I never would have imagined I would become a yoga teacher. I taught Junior High for ten years, opened and worked at a Sudbury model school for six years, worked as a homeschool facilitator for six years, and always shared with my friends and family the discoveries I made as I took courses in personal development, health, and relationships. I wrote two books for teens, spent a few years developing a screenplay, did a fair bit of public speaking, and played with a few website projects.

I have not done much yoga in my life – a class here and there, some home videos… It always felt good but I tended to prefer Pilates because it incorporated both stretching and strengthening. So how did I become a yoga teacher?

In January 2017, I started having problems with my S.I. joints. No matter how often I went to the chiropractor, the pain persisted so I decided to get back to Pilates and do some yoga to see if that would help. It did – a little bit.

Then a friend invited me to a weekend workshop she was offering that included Kaiut Yoga – something I had never heard of. I wasn’t available to attend but asked if she was teaching any Kaiut Yoga classes. She was, and invited me to join the classes she was teaching at her home.

I can’t explain it, but right from my first class, I was hooked. There was something about Kaiut Yoga that my body loved, and it calmed my nervous system in a way nothing else ever had. I attended my friend’s classes twice per week until she went traveling, at which time she offered me recordings of some of the classes we had done together which allowed me to continue doing Kaiut Yoga on my own.

In the meantime, I started talking to the few yoga teachers I knew, hoping to interest them in Kaiut Yoga so they would take the teacher training and start teaching in Edmonton. None seemed interested so I hummed and hawed about taking the training myself. But me? A yoga teacher? It seemed the weirdest idea!

Here I am a few years later, having taken multiple teacher trainings, totally free of back pain, and LOVING teaching Radiant Well-Being Yoga! I’m continually amazed at how quickly it helps my students, and I love how the practice feels for me as I continue to go through the sequences myself. I love that RWB Yoga “is for every body”: students can be rigid as a board or flexible as putty. They can be 12 or 92. They can have tried everything under the sun – yoga, Pilates, boot camps, martial arts etc – or never have sat on an exercise mat in their life. There’s also no such thing as a “perfect pose”; there’s only being with the body exactly as it is. Though not always easy, Radiant Well-Being yoga is a gentle method that gets amazing results, and I am extremely excited to be introducing it to Edmonton!