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Our Yoga Instructors Team

Galina

For the past 15 years, Galina has guided students through yoga, gradually shifting her focus toward functional movement, joint mobility, flexibility, and strength training.

Galina

She specializes in helping people—especially mature students—move with ease, stay strong, and maintain independence as they age.
Drawing from her background in Ashtanga Yoga, weight training, and extensive study of anatomy, Galina blends mindful mobility with practical strength work to support healthy joints, muscular stability, and confident daily movement. Her teaching style is educational and science-informed, integrating FRC®, ELDOA, and strength tools such as light weights, resistance bands, and Pilates props.

Galina’s classes often differ from traditional vinyasa, yet remain grounded in the principles of mind-body connection. She uses yoga asana to teach body awareness, movement mechanics, and mindful living beyond the mat. Her goal is to help students strengthen their bodies, sharpen neuromuscular coordination, and step out of their comfort zones—both in practice and in life.

Tiffany

Tiffany blends her expertise in body movement, therapeutic yoga and Ayurveda.  
Her background includes years of working as a personal trainer and with physiotherapists, deepening her understanding of functional movement, injury prevention, and mindful strength.

Tiffany

Tiffany blends her expertise in body movement, therapeutic yoga, Ayurveda, and Ayurvedic nutrition to help students move with ease and live in balance. With over 500 hours of yoga teacher training, Ayurveda as well as training as a restorative yoga educator, she guides students through practices that support the body’s natural rhythms and long-term well-being.

Tiffany found yoga in 2004 as a way to complement her job as a personal trainer. She has since worked with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and health care specialists, deepening her understanding of functional movement, injury prevention, and mindful strength. Tiffany has supported seniors in improving acts of daily living through gentle movement, mobility work, and introspective practices, helping them move with greater confidence, comfort, and independence.

She is known for her grounded approach and skills in teaching body awareness to both students and teachers. Tiffany empowers everyone she works with to understand their own unique and beautiful bodies through movement, stillness and nutrition. She brings compassion, healing, and practical wellness knowledge that supports students far beyond the mat and kitchen. 

Look for Tiffany at: Therapeutic Yoga, Strength and Conditioning, Chair Yoga for seniors, Yin and Restorative classes, Yoga flows and Hatha classes. 

Laura

Laura brings grounding wisdom wrapped in heat, energy, and powerful movement. She found yoga in 2014 as a new mom searching for health and stillness — but what she discovered was a deeper transformation. Yoga made her stronger, more resilient, and more open to the life she was creating.

Laura

A certified 500 hour yoga teacher, plus certifications in Life Coaching, Life Purpose Coaching, and Reiki, Laura weaves breath, strength, and self-discovery into every class.

Her hot flows are equal parts fire and heart — the place where sweat meets insight. Laura believes your mat is a classroom for life: a space to grow, to breathe easier, and to remember who you’re becoming.

Jackie

Jackie’s yoga journey began in her 20s and reignited in 2010. A nurse drawn to helping others, she obtained her 500 hr AYT and Kundalini certifications in 2019/2020. She loves teaching vinyasa flow, ashtanga/Hatha, and Kundalini. Off the mat, you’ll find her in the garden or hiking.

Jackie

Jackie first began her yoga journey in her early 20’s, but then life happened. She reunited with the practice in 2010 when that old flame came back to life in an “oh there you are” moment. As her personal practice progressed, so did her need to grow and share with others what yoga has to offer. As a nurse, Jackie has always been drawn to helping others. Teaching yoga was on her mind and while contemplating how to make this happen, the universe found a way to lead her on this path. Through 2019/2020 Jackie obtained her 500 hr AYT certification and Kundalini certification.

Jackie loves teaching vinyasa flow in the ashtanga/Hatha styles and moving meditations (kundalini) noting there is something so special about movement with flow and breath, stretch, and strength. As your guide on the mat, Jackie hopes for you to find release and joy through movement & breath, teaching to all levels.

When not on the mat, you will find her in the garden or hiking in the woods. “Whatever makes you feel sunshine from the inside out, follow that.” Sat Nam

Crystal

Crystal, CYA-550RYT since 2021, specializes in Vinyasa Flow, Prenatal, Postnatal, Kundalini, and Yoga Nidra. Her inclusive classes offer modifications. By day, a school secretary and mom to teens. Beyond yoga, she's a skilled R.BIE, Reiki, Access Bars, and Crystal Healer.

