Kristin Campbell - Partner & Studio Director of Neoalpine - a YYoga Center in Whistler, BC

Kristin is EYRT 500, Yoga Alliance Certified, has been teaching fulltime since Nov 2000.
Kristin currently teaches  Teacher Trainings, Yoga/Surf retreats  and regular Y Hot, Flow, Power, Core, Boom Shakti  Flowand Yin  classes largely flavoured by my studies in Anusara, Baptiste Power Vinyasa, Bikram  and Mastery Meditation. 
Kristin’s playful, loving and adventurous spirit shines through her teaching style.

Kristin classes are a passionate offering of sweetness coupled with a commanding presence, using a precise dialogue to convey key alignment principles that will enhance your practice and modifications for those who need them.
Always beginning with the remembrance of intention and self- awareness, Kristin hopes to inspire you to give of your best in order to become more of who you already are.

Kristin bows humbly at the lotus feet of these formal teachers who each in their own unique way have been a well spring of knowledge and a huge inspiration, John Friend, Elissa Gumushel, Christine Price-Clark, Patrick Creelman, Baron Baptiste, David Life, Shiva Rea, Bikram Choudhury, Seane Corne  and Master Dhyan Vimal.

Saturday 1-3pm: Make Peace on your Mat and inspire Peace in the World

Sunday 1:30-4:30pm: Hot Yoga, Transformation through Tapas/Heat

Tanya Di Valentino

Deeply inspired by her love of nature and the interconnected web of life, Tanya attained a Bachelors Degree in Geography and studied philosophy extensively within her program.  Currently, she is the INFORM Whistler Gym and Yoga Studio Manager.

With empathy as her first guru, Tanya opened her eyes and heart to a lifestyle guided by the ancient wisdom of yoga - the path of self -realization and oneness with this universe and all be-ings.  She began her yoga teacher training in Mexico with a 200-hour certification program at Yandara Yoga Institute founded and taught by Craig and Shane Perkins.  She has since returned to Yandara to participate as a teacher training assistant.  She continued with advanced studies, completing the 500-hour certification program at Anand Prakash Yogashram in Rishikesh, India with The World Conscious Yoga Family, founded and taught by Yogi Vishvketu and Chetana Panwar.  She became certified to teach Akhanda Yoga, a traditional and holistic style created by Yogi Vishvketu, that includes practices such as Hatha-Raja and Classical Kundalini.  It was in India that she entered the healing practice of Reiki with known Rishikesh Reiki Master Shanti ji.  Her love and interest in Ashtanga Yoga flourished and she traveled to San Francisco and completed David Swenson's Ashtanga Primary Series teacher training.  Finding inspiration in diversity, Tanya then travelled to the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas where she lived in the ashram to learn the traditional hatha yoga practice as taught by Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnu-Devananda.  During her stay, Tanya also trained in Yoga for Athletes with Dr Don Oyao and Thai Yoga Massage by the founder of the Lotus Palm technique, Kam Thye Chow.

Within her travels and yoga studies, she has met people from diverse backgrounds from all over the world and has come to realize the common thread that weaves through each person is a deep longing for lasting happiness, peace and love. It is Tanya's intention with the many paths of yoga to inspire others to experience for themselves, that happiness, peace and love has never left them and has been ever present as the essence of their own being.

Saturday 1-3pm: Inversion Party! Get Down with Your Up Side

Sunday 10:30-12:30pm: Feel Your Soulshine with Surya Namaskar

Coleen Fraser, RMT CAP

After studying Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Colleen Fraser continued her education at the West Coast College of Massage Therapy. Upon completeing her exams to become a Registered Massage Therapist, Colleen furthered her knowledge in holistic health by continuing studies in Eastern Ayurvedic medicine and Western herbology to become an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner.

Colleen is also a Certified Yoga Therapist, and possesses the skills and knowledge to blend both Western and Eastern self-care practices. She hasa special appreciation and skill set for practicing Ayurvedic Marma Point Massage, Abhyunga and Shirodhara Head and Scalp treatments for facial rejuvenation. In 1993 she studied with renowned Ayurvedic Physician Dr Vasant Lad and she has continued her study of Ayurveda under the tutalage of Jaisri M, Lambert.

