One Yoga

Suzanne Slocum-Gori

Suzanne’s teachings reveal the celebration of courage and encourage students to dissolve the barriers that keep them from being open and authentic. Suzanne invites students to playfully move through a sensitive and ingenious practice in order to cultivate more intimacy with their breath, body, mind and community. Suzanne’s time & heart is also devoted to mentoring & teaching teachers. As a former certified Yoga Works ™ Instructor, Suzanne explored the Iyengar and Ashtanga lineages while living in Los Angeles. She studied the Anusara tradition extensively for the past six years. Suzanne is Co-Founder & Co-Owner of One Yoga for the People in Vancouver and holds a doctorate within Educational and Counselling Psychology. Suzanne conducts 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Trainings, teacher mentorship programs and international retreats & workshops. Suzanne is also the Founder of SARA Foundation, a charity organization aimed at yoga for cancer prevention & management. Suzanne continues to feed and share her curiosity in life by studying with several highly esteemed scholars and teachers. Suzanne's heart is primarily captivated and mesmerized by her husband, two children & malamute husky living in Vancouver. www.suzannefaith.com
Website: www.suzanneslocumgori.com
Karl (Karlito) Notargiovanni

Born to move & groove, Karl is grateful for the freedom and healing that yoga asana brings to his body. Having completed studies in several styles of massage and a graduate of Concordia’s BFA Contemporary Dance program, he is inspired to create in loving and healing ways. He encourages his students to fine-tune their intimate connection to their body, with freedom of movement and breath, fluidity, and alignment. Every moment is an opportunity to move towards the light that shines so bright in each of us.

Karl has completed a 500h Hatha Yoga teacher training under the guidance of Ted Grand, Jess Robertson and Dina Tsouluhas. He has also studied Vinyasa Krama (Krishamacharya yoga lineage) with Srivatsa Ramaswami and continues to learn and be inspired by Ryan Leier. Karl has recently completed a 200h teacher training with Kenny Graham and Sianna Sherman and a 25 hour weekend training with Rainbow Kids Yoga.

After years of practice, the Science of Yoga has demonstrated to him that its system affects us on deeper levels and connects us to everything, whether consciously or not… WE are ONE.
Follow on Twitter: @MrKarlitoLove
Dustin Fruson

Dustin’s approach to yoga is simple and grounded, truthful and direct. The dynamic and energetic nature of the practice compels students to be them Self. He is an Ashtanga and Power Vinyasa yoga teacher who honours tradition and invites fire and possibility into every class and workshop that he leads.
Website: www.dustinfruson.com
Ryan Leier

Dynamic and inspirational, Ryan Leier brings his unique energy to every class he teaches. Whether in his own One Yoga studios or as an ambassador of yoga to communities around the world, his expression of this ancient, yet vital tradition consistently touches people's hearts.

Ryan is primarily a student of the Krishamacharya yoga lineage and continues to study under Father Joe Pereira, by whom he was authorized to teach. Ryan trains with Baron Baptiste, Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane (Maya), Danny Paradise, Srivatsa Ramaswami (Vinyasa Krama). He also received instruction from Ashtanga Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Follow on Twitter: @ryanleier Website: www.ryanleier.com
Chris Duggan

I believe that a yoga practice is an amazing way to deepen your connection to yourself, your body, your community, and the divine. My yoga journey began in 2004, to repair old sports injuries. From basketball, to beach volleyball, to snowboarding and many performances as a dancer–my body was messed up and needed repair. After taking my first yoga class, I was instantly in love.

I have been teaching yoga since 2006 and credit my teacher training to the remarkable Eoin Finn. I am a Lululemon Ambassador and a member of the Yoga Alliance. I teach Power Vinyasa with a positive vibe. My classes are creative, challenging, and fun!! All levels are very welcome. Students and fellow teachers have enriched my life incredibly. I love the personal connection I get with my students which deepens over time.

