OUR AMAZING TEAM

Jolene d'Entremont

Ask professional yoga teacher, Jolene d'Entremont, what she learned from her many years as a flight attendant and she’ll tell you.... “patience, patience and more patience”. Ask her what she’s learned from her yoga teacher training and she’ll tell you; “the true meaning of being grounded”. Jolene is a skilled vinyasa teacher, an avid meditation student and an expert in pre-natal and postnatal yoga instruction.

Jolene followed up her 200-hour teacher training in 2006 with additional courses in pre and postnatal yoga instruction. She has also completed her 500 hour professional level teacher training certification at TAYS and she is passionate about vinyasa yoga, which she continues to study with Master teacher Coeli Marsh.

As a mother of three, including two at home births assisted by midwives, Jolene brings enormous empathy and knowledge to her work with both expectant and new mothers. She has made it her mission to help women see their intrinsic beauty and to honor their bodies at these times of both incredible wonder and equally incredible stress. As one might expect of a mother of 3, Jolene knows a great deal about sharing which is a wonderful thing for us as she has much to share. Jolene has been teaching vinyasa yoga and pre and post natal yoga at TAYS for over 5 years. email

Helen Fong

Helen Fong, is an award-winning Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher who calls Halifax her home. She is a Dalhousie University alumnus who started practicing yoga in 1998, and has been instructing yoga classes since 2006. She was instrumental in the planning of the highly successful Yoga Atlantic Conference 2009, and inaugural Thyroid Cancer Skills for Healing Retreat Weekend for patients and families where she served as registrar and yoga teacher for the Healing and Cancer Foundation.
Helen has appeared on Eastlink TV's 'The Path of Yoga' television series and was a guest speaker at the 2010 Optimyz Live Health, Fitness and Lifestyle show, televised on Eastlink TV's 'Podium TV''. She regularly collaborates with like-minded wellness practitioners in the food, sports and entertainment industry, practicing Karma Yoga by giving back to her community. Taking yoga off the mat as much as possible is her true passion and path. Helen teaches the following styles of yoga: Vinyasa Flow, Mom & Baby, Power Yoga, Prenatal, and Yin. email

Leslie Hunter

Leslie Hunter CYI 500, Certified Vinyasa Yoga 1000hour and Yoga Life Coach

Leslie teaches yoga to students and trains yoga teachers from a place of Love. As a senior teacher and teacher trainer at TAYS, Leslie leads exhilarating and unscripted Vinyasa Yoga classes that are challenging, heart pumping and "ah-ha! Inspiring". Leslie incorporates Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness practice and unadulterated joy into every class. Whether you are attending a yoga class or a life coaching session with Leslie, you leave feeling a new sense of awareness, focus and inspiration. email

Tomomi Kojima

Tomomi Kojima is a LIVE LOVE TEACH Affiliate teacher as well as a Certified Yoga Life CoachTM. Tomomi loves and lives for the moments of change, shifts and possibilities that are characteristic of Vinyasa practice. Her passion in this tradition was born out of her own practice to find her inner rhythm, strength and clarity. She keeps her classes "real" and fun to connect the daily life off the mat and practice on the mat. She loves traveling around the world training teachers and spreading the love for LIVE LOVE TEACH as a way of living. Her studies continue with Philip Urso, Deborah Williamson and Stacy Dockins as well as TAYS teachers.
Tomomi studied Psychology for adults and children at Dalhousie University. She loves live music and traveling.
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Sara Lamb

Sara Lamb completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training through Therapeutic Approach Yoga Studio. A yoga practitioner since 2000, Sara is passionate about helping people discover for themselves the joys and benefits of yoga. Mother to three children, all born at home with midwives, she's delighted to be teaching prenatal yoga classes at TAYS this summer. Sara is also a psychotherapist whose practice includes families, children and couples. Her work as a therapist is founded in the belief that each person has the ability to find their own unique path to emotional well-being and happier relationships. Always looking for ways to help people realize the changes they long for, Sara is likely to recommend yoga, or include elements breath, mindfulness and body awareness into her therapeutic work. email

Kerry Lynn MacSwain

Kerry Lynn MacSwain CYI 200, Certified Radiant Child Yoga Teacher
Kerry was first introduced to yoga while studying psychology at university. As she began to practice regularly, she noticed a sense of balance and clarity start to spread to other areas of her life. After completing her studies, she felt drawn to the idea of teaching and sharing the experience of yoga with others and completed her 200-hour training through TAYS in June 2010. Kerry brings to her classes, a light-hearted nature, a passion for psychology and healing, and a desire to guide people in finding a sense of balance, peace, joy, and overall well-being in their lives. She is interested in integrating her experiences with yoga, and work with psychology and chronic pain to help people manage the various physical, emotional, and mental stress in their lives. She strongly believes people can play a large part in their own path to wellness. Kerry has also enjoyed working with youth and youth volunteer programs in the past, and recently completed her Level 2 Radiant Child Yoga Teacher Training. She is excited to begin sharing yoga with young people as they take on the various experiences and challenges they encounter while growing up. email

Maxine Munro

Maxine Munro co-owner of Therapeutic Approach Yoga Studio has been teaching yoga since 1997. She is a Certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor at the Professional level (500+ hours), and has studied with many internationally known teachers including Mark Darby, Hart Lazer, Cyndi Lee, Tim Miller, Shiva Rea, David Swenson, Allison Ulan and Rodney Yee. Maxine has degrees in Kinesiology and Occupational Therapy (honors). She has continued to be recognized by Halifax's The Coast readers in "The Best Yoga Instructor" category since 1999. She enjoys studying different styles of yoga and incorporates these various influences into her classes. She has yoga articles in Active Canadian magazine and has been interviewed as a yoga expert for Chatelaine, Flare (Health Fix), Good Times and Reader's Digest's new magazine "Good Health". Maxine, along with her business partner Mike, have been teaching students to become yoga teachers since 2001 at the 200 hour level and since 2004 have begun a 500 hour (professional level) teacher training program. Maxine loves teaching yoga. Her enthusiasm and passion is apparent with each class that she offers. email