Educating and providing clients with the necessary resources to change their lives so they can take an active role in their own health and well-being and their community are the two pillars of empowerment that form the foundation of Colleen’s approach to healing.

Colleen takes an integrative and dynamic approach to healing, tailoring treatments to the individual and the ever-changing needs of her clients.

Sunday 8:00 - 10:00am: Ayurvedic Physiology and Marma Chikitsa

Colleen Felgate has been instructing yoga and pilates since 2002. She trained in India and Australia for over 2 years in many styles yet focused predominately on Iyenger & Ashtanga. She then headed back to where she resides now, Whistler B.C. Canada. There she is the yoga and pilates director for Solarice Wellness Spa & Studio and has held that position since they opened in 2003. She also teaches various retreats and courses abroad including; Costa Rica, Mexico and the Bahamas.

She is the creator and primary instructor for the Yoga Alliance approved Whistler Yoga Teacher Training Course. She is certified in Yoga Therapy as well as Stott Pilates, and uses these techniques incorporated within her yoga style to help heal various injuries and ailments. Most recently she is training in Anusara which has helped her to expand her practice and evolve her teaching techniques.

With her background she teaches predominately a Vinyasa (flow) style of yoga and a yoga pilates flow; both of which she incorporates awareness on alignment, the breath and engaging the core. She enjoys creating a connection with her students with a light hearted intention helping them get the most from their practice physically, mentally and spiritually.

Saturday 10:30-12:30pm: Pilates Within Yoga

Sunday 3:30-5:30pm: Yoga Pilates Flow

Elissa is a certified Anusara® yoga teacher who began her study of yoga in California in 2001. Immediately drawn to the heart, intelligence, and fun of Anusara, she spent most of her 3 years there studying and practicing this dynamic style full time. She met Anusara founder John Friend in 2002, and soon found herself teaching classes all over Los Angeles. She moved back to Canada in the fall of 2003 and was the first to introduce Anusara Yoga to Western Canada. In June of 2008, she relocated to beautiful Nelson, BC where she continues to offer classes and workshops locally and all around BC from her new home base.

Elissa’s teaching style creates a fun, supportive and safe environment that empowers students of all levels to bring a new openness and flexibility to body, heart and mind. She has completed over 200 hours of workshops and trainings with John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga, and hundreds more hours with some of the most respected certified Anusara teachers in the US *. Elissa has also had the privilege of studying with Dr. Douglas Brooks, a world-renown scholar of Hindu Tantrism. She keeps up her studies with regular trips south for workshops and training, and of course, her personal yoga practice.

Elissa offers well-rounded classes that are challenging yet deeply respectful of each student's abilities. She has a particular interest in yoga therapy and is able to assist students who have aches or pain due to injury or misalignment, as well as seasoned practitioners who want to refine and deepen their practice. Elissa has taught workshops, as well as public, private, and corporate classes throughout Southern BC and beyond.

Saturday 3:30-6:30pm: Following Your Bliss

Sunday 8-10am: Celebrating Community

A native of New Zealand, Shivani Howe came into her career after she found herself needing to take a new approach to life. In 2001, she was diagnosed with advanced endometriosis, and began looking for alternative ways to relieve her body of this supposedly incurable disease. It was then she discovered the ancient philosophy of Yoga. The age-old art brought harmony to her life and body, and unraveled the stresses of her illness from its source.

Shivani possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Spatial Design from New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology, with a major in Environmental Design and Project Management. She moved from New Zealand to North America in 2002 where she obtained formal certification as a Yoga Teacher from the Sananda Devi Yoga’s teacher training course in Toronto (500 hour registered course with the Yoga Alliance).  Each year Shivani takes a pilgrimage back to India to further her training and perform seva (service) in Rikhia Ashram, India, where she has been initiated into the Satyananda and Sivananda Lineages as a Karma Sanyassin.

