January: Andrea Libadia

It was almost two years ago when a friend of mine convinced me to try one of the new Real Ryder classes at Halifax Yoga. A spin class. At 6am, no less. Let’s just say I felt a little wary. I needn’t have worried. These bikes are so much fun! One class and I was hooked, but in all honesty, it wasn’t just the class. …

November: Kari Morgan

My love affair with yoga started out slowly. I sampled, went away and thought about it, then came back for more. Eventually, a knee injury demanded that I sit up, take stock and use the time on my mat to heal. I never looked back!
Halifax Yoga is my community. I feel at home every time I walk through the door. It …

October: Michelle Marshall

I have been practicing yoga over the last 15 years here and there but it wasn’t until two years ago that my love for yoga would come full circle.
My son decided to leave home after graduating high school to pursue his dream of traveling. This left me feeling a bit of disconnection from my own identity. Just a few months after that I was …

August: Margot Schelew

Yoga has been a part of my life for 40 years. I was very lucky to be introduced to yoga by an Indian woman when I was a student at Simon Fraser University. I don’t believe we even had yoga mats back then. We certainly didn’t have special yoga clothes! Transcendental Meditation was also very popular at this time, thanks to the Beatles and …

July: Elise Besler-Harnish

I started teaching as an intern at the studio in February of 2013 and then joined Halifax Yoga as a new instructor upon graduation from the Halifax Yoga 200 Hr YTT program in May of 2013. Before my teaching position at the studio, I worked as a front desk Energy Exchanger for 18 months. It was through this work that I began to feel the …

April: Stefanie Winters

Stefanie has travelled to Hawaii to train with Baron Baptiste, assisted with the 200 hour Teacher Training Program here at Halifax yoga and travelled to the yoga institute at Kripalu for Yoga Training dealing with victims of post-traumatic stress disorder.

As her personal practice has grown her flow classes reflect her varied interests and incorporate …

March: Nicole Clarke

I recall the moment. Over 12 years ago; I was sitting in rush-hour traffic at the Windsor Street Exchange, on my way to work, like I did for hundreds of days before. And I thought “there has to be more to life than this”. I had no idea of what I truly wanted for my life; I just knew the cookie-cutter mold …

February: Ali Sangster

After years of playing basketball and being a lifelong gym rat, I was reluctant to try yoga. I was extremely inflexible and thought that there was no way I’d like an activity that was so quiet, and what I thought would be boring. 7 years ago, my sister dragged me to my first class. I went to one of Sherry’s classes and was pushed in …