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Brooklyn McLaren

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Yoga gives me a space to tune out the world around me and an opportunity to learn about myself. Part of my teaching philosophy is sharing that it’s okay to be uncomfortable, and our feelings are always valid. I strive to provide a safe space to explore those feelings, get curious about them, and find comfort in the inevitable discomfort. Curiosity is the first step to learning, whether it’s about you unique anatomy, or exploring your thought patterns. My goal is to share how to take yoga off of our mats. If we can show ourselves love and kindness in yoga, that practice is more likely to be reflected in our lives, and into the lives of those around us.

About Me

I found my love of yoga through hot yoga in 2009, and began teaching in 2014. I completed my RYT 200 & 80 hour YHot in 2012, 70-hour Yin in 2016, and I mentored with the amazing Anila Lacroix & Rachel Scott. I am certified in Prenatal (2020) and Children’s Yoga (2025), and I am now studying biomedical science, physiology, & psychology.

Instagram: @brooklynrmclaren

What can students expect in your class?

Yoga gives me a space to tune out the world around me and an opportunity to learn about myself. Part of my teaching philosophy is sharing that it’s okay to be uncomfortable, and our feelings are always valid. I strive to provide a safe space to explore those feelings, get curious about them, and find comfort in the inevitable discomfort. Curiosity is the first step to learning, whether it’s about you unique anatomy, or exploring your thought patterns. My goal is to share how to take yoga off of our mats. If we can show ourselves love and kindness in yoga, that practice is more likely to be reflected in our lives, and into the lives of those around us.

About Me

I found my love of yoga through hot yoga in 2009, and began teaching in 2014. I completed my RYT 200 & 80 hour YHot in 2012, 70-hour Yin in 2016, and I mentored with the amazing Anila Lacroix & Rachel Scott. I am certified in Prenatal (2020) and Children’s Yoga (2025), and I am now studying biomedical science, physiology, & psychology.

Instagram: @brooklynrmclaren

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Diego Martin

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About Me

I’m a 500-hour Certified Yoga Teacher trained with Lucy St. John and Niki Inglis, teaching Hot Yoga, 26+2, Flow, Yin, Restorative, Chair Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. My classes are rooted in accessibility, balance, and presence, with an approach informed by nervous system awareness and the interconnected intelligence of the body.

What can students expect from your class?

Students can expect breath-connected movement, thoughtful pacing, and space to explore both strength and ease. Outside the studio, you can find me hiking, paddle boarding, gardening, and cooking balanced meals with ingredients from my garden.

About Me

I’m a 500-hour Certified Yoga Teacher trained with Lucy St. John and Niki Inglis, teaching Hot Yoga, 26+2, Flow, Yin, Restorative, Chair Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. My classes are rooted in accessibility, balance, and presence, with an approach informed by nervous system awareness and the interconnected intelligence of the body.

What can students expect from your class?

Students can expect breath-connected movement, thoughtful pacing, and space to explore both strength and ease. Outside the studio, you can find me hiking, paddle boarding, gardening, and cooking balanced meals with ingredients from my garden.

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Brant Forrester

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About Me

Practicing since 2006, my foundation is deeply rooted in classical meditation and pranayama—using breathwork and quiet focus as the primary entry points to steady the mind and regulate the nervous system.

My formal path is grounded in traditional Ashtanga and Hatha traditions, having completed my 200-hour training at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga and my 500-hour training at the Mount Madonna Center in California, alongside YYOGA’s YHot and Yin teacher trainings.

What can students expect in your class?

In every class, I aim to create a calm, relaxed, and grounded atmosphere. I view physical postures as a gateway to deeper breath and mental stillness, offering a functional space to strip away daily distractions, cultivate clarity, and build sustainable internal strength.

About Me

Practicing since 2006, my foundation is deeply rooted in classical meditation and pranayama—using breathwork and quiet focus as the primary entry points to steady the mind and regulate the nervous system.