Upon completing her teacher training Shivani then designed Pura Luna, which started as a Yoga Teaching company and has rapidly expanded into Yogic Lifestyle Coaching and our Divine Art Company.  Living in Vancouver, Canada she teaches clients how to unfold their inner wisdom, through yogic and ayurvedic principles, and implement these principles into everyday modern life.  A life that promotes holistic health and harmony with the Universe.

Sarinda Hoilett - Raw Yogi - Off The Mat and Into The Kitchen

Sarinda founded Earth Wisdom Yoga and Bodywork at the base of Mt.Currie so that she could work at home while her kids run naked in their garden of eatin'.  After deciding two children was enough, Sarinda birthed Wild Planet Raw Foods and moved off the Mat and Into the Kitchen.

Her aim is to continue to educate, inspire, and transform through highly vibrational food. Wild Planet Raw Foods offers workshops in raw living cuisine, conscious eating, and the yoga of food. Wild Planet Raw Foods also has a line of divinely infused, nutritionally super-charged raw gourmet foods available at Special Events and Farmers Markets in the Sea to Sky.

Sarinda will be introducing people to the Art and Alchemy of Raw Living Cuisine.

THE NAKED TRUTH - Our Food, Our Planet, Your Body, Your Temple.

Saturday 3:30-6:30pm: Living Cuisine and The Yoga of Food

Glenn Iles - a lifelong sales and marketing specialist works with individuals and small business in the wellness area to help them develop and grow.  Glenn has been an 'off the mat yogi' for several years working with and assisting practitioners with their business strategies and marketing initiatives.   Glenn takes a practical approach to sales and marketing for small businesses and individual practitioners.  He emphasizes doing what you can do very well and making every interaction count.

Digital marketing has become Glenn's speciality - he works with practitioners to have a holistic business strategy and then to look at  web site, e-mail, newsletter, facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr.... requirements.  During the Whistler Yoga Conference Glenn will host marketing seminars on how to create and stick to your strategy.

Sunday 3:30-5:30pm: Electronic Marketing for Yoga Practitioners

Tina is an experienced and innovative health and wellness professional, an E-RYT 500 and an Advanced Certified Jivamukti teacher who has mentored for Sharon Gannon and David Life at the 2008 Jivamukti teacher training in New York. Tina is widely recognized as a teacher for teachers and leads holistic yoga teacher training programs that not only embraces the ancient wisdom and practices of yoga but also integrates into the program the political, social and environment needs of our present and future. Tina’s first teachers, Shri K Pattabhi Jois, whom she studied under in Mysore and Manju Jois, began her journey towards the enlightenment principle and she took the luxury of practicing with many teachers over a period of 15 years to finally find her place within the Jivamukti linage.

Throughout her 20-year career she has developed groundbreaking, original and award winning concepts in health, wellbeing and yoga. One such development was the Chapel Rock Gym in the UK - the first indoor climbing wall within a wellness facility and this was followed by the inspirational and internationally acclaimed Chapel Spa, held at the forefront of the spa renaissance.

Tina is articulate and confident without ego, a very persuasive animal rights activist and advocate and is able to motivate and communicate to achieve exceptional business performance. Tina is an avid PETA supporter and works with the registered Canadian charity, Get Bear Smart Society (GBS).

Tina is well-known for her expressive and inspirational nature coupled with her ability to effectively integrate the powerful mystical aspects of yoga, dynamic vinyasa flow sequences, ever-unfolding visualization tools, powerful intention and precision alignment.

Along with attaining many qualifications in health and fitness within the many fields of elite athletic performance, Tina became involved in high altitude climbing, intrinsically linked with yogic breathing. Her witnessing first hand the destruction of the glaciers was what set Tina upon the path she now passionately follows. She continues to teach locally and world wide in studio and retreat settings and is also constantly reaching out to those who are looking to change their personal lives for the better whilst at the same time positively contributing to the wellness of our beautiful blue planet and all its beings.