My music selection is a reflection of my love for R & B and slow grooves. My playlists get a lot of compliments, and are definitely fun. I am truly honoured to teach at One Yoga, and love what it represents in the community!

Practice and Breathe
Follow on Twitter: @chrisdugganyoga Website: www.chrisduggan.net
Danielle Hoogenboom

Danielle found yoga nearly 10 years ago as a way to heal her body from injuries and discovered that the practice was so much deeper than the physical and still is in awe of the wonders of a holistic yoga experience. Her goal is to support others on their yoga journeys and paths of healing. Yoga is oneness.

Danielle strives to share the beauty of Yin Yoga that guides us towards restoring the balance in your own lives through personal awareness and devotion to inner freedom from our habits and repetitive nature of our holding patterns. Using a similar understanding of the energy body as acupuncture, yin looks to harmonize our energy, increase flexibility and revitalize our beings through our connective tissues. Learning to approach our bodies and minds creatively, passionately and mindfully is our greatest challenge but offers the deepest truths that reconnect us to our spirits.

Danielle started a grassroots fundraising and conscious community project called Lead with Love in Vancouver, BC. In 2010 she raised nearly $8,000 for South Africa and is working with Haiti in 2011in collaboration with Off the Mat, Into the World www.leadwithlove.ca.
Website: www.lovelightyoga.com
Meghan Currie

Handstands, motorcycles, smells, bicycles, ancient cheese, friends and wine, music languages, books, trees, beets, mud, dancing, diagrams, sewing, teaching, surprises. Shaking, anatomy, making music, sleeping outside, wisdom, nonsense, sprouts, spoons. Seeds, cats, fears, rocks, essential oils, feet, photos, insects, skateboards, the ocean. Laughing, crying, naps, sewing machine parts, singing, stillness, wrinkles. Spinach, all creatures, learning, apples, and of course … making love.

When I teach I let go as much as possible so I may be an open channel for creative energy to pass through. Every student is everyone’s teacher so I plug my heart into everyone and do my best to translate the teachings which present themselves in the moment. I believe it’s not all up to me. Like any recipe, there must be just the right amount of ingredients to produce epic flavor. When I teach I mix my given ingredients well with all the other given ingredients, the students, weather, energy in the room, music, and the ever playful and unpredictable universe to co-create an experience.

I never know what is going to happen. And if I try to always know, something is lost. I love life in raw true form. I am where I am in life because of my fears, so I encourage all sides of people to be honored as fears, if faced, are like really good manure for the soul. I love to challenge and push people beyond their limiting beliefs. I think what students love about my classes is that they are super challenging but fun and light. Not too serious, we always laugh. I’m so grateful to all my teachers, especially Chris Chavez, Steve Merkley, and Paige Faraci.
Reno Muenz

Reno Muenz is a dynamic, inspirational yoga teacher who brings his energy, humour and philosophy to every one of his yoga classes. Since the first time he opened the pages of Bhagavan Das’ It’s Here Now Are You?, he knew there was something radical about the practice of yoga. His love for music has a major influence on his teaching style and adds to the uplifting message he brings to his classes. As a DJ for much of his life, he brings this connection to sound and intertwines it with his knowledge of yoga as a physical as well as devotional practice. In university he majored in Religious Studies with a focus on Buddhist and Hindu traditions and brings his knowledge and faith in both to his practice and to his classes. “Yoga has completely changed the way I interact with life on this planet. It is my prayer, my exercise, my diet,the way I interact with others, it is everything. It has made me stronger and more compassionate. It has filled my heart with loving kindness and reminded me of the Oneness of All.” Reno offers a challenging vinyasa practice with all the juicy bits of bhakti and spiritual practice. His love for the planet and all living things are a major part of his offering as an instructor. “To see all Living Beings as Divine, that is my one True Goal as a Yogi, that to me is Liberation.”
Sara Jade Gooding

