For 15 years I have been teaching yoga, studying, working and travelling around the world.
My practice began in Vancouver with Eoin Finn of Blissology in 2001, followed by training with Kathryn Beet of Yogaspace in Toronto. Under her excellent tutelage I completed a comprehensive one-year Vinyasa Teacher Training program focused on the Ashtanga and Iyengar methods. Upon graduating I moved to Byron Bay, Australia where I based myself for a decade of travel and study.
After years of journeying around the world, I always find myself magnetised back to Asian countries. I've explored the remote states of Northeast India, the foothills of the Himalaya in Nepal, and life on the Mekong River in most of the countries it passes through, as well as the Brahmaputra, Tonlé Sap, and Irrawaddy Rivers, where millions of people make their living, move themselves and goods, and many live their whole lives. Both the mountains and rivers of Asia continually charm me to return.
During a lengthy stay in Nepal, I settled in Kathmandu for a month to continue studies through an internship at the Himalayan International Yoga Academy. An equally rich experience I had in that country was spending many days at the pilgrimage site of Lumbini, birthplace of the Buddha. A few years later I returned to Southeast Asia for 6 months of travel, finally landing in Indonesia where I had enrolled in a second 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, this time with Eoin Finn, my first teacher, in Canggu, Bali. Directly after that excellent training, I went to Canada to independently research, develop and teach a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training for a studio in Ontario.
At the end of 2017 I travelled back to India for a 300-hour course at an ashram in Mysore, then headed north to glimpse Tibetan life in Dharamsala. My teachers at the ashram, Swami Prabodh Chaitanya, Vinod Kumar Rajan, and Ganga Sanjay, were extraordinary guides and educators who bestowed in me a deeper grasp of the vast wisdom of Yoga, and Sanskrit, allowing me to cultivate my practice to a more progressive breadth.
I have been an established trainer of yoga teachers since 2014, and I co-own Yoga for the Soul with my Canadian business partner, Tammy Blaze, leading teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally. Over the years I have studied with many incredible teachers including Simon Borg-Olivier of Synergy Yoga, Mark Robberds, Seane Corn, David Life, and Yogacharya Swami Yog Subodh and Dr. Chintamani Goutam of the Himalayan International Yoga Academy, all of whom have affected my life and teachings immeasurably.
Like many who traverse around the globe frequently, photography and writing are my constant companions, though my main purpose for travel is the people I encounter along the way, and the varying cultural and environmental landscapes that ceaselessly intrigue and inform me. Through these experiences I have learned a great deal about life, nature, and humanity. Yoga has enhanced my perception of both the virtues and discrepancies I've witnessed, provided a clear vision for my aspirations, and has been an outstanding practice that I am able to share so that others may experience happiness, improved health, equality and peace.
My practice began in Vancouver with Eoin Finn of Blissology in 2001, followed by training with Kathryn Beet of Yogaspace in Toronto. Under her excellent tutelage I completed a comprehensive one-year Vinyasa Teacher Training program focused on the Ashtanga and Iyengar methods. Upon graduating I moved to Byron Bay, Australia where I based myself for a decade of travel and study.
After years of journeying around the world, I always find myself magnetised back to Asian countries. I've explored the remote states of Northeast India, the foothills of the Himalaya in Nepal, and life on the Mekong River in most of the countries it passes through, as well as the Brahmaputra, Tonlé Sap, and Irrawaddy Rivers, where millions of people make their living, move themselves and goods, and many live their whole lives. Both the mountains and rivers of Asia continually charm me to return.
During a lengthy stay in Nepal, I settled in Kathmandu for a month to continue studies through an internship at the Himalayan International Yoga Academy. An equally rich experience I had in that country was spending many days at the pilgrimage site of Lumbini, birthplace of the Buddha. A few years later I returned to Southeast Asia for 6 months of travel, finally landing in Indonesia where I had enrolled in a second 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, this time with Eoin Finn, my first teacher, in Canggu, Bali. Directly after that excellent training, I went to Canada to independently research, develop and teach a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training for a studio in Ontario.
At the end of 2017 I travelled back to India for a 300-hour course at an ashram in Mysore, then headed north to glimpse Tibetan life in Dharamsala. My teachers at the ashram, Swami Prabodh Chaitanya, Vinod Kumar Rajan, and Ganga Sanjay, were extraordinary guides and educators who bestowed in me a deeper grasp of the vast wisdom of Yoga, and Sanskrit, allowing me to cultivate my practice to a more progressive breadth.
I have been an established trainer of yoga teachers since 2014, and I co-own Yoga for the Soul with my Canadian business partner, Tammy Blaze, leading teacher trainings, retreats, and workshops internationally. Over the years I have studied with many incredible teachers including Simon Borg-Olivier of Synergy Yoga, Mark Robberds, Seane Corn, David Life, and Yogacharya Swami Yog Subodh and Dr. Chintamani Goutam of the Himalayan International Yoga Academy, all of whom have affected my life and teachings immeasurably.
Like many who traverse around the globe frequently, photography and writing are my constant companions, though my main purpose for travel is the people I encounter along the way, and the varying cultural and environmental landscapes that ceaselessly intrigue and inform me. Through these experiences I have learned a great deal about life, nature, and humanity. Yoga has enhanced my perception of both the virtues and discrepancies I've witnessed, provided a clear vision for my aspirations, and has been an outstanding practice that I am able to share so that others may experience happiness, improved health, equality and peace.