Friday 9-4pm: Through the Eyes of a Teacher: Fly, Float and Focus

Saturday 10:30-12:30: Hot, Hip and Holy: Jivamukti Master Class

When Jamie Janover first saw scientist Nassim Haramein speak he was totally blown away. Nassim was actually able to tie together everything into one cohesive unification theory – EVERYTHING: from cosmology to quantum mechanics, sacred geometry, ancient cultures, religious texts, Einstein's relativistic theories (with an added spin component) and even the nature of consciousness....

Jamie is one of 12 "emissaries" that went to Hawaii in January 2008, where Nassim himself taught people to give his presentation, in great detail, on his life's work - a grand unification theory.

Nassim’s Non-Profit Foundation’s Website:

http://www.theresonanceproject.org/

Jamie Janover’s Emissary Page:

http://www.theresonanceproject.org/emissary_jamie_janover.html

Dashama Konah - Dashama.com

Friday 5:30-7:30pm, Fire of Transformation – Embracing your Edge

Saturday 8-10am: Sailing the Winds of Love – Journey into the Heart

Saturday 3:30-5:30pm: Detox Yoga Flow – Discover the Fountain of Youth Through Yoga

Sunday 1-3pm: Surfing your Inner Waves to Balance your Emotions

Julia McCabe is an EYRT - 500 hr level teacher with the Yoga Alliance and has been teaching full-time and practicing yoga since 2001. After receiving a B.Ed in Kinesiology at McGill University, Julia continued her love for movement and health under the studentship and teachership of Patrick Creelman, Anusara teacher. In 2003 she travelled to Thailand to study and learn from authorized ashtanga yogi, Paul Dallaghan and pranayama master, Tiwari Ji. In 2005, Julia moved to Hong Kong to join a team of international teachers at Pure Yoga, an experience that significantly altered, improved and humbled her as both a teacher and student. She is now teaching full-time in Whistler at Neoalpine Y-Yoga. "Educate = Liberate - I hold this motto close to my heart while I teach and listen closely to what my students teach me." Join Julia, regardless of where you are on your path, with an open heart, a love for fun and definitely a sense of humor - and you'll be set!

Friday 5:30-7:30pm: Floating from Core

Sunday 10:30am-12:30pm: Aligning and Moving with Heart

Kristin has been a long time pioneer in the research and practice of Thai massage. With ten years of experience, she was of the first Registered Thai Therapists in Canada and is still one of the few Thai Healing Alliance International (THAI) Approved Instructors for the region. Kristin lived in Northern Thailand for two years where she taught English in a preschool and learned the Thai language. In her Reflexology and Thai massage studies, she has 800 hours in the classroom and over 3000 hours in practice. With her Thai language skills, her deep understanding and reverence for this sacred practice, Kristin has worked with the Thai Ministry of Health in translating curriculum material for the ASTI project, an 800 hour training program in Thai therapies.

Kristin loves integrating Thai Herbal Compress and Pre-Natal Thai massage into her practice and teaching. She has been actively expanding in other healing practices such as Craniosacral Therapy, Somato Emotional Release, Osteopathic fieldwork, Hakomi Counseling, Reiki and Doula training.

Teaching throughout BC since 2002, Kristin has been sharing rare Northern Thai style techniques with students of many backgrounds. Courses are open to all those who are moved to learn new skills in relating to the body, with something for Yoga teachers, couples and professionals in the field of massage. Classes are recognized for select continuing education credits with NHPC, Thai Alliance & STA. Visit her website for details: www.ancientthaimassage.ca.

Friday 9-4pm: Thai-Yoga Massage

Shane is an instructor and co-founder of the Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja Mexico since 2004. Shane finds his inspiration through being a reflection for devine love in all things. He is also a surfer and musician that flows from the warmth of his heart.

Shane was raised at SKMC Meditation Center in Bowling Green, Virginia. He received initiation to a formal meditation practice at age four, and studied and traveled with Sant Darshan Singh each year for over ten years,deeply touched by his power of living in love. At age twenty-one Shane spent two years as an apprentice with John P Milton, training in wilderness liberation and Qi gong (energy cultivation). This training included solo retreats ranging in length from two to twenty-eight days. It was during this time that Shane had his first experience of non-duel awareness, which changed his life forever.

