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Kreg is a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher and co-founder of MYO. Several years ago, Kreg discovered yoga while teaching health and fitness. Yoga dramatically transformed Kreg's approach to teaching health and wellness as well as changed his personal life bringing new direction in finding physical, mental, and spiritual growth.
Kreg feels fortunate to have been able to combine years of experience in exercise science with the Yoga instruction. To compliment his teaching, Kreg is completing his Bachelor's degree in Human Kinetics at UBC. With his extensive background in anatomy and physiology, Kreg strives to educate and safely guide his students in how asanas, pranayama, and meditation act to rejuvenate and heal the body and mind.
Michelle is a certified hatha and pre-natal yoga teacher and co-founder of MyYogaOnline.com. She has been interested in many forms of meditation, voice, and movement work from an early age; driven to explore and cultivate a greater understanding of the mind-body connection. She discovered yoga in 1991. Ten years of personal exploration into Ayurveda, Vipassina Meditation, Thai Massage, Continuum, and many other types of voice and movement work translate in her in her understanding of Yoga. Currently she can be seen in the Yoga television series Namaste airing worldwide.
Odette has been Teaching Ashtanga and more gentle forms of Yoga as well as modern dance since 1989. She has her BA (Hons) London Contemporary Dance School. She is also certified in Reiki level II. She has trained as a Pilates instructor with Dianne Miller and has received Yoga certification through Danny Paradise, Donna Farhi, and David Swensen (primary and intermediate series). She studied with Pattabhi Jois on three separate occasions. Odette's personal practice of Yoga and experience in movement has spanned over twenty years. She teaches Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Pilates - apparatus and mat work - to a wide variety of abilities and ages mostly out of her studio and also as a freelancer.
Alix has been teaching yoga for the last eight years. Alix' teaching comes from her own practice. Getting on the mat every day, and moving awareness from the surface of the body slowly inwards, and then flowing from the core of the body slowly out. exploring stillness, exploring movement. This journey has been profound, and has taught her a great deal not just about herself, but about her connection with others and the world. This has all been facilitated by having had the opportunity to study with some incredible teachers over the years. Alix has studied with the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy School, Donna Farhi, Eric Schiffman, Paul Grilley, Orit Sen Gupta, and is currently studying with Iyengar based yoga teacher Gioia Irwin.
Padma hosts a daily national television series on meditation and yoga called Living Yoga with Padma.
She developed, wrote and hosts the show. She has now produced a dvd set of her own yoga meditation program. Padma devoted herself to eight years of full-time study of meditation in the Himalayas of India. She has practiced yoga for over 20 years. She also spent two years in Japan studying Zen Buddhism. Padma learned to read and master the original Sanskrit texts of meditation and yoga philosophy. She is authorized by the director of the International Meditation Institute of India to teach meditation and yoga philosophy.
Padma has developed an exceptional and unique yoga meditation program which perfectly unites ancient eastern wisdom with modern western living. She has been educating yoga teachers, doctors and corporate clients in the subtle yogic arts of healing the body and clearing the mind.
Padma was director of the Padma Yoga and Meditation Center and has lead many courses and workshops in yoga and meditation. Padma holds a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University. She worked as an environmental researcher for the Federal Government. To each of her classes, Padma brings a rich wisdom of physical, intellectual and spiritual knowledge. She aims to awaken a freshness, freedom and health in all aspects of our lives. Visit Padma at her website: www.padmameditation.com
"Just to be in Padma's presence is to feel her radiance and resiliency, never mind her vast knowledge of the yoga sutras and understanding of the Sanskrit language. Padma inspires us to live life fully." -Kate Potter, Yoga Therapist
Svetlana worked a professional Latin and Ballroom dancer for twenty years. She trained children for competitive sport and organized sports show programs in her homeland of Russia. She began studying yoga and pilates in 1996. She has been teaching Pilates for the past six years. She completed her bachelor of applied science in Novosibirsk Sate University in 1983.
