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Studio Pet, Yoga Dog
Zen is Rob's faithful companion and a staple at the studio. She's the one that greets you when you walk through the door. She's a Labradoodle, so she's hypo-allergenic. Take some time to pet her and give her a few kisses. She's fully trained, super-friendly, and loves kids!
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Teaches Moksha, Power Fusion, Yang/Yin, Yin, Pre-natal, Mom & Baby, Moksha Flow.
Holistic treatments - Reiki and Thai Massage Practitioner
Annette truly believes in receiving to give, both in teaching and in healing, and knows that knowledge and personal practice is definitely the key! In October of 2006, she successfully completed Baptiste Power Yoga Institute's Level I Teacher Training Bootcamp with Baron Baptiste. In 2008 she participated in Moksha Yoga's inaugural Level 2 intensive training, and also acquired pre-natal yoga certification with Cynthia Funk of the Yoga Sanctuary in Toronto. In February of 2009, Annette had the pleasure of spending a month enrolled in the TTC (Teacher Training Course) with the Sivananda International Organization, and is now also a qualified Sivananda Instructor. Annette is also a 500-hour Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance.
She is now in her 53rd year and enjoys the enormous benefits that teaching and practicing yoga, meditation and healing treatments has brought into her life - to quote a favourite saying "age is just a number and yoga is open to everyone!"
Annette considers it an honour and privilege to serve such a wonderful community, and looks forward to meeting you soon at our studio!
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Teaches Moksha, Power Fusion, Yang/Yin, Yin, Moksha Flow, Real Men Do Yoga, Street Yoga
Holistic Treatments - Thai Yoga Massage
As a lifelong fitness enthusiast and athlete, Rob turned to hot yoga to help him recover from various injuries sustained on the playing field. He loved it so much, he completed the Moksha Yoga instructor intensive in 2008 and is also completed his Level IV Thai Yoga Massage license. Keeping his classes simple, but focused, Rob invites you to travel deeper into your yoga practice to find new paths of openness and space.
Rob is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher through the Yoga Alliance.
Rob also has a background in personal training, with certifications as a Fitness Assessor (C.P.A.F.L.A.) and a F.O.L.P. Strength Trainer. He has over 15 years of experience improving the performance of sports teams, individual athletes, and weekend warriors. His other interests include playing multiple instruments, experimenting with new fitness routines, any outdoor sport, and photography.
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After completing the Chicago Marathon in 2003, Megan's blossoming curiosity of yoga and spirituality was met synchronistically when the Moksha studio opened right under her condo building in London. She fell in love with both the practice and Moksha immediately, as hot yoga linked her previous training as a competitive athlete with her deeper needs of mind-body connection and sense of community. Megan participated in the second-ever Moksha Teacher Training in 2005 and has since taught in London while completing her PhD in Kinesiology at The University of Western Ontario.
A passionate teacher in many domains, Megan integrates her studies on yoga & action sport cultures, involvement in kinesthetic experiential learning, public speaking and leadership facilitation, and national-level figure skating background into her yoga classes. She is committed to bringing yoga into into elementary and secondary schools in Ontario and is volunteers with the New Leaf Foundation. Her dissertation, titled "Stories of (my)nd body and Soul: Experiencing the Feminine through an Autoethnographic Imagination", is near completion and Megan is ecstatic about the next steps in her life path.
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Melanie was introduced to Hatha Yoga during her search for alternative forms of exercise. However, her commitment to yoga developed when she stepped into her first hot yoga studio in September 2004 and has been addicted ever sense.
Melanie has completed an intensive Moksha Yoga Teacher Training program in Thailand and in October 2007 completed the Level 1 Baron Baptiste Teacher Training Bootcamp. She now welcomes students to her physically challenging classes where she encourages you to balance effort by finding ease in every posture.
Being her own witness of personal transformation on and off the mat she invites students to make that discovery for themselves.
