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Melanie Richards Founder and Director of Yoga HappyTree, Melanie is a certified Hatha Yoga and Kundalini Yoga teacher. She has also studied Yin Yoga with Paul and Suzee Grilley and Restorative Yoga with Donna Farhi. Last fall, Melanie traveled to New York City to learn from some of the most respected yoga teachers in the West. She is a compassionate and motivating teacher who inspires her students to take the tools and benefits of yoga off the mat and into their life.

Susan Halle Susan is a certified holistic fitness trainer and yoga teacher. She enjoys combining the traditional with the cutting edge, and custom blends classes to suit a variety of students With over ten years of experience, she is eternally grateful to have the opportunity to share her unique teaching style of vinyasa/ hatha flow and yoga trance dance.

Mark Laham Mark Laham was introduced to yoga and bodywork on his own personal journey in search of a better understanding of himself and his relationships with others. Through the knowledge and wisdom passed down to him by many great teachers, he has learned many yoga traditions and spiritual teachings such as Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin, and Iyengar Yoga. Mark is continually improving his skills by taking part in teacher training programs and workshops to ensure he can bring his class a comprehensive and balanced yoga teaching. He believes that yoga has something to offer each and every one of us – regardless of lifestyle, fitness level or background. Recognizing that most of us are faced with stressful situations in our day to day lives, he teaches his participants with the philosophy that true practice is simply learning to live in the moment while developing awareness of our Mind, Body, and all that is going on around us.

Johanne Lynch-Staunton Very well known and respected in the community, Johanne has been coordinating and teaching fitness programs in the Montreal area for over 15 years. Her background is in Dance Aerobics, Resistance Training, Kickboxing, Stability Ball, Ashtanga Yoga and Pilates. For the last three years she has been teaching a combination of Yoga and Pilates (YOGALATES) to her Westmount students with great success. She is also a personal trainer. Johanne loves variety: no class