I’m just practicing. Just like everyone else. Practicing to be a better person, to be a kind and conscious person in my everyday life. Humbled by the heart opening aspects of my practice – I’m gracious to share the abilities the teachings give to shed light on the authentic Self. I feel blessed to have found yoga. My journey to align more fully with my truth through Asana has allowed me to discover freedom, through letting go. It is our true nature to be love, fully free, to remember that we are all connected and supported by the beautiful Earth. Honoring roots, I draw from tradition but am inspired by the creative flow that exists in each breath. In my classes I encourage people to move with intention, to love, to go inward, to feel, to be expressive with the beauty of the body and delight in this sacred scientific art. Often I use music as an influence to move and be, allowing for breath to inform movement gracefully and aligned with purpose. I truly believe in the transformative power of the practice for the practitioner and for the planet.
Mike Nichols

Mike is passionately inspiring healthy bodies, happy lives and vibrant communities around the world. His personal experience with yoga and meditation has been a journey of infinite potential to develop the body, mind and spirit as one. He teaches yoga as powerful transformational tool to help reveal our brightest selves so that we may inspire brightness in others and share the abundance of light.

Beyond yoga, Mike has researched the world of microbes and genetics, served as an energy healer, practiced capoeira on the beaches of Brazil and explored the depths of the Amazon. Be ready to go deep, have fun and smile lots! All love, all ways, always.
Follow on Twitter: @mikenicholsyoga Website: www.shineyoga.ca
Tina James

An expressive and inspirational teacher of teachers, Tina includes the mystical, spiritual and philosophical aspects of the ancient art of yoga as essential components of a complete practice. She utilizes a dynamic Vinyasa flow of asana sequences, fueled by an emphasis on precise alignment, perfect breath, and powerful intention.

The Director of Loka Yoga in Whistler BC, Tina is an Advanced Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, E-RYT 500 teacher, and certified Ashtanga teacher, and holds a degree in Sports Science. Tina first began her journey towards the enlightenment principle 25 years ago through her first teachers Shri K. Pattabhi Jois and Manju Jois, in Mysore, India. Tina later found her place in the Jivamukti Yoga lineage, with her beloved teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life, who continue to inspire and influence the evolution of her work. Tina was a mentor at the 2008 Jivamukti teacher training and runs her own 200 hour teacher training's, workshops and retreats around the world.

A dedicated life-long animal activist, particularly in regards to bears and wolves, Tina is passionate about inspiring her students to contribute to the wellness of the beautiful blue planet and all its beings.

I give thanks for all my beloved teachers and their lineage, my wonderful family, and all the students and teachers who I encounter on the mat and off, as we continue our journeys to self- knowing and bliss.
Yeva Glover

Yeva has always been passionate about movement, expression, health, and art, and spent the last many years as a professional dancer in NYC. Yeva found yoga as a compliment to her dance training, but very quickly dove into the practice as a deepening of her love for physical expression and health, personal awareness, and spiritual well being. Yeva studied in NYC at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Center as well as in Vancouver with Bernie Clark. She is passionate about offering a flowing, creative, challenging yet supportive class - a well rounded and invigorating ‘dance on the mat’ using yoga as a tool to balance and deepen our lives.
Alli Shafer

I see the practice of yoga, and my teachings, as one big musing of the sacred heart space. These practices encourage us to feel deeply and move from within, and this is what I aim to inspire in my students: a pure, authentic expression of their hearts, by means of movement.

Yoga found me only 4 years ago, as I emerged from years of competitive athletics. Immediately, the practice offered me a means to heal my body, and move once again, this time on a deep, deep level. Yoga brought the athlete out in me, but in a much softer way. It fulfilled me, challenged me, and by far, humbled me, allowing me to surrender to the fact that the practice was enough. I still surrender to the power of these practices, daily.

I work daily to let go as much as I can in my teachings, and surrender to the divine flow of it all. My teaching is rooted in the lineages of Anusara and Vinyasa yoga, and from them, comes a fluid, organic experience on the mat. Playlists are my passion too, so come prepared to groove a little, and just feel good.