My formal path is grounded in traditional Ashtanga and Hatha traditions, having completed my 200-hour training at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga and my 500-hour training at the Mount Madonna Center in California, alongside YYOGA’s YHot and Yin teacher trainings.

What can students expect in your class?

In every class, I aim to create a calm, relaxed, and grounded atmosphere. I view physical postures as a gateway to deeper breath and mental stillness, offering a functional space to strip away daily distractions, cultivate clarity, and build sustainable internal strength.

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Carly Morrison

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About Me

Hello! I am a lover of life and my four children who are at the centre of it. I stumbled on my first yoga pratice later in life, and right on time. With all that life throws at us, I found the real life tools integrated into Baptiste Power Yoga methodology to be especially helpful when navigating my choices and adapting to change. Over the span of the past 12 years, I have completed Baptiste Power Yoga level 1, level 2 and both Art of Assisting certifications the institute offers. More recently, I completed the Modo Yoga Foundational training, and love the value that this Hatha practice yields as well.

What can students expect in your class?

Regardless of the class style, let’s breathe and work together to remove barriers, dissolve resistance, and clear the way to live fully and be our most compelling selves, one practice at a time. I hope to connect with you soon!

About Me

Hello! I am a lover of life and my four children who are at the centre of it. I stumbled on my first yoga pratice later in life, and right on time. With all that life throws at us, I found the real life tools integrated into Baptiste Power Yoga methodology to be especially helpful when navigating my choices and adapting to change. Over the span of the past 12 years, I have completed Baptiste Power Yoga level 1, level 2 and both Art of Assisting certifications the institute offers. More recently, I completed the Modo Yoga Foundational training, and love the value that this Hatha practice yields as well.

What can students expect in your class?

Regardless of the class style, let’s breathe and work together to remove barriers, dissolve resistance, and clear the way to live fully and be our most compelling selves, one practice at a time. I hope to connect with you soon!

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Shelby MacDonald

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What can students expect in your class?

As a teacher and lifelong student of yoga. I strive to create a welcoming and inclusive space where students can move, breathe, and pause with intention—leaving each class feeling grounded, supported, and inspired.

About Me

Yoga has been a constant in my life since 2004, helping me navigate life’s many seasons with presence, balance, and intention. My practice includes Flow, Hatha, and Yin, each offering unique ways to build strength, deepen awareness, and restore calm.

I’m especially drawn to mindful movement and flow, believing movement is medicine for both body and mind. Yin Yoga holds a special place in my practice, providing an opportunity to slow down, create space, and reconnect in a world that often encourages us to do more.

Instagram: @shelby.on.the.mat

What can students expect in your class?

As a teacher and lifelong student of yoga. I strive to create a welcoming and inclusive space where students can move, breathe, and pause with intention—leaving each class feeling grounded, supported, and inspired.

About Me

Yoga has been a constant in my life since 2004, helping me navigate life’s many seasons with presence, balance, and intention. My practice includes Flow, Hatha, and Yin, each offering unique ways to build strength, deepen awareness, and restore calm.

I’m especially drawn to mindful movement and flow, believing movement is medicine for both body and mind. Yin Yoga holds a special place in my practice, providing an opportunity to slow down, create space, and reconnect in a world that often encourages us to do more.

Instagram: @shelby.on.the.mat

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Maria Traviss

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About Me

What began as a simple desire to move and unwind became a meaningful journey into the connection between body, mind and breath. Over the years, I explored many yoga styles and through that exploration discovered what matters most: being fully present in my body while anchored in my breath. This journey inspired me to teaching yoga and I completed 200hr YTT, 300hr YTT, 70hr Yin and 70 hr YHOT with YYOGA.

What can students expect in your class?

I gravitate towards Hatha and Yin yoga, styles that offer space to slow down, listen inward and reconnect with yourself in a gentle and intentional way.

Whether you’re stepping onto the mat for the first time or returning after years away, you’ll find a supportive environment where curiosity is welcomed and growth unfolds naturally.