Michael Munro

Michael Munro Co-owner of TAYS has been offering yoga since 1998. He is a Certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor at the Professional level (500 hours) and he is a licensed and practicing physiotherapist. His yoga studies started in 1993 with Iyengar Yoga teacher Beverly Windsor in Newfoundland. He has since studied Interdisciplinary yoga with Don and Amba-Camp Stapleton and Ashtanga Yoga with Tim Miller, David Swenson, Mark Darby, Hart Lazer and Allison Ulan. He strives to incorporate yoga, physiotherapy background and meditation knowledge to promote a balanced approach to active wellness.

Mike has written yoga articles for Active Canadian magazine and has been interviewed as a yoga expert for Yoga Journal. Mike has been teaching students to become yoga teachers since 2001 at the 200-hour level, and since 2004 at the 500 hour professional level. He has 14 years of Buddhist meditation and study experience and teaches tranquility meditation at the studio under the guidance of his meditation teacher the Dzogchen Ponlop, Rimpoche. email

Mike and Maxine combine their therapeutic training with their yoga knowledge by offering one-on-one "yoga therapy" sessions. These sessions can be used to address any medical or physical restriction to their students' practice and have shown to be beneficial for individuals with sports injuries, multiple sclerosis, prolapsed uterus, cardiovascular accident (stroke), various back symptoms, arthritis, etc.

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Hillary Nette

Hillary Nette's journey with yoga began in 2001. It was in a yoga classroom for the first time that she began to see the body in a whole new way. It was not like any other physical activity she had ever done. Then, as her studies progressed and she began discovering the more subtle aspects of yoga, she realized this was a path of inner exploration she needed to embark on and share with others. In 2004 Hillary completed a 200 hour Hatha Vinyasa Teacher Training with Mike and Maxine Munro. Hillary began teaching immediately after that training, but hungry for more learning, she continued studies with Maxine Munro in Prenatal yoga. Prenatal yoga has become a true passion for her and in 2008 Hillary completed Birth Doula training which has added depth and understanding of the birth process and preparation for birth. After feeling for a long time that the origins of Yoga were calling to her, she traveled to India in December 2006 and spent until April 2007 studying yoga, traveling, and absorbing the beauty and holiness of the country and its people. There she studied 230 hours of Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training with Masterji M.S Vishwanatha, nephew of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Hillary's studies continue with various teachers and since 2005 she has been sharing her classes several times a week at The Yoga Loft (now closed) in Halifax, and is now happy to join the team at TAYS. In Hillary's flow class you will be encouraged to breathe, move, and experience your wonderful self at your own pace. Join her in the Prenatal yoga classroom where she will help you to prepare your body for birth, become more grounded in your body as you grow your baby, and take the skills you learn in yoga class to your birth room email

Maureen Nowlan

Maureen Nowlan is a certified Hatha Yoga instructor who has been practicing yoga and meditation for over 25 years. She has studied yoga with many teachers in different styles here, in the U.S. and a 100 hour advanced program in Southern India. She has studied with a senior student of Kaustub Desikachar in the tradition of Sri T. Krishnamacharya and most recently is in Masters classes with Hart Lazer in the Iyengar tradition. Her classes aim to bring out the natural energy of the body in union with the mind through a flowing series of postures to balance strengthening with flexibility. Beginning and ending with inward reflection each student is invited to create their own tailoring details to the class. Maureen is an avid vegetable gardener and a sometimes weaver and poet. Most recently she offered a program combining yoga with writing with 3 published authors. Maureen has degrees in Nursing. email

Leanne Whiting

Leanne Whiting began integrating yoga into her life 8 years ago while living in Hong Kong. Yoga became a means to heal a physical injury, and a tool to quiet her mind while living in the fast paced city. Leanne is dedicated to the Anusara tradition of Hatha Yoga, and AcroYoga (Flying Yoga). She combines the art of healing through yoga in a playful and mindful approach. She teaches Flying Yoga as a therapeutic tool to help harmonize and balance the relationship of stability and trust, giving and receiving through the ability to connect. Leanne is an E-RYT (Experienced - Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance and has studied with recognized teachers Patrick Creelman, Hong Kong, & Sianna Shermann, San Francisco, along with Acro Yoga teachers Jeremy Simon and Jason Nemer in San Francisco & London.

Leanne is teaching a beginner yoga class Wednesday nights at 7pm. This class is recommended by Dr. Brent MacNeil as a fabulous entry point into yoga and into a wellness lifestyle. email

Andrea Andriopoulos

Andrea Andriopoulos is our office manager; she keeps all of us yoga teachers organized. Andrea started out as one of our yoga students. She has worked as our front desk reception for 6 years and we have grown and expanded and now recently does all of our bookkeeping. What would we do without her? email

Amy Marshall

Amy is now our full time receptionist. Amy moved to Halifax in 2001 to pursue a career in Esthetics. After starting her yoga practice in 2004, she had several life changing "A-HA" moments which began her journey of self exploration. Since then she has backpacked across Canada, studied Raw Food and lived on a small scale farm doing an internship on Organic Farming. Amy is passionate about dancing and aspires to open her own dance studio, as well as to live self -sustainably "off the grid".
Amy is happy to be with the Therapeutic Approach team at this time and looks forward to the adventures of being a part of the TAYS community on this leg of her journey. email

 

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