. Laurie’s mission is to...
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 linked, Kim crafts creative sequences that are both nourishing and challenging, through which she encourages students to travel inward and find their personal flow state.
Kim’s use of heartfelt language and humour, allows students of all walks an opportunity for deeper self-reflection, and reintroduces a sense of play in each of her classes. Motivated to embolden students to trust in their own power, Kim serves her classes with compassion, and familiar kindness.
Following her training at PranaShanti Yoga Centre, Kim continues to attend workshops and trainings, including Advanced Anatomy, Teacher with Therapy Balls and Advanced Yin.
Roll out your mat in Kim’s class to roll into a deliberate and reflective experience....
Kethy (she/her) is a Cameroonian/Canadian 200-hr Certified Yoga Teacher with a background in Ashtanga and Vinyasa Hatha Yoga.
The styles of yoga classes she leads include Yin, Yang Yin, Power, Flow and Gentle Flow yoga. With an emphasis on mindfulness, a yoga practice with Kethy is one that nurtures kindness and compassion of self and others. Expect to incorporate sequences to warm up the body, as well as slower paced movements focusing on the breath, balance, alignment, flexibility and strength.
Kethy is the co-founder of the BIPOC Yogis of Ottawa project (www.bipocyogisottawa.ca ) — a not-for-profit community-driven initiative engaged in raising awareness of the stories of yogis who identify as Black, Indigenous or Persons of Colour (BIPoC) within the National Capital Region; one of the project’s main objective is to raise funds for Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) scholarships to support BIPoC yogis who aspire to become yoga teachers.
Her favourite mantra: "I am well. I am whole. I am worthy. I am enough."
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Melissa began practicing yoga in 2004 and fell in love with it immediately. Amazed at all the benefits yoga offers, she became passionate about sharing it with others.
She is a registered Yoga Therapist, Instructor and Continuing Education Provider. With her diverse trainings, she specializes in proper breathing and posture, pelvic floor health, core function, pain care management, plus prenatal and postnatal health & recovery.
She leads workshops on topics such as Pelvic Health, Pain Care, Proper Core Function, Menopause and Partner Yoga as well as Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Trainings. Check out our upcoming events for her next offering!
Melissa provides a supportive and welcoming environment for all and promotes self-love, body positivity, and freedom of expression in every class, empowering students to embrace their own journey. She offers modifications for all levels and abilities and loves when someone discovers their “ahhhh moment”!
As a trauma-informed practitioner trained in somatics and stress cycles, Melissa creates holistic practices rooted in compassion and mindfulness. She encourages people to find their...
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 classical Hatha Yoga, classes incorporate Pranayama (Breathing exercises), Sun Salutations or other warm ups, Asanas (Steady postures) and a deep guided relaxation. He adds gentleness, challenges and humour, to help students along their path. Classes can be made accessible to all students.
Training at several Sivananda ashrams in Canada, USA and India has allowed Michael to live with his teachers and be fully immersed in the yoga experience. His training covers a wide scope of yoga, from philosophy and Bhagavad Gita courses to chanting and devotion ceremonies to the physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation. As well as enjoying family life, Michael is also a Certified Yoga Therapist....