About Me

What began as a simple desire to move and unwind became a meaningful journey into the connection between body, mind and breath. Over the years, I explored many yoga styles and through that exploration discovered what matters most: being fully present in my body while anchored in my breath. This journey inspired me to teaching yoga and I completed 200hr YTT, 300hr YTT, 70hr Yin and 70 hr YHOT with YYOGA.

What can students expect in your class?

I gravitate towards Hatha and Yin yoga, styles that offer space to slow down, listen inward and reconnect with yourself in a gentle and intentional way.

Whether you’re stepping onto the mat for the first time or returning after years away, you’ll find a supportive environment where curiosity is welcomed and growth unfolds naturally.

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Ethan Lingerfelt

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About Me

A lover of music, movies, and movement. Ethan’s teaching style draws from the traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa and Jivamukti Yoga, while mixing in functional mobility, elemental playlist-driven sequencing, and sometimes simple, silly feel-good somatic exercises. Ethan reconnected with his practice after suffering some hardships in his early twenties (as we do) and eventually sought out his own certification on Bowen Island. Since, he has had the privilege and pleasure to teach in some of the most beautiful and reputable studios in Vancouver, and hopes to one day take his offerings around the world!

Instagram: @ethanjlingerfelt

Spotify: ejlingerfelt

About Me

A lover of music, movies, and movement. Ethan’s teaching style draws from the traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa and Jivamukti Yoga, while mixing in functional mobility, elemental playlist-driven sequencing, and sometimes simple, silly feel-good somatic exercises. Ethan reconnected with his practice after suffering some hardships in his early twenties (as we do) and eventually sought out his own certification on Bowen Island. Since, he has had the privilege and pleasure to teach in some of the most beautiful and reputable studios in Vancouver, and hopes to one day take his offerings around the world!

Instagram: @ethanjlingerfelt

Spotify: ejlingerfelt

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Hannah Sim

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About Me

Hannah’s love for movement has always been a strong force in her life. Growing up dancing, she always had an awareness of how medicinal movement is to our bodies and mind. After her final year dancing she found her way to her yoga mat where her love for yoga asana took flight. After many years of yoga asana being the root of her practice, she felt called to explore this practice much deeper than just the physical layer. She has gathered her knowledge by spending over 500 hours in trainings and time spent with her spiritual teachers and her own svādhyāya (self studies), spiritual pilgrimages to India, Bali, and the Philippines.

In her classes, you can expect lots of pranayama (breath), mantra (chanting), mythology, and mindful moving meditations through yoga asana.

Hannah is more than humbled to share the teachings of yoga with her students.

Instagram: @Hannahfsim

Spotify: hannahsiim

About Me

Hannah’s love for movement has always been a strong force in her life. Growing up dancing, she always had an awareness of how medicinal movement is to our bodies and mind. After her final year dancing she found her way to her yoga mat where her love for yoga asana took flight. After many years of yoga asana being the root of her practice, she felt called to explore this practice much deeper than just the physical layer. She has gathered her knowledge by spending over 500 hours in trainings and time spent with her spiritual teachers and her own svādhyāya (self studies), spiritual pilgrimages to India, Bali, and the Philippines.

In her classes, you can expect lots of pranayama (breath), mantra (chanting), mythology, and mindful moving meditations through yoga asana.

Hannah is more than humbled to share the teachings of yoga with her students.

Instagram: @Hannahfsim

Spotify: hannahsiim

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Eryn Krieger

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What can students expect in your class?

The body often knows before the mind understands. Before we can explain why we’re overwhelmed, disconnected, uncertain, or exhausted, our bodies are already communicating it. Movement creates space to notice. Through Eryn’s classes, learn to listen more carefully to yourself and reconnect with what matters most. From that place, greater awareness, clarity, and self-trust can emerge.

