Shanèl (She/Her) is a 200 hour certified teacher with further trainings in accessibility, anti-oppression and the Detour Method. She currently teaches in the GTA and frequents Ottawa and Montreal. She is passionate about making wellness accessible to all communities. She teaches from a body positive, trauma informed and anti-colonial lens. Her favorite part about teaching is connecting through breath and sharing a laugh.

Workshop – Creating Brave Spaces in Yoga with Focus on Inclusion and Anti Oppression 

Explore how to create brave spaces for students to show up their most authentic selves and foster an environment of belonging.  Learn to recognize intersections of privilege and oppression within your yoga practice as well as the yoga industry and understand how you  can use your privilege(s) to create more space for inclusivity and accessibility. We will also talk about inclusive cueing and modifications for bigger bodies as well as disabled bodies.

Allison became a lifetime student and teacher of Yoga in 2001. She has a disciplined self practice and has been teaching alignment based Yoga and Yoga Teacher Trainings for 18 years. Allison has worked extensively in the field of health sciences and research and has had the opportunity to study with world renowned Yogi’s, all of which inspire and inform her ever evolving teachings. Drawing on her studies with Darren Rhodes, David Robson, Cameron Shayne, Fiona Stang and Mark Stephens, Allison brings alignment to the forefront of creatively sequenced Yoga classes that are physiologically nourishing and mentally challenging. In her trainings you’ll find Allison professing passionately about the potential of the Nervous System and how we have the real ability to use Yoga as a way to rewire the way we think, feel and act in the world. In her unique approach to teaching, Allison navigates the traditional and sometimes mystical parts of Yoga with clarity and perspective.

Workshop – The Science of Yoga

As Yoga teachers we have a responsibility to be knowledgeable in our field. In a day where Yoga teachers primarily guide a form of physical movement practice we must have a solid foundation in understanding Kinesiology and Physiology. Our students deserve that.

This unique workshop looks at the nature of our nature from the inside out. Through understanding our Nervous System and all of it’s functions we can truly begin to know ourselves. In fact, we can not talk about ‘the self’ without discussing the Nervous System as it is at the very core of our being. Through the uncovering of what “I” truly is we can tap into the vast potential of our Nervous System and use Yoga as a way to rewire our behaviour patterns on and off the Yoga mat.

Workshop – Budokon and Animal Locomotion

This workshop is one of a kind. Allison and Maegan team up to bring you a hybrid practice that is poetry in motion. Budokon is a flowing movement practice that blends Yoga, Martial Arts and Dance into a mind bending experience of the self.

As a former Brewmaster, Jordan is coming from a profession where you can experience just about everything you can for personal enterprise and the physical world. Intrigued by traditional and monastic brewing practices, he would soon become aware of the deep history of meditation in a monastery setting that runs alongside the brewing and goods production to support the monastery itself.

Bringing this understanding into the world of yoga as a RYT-200, Jordan hopes to give back to the community as an informed, compassionate teacher and mentor. Not only will you learn about yoga flows and meditation in his studio classes, but also many other meditative-like practices that allow us to have a little more agency over our body, mind, and experiences of consciousness.

Workshop – Mastering of the Senses (Indriya and Pratyahara)

The senses play an important role in how we interact with the world around us. When working as a Brewmaster, Jordan would go through rigorous, daily sensory analysis practices to improve operational efficacy through sensory awareness and provide the best possible consumer experiences. As a meditation and yoga teacher, he has integrated this with the knowledge of traditional practices for honing our abilities through our senses. In this workshop, we’ll explore different techniques to gain mastery of the senses (Indriyas) as well as exploring the faculty of sense itself and further sensory withdrawal practices (Pratyahara).