Crystal

Crystal, a dedicated yoga teacher since 2021, holds a CYA-550RYT certification, specializing in Vinyasa Flow, Prenatal, Postnatal, Kundalini, and Yoga Nidra. Her slow flow classes welcome all, offering pose modifications when needed.

Beyond the mat, Crystal crafts soothing Savasana scripts, ensuring a blissful end to each session. By day, she’s a high school secretary and a mom of two teens. In her free time, she enjoys dog walks, reading, and ongoing learning.

Crystal’s healing talents extend to her practice space in Alliston, where she offers services as an R.BIE practitioner, Reiki Master, Access Bars Practitioner, Crystal Healer, and Energetic Medicine Practitioner.

Corry

Corry started her journey with movement at age 6 studying ballet for over 12 years, she began her yoga practice 14 years ago and decided to start her Yoga Teacher Training in 2011.

In 2014 she completed her CYA-RYT 200 hr. 

Corry

Corry has been teaching yoga and other fitness classes for over 9 years, Corry brings positive energy and balance to each class, promoting calmness and encouraging participants to carry their intentions off their mats.  Corry insists yoga should be fun, and brings that attitude to her classes, promoting peace, mindfulness and gratitude.

Michael

Love & live fully! With grace and passion, practice & lead yoga, mindful movement & yoga/spin classes. I love working one-on-one creating highly specific programs tailored to individual goals for; everyday weekend warriors or high-performing athletes.

Michael

In 2018, I embark on a personal passion project to recruit men to the practice of yoga. Sharing the simple power of practice, allowing them to experience the real-life, mind, body and spiritual benefits of a practice that links Prana, Mind,
Movement & Connectivity to nature.

Ginny

Ginny is an experienced yoga teacher who has been teaching since she graduated from Hatha Yoga teacher Training in 2015. Her classes focus on proper alignment and breath work, Ginny’s classes are for all levels of experience and all shapes and sizes. 

Ginny

Modifications and props are offered to encourage her students to trust in their bodies and take their practice to the next level.

Michelle D

Michelle discovered yoga in 2012. She was inspired to complete her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training while attending a yoga retreat when she was backpacking though Thailand in 2017. Travelling being another passion of Michelle’s. 

Michelle D

Michelle discovered yoga in 2012. What started as a weekly yoga class to unwind from the stress of her 40+ hour work week quickly became a passion. Michelle found she is always able to become grounded and find balance, regardless of what’s going on in her life, when she is on her mat. She was inspired to complete her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training while attending a yoga retreat when she was backpacking though Thailand in 2017. Travelling being another passion of Michelle’s. She signed up for a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Zenergy Yoga, empowered by All You Can Yoga as soon as she returned home. Finishing in May of 2019, trained in Vinyasa and still thirsty for more knowledge, Michelle decided to explore further by completing a 50 Hour Yin Yoga training with Happy Jack Yoga in September of 2019. These two trainings’ have allowed Michelle to explore the benefits of each very different style and incorporate both into her own practice as well as her teaching. She looks forward to sharing this knowledge with you in class.

Michelle L

Michelle discovered yoga during the pandemic while looking for a way to support my mental health. Through the yoga practice, she found healing, connection, and a sense of community. 

Michelle L

Michelle discovered yoga during the pandemic while looking for a way to support my mental health. Through the yoga practice, she found healing, connection, and a sense of community. 
Now, Michelle teaches welcoming Hatha classes with the hope of creating that same experience for others: a space where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered to move, breathe, and connect with themselves at their own pace.

Elizabeth

Beth is a Somatic Wellness Practitioner, Yoga Instructor, and Breathwork Facilitator with 700+ hours of yoga training and certification in Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB).
She will be teaching Fridays at 830am, Tuesdays at 930am (for the summer) and the odd Friday night. 

Elizabeth

Beth is a Somatic Wellness Practitioner, Yoga Instructor, and Breathwork Facilitator with over 700 hours of yoga training. She is certified in Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) and is deeply passionate about nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and the mind-body connection.

Her teaching style is slow, grounding, and welcoming, creating space for students of all experience levels to feel supported and empowered in their practice.

Outside of teaching, Beth loves all things health, fitness, and wellness. You'll most likely find her exploring nature, spending time with animals, heading out for a long hike, or enjoying a cozy afternoon on the couch. (As long as it's not freezing outside! )

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