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Although Elyse only discovered Moksha yoga just under two years ago, it's hard for her to remember a time when it wasn't an integral part of her life. Practicing hot yoga has enriched her life immeasurably, both physically and mentally. She's a busy girl, between pursuing her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Western, playing numerous sports, and being heavily involved in the V-Day/Vagina Monologues movement to end violence against women and girls. She finds that practicing Moksha yoga helps her find that much-needed balance in her life, and teaches her to meet each moment with gratitude, one breath at a time.
The Moksha teacher training was an extraordinary experience for Elyse, putting her on a new path that she is eager to explore as she continues to learn and grow. Elyse feels incredibly blessed to be included in the Moksha family, and is excited to share her passion and love for all things yogic as a new teacher.
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I have been a teacher at Moksha yoga since I got back from my training in India in April 2008. Before that I had been a student at Moksha London for 3 years and for me Moksha was love at first pranayama :)
The Moksha community has been such a huge part of my life and has given me so much and now as a teacher I want to give that back to my students. I am a graduate from the Randolph Academy for the Performing arts, and I have found a beautiful tie between my training in theatre and my yoga practice. I find they compliment each other. I also work for Lululemon Athletica in the Masonville mall. This has also been a wonderful discovery and connector of my passions. My core values are integrity, compassion, and family. I used to be in a field where I was not balanced in these values, and I was unhappy in my spot in life. I now spend my days riding my bike from home (in London with my amazing fiance and little doggy Binks!), to the stude, to the store, and back and I LOVE every minute of my life! I am so greatful for everything I have and for this incredible community we are all apart of here at Moksha. In my classes I hope my students can find a sense of balance between a calm body and mind while pushing themselves to their edge in each posture and leaving each class with a sense of accomplishment. I believe in the power of goal setting, and I encourage each and every student to set goals and work hard to achieve them no matter how big (or small) they seem. See you in the hot room!!! LET'S GET SWEATY!!!!!
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 Tara came to yoga while a graduate student at UWO, hoping that yoga would help to relieve anxiety and
bring balance to an overly intellectual life. She found both relief and
balance, along with a host of other physical benefits, and a warm and
loving community. After practicing for three years, she
completed her teacher training in 2007 in Toronto. After two months teaching yoga at Moksha Yoga Trinidad, Tara moved back to London in
the summer of 2008 and has been teaching here ever since.
Tara's other passions include sewing, digital photography, drawing,
and science fiction. She's committed to finding personal balance and
developing community. She hopes that her teaching will inspire others
to find ease, not only on the mat but also in all of the difficult
situations that arise in life.
Ian loves food from local farmers, science and science fiction, water in all its forms, hiking/camping, and southern Appalachia. His yoga practice has taught him that peace is not an abstract concept, but a real feeling. He hopes that his teaching might help others to find some peace in themselves and spread it around in this troubled world.
He's dedicated to strengthening community in and out of the yoga class, wherever life takes him.
Namaste, y'all!
 As an artist & graphic designer, Paris has found the original sense of art rising out of her yoga practice. She was always someone on the go, from school to work to the gym back to work again, and it hit her one day that she needed something else in her life to help her stop and enjoy the moment…and so her yoga journey started. Soon after, the world of hot yoga came into her life. She found that after each practice her stress was gone and she could stop to breathe in the moment. Hot yoga became a passion in her life and after two years of personal practice, she started thirsting for deeper knowledge, which led her to the teacher training course in India in March 2009.....what an amazing experience! It is through the practice of yoga that has led Paris to a deeper appreciation of the balance of living life.
Paris brings this love of yoga through in her teaching and hopes she can help her students find the same balance in life.
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Livia discovered something special with yoga and has been practicing for many years. When Liv found hot yoga, she loved it! The passion led her to complete an intensive 5 week training in Kerala, India in March 2009. It was transformative. She has cultivated inner peace and continues her growth and learning daily.