Wendy was first introduced to Pilates after an injury early in life left her with chronic low back pain. Through her practice she remedied her problem and developed a passion for the Pilates method. Eventually, this led to her obtaining her teaching certification through Polestar Education in 2001, and becoming a full-time instructor. Being committed to furthering her knowledge, Wendy most recently completed the 2004 Intensive Program at the Pilates Centre in Boulder, Colorado.
Wendy's approach to teaching is light and informative; exploring the integration of mind and body through a safe and effective workout.
Carolyn has been studying and practicing yoga since 1973 and taught her first yoga class in 1979. She has the privilege and honour of being certified in both Sivananda Yoga and Asthanga Yoga, but has had a variety of other influences and certifications in the last three decades. Carolyn is a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level and holds the designation of E-RYT500.
As yoga has become an integral part of her life, it has lead her down many paths; and currently she has a studio in Vancouver, BC, Serenity Yoga. Here, she teaches public classes and focuses on Advanced Studies for Yoga Teachers and Yoga Teacher Training. At the studio she also has a therapeutic practice, conducting therapeutic and restorative yoga sessions for people with chronic and terminal illness, structural imbalances and injuries as well as youth in substance abuse recovery programs.
Carolyn humbly acknowledges and credits her progress and abilities as both a yoga practitioner and teacher to the many fine teachers that have influenced her along the way at: The Sivananda and Vedanta Centre in San Francisco, Ca; The late Walt Baptiste and his wife Magana and their wonderful Yoga Centre in San Francisco, CA; The Iyengar Institute in San Francisco, Larry Schultz and Katie Cariffe at It's Yoga, San Francisco, and Meir Lesham of San Francisco Astanga. To all whom she owes immeasurable gratitude.
Cielo English is a certified Hatha/ Prenatal Yoga teacher, and personal trainer.. Her teaching has been experienced by international students while at her studio in Thailand. During the past years she has frequented India to study the Iyengar tradition and to deepen her knowledge of Ayurveda and meditation. Providing practical knowledge of human anatomy in combination with the healing arts adds a rich approach to her teaching. She tailors classes to meet your prevailing needs, encouraging deep focus through breath, inner awareness, and a calm awakening of spirit..
Neil was first introduced to yoga asanas in 1999 when he was invited by a friend to an all girls class that resulted in one of his most humbling life experiences to date. Coming from a very athletic background and playing on as many sports teams his mother could drive him to made the initial stages of the physical asanas rather challenging. With being only able to touch his knee caps and having the core strength of a wet noodle there was so much room for opening and strength in the body and mind. His first teacher was blessed a well versed knowledge of all the limbs of Ashtanga yoga. This helped him to cultivate discipline and patience. A catalyst on Neil's path was an evergreen tree he collided with while snowboarding resulting in broken bones, metal rods, muscle grafts and deeper understanding patience and humility. One month after getting off his crutches he enrolled in a Yoga Teacher Training on Salt Spring Island under the teachings of Baba Hari Dass. Since achieving his certification he has studied with teachers like Nancy Gilgoff, Dharma Mitra, Mark Whitwell, Rodney Yee, Ron Reid and Jennifer Pritchard of The Yoga Shala in Victoria.
Marla began her study of body and movement very early
in life as a competitive gymnast, then a professional
dancer. While most people her age were sitting in
desks staring at computer monitors at University, she
was studying Ballet at the school of Les Grands
Ballets Canadiens in Montreal. In 1990 she joined Les
Ballets Jazz de Montreal and travelled the world
kicking her legs real high. From there to Chicago in
1994 with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. There, in true
U.S. form she had bigger stages to kick even higher!
After another four years of this her legs were getting
tired so she decided to come home to the west coast of
Canada, marry her love from high school Peter Waal and
wiggle their toes together in the sand at Jericho
beach.
