Staff Profiles
Brian Brown
I have a desire and passion to enable as any people as possible to experience the many and vast benefits that yoga can bring us.
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Claire Diver
Thank you for taking the time to look at my profile. I am a Yoga teacher and Personal Trainer. My health, fitness and Yoga journey began around 9 years ago. I enjoyed practicing and decided to learn more and become and instructor. I have worked and trained in Canada, Australia, India and South America delivering [...]
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Jenny Ward
My Yoga journey began 12 years ago in Australia practising Hatha Yoga under the guidance of Shanti Gowans. In 2002 I traveled to Canada and gained my Yoga Teacher Training and Advanced Teacher Training Certificates with the Sivananda Association. Since then I have been traveling and teaching Yoga in India, Australia and New Zealand most recently spending [...]
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Lisa Norris
Lisa began her Yoga training in 1999 in Christchurch under the tutelage of Iyengar teacher Richard Tweedie, whilst she was studying Performing Arts. She was immediately taken with the practice and has since traveled to India three times to train with Pankaj Sharma and most recently Surrinder Singh on the banks of the Ganges river in Rishikesh. [...]
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Sam Loe
Through enquiry into breath, body, movement and mind I hope to guide students towards their own sustainable yoga practice. Incorporating both dynamic and stillness practices, the classes provide a space for inner connection and sharing sacred space. I love to explore themes of yoga philosophy within the physical practice and hope to highlight the journey [...]
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Kimberly Bortnick
Kimberly teaches a Yin-style class as well as a vigorous Hatha Flow, holding the poses longer, giving students an opportunity to explore the asanas with their breath.
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Jane Morrison
Jane has lived in India, where she trained in the Sivananda style of yoga under Swami Govinananda. Sivananda Yoga is an uncomplicated yet challenging form of hatha yoga that focuses on five key principles – proper exercise (asanas), proper breathing, proper relaxation, proper diet, and positive thinking and meditation – and involves 12 key poses. Jane enjoys the holistic nature of yoga, where control of the body allows control of the mind.
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Chaitanya Deva
In his yoga classes Chaitanya has a big focus on synchronising the movement with the breath. He likes to create a challenging & rewarding class that holds your attention while at same time using the breath to integrate the changes that are happening in your body & mind throughout the class.
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Frances Rae
Frances started yoga when she was a student in Edinburgh and she has trained under many teachers from different disciplines over the years. She loves to teach Yin Yoga and Hot classes, both of which are her preferred practices. She is particularly interested in the mind-body connection and creating health and well-being through the yoga practice.
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Maureen McKain
Maureen holds several International Yoga diplomas and is teacher of Integral Yoga mainly specializing in Hatha Yoga classes.
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Noa Parker
Noa discovered the yoga practice in Rishikesh, India, in 1994 and has been teaching yoga since 2007.
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Stephanie Challis
With thirty years experience in yoga and twenty years of Chi Kung, Stephanie offers a mix of influences unique in each class, the emphasis changing to suit the seasons and those present in the room.
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Cayla Sinclair
I have made working and studying in holistic health a passion to drive my life. I am dedicated to natural health, specializing in various forms of massage therapy.
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