Our instructors
Maria Figueroa
María lives and embraces her yogic life every single day with an open and positive state of mind. She embarked onto the path of Yoga practice over ten years ago now while searching for a medical alternative for her physical health issues. As a person originating from a tropical country, Colombia, she fell in love with the hot rooms and the various yoga styles, going from a Bikram yoga practice to Kundalini yoga, experiencing Yang and Yin energies and “Ha-tha” power.
Throughout her journey she has arrived at the realization that each and every style of yoga ultimately leads us to a deep connection with our true self so that we live a harmonious, balanced life.
Melissa Delaney
Melissa is registered with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and with Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500 & Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). With her diverse trainings, she teaches many styles of yoga including Hatha (all-levels), children/teens, Hot yoga, Flow, Prenatal & Postnatal, Yin, Restorative, and Yoga for Traumatic Brain Injury.
She also offers workshops such as Partner Yoga, Mother’s Day Yoga and her very own Bliss Yoga! She specializes in prenatal and postnatal women, including postpartum recovery and pelvic floor health, as well as proper breathing and postural alignment.
Julie Picotte
Julie is a mother of three, a high school teacher and a yoga instructor for students of all ages. She enjoys sharing the sense of calm and ease that yoga brings to everyday life. She has completed her training in Hatha, restorative yoga, children's yoga, yin and meditation and power yoga and enjoys teaching various classes in the Outaouais region. Her goal is to help you feel good about your body and stay calm in your mind, creating space in your life that promotes balance, creativity, and positive energy.
Brigitte Faubert
Brigitte has completed a 500-hour Hatha Yoga training with a teacher who employs the Iyengar technique. This technique uses a lot of accessories to support and correct the students in their practice. Thanks to her teacher, Brigitte was able to benefit from these more specialized lessons for a greater performance.
At the beginning of each class, she shares with people some notions of yoga philosophy to complement the Asana (posture) course. She is also a massage therapist and orthotherapist and uses her postural knowledge to ensure that students are well positioned in each posture. She is very attentive to everyone’s needs and ready to make the necessary adjustments to help them.
Yoga has helped her to find well-being and she seeks to transmit these teachings to others so that they can achieve a healthy balance of body, soul and spirit and live a happier, stress reduced, healthier life.
Sarah Raymond
Sarah is a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) who is passionate about movement and athletic disciplines. She has taken additional training in advanced anatomy and advanced power training.
Her approach is to create space for her students to explore their relationship with themselves on the physical, mental and spiritual level; as a balanced method to enable continuous growth of our ever-evolving best selves.
She challenges her students to meet their physical edge with friendliness and compassion, and invites her students to practice listening to their bodies and their breath.
Philippe Landel
Philippe, a yoga teacher has been teaching in Ottawa-Gatineau since 2012 and has over 9000 hours of teaching Power, Flow, Yin, Meditation and Yoga Philosophy. In addition to taking various trainings such as Trauma Sensitivity, Advanced Pranayama, Advanced Anatomy, Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Core Tune-up, and Vipassana, Philippe's studies and daily practice include the Yoga Sutras, an intense regimen of movement, meditation and mantra.
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His philosophy requires discipline, concentration, capacity for self-honesty, and courage to follow the values of the Yoga Sutras.
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Philippe's classes will challenge you to do your best and give you many options for all levels of practice.