Her yoga journey began in 1998 in Vancouver at the
Prana Yoga and Zen Centre. Yoga became an instant
passion and quickly became her central focus. After
completing the one year teacher training course at the
Prana Centre Marla began teaching Hatha Yoga and Power
Yoga at the centre. About a year later she Studied
Ashtanga Yoga with David Swenson, and recently has
completed and advanced Ashtanga training with Tim
Miller. Marla has done workshops with inspiring Yogi's
like Shiva Rea, David Williams, Doug Swenson, Nancy
Gilghof, and Bryan Kest and is continually inspired by
her students.
Marla is passionate about teaching in a style that
highlights the breath, along with body alignment and
awareness. She plans to be a student of yoga her whole
life, also a student of life through yoga.
Nico Lucesoli has, from a young age, been committed towards building optimal strength and balanced health. He started weight-lifting over 15 years ago and has always been committed to an active lifestyle. Working as an actor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he also received training in gymnastics and circus stunts. After moving to Vancouver, he completed his formal training as a Personal Trainer. He soon felt drawn to the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga and began to practice regularly. From yoga, he has found tremendous complementary benefits to resistance training, a balancing act between strength and flexibility. Shortly after, he did his Power Yoga Teacher Training with yogi masters James Nicholson and David Swenson and started teaching yoga. Between core conditioning and Yoga, the leap to Pilates was obvious for Nico, who then took his Pilates Instructor Training in 2003. With all three disciplines to his credit, Nico has found his niche. He continually satisfies his thirst for more knowledge by taking various Yoga and Pilates workshops from visiting masters.
Daniel is a co-founder of Prana Yoga College. His many studies of the human psyche include Yoga, Neuro Linguistic Programming, hypnosis and psychology.
His personal Yoga philosophy is based on experiential approach to the practice. He believes that each class is an opportunity for students to dynamically integrate their minds with their bodies and deepen the self awareness of the connection between the two.
By becoming mindful of every breath during the practice we can carry that with us into our daily lives. Yoga can create bliss through finding stillness in motion.
shakti has been teaching yoga and yoga teachers for over 20 years on 3 different continents. Since the age of 14, she has traveled the world learning from many Yoga and Zen teachers. Yoga is her passion and her life's purpose. Founder of Prana Yoga & Zen Centre, shakti mhi is an internationally known instructor, lecturer and teacher trainer and has been for nearly two decades.
shakti is a no-nonsense Yoga and Zen teacher, consistently recognized for fostering first rate teachers. Rather than exercise the body through the mind, she invites you to master the mind through the body. To learn more about shakti's teacher training visit Prana Yoga Teacher College .
Lidija Martinovic is a KRI internationally certified yoga and meditation teacher and founder of The Yoga Wheel Turning. She is teaching kids, adults and elders in established centres in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Besides Kundalini Yoga, Lidija teaches classical hatha, restorative and yoga Nidra. She has studied the human body through the modern experiential anatomy approach and tensegrity structure. Encouraging a psycho- somatic re sourcing, Lidija mindfully bridges a mental, physical and energetic paradigm.
In her teachings she encourages continuous pausing, bringing the emphasis on the space where we make our authentic inquiries. This allows one to be and explore rather than do yoga. The space itself creates the vehicle which, stirred up with the equanimity of the mind and compassioned heart, ultimately leads to a world of peace and integration.
As a Vajrayana and insight meditation (vipassana) practitioner, Lidija holds mindfulness and courage as an essential aspect of her teachings in yoga.
ANITA SEIZ comes from a background of dance in classical and contemporary styles. In June 2004 she graduated with distinction from Long Beach Dance Conditioning's Advances in Pilates Technique training under Master Instructor, Marie-Jose Blom-Lawrence. This deeply added to her existing experience as a pilates instructor and prompted further study under Eric Franklin. In July 2005, she completed the Level 1 Franklin Method Certification, emphasizing postural and biomechanical imagery techniques.
Anita is currently in the process of attaining her certificate in Movement Analysis through the Laban Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS).
Specialties include continuing education for pilates instructors, experiential anatomy workshops and conditioning for dance.