Liv is grateful for all the things in life including her children, supportive partner Ernie and her Incredibly sweet dog Radar! She is concerned about the environment and making wise choices for a “greener” world.
She produces videography for Lern2Liv Productions. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and walking. "Enjoy the little things in life because when you look back, you may realize they were the big things".
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 Brian’s Moksha journey began when he stepped into the crowded London studio on a snowy Friday night to attend a Karma class with some friends. He thought some yoga would be a great stress release and the stretching in the heat would be good training for his running. Every time he came to a class, he would love it more and more and only a few months later he was practicing in the hot room almost every single day. The benefits were not only seen as reduced stress at work and at home and an increased calmness in general, but by some large results in his running. He qualified for the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:56’ when only a year earlier he was struggling to come in under 3 and a half hours at the same race. Brian was convinced that doing hot yoga was the big secret.
In 2008, Brian pushed the envelope by attempting to run 5 marathons in 6 weeks while participating in a 30 day challenge. Surprising even himself, it was a huge success, including an 8th place finish at the Toronto Marathon with a new personal best time of 2:46:30”. Brian says his success on the road wouldn’t have been possible without the daily yoga practice. That experience inspired Brian to take a new direction in his life and want to do more of what he loves so he registered for the Moksha teacher training in India for March 2009. One of Brian’s favourite things about Moksha is the balance between effort and ease, being gentle and kind to our selves while also exploring our limits and stepping beyond our comfort zone. When Brian isn’t teaching or taking a class, he might be off running yet another marathon somewhere. Brian’s goal is to one day, travel from coast to coast on foot and by bike and visit every Moksha studio along the way. His vision is to bring Mindfulness Running to the rest of the world. Brian is so happy and grateful to have such a great community of teachers and students to be a part of.
In November 2006, personal tragedy rocked my world to its roots, and the subsequent struggle to regain my footing has been enormous and at times, seemingly impossible. Moksha has offered serenity and gentle support and has played an integral part in my ongoing healing process. Then, with the encouragement of my family and my Moksha friends, my path led to an incredible trip to Kerala, India in February 2010 where I proudly completed the 5-week Intensive Moksha Teacher Training Program. From there, I travelled north to explore the colourful and enchanting capital of Delhi, the awe-inspiring Taj Mahal, and the spiritually rich ancient city of Varanasi on the River Ganges.
Now, with this remarkable life experience under my belt, I am simply delighted and honoured to join the teaching staff of Moksha Yoga London, looking forward to further adventures and learning.
Beyond yoga, I find pleasure in reading (ravenously!), strength training, travelling, foreign films, and journaling in the summertime paradise of my family’s peaceful back yard.
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 Ajith is a certified, advanced SIVANANDA YOGA instructor, with a fun, lively spirit, and a wicked sense of humour!
He was first introduced to yoga at the age of 12 and has spent numerous years at various ashrams in India. To Moksha Yoga London and the yoga community at large, Ajith brings the essence of ancient, and authentic discipline of Yoga. He enjoys every hour of teaching and looks for opportunities to share the abundance of information he holds. He has received Teachers Training from the International Sivananda Ashram, Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (Bangalore, India), Yoga Therapy Training from Yoga University-Yoga Vidya Gurukul (Nasik, India), Vedanta and Philosophy through the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy (Rishikesh, Himalayas). Ajith is also a qualified Traditional Thai Yoga Massage and Ayurvedic Massage Therapist.
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Kristen began her relationship with the art and science of yoga at the tender age of 20. She completed her 500-hour Ashtanga teacher training, along with 5 years of tutelage and assisting, with Ron Reid of Downward Dog in Toronto, Canada. Since then, her devotion to this practice has led her to study all over the world with many inspiring teachers, such as Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane (Maya Yoga), Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty (Ashtanga and Iyengar), Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga), Matthew Sweeney (Ashtanga), John Scott (Ashtanga) and Aadil Palkivalha (Purna Yoga).