Niya loves sharing yoga with new yogis, those recovering, or recently recovered, from injury, and anyone interested in finding a more graceful, sustainable approach to their practice. Her sequences build on your current level of experience by providing variations with clear instructions and demonstrations. She is careful to tailor the structure, level, language and complexity of sequencing to accessibly and functionally share the practice so that you can benefit regardless of age, ability, or physicality.

Niya teaches in: Etobicoke and Toronto

Anna’s experiences include: Body Positive Yoga, Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin, Prenatal, Postnatal, Kids Yoga, Family Yoga, Meditation, Anxiety, and Depression

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Following is a little interview with Niya!
• What got you into yoga?  
My dad signed me up for my first class when I was 13. He said "Go learn something and then come and teach me!" The practice helped me manage my anxiety, and eventually build the confidence and skills to teach.

• Favourite thing about one of your yoga trainings 
Learning to be gentle with myself as I approach challenges and new perspectives. It's something I occasionally need to be reminded of.

• Favourite thing about teaching private sessions 
​Finding customized solutions to help ensure ongoing movement is sustainable, grounding and balanced.

• Go to grounding practice
Recipe development! It's nerdy, but I love working with food and building on my years as a restaurateur to create inclusive, nourishing, delicious meals that are reflective of the environment and minimize food waste.

• What are you most grateful for these days? The incredible communities I am privileged to be part of, and the luxury of offering them support because I can.

• Current Favourite Meal A hybrid of ayurvedic kitchari that my mom used to make me, and a congee that I fell in love with while travelling with a good friend. 

• Current Favourite Book Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries

• Current favourite Place Curled up on my couch with my executive assistant (and cat) Mexa

• Quote currently Inspiring you "The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness..." - T.S. Eliot

​Interested in working with Niya? Fill out our intake form HERE!

Anna is a movement instructor and owner of AMalignment in Burlington, Ontario. Coming from an engineering background, Anna brings unique perspectives and experience to movement training. She is certified in Hatha and Restorative yoga (with a focus on alignment), ELDOA® Levels 1 and 2 osteo-articular stretching technique, and is completing the Restorative Exercise Specialist® program with Katy Bowman in the US (Nutritious Movement). Her style includes offering separate classes as well as creating a combined class or workshop that incorporates controlled movement for your whole body, while challenging your brain and coordination!

Never being a person who loved the gym, Anna was introduced to yoga about 13 years ago, beginning a casual practice in group classes. Despite feeling ok physically, she found she struggled at times not being "flexible" enough to execute many of the poses and the cues offered didn’t seem to be helping her get any better. Following years of studying and working in the materials engineering field, in 2016 she embarked on teacher training in a couple of areas to better understand alignment and biomechanics with the goal to create a more effective practice for her own body and to work on issues that had started to creep in with age. As her body began to feel better and more functional with movement training, her desire to learn more and share it with others through teaching movement became a reality.

In addition, Anna is a natural movement and barefoot health educator and enthusiast. When not teaching you will find her floor-sitting while studying anatomy or osteopathic theory, rock climbing, barefoot walking in nature, or scouting for the next fun trip with either surf or scuba on the menu. 

Anna teaches in: Burlington, Oakville, and Mississauga.

Anna’s experiences include: Hatha Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, Gentle, Chair Yoga, Accessible Yoga, Seniors, Limited Mobility, Biomechanics, Alignment, Strength Building, ELDOA, Barefoot Health and Mobility, Functional Movement, Increasing Range of Motion.
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Following is a little interview with Anna!

What got you into yoga?
I thought I needed to gain flexibility and I didn’t like working out in a gym environment. It turns out that yoga just opened the door to learning so much more about what my body really needed from several different perspectives.

Favourite thing about one of your yoga trainings:
Yoga props - period. Anyone who has been in a class with me with tell you I love props.

Favourite thing about teaching private sessions:
Although I love the energy of classes, I really like the diversity between people and the focussed attention allowed for each unique body when teaching a private client. There is more time and opportunity to connect with a person and help them develop a practice that improves or balances their life in some way. 

Go to grounding practice:
Without a doubt - barefoot walking and the ocean (preferably at the same time)!

What do you value most in a friendship/relationship?
Keeping it real. We are all human. 

What are you most grateful for these days?
Time

Favourite Meal:
Deep fried clams - yes I said that 

Current Favourite Band:
Puscifer

Current Favourite Book:
The Endless Web

Current favourite Place:
Anywhere I’m at, you gotta be in the now

Quote currently Inspiring you:
“…life is matter in motion…" 

​Interested in working with Anna? Email us at info@mypersonalyoga.ca!

Start the year off right with yoga and mindfulness programming for your junior students!

Deepen your students ability to focus on one task at a time, further increase empathy building, cultivate mindfulness, reduce stress, and discover how deep breathing can help to regulate intensifying emotions. 

Any space can work … your classroom with the desks pushed to the side, in the gymnasium with mats, lunchroom, common areas, even outside on a nice day!

My Personal Yoga recommends 45 min sessions for Gr.4-6 
Contact us now and we can develop the perfect program for your class or whole school!
http://www.mypersonalyoga.ca/students.html​

Start the year off right with yoga and mindfulness programming for your intermediate and senior students!​

Offering these heavily burdened young people the time and space to breathe, focus, calm their nervous system, and care for themselves is an invaluable offering in these times of powerful shifts and changes. Your students will cherish the time they spend together in strength, in rest, and in recharging.

Any space can work … your classroom with the desks pushed to the side, in the gymnasium with mats, lunchroom, common areas, even outside on a nice day!
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My Personal Yoga recommends 50 min sessions for Gr. 7-12 
Contact us now and we can develop the perfect program for your class or whole school!
http://www.mypersonalyoga.ca/students.html

Happen to have an accessible open space in your office? Staff can bring their own yoga mats (or chat with us about buying a staff set to leave in your office) and one of our teachers can guide you in a nicely balanced stretch and strength class! Ground in the present moment, get your blood pumping, and then take some restful relaxing space from your desk.

Focussing on your breathing, letting go of the past, letting go of the future, and being in the present moment, for 15, 30 or 50 minutes at a time. Notice your heart rate go down, your nervous system re-regulate, your aches and pains in your back and hands fade away, and the blood pump again freely through your body.

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​Large office with conference rooms but not a lot of other space? Corporate chair yoga is here for you!