YYoga

Faculty

• 

  Rachel Scott, Director of Teacher Training, Head of 200-hour

  E-RYT 500

  Rachel is an exuberant, compassionate, and meticulous yoga teacher living in Vancouver, BC.  She began practicing in 1998 and fell in love with yoga's capacity to heal, nurture, and transform the body and the mind.  Continually advancing her studies, she has earned 500-hour level certifications from both ISHTA and Yoga Works (both YA recognized) and studied Restorative, Ashtanga, Anusara, Iyengar, and Therapeutics. A teacher trainer in the US and Canada, she is honored and thrilled to share in the journey of aspiring teachers.  Her classes combine alignment, breath, and a devilish sense of humor.  Her teaching is continually evolving and she enthusiastically shares this passionate journey with her students.

• 

  Chris Chavez, Head of Path to Teaching

  E-RYT 500

  chris@chrischavezyoga.com

  Chris is considered one of the most sought after teachers in the world, training thousands of teachers and students a year in North America, Europe, and Asia.

  Chris’ world travels and experiences have made him one of the most down to earth yoga teachers you will ever meet. His teachings are fun, challenging, and spiritually uplifting.

  Chris has found the power of practicing and teaching yoga to be an integral part of being a great artist as he continues to maintain a healthy music career and a rockin' yoga practice!

• 

  Alex Atherton, Co-head of YHot

  E-RYT 500

  alex@yyoga.ca

  As a scholar and athlete, Alex was devastated at the age of 21 by severe whiplash/concussion. Suffering constant headaches, and chronic fatigue, Alex was advised by doctors to never play sports again at the risk of further brain damage. After 5 years of chronic back pain, headaches, and unsuccessful visits to chiropractors, doctors, and physiotherapists, Alex discovered Hot Yoga. He recognized immediately the amazing transformational power of Yoga practice, and began an amazing journey that led him to health, amazing personal growth, and globe trotting adventure. 

  With the help of his practice, Alex healed his spine, regained his vitality, and majored in Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Certified by Bikram Yoga College of India, Yoga Alliance (USA), and I.N.S.P.Y.A (Australia). He became a teacher of classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings in Canada, China, Thailand, and Malaysia, and spent 2 years as Retreat/Program Manager for Shanghai's largest studio group Y+. Having lived in China and Taiwan for several years, and been a tour Guide in Tibet and Nepal, Alex is comfortable speaking in teaching in a combination of English and Mandarin Chinese and shares his love of cultures and languages with his students. Alex brings to his teaching, an energetic and uplifting style, personal conviction and passion, and easy way of communicating with students.

• 

  Kristin Campbell, Co-Head of YHot & 200-hour Faculty

  E-RYT 500

  kristin@yyoga.ca

  Kristin's playful, loving and adventurous spirit shines through her
teaching style. Her classes are a passionate offering of sweetness
coupled with a commanding presence, using a precise dialogue to convey
key alignment principles that will enhance your practice and
modifications for those who need them.

  Always beginning with the remembrance of intention and self-awareness, 
Kristin hopes to inspire you to give of your best in order to become
more of who you already are. Kristin bows humbly at the lotus feet of
these formal teachers who each in their own unique way have been a well
spring of knowledge and a huge inspiration, John Friend, Elissa
Gumushel, Christine Price-Clark, Baron Baptiste, David Life, Bikram
Choudhury, Paul Grilley, Ram Dass and Master Dhyan Vimal.

• 

  Erica Blitz, 200-hour Faculty

  E-RYT 200

  Based on her experience and understanding of Ashtanga, Anusara® and the Krishnamacharya lineage, Erica’s teachings are grounded in a supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. Aspiring to Gandhi's words, "Be the change you wish to see", Erica uses the arena of yoga to inspire her students to explore their potential on the mat and to take that playful curiosity into the rest of their lives to spark a sense that anything and everything is possible.

• 

  Sjanie McInnis, Anusara Faculty

  Anusara-Inspired

  Sjanie has been a trainer since her first job working for her parents, when she wrote their office operations manual. Currently an RYT-500, she has assisted Chris Chavez with his Immersions and Teacher Trainings from 2009 to the present, and was honoured to offer the Teacher Intensives with Christine Price Clark and Shelley Tomczyk as continuing studies for Vancouver's strong community of yogis. She is part of the YYoga Mentorship Program and would be delighted to help you develop your teaching! Her most advanced training challenge consists of raising Hannah and Robert, her twins.