What should students expect from your class?

Expect familiar tunes remixed to a new beat that will have you riding the lyrical wave through your practice.

About Me

The body holds a story that is told through movement. Moving mindfully with awareness and intention can change the way we look and feel. It can change our story. Drawing from a lifetime of movement each class is a culmination of my work. My feel good fun classes will challenge you at your level in a safe and supported environment through mindful movement patterns that will leave you feeling strong beyond your mat.

What should students expect from your class?

A chance to land, however this day finds you, to breathe on purpose, and to be both challenged and grounded.

About Me

Yoga drew me in like nothing else had before. The practice connected me to myself on so many levels; I was able to tap into a new depth of subtlety – in mind, body, and breath. The physical challenge of the practice provided enough intensity to require presence, and the skillful way that my teachers were able to hold space created a collective energy that added a communal dimension to our individual explorations, efforts, and internal reckonings. It was playfulness, reverence, and discipline in just the right mix. Something clicked. I took my foundational 200 hour teacher training in 2009, and in 2014 completed my 300 hour advanced teacher training with Christine Price Clark, as well as my Yoga Outreach Trauma Sensitive Training. I explored meditation through vipassana and teachers like Rod Stryker and Adyashanti, the philosophical lineage of yoga through my studies at Simon Fraser University, bio-mechanical awareness and creative sequencing through Clara Roberts-Oss and Schuyler Grant, and the reminder via teachers like Sjanie McInnis that the integrity called for in the inner dimensions of practice is intimately linked to our outer actions, and social justice. Yoga, a perpetual invitation to make myself available to the moment. This one.

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Instagram: @amanda_marita

What should students expect from your class?

To be challenged, reflective and come away feeling centred.

About Me

I source inspiration from a place of humbled curiosity, having bared witness to the way my own practice has evolved over time. I seek to offer classes that are alignment focused, challenging, and accessible to all body types and levels of flexibility. My classes are artfully accompanied by playlists I construct to help students fall into a deeper connection with their own body, so we are able to drop out of the mind to find the integral link between breath and movement.

Instagram: @annagouin

Spotify: Anna Gouin

What should students expect from your class?

Great energy and versatile routines adapting to all levels.

About Me

I have been teaching classes for 25 years, after being a Fitness/Dance instructor for more than 10 years, I started practicing Yoga & Pilates, In a way I wanted to find balance in my body and mind. I am an eternal student. I love taking new courses and learning new things. Mixing Yoga/Pilates/Fitness/Dance makes my life full of excitement. I love different aspects of movement and I get inspired by mixing all my discoveries through my journey. I hope you get inspired too!

Facebook: Mercevida

What should students expect from your class?

In my class, you can expect a focused practice with touches of humour and lightness. My teaching style is often very anatomically- and alignment-driven, yet also aims to inspire beautiful movement. In addition to being a yoga instructor, I am also a practising physiotherapist: in both these realms, the resilience and adaptability of the human body continue to inspire me daily. I look forward to seeing you on the mat.

About Me

I went to my first yoga class in high school, in 2010. The experience was a very challenging one, yet, in a way, it felt like coming home. A year later, in 2011, I began teaching yoga. It has been a long journey of practice and learning since then, and on the way I have also received a Bachelor’s of Kinesiology and a Master’s of Physical Therapy. Today, I enjoy teaching yoga alongside practicing as a physiotherapist. I am grateful for the opportunity to lead people in movement, and I look forward to practicing with you!

Instagram: @joshchenphysio

What should students expect from your class?

A safe, comfortable space where you can dive into your practice and connect your mind, your body and your heart.

About Me

I believe everyone can benefit from the amazing transformation that comes from a yoga practice. My classes infuse poses that will challenge, increase flexibility, strengthen and detoxify your mind and body. I wish for your journey to re-connect you to your true self. From a heart centred perspective, I encourage students to move from a place of loving empowerment. I believe every single movement and every single breath is a chance to create more space and live more fully. Through drawing inward and tapping into your highest source to shine more brightly and inspire others to do the same. For me yoga practice is an evolution and brings me peace while enjoying the beauty along the way.

What should students expect from your class?

Students can expect a calm, grounded practice with a sprinkle of anatomy, psychology and spirituality.