Seeking to integrate this mystical knowledge, Shane continued with teacher trainings and workshops with other gracious teachers such as Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, and Doug Swenson. A six month pilgrimage in India and Nepal took him deep into Tibetan Buddhist meditation with a passion for integrating the two truths; conventional and ultimate reality.

Saturday 10:30-12:30am: Qi Flow - Moving with Universal Energy

Saturday 3:30-6:30pm: Speaking the Bliss: A Journey from Heartdance, through Advanced Pranayama, and into Satya

Shahar Rabi is Co-Founder and Director of Education for the New Earth Institute, a Nova Scotia based non-profit holistic education and research centre. Over the past fifteen years, Shahar has led workshops in Israel, India and other countries about integral intelligence and wellbeing, taught philosophy in high schools and universities, and worked as a dance teacher and choreographer. He is a yoga and meditation teacher who lived in monasteries in India, Nepal and Thailand. He has studied with great teachers in the field of non-dual philosophy and yoga. He has been a member of communities engaged in the search for a unifying vision of a more holistic way of being.

He has a Masters degree in the field of management in education and a B.A. in Philosophy and Education. His Masters thesis focused on the sense of coherence amongst young people and the effects of meditation on wellbeing, health and functionality in everyday life. He won an award from the President of Israel for excellence in education and an award for social activity in his home city after founding a Second-Hand Center. He has a great deal of experience in teaching and bringing together Eastern and Western wisdom in a practical way.

Friday 5:30-7:30pm, The Art of Honesty

Saturday 8:00-10:00am: Lifting the Veil: Revolution of the Mind

Saturday 1-3pm: Coming into the Light: Chakra Shadow Work

Sunday 3:30-5:30pm: Integral Yoga: The Unity of Being and Action

Luna Ravenchilde has been a dancer her whole life and has been teaching ecstatic dance in both intimate and festival settings for over a decade. Luna trained with Leyolah Antara, creator of Kundalini Dance (www.kundalini-dance.com), in May 2004 and has been teaching Kundalini Dance ever since. Luna's ecstatic dance workshops at festivals like Shambhala and Earthdance have attracted hundreds of participants every year, where her facilitation has supported the opening of thousands of hearts. Her passion and gift is to unify many souls in ecstatic celebration.

Saturday 10:30-12:30pm: Yoga Trance Dance™

Saturday 8:00-10:00pm: Evening Event, Kundalini Dance Journey

Kashi has been dedicated to the practices of Classical Yoga for over 25 years and has been teaching full-time in Whistler for 15. Her background includes Advanced Teacher’s Training in Sivananda Yoga and Yoga Therapy with RMIYA in Colorado. She specializes in yoga for pregnancy, yoga for ‘stiff guys’, and yoga for illness and injury. She has been a senior instructor at the Salt Spring Centre’s Yoga Teacher Training for 8 years. She teaches at the Sivananda Teacher’s Training at the Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas where she also offers a Pregnancy Yoga Training for yoga teachers. Kashi brings a richness and depth of understanding to the practical and spiritual aspects of yoga.

Sunday 8:00-10:00am: Savasana, The Most Difficult Pose

Saskia started her journey into yoga when she was 14 years old, following a family trip to the Himalayan states of northern India. Following an undeniable intuition that she had much to learn from India, she journeyed there many times to live, travel, study and volunteer. An always-deepening love and appreciation of India propelled her to focus her undergraduate and graduate studies on the region -- its religious and cultural forms and history, its social and ecological development challenges, and especially its ancient wisdom traditions. Following an intensive period of study with a siddha from the Nath lineage, Saskia started a daily personal practice of yoga and has cherished her transformative relationship with the path of yoga ever since. One of the most important gifts Saskia has benefited from in her relationship with India is a deep fascination with integrated approaches to living and change. Inspired by the holistic view embedded in all traditions of yoga, Saskia has sought ways to bridge the gap between the felt need for healthy and sustainable transformation in larger social structures with pathways of deep personal integration. Currently, this exploration is taking concrete shape in the form of a gap year program and school she is founding together with her husband, Shahar Rabi, and a small team of inspired educators and social change agents in Nova Scotia, Canada (www.newearthinstitute.ca). How can "coming home to yourself" shift the way that you choose to act, live, work and play in the world? Saskia has a Master’s degree in International Development and a B.A. (Honours) in International Development and South Asian Religion. She is a published author, applying integral models to a variety of topics including sustainable development, community development, ecology, consciousness studies and global issues. Saskia has lived and worked as a consultant for community-based and international development agencies in Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Bhutan and India. She has helped to teach the history and philosophy sections of World Conscious Yoga Family’s 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training courses in India.

