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
Leslie Hunter is a dedicated teacher and student who leads yoga and meditation classes for adults and children in the Vinyasa tradition. Her teaching is rooted in her experience of yoga on-and-off the mat as well as her commitment to sharing the discipline of practice and yoga’s 8-limb path with her students.
For the last six years, Leslie has been teaching at Therapeutic Approach Yoga Studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received her 500 hour certification through TAYS and is currently co-director of the TAYS 200 hour teacher training program. Leslie’s classes help to stimulate curiosity and encourage new perspectives as each student finds inspiration through their own intention.
Leslie began doing yoga after the birth of her first child to help work with postpartum depression. While conventional Western advice was offered, Leslie continued a weekly yoga practice that began a powerful and healing transformation. The heat and discipline of her Vinyasa practice combined with mediation instruction is the inspiration behind every class.
Leslie teaches workshops and intensives throughout the Atlantic Provinces, and is a guest instructor at InnerSun Yoga Center in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Leslie offers partner-yoga instruction and is a performer of Partner Yoga Dance. As an active member of the Yoga Atlantic Association, she co-directs the regions’ Yoga Atlantic Conference.
In addition, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s University and Public Relations Certification from Ryerson University. Leslie also attended the Randolph Academy for the performing Arts, a triple-threat performance school and is a spokesperson and advocate for the accessibility and life changing benefits a yoga practice offers.email
Jason K. Jones has been practicing yoga and meditation for many years, teaching yoga over the last three. He has attended many teaching workshops, including Shri K. Pattabhi Jois, David Swenson, David Williams and Anna Forrest. He is a TAYS certified Hatha Yoga Vinyasa Karma teacher and has finished another 200 hour Master Teacher Training Program with Hart Lazer. Currently he teaches Ashtanga Yoga while branching out to specialized needs such as yoga for people with asthma, and for people with weight issues. email
Tomomi Kojima's love for yoga flourished shortly after she left her native land, Japan almost 10 years ago (1999). Coming from a different country and being naturally keen on learning new things, she was introduced to yoga through her friend and immediately felt something "click". Now, she is a certified yoga teacher with additional training in pre and postnatal yoga. She believes in the idea of yoga practice as a healing process and her classes explore yogic philosophy by finding similarities in our daily life and asana practice. Her passion in the Vinyasa tradition was born out of her own practices to find her inner rhythm and strength and she encourages students to find theirs in the class, observing their own journey by breathing through it all. She continues to study all aspects of yoga with her teachers in the 500 hour training.
Tomomi studied Psychology for adults and children at Dalhousie University. She loves live music and traveling.
Additionally Tomomi works full time on our front desk! She is the amazing person that you speak to on the phone or in person when you inquire about yoga or visit one of our health center staff.
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Susy MacGillivray began her study of yoga in 2001 and fell in love with the feeling of
relaxed vibrancy that she experienced by the end of each yoga class. She has received her
Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training (200 hour) certificate from Therapeutic Approach Yoga
Studio. Susy has also received training as a pre/post natal yoga instructor and teaches
yoga to young people with Down Syndrome.
Susy's level one class is for those who are new to yoga and for more experienced students
who are interested in slowing down their practice in order to take a closer look at many
yoga postures. She encourages an attitude of acceptance of one's own practice and invites
students to work at their own challenge level.
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Andrea McIntyre has just completed her 200 hour training through TAYS where she has been a long-time member. Andrea brings to yoga 8 years of tai chi teaching experience and over 20 years of meditation practice. She is keenly interested to integrate yoga, artistic expression and talk therapy because this is fun, health-enhancing, and natural; our life systems are integrated, even though our society segregates them conceptually. As childrens’ needs teach their parents to parent, so too the students’ needs teach the teacher to teach.
Andrea is passionate for this learning adventure and grateful to all her yoga companions along the way.
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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 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.
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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.
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
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 taken various styles and levels of yoga as well as having attended our specialty classes including Pregnancy Yoga, The Moms and Babes classes, and the Meditation programs. She is very knowledgeable about the yoga we offer and can help you determine the "best fit". What would we do without her? email
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