About Me

I am a Yoga Alliance Certified 500 Hour E-RYT with over 1000 hours of additional training in yoga and other complimentary movement modalities. I have been teaching yoga for 13 years and joined the YYOGA Education faculty as a YHot teacher trainer 3 years ago. I am also a registered Professional Counsellor and a Certified Life Coach which adds depth to my yoga classes as I emphasize self-awareness and personal agency. With clear, simple cueing I will guide you through your practice and help you find your calm, grounded centre so you can step back into the world feeling refreshed, focused and alive.

Facebook: Lisa Sanson

Instagram: @lisa_sanson

What should students expect from your class?

An athletic and alignment-driven practice that will encourage you to tune in your awareness from the ground up.

About Me

I attended my first hot yoga class in fourth year university on a dare and was promptly hooked. Right away I started a 40-day challenge which inspired an early interest in teaching. In 2012, I completed a 200-hour training at the Absolute Yoga Academy in Koh Samui, Thailand, and began teaching hot yoga in Shanghai, China, where I was privileged to work with a diverse group of students and teachers from around the globe. Since those early days, I’ve taught a variety of yoga styles, from the traditional 26-posture hot yoga sequence and those developed by Absolute Yoga and YYOGA to freestyle flow, power, and deep stretch sequences. Personally what I enjoy is helping students find their “Aha!” moments—the small shifts in technique, alignment, or attitude that move them further into their practice on and off the mat.

What should students expect from your class?

A soothing experience you can melt into, blended with the guidance to tap into your own power and strength.

About Me

I have always been enamoured with physical movement and felt empowered by its therapeutic benefits. It wasn’t until my early teenage years that I was first introduced to the Yoga Asana and it has forever changed the way I experience the world around me. I fell in love with the external expression of the practice, but also felt illuminated by its internal teachings. For many years, my passion for yoga, tempered by a background in strength training, has provided me a perfect, harmonious balance for body and mind.

I have studied psychology with a major in counselling, completed my 200-Hour, YHot, and Yin Teacher Training. While I currently teach in-studio and offer private lessons, I will forever be a student – sharing my knowledge is as much a step in my own learning experience as is it my students’.

In my classes, we integrate the physical experience into spiritual awareness by cultivating focus, reflection, and exploring areas of ourselves that may be unfamiliar. For the duration of class, it’s just you, your body, your breath, and nothing else. As an introvert, this practice is a time and place where I feel especially at home – it is my purpose as a teacher to make my students feel the same.

Instagram: @katandhermat

Spotify: Katrinachan_

What should students expect from your class?

Challenging, rhythmic movement & supremely curated playlists.

About Me

I began teaching unique & evolutionary movement classes in Vancouver in 2011. In the last decade, I have acquired hundreds of hours in training in various lineages of Yoga & Classical Pilates. A yoga practitioner since childhood, my classes are informed by a lifelong dedication of inquiry into movement & philosophical musings on what it means to develop steady consciousness within the capricious existence of the human mind. My classes are a creative alchemy; dancing between strength & grace. I’m here to set the stage for each student to be challenged, inspired, & met with compassion. Freedom to express — add on, or take away — is always welcome in my space.

Instagram: @krystinayoga

What should students expect from your class?

I had gone to some yoga in my teens and early twenties but it wasn’t until I came to my first class at Yyoga NSE in February 2009 that I was hooked. I didn’t realize that I was holding my breath a lot of my day and that was leading to anxiety. That was the beginning of a beautiful journey. Every time I get on my mat I feel like I’m home. In the summer of 2014 I decided to take my Teacher Training at Yyoga and started teaching soon after that. Yoga for me is so much more than just the physical practice and I encourage students to explore their practice in their own life.

About Me

Expect to feel welcome and supported to explore your practice as you are that day.

What should students expect from your class?

Students can expect a class that is designed to build heat, and then calm and restore – the perfect balance.

About Me

There are many ways to move. I regard yoga as an empowering and transformative practice that should be available to everyone. We are constantly changing and as time passes, we have the opportunity to grow and learn.  Yoga teaches us to be present and active as those changes take place and to be conscious participants in our own evolution.

One of the many things that yoga has taught me is that a few long slow breaths can help to calm the mind and body, making the very scary become less daunting. Through movement guided by breath, I have learnt how to live in a calmer more grounded place. By holding space for people in this way I hope that the yoga I am offering can empower and unite while allowing space and time to clear the mind and create ease in the body.

I did my 200 hour TT in Todos Santos, Mexico, took my hot training with Yyoga in 2012 then my 300 hour TT at the Vancouver School of Yoga. Along with the yoga I am also an artist, an art teacher and an avid cyclist.

Instagram: @corinnainfrance