Friday 5:30-7:30pm, The Art of Honesty

Saturday 8:00-10:00am: Lifting the Veil: Revolution of the Mind

Saturday 1-3pm: Coming into the Light: Chakra Shadow Work

Sunday 3:30-5:30pm: Integral Yoga: The Unity of Being and Action

Yogi Vishvketu (Vishva-ji) has studied and practiced Hatha and Raja yoga and the Vedic healing arts in northern India since childhood.  He went on to attain a Bachelor’s degree from a renowned Sports College with a specialization in yoga and its use in optimizing athletic performance, followed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Yoga Philosophy.  After living as the resident teacher for several yeas at Yoga Niketan Ashram, he moved to Canada in 2001, and began to teach internationally, bringing a passion for yoga and his fun-loving nature to the classes.

In October 2003 he released a DVD, Moving into Bliss with Yoga, a harmonious and meditative flow or asana and pranayama set to classical Indian music.  He produced in 2009, Anando-ham, a CD of niirguna mantras from classical Indian texts. Vishva-ji has been a much-loved teacher and demonstrator at the Yoga Show and Conference in Toronto since its inception in 2003. He also teaches at international yoga conferences in Hong Kong and India.

Vishva-ji is committed to offering holistic yoga workshops internationally, incorporating diverse aspects of the practice: asana, pranayama, cleansing kriyas, Ayurveda and Vedic chanting, as well as to offering Yoga Alliance registered 200- and 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) programs in Canada and in Rishikesh (India).  He calls this holistic style of teaching Akhanda Yoga, meaning whole and indivisible.  It is in this spirit that in January 2007, he and his wife, Chetana Panwar, founded Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram in Rishikesh (India) where they live and teach six months of the year.

Friday 9-4pm: Awakening Inner Power with Pranayama

Saturday 8-10am: Jal Neti: Yogic Cleansing to Reduce Allergies, Hay Fever, Insomnia, etc.

Saturday 3:30-6:30pm: Chakra Experiences: Tantra, Mantra & Yantra

Sunday 1:30pm-4:30pm: Discovering Harmony with Sound and Vedic Affirmations

Leslie Young www.mountainyoga.ca

Leslie Young, owner of Mountain Yoga, began exploring yoga as a teenager looking for depth. Teaching in Whistler since 1991, Leslie divides her time between the mountains and the ocean...teaching in Belize, Mexico, Cortez Island at Hollyhock and on Savary Island, where she is building a home/retreat.

In the Krishnamacharya lineage, she certified both in the Iyengar tradition originally and again with Dona Holleman and Orit Sen-Gupta, founder of Vijnana Yoga. Biotensegrity and the explorations of Gioia Irwin continue to weave into her practice. Leslie's approach balances flow and precision and explores space and freedom in the body and mind. Her committment to spiritual practice runs deep, inspired by Vipassana meditation and Dhamma studies with Jayanta and the teachings of Adyashanti. She brings yoga's ancient practices alive exploring meditation, pranayama, mudras, asana and sutras with passionate enthusiasm. Teaching for over 20 years, Leslie has trained teachers locally and beyond, encouraging all to find the truth of unconditional love and freedom.

Friday 9-4pm: Vijnana Yoga Intensive

Saturday 10:30-12:30pm: Pranayama