Founder

Nya (she/her) is a Muscogee “Atlanta, GA” based social worker, community builder, yoga facilitator (E-RYT 200, RYT 500) and equity, diversity and belongingness (EDB) educator, equipped with over 15 years of experience working in the social service sector with justice-involved youth, families with child welfare involvement, and adults diagnosed with developmental disabilities.

Nya's approach to facilitation is rooted in person-centered, strength based, trauma aware and solution focused practices. She is passionate about teaching individuals and groups how to create safer spaces by critically examining their values, identity, social position and power.

In addition to her work with the movement community, Nya offers corporate anti-racism and oppression training to organizations committed to embodying anti-racist & oppressive practices.

Her promise to you is simple: to provide education and learning, support brave spaces, cultivate community and above all else - to honor your humanity as we navigate the work of dismantling racism and oppression!

Qualifications & Training:

M.A. Social Work - University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada)

B.A. Criminal Justice - Holy Family University (Philadelphia, USA)

30 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training - Sacred Thread Yoga (Atlanta, USA)

85 Hour Pre & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training - Drishti Yoga (California, USA)

300 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training - Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre (Toronto, Canada)

50 Hour Meditation Training - Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre (Toronto, Canada)

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training - Studio Blue Yoga & Fitness, studio no longer in business (Toronto, Canada)

100 Hour Yoga Asana Sequencing Training - Studio Blue Yoga & Fitness, studio no longer in business (Toronto, Canada)

Grief & Yoga Teacher Training - The Grief Practice (California, USA)

Gender Affirming Yoga - The Trans Yoga Teacher, (North Carolina, USA)

Redefining Mobility - Matt Phipphen (California, USA)

Flow School, Sequencing Training - Carrot Bowl Bonnie (USA)

Lead Collaborator

Tash (she/her) is a half Ilocano, half Bicolano settler on Turtle Island. Specifically treaty 13 territory, the ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Missisaugas’s of the Credit First Nation, the Huron-Wendats in what is currently known as “Toronto, Ontario.” She is a yoga philosopher teacher, community builder and creative whose main mediums are: movement + writing. The foundation of her work is indigenization through inner work, meditation and philosophy. She doesn’t want to teach you anything but, instead, remind you who you already are.

Tash seeks to support and amplify the voices who will actually be on the ground doing the work to create the necessary shifts that we all need to move forward. She wants to engage meaningfully with those interested in reclaiming the roots of yoga and the roots of self in a way that feels like we don’t actually have a choice- we have to move this way. She will stand with you as you let go.

She is inspired to hold space with you and help you uncover not just your teaching dharma, but your dharma in this lifetime.

LINEAGE:

225 hour Hatha + Vinyasa with Taryn Diamond, Kim McBean, Ruby Knafo + Erin Wilbur for Union Yoga + Wellness

Ongoing Yoga Philosophy with Hali Schwartz

40 hour Barre with Morgan Cowie for Mosaic Yoga

40 hour accessible + chair yoga with Kassandra Prus for Union Yoga + Wellness

40 hour Restorative + Yoga Nidra with Taryn Diamond for Lost n’ Found Yoga

200-hour “pilates” [studio no longer operational]

Level 1 + 2 Reiki Attunement with Clare Kenty

300-hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School via Canmore Counselling

80-hour advanced sequencing with Hana Lukac

Social Media Manager

Danielle (she/her) is a Yoga + Pilates instructor based in Toronto that strives to create practices that find a balance between both strength and ease.

Her career in the fitness and wellness industry in tandem with her sociology background informs the values she holds in creating classes rooted in inclusion and equity; promoting the implementation of movement in everyone's daily practice while encouraging both accessibility and agency in one's own practice.

Her classes are a reflection of her various training and mentorships through Downward Dog Yoga Centre and Soulga Yoga. However her consistent studentship is at the core of her classes, drawing on various movement modalities and teachers to find that balance in her own practices.

Expect classes where you are encouraged to find a deeper connection to both your mind and body. Her approach to teaching invites you to find an embodied feeling of presence through a contemporary practice that is both mindful and functional.

Operations Manager

Ada (she/they) is a Tkaronto “Toronto, ON” based movement facilitator, artist and a current student in Massage Therapy at Humber College. Her journey into body work began personally with her movement practice in yoga in late 2016. She completed her first 200hr Yoga certification in 2017. Since then she has completed training in yoga sequencing and restorative yoga.

Ada’s deep interest and experience with the relationship between bodies and trauma and the healing potential found through the body has been a defining theme in her study and her offerings to the community.