As I grow on this path, I will remain forever grateful for the teachers who have helped me get here, and I continue to bow in deep gratitude to the ones who continue to lift me up.

Flow with grace, always.
Genieve Burley

I came to the mat over a decade ago for reasons different than I show up today. In the past it was for flexibility and fitness. Today I still receive the physical benefit of daily practice, but my intention with yoga is to connect to my true self and to live the eight limbs. I have been blessed to have learned from incredible people from all over, predominantly in vinyasa and ashtanga, but also in hatha, anusara and restorative.

My classes will always bring an element of heat from ujjayi breath, sun salutations and a variety of asanas that invite you to open your mind, body and heart. I believe that every is a moving prayer that has a soft, humble beginning, builds up to a crescendo and melts into a deep rest. My intention is that yoga will bring you closer to your healthier and happier authentic self.
Clara Roberts-Oss

Movement has always been sacred to me.

I have danced my whole life, whether it’s been grooving to a good song, taking dance classes or flowing through a vinyasa, my body can’t get enough. Through movement, I feel as though I’m communing with the Divine.

I took my first vinyasa class in 2000 at Jivamukti Yoga Center. I had a feeling of arriving home. We moved through postures seamlessly with an emphasis of breath-body connection. The class gave me what the dance world didn’t, an emphasis on the internal journey.

I received my 200 hour Vinyasa certification with Lauren Hanna at Sonic Yoga NYC in 2003. I met Shiva Rea shortly thereafter and again, felt as though I had come home. Shiva had created a language for the kind of movement I’ve been doing my whole life. She, too, understood the idea of fluidity. Our bodies yearn to move like water and when we do, our bodies hum with excitement. I’ve completed my 300 hour Prana Flow Certfication with Shiva.

I thank all my teachers for sharing their passion of this practice with me: David Life for opening my heart, Stacey Brass for her minute cues that have changed me life, Uma for opening my voice, Dana Flynn for throwing out all the rules and inspiring me to do the same, Constantine Darling for showing me another way, and Paul Ortega for reminding me we are ALL the cosmic dancer.

I invite you to be playful in your practice, remembering that lightness is found in spirit! www.lilavinyasa.com
Website: www.lilavinyasa.com
Christine Price Clark

I began a committed yoga practice in 2001 while living in New York City. My first yoga teachers were two unique and passionate women, committed to revealing the relevance of ancient teachings in everyday living. My goal is to do the same.

I teach a strong, rhythmic practice that combines creative and purposeful sequencing with teachings gleaned from the ancient and the everyday. I like to move and I like to hold- no two classes are alike, but I aim to consistently hold space for you that is loving, playful, and that bridges the gap between the then and now, you and the other, as often as possible.

I have been teaching since 2003, and have certifications in both hatha vinyasa and Anusara™ yoga. I have presented at both the Whistler and Victoria Yoga Conferences and thrilled to be teaching at Wanderlust Whistler 2013. I have been named in the Best of Vancouver by Vancouver Magazine and led a sold-out , first-of-its-kind fundraising event at the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery for Yoga Outreach. I am also very proud mentor to a growing community of talented teachers who continue to affirm that all our voices are necessary in the conversation, and evolution, of yoga.

When I’m not teaching, I can often be found at one of many downtown parks with my husband, Greg, and our 2 girls, Olive and Uma- all of whom keep me in my heart and on my toes.
Follow on Twitter: @christinepricec Website: www.christinepriceclark.com

Suzanne Slocum-Gori

Karl (Karlito) Notargiovanni

Dustin Fruson

Ryan Leier

Chris Duggan

Danielle Hoogenboom

Meghan Currie

Reno Muenz

Sara Jade Gooding

Mike Nichols

Tina James

Yeva Glover

Alli Shafer

Genieve Burley

Clara Roberts-Oss

Christine Price Clark