Memberships:
Canadian Pilates Association (CPA)
Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (CADA)
Yoga Association of British Columbia (YABC)
International Association for Dance Medicine (IADMS)
Jesse Enright has been a student of Yoga for eleven years and an instructor for the past nine. He began his studies with Sivananda Yoga before exploring the more dynamic Ashtanga Vinyasa, the detailed alignment of Iyengar and the comprehensive intelligence of Vijnana Yoga. He has studied and practiced under senior instructors in India, Australia, Canada and the U.S. Jesse was a full-time instructor at the Downward Dog Yoga Centre in Toronto for five years and completed their one-year teacher training program before moving to Vancouver in 2002. Jesse credits his excellent teachers and his training in anatomy and postural analysis for his detailed, informative style of instruction. His classes blend the challenge and flow of vinyasa with deep alignment and a lighthearted approach.
All I've ever wanted to do is move, dance and let my spirit free.
Hailing from one of the bigger meccas of yoga, NYC. I took my first vinyasa class in 2000 at Jivamukti Yoga Center. I had a feeling of arriving home. We moved through postures seamlessly with an emphasis of breath-body connection. The spiritual aspect of the inward journey also appealed to me. I've always found movement to be sacred. By allowing myself to dance, to pulse, I felt connected to the Divine, to everything around me. I practiced yoga for a couple of years and decided I should teach; thinking I could share this love of movement with others. I received my certification at Sonic Yoga NYC with Lauren Hanna and Jonathan Fields in 2003. My unique sense of sequencing is influenced by my beloved teachers Shiva Rea, Lauren Hanna, Stacey Brass (Laughing Lotus), David Life (Jivamukti) and from my background in dance. I invite you to be playful in your practice, reminding us that lightness is found in spirit!
Bernie Clark has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1998. He has a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Waterloo and combines his intense interest in yoga with an understanding of the scientific approach to investigating the nature of things. His ongoing studies have taken him deeply inside mythology, comparative religions, and psychology. All of these avenues of exploration have clarified his under-standing of the ancient Eastern practices of yoga and meditation. His teaching, workshops, and book (YinSights) have helped many students broaden their own understanding of health, life, and the source of true joy.
Ariel Clara Pavic, RYT is a creative and approachable teacher, inspired to give to others tool of yoga, which has enriched her life so much. Ariel teaches all levels hatha and power yoga, and specializes in Pre-Natal yoga. She is a labor and birth support doula with training from the Seattle Midwifery School. Her teaching draws on her background of contemporary movement training, jazz and ballet, personal yoga practice and intuition. Also, largely, on 17 years spent riding, showing and training horses in the art of Dressage, which she later realized was a yogic dance with a large silent partner! A riding injury which fractured 2 vertebrae left her with severe back problems for years, yoga being the only alternative to living life in pain. It is this personal experience with injury and recovery through yoga that she continues to share with her students, and as a result she places a huge emphasis on safety and correct alignment in her classes. Mom to one daughter, she continued to practice and teach yoga throughout the pregnancy. (photo: Cowie and Fox)
Master Mantak Chia was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1944. Recognized very early as having great potential for spiritual development, he was initiated into meditation practices by Buddhist monks at the age of 6. While studying in Hong Kong, he learned Tai Chi Chuan, Aikido and Kundalini Yoga from a variety of teachers. His pursuit of Taoist teachings lead him to meet the White Cloud Hermit, a Taoist Master originally from Central China, living at that time in the mountains not far from Hong Kong. Master Yi Eng was to become Master Mantak Chia's principle teacher.
Over a period of five years, Master Yi transmitted to Master Mantak Chia the most sacred and closely held Taoist practices, formulas and methods of internal alchemy, culminating in the Reunion of Heaven and Man. Realizing that as transmitted to him, these Immortal practices could not easily be absorbed by western students, Master Mantak Chia undertook to integrate them with his studies in western physical anatomy. Through this process he created a unique view of the internal aspects of these practices.
