Krista is a Kripalu certified yoga teacher with degrees in physical and health education and science, as well as a background in coaching, personal training and fitness. In line with the Kripalu philosophy, Krista focuses on integrating yoga practice on and off the mat, allowing yoga to become a catalyst for physical healing, psychological and emotional development and spiritual awakening. Krista is currently on sabbatical leave.

Andrew completed his first Hatha teacher training at the Stillpoint Yoga Retreat Centre in 2007.  He has also completed the 40 hour intensive Ashtanga training with David Swensen and has had the opportunity to experience many workshops with teachers like  David Williams, Mark Darby, Doug Swenson, Allison Ulan and Eoin Finn.  Most recently in 2011, Andrew completed his second 200 hour Yoga Alliance accredited teacher training with Tomasz and Tamara at the Yoga Station in Carleton Place.  Included in this training was a wonderful journey to experience yoga from its source in Mysore India.

Parmatma, R.Y.T., is a KRI-Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer (completed studies with the Kundalini Research Center, New Mexico), and has been teaching yoga for 18 years and training teachers for 12 years. She is currently involved in teacher trainings at Equilibrium in Montreal and Rama Lotus in Ottawa. She recently moved back to the Perth area where she once was a figure-skating teacher. She is an artist )web.ncf.ca/parmatma) and Shiatsu Therapist and is trained in acupuncture, cranial-sacral, waveform energetics and other healing modalities and is now studying with the Institute for Comtemplative Awareness and honing her skills with music and the use of the Gong in meditative practices. Parmatma's main focus is Kundalini Yoga perceiving it to be the best vehicle to serve the development of western consciousness in the Aquarian Age.

Larry has over 30 years of study and experience in meditation and Buddhist philosophy and psychology. He was given permission to teach after completing 10 years of study under Geshe Khenrab Gajam of the Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Montreal which he helped found. During that time, he also met and received instructions and initiations from many Tibetan Masters including His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his tutors Ling Rinpoche and Lati Rinpoche. He also helped arrange tours of visiting monks from India and was vice-president of the Ottawa Friends of Tibet from 1997-2001. Larry currently teaches Buddhist philosophy and meditation in Westport as well as teaching meditation here at The Yoga Connection.  Larry is currently on sabbatical leave.

Linda is a registered physiotherapist who received her yoga teacher training certification from Esther Myers Studio in 2005.  This yoga style rests inside the tradition of Vanda Scarvavelli who said "Movement is the song of the body."

Linda first encountered this gracefulness during a mindful yoga class.  She began introducing yoga and body scanning in her physiotherapy treatment as powerful ways for clients to take responsibility for their own healing.  Now, in her therapeutic practice, Linda works with myofascial release (MFR) which, like yoga is a body-based path to intuition, presence and freedom of movement.

Scaravelli yoga and MFR share an emphasis on awareness, lengthening, grounding, breath, and taking time to find softness within intensity.

A sore lower back started Karen's yoga journey nineteen years ago. After studying astanga and various other styles of yoga for ten years, she discovered Anusara yoga. Although Karen draws on other yoga styles to inform her teaching she focused on Anusara yoga and in the spring of 2009, she completed her Level I Anusara teacher training at Yoga Sanctuary in Northampton Massachusetts . The alignment principles, challenging and varied postures and yogic philosophy of Anusara yoga inspire karen's personal practice and teaching style.

Ajahn Viradhammo was born in Germany and raised in Toronto. Around 1969, while living in India, he was introduced to the teachings of the Buddha. He traveled to Thailand, became a novice in 1973 and took bhikkhu ordination the following year. Later, Ajahn Viradhammo was involved in the establishment of monasteries in the UK and the Bodhinyanarama monastery in New Zealand. He returned to Canada in 2002 and is currently the senior monk in residence at Tisarana Buddhist Monastery just outside of Perth.

David Stevens began the practice of yoga to counteract the inflexibility that developed from years of running, cycling and weight training.  Along the way, he discovered the many other benefits of yoga and continued the practice for its own sake.  In order to share this experience, he completed 500 hours of teacher training at Still Point Yoga, where he found that a lifelong journey of learning had only begun.