About Me

Eryn is a certified Leadership & Transition Coach, and movement educator with over 40 years of experience supporting personal growth and well-being. Drawing from a unique blend of yoga, Pilates, meditation, embodied awareness practices, and life coaching, she creates experiences that help people slow down, reconnect with themselves, and move through life with greater clarity, resilience, and self-trust.

What can students expect in your class?

The body often knows before the mind understands. Before we can explain why we’re overwhelmed, disconnected, uncertain, or exhausted, our bodies are already communicating it. Movement creates space to notice. Through Eryn’s classes, learn to listen more carefully to yourself and reconnect with what matters most. From that place, greater awareness, clarity, and self-trust can emerge.

About Me

Eryn is a certified Leadership & Transition Coach, and movement educator with over 40 years of experience supporting personal growth and well-being. Drawing from a unique blend of yoga, Pilates, meditation, embodied awareness practices, and life coaching, she creates experiences that help people slow down, reconnect with themselves, and move through life with greater clarity, resilience, and self-trust.

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Marco Ling

Studio

Classes

What can students expect in your class?

I encourage students to listen intently to their own bodies before anything else. In my classes, I enjoy weaving space for fire (tapas), softness, and breath awareness. Expect a grounding and alignment-based practice that is challenging yet accessible.

About Me

My sister brought me to my first ever yoga class in Vienna, Austria. I remember stumbling non-stop and being drenched in sweat, not understanding any of the instruction – but in that discomfort I found a curiosity for the practice. I was also in search for a new movement modality and something to ground my restless mind in a period where I felt lost. Yoga offered the perfect blend, creating the space for self-inquiry and allowing me to explore how to breath deeply through discomfort.

Instagram: @yogmarco

What can students expect in your class?

I encourage students to listen intently to their own bodies before anything else. In my classes, I enjoy weaving space for fire (tapas), softness, and breath awareness. Expect a grounding and alignment-based practice that is challenging yet accessible.

About Me

My sister brought me to my first ever yoga class in Vienna, Austria. I remember stumbling non-stop and being drenched in sweat, not understanding any of the instruction – but in that discomfort I found a curiosity for the practice. I was also in search for a new movement modality and something to ground my restless mind in a period where I felt lost. Yoga offered the perfect blend, creating the space for self-inquiry and allowing me to explore how to breath deeply through discomfort.

Instagram: @yogmarco

Mat Pilates Teachers (West Point Grey)

We’re currently looking for Mat Pilates teachers for our West Point Grey location and will be hosting auditions soon. All Teachers must be certified in Mat Pilates to teach with YYOGA.

We are looking for:

·  Individuals who embody a passion for teaching.

·  Ability to teach an all levels class with appropriate variations and alternatives.

·  Ability to teach Safe, smart and functional sequencing.

·  Inclusive and effective cueing.

·  Understanding of anatomy.

·  Ability to hold space vocally and physically.

·  Appropriate demonstrations and hands-on or verbal assists.

YYOGA is committed to providing equal opportunity for all applicants. We recruit based on capability and performance — regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

General Teacher Application (All Styles – All Locations)

We’re always looking for skilled teachers and host auditions regularly. To be considered for the next audition, fill out this general application form and we’ll be in touch with those who’s skills align with our current needs.

We’re generally look for:

  • Individuals who embody a passion for teaching
  • Ability to teach to an all-levels class
  • Smart and functional sequencing (varies according to style)
  • Safe and effective cueing and understanding of anatomy
  • Ability to hold space vocally and physically
  • How you connect to your students
  • When applicable, appropriate demonstrations and hands-on assists
  • Your individual, unique teaching style

We hold auditions throughout the year based on studio needs and review each application.

Class Styles:

  • Flow, Power, Hatha, Yin, Pilates Fusion, YSculpt and YHot (must be certified in YHot to teach hot yoga with YYOGA however if you have another hot yoga training certification, please indicate)

YYOGA is committed to providing equal opportunity for all applicants. We recruit based on capability and performance — regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.