With the Universal Tao system, he has created for the first time, a way for any individual to quickly get to the essence of subtle practices whose real purpose has been shrouded in secrecy for millennia. The author of dozens of books, booklets, videos and CDs describing the theory and methods of these practices, Master Mantak Chia has taught hundreds of thousands of eager students the principles of Taoist internal practice over the past 40 years. He has certified hundreds of Instructors and Practitioners to help in the transmission of these teachings.
Sri Dharma Mittra has spent most of his life in service to humanity, disseminating the ancient knowledge of how to achieve radiant health and spiritual development. Dharma was born in the late1930's, and has studied Yoga since 1958. After meeting his teacher guru, Sri Swami Kalaishananda, he immersed himself in intense study and practice of the classical eight limbs of Yoga, and nine years of dedication full time practice of Karma Yoga. He was accepted and initiated as a sannyasi (one who renounces the world in order to realize God). During these years Dharma had the esteemed honor of being the personal assistant to the Guru attending to all his needs. Sri Swami Kailashanada is known as the first Guru to bring the practice of Hatha Yoga to the west in the early 1950’s.
Dharma taught only for his Guru with selfless expectation, after years as a full-time yogi and bramachari, a celibate religious student who lives with his teacher and devotes himself to the practice of spiritual disciplines. He was the main demonstrator for the Yoga asanas at the many lectures the Guru gave to the public in the 60’s and 70’s. After being a celebrated teacher for many years at his guru’s Ashram, he left in 1974 and founded the Yoga Asana Center, currently known as Dharma Mittra Yoga New York Center.
Dharma is the first main independent Yoga teacher on the East Coast, initiating hundreds of thousands on the path of Yogic practice and teaching. Dharma began disseminating this knowledge before "styles" of Yoga became popular, and has remained truthful to the original classical practice. Students from all walks and styles of Yoga love his teachings. Dharma has literally been teaching classes continuously everyday since he started in 1967. To this day he still makes himself available regularly to anyone who walks thru the doors of Dharma Mittra Yoga in need of help and direction. For his dedication and fortitude, he is known as "the Rock of Yoga", and for his experience and knowledge the “Teacher's Teacher". Sri Dharma continues to inspire, enlighten, and reveal to Yoga teachers and practitioners today, the real meaning of Yoga. “It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Yoga practice will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the Guru, as one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making ones self useful to himself and all mankind”.
Van is the founder of Mind-Body Fitness, Inc, a Whistler-based company that has taught creative health and fitness techniques to thousands of people, including the Canadian National Snowboard Team, professional athletes and coaches, and corporations like VISA and Intrawest.
Born with severe clubbed feet, Max Strom spent much of the first four years of his life with his feet confined in plaster casts and braces. Today, he is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students, teaching with the aim of personal transformation and has become one of the most revered teachers of yoga on three continents. Many teachers have cited Max as a most important influence in their teaching and yoga life. Former owner and director of Sacred Movement Yoga in Los Angeles, Max taught over 400 dedicated students a week.
He now travels extensively teaching and lecturing on yoga and transformation and leading teacher trainings. He is recognized by the Yoga Alliance at their Advanced Teacher Level (ERYT). You can see more of his work on his DVDs, Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships, and, Max Strom Yoga - Strength, Grace, Healing. www.MaxStrom.com
Judy Chambers is a graduate of the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, and a professional member of the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants.
She focuses on natural living as a dynamic evolving path, engaging our awareness of the food we eat as an essential indicator of our overall health.
Judy uses principles and assessment techniques from Eastern Medicine, alongside a careful interpretation of modern science and an intuitive sensibility for holistic living. She is also a playful gourmet chef who infuses natural foods with taste, style and – most importantly for the modern multi-taskers - ease.
The yoga practice acts as a therapeutic tool to heal the body and the mind. The yoga poses (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), and meditation, come together to produce many immediate results:
* improve concentration and attention
* decrease anxiety, stress, and depression
* improve mood and sense of well-being
* increase self-acceptance and self-actualization
* improve learning efficiency and memory
* increases somatic and kinesthetic awareness (body/mind connection)
* decrease aggression and hostility
* increase social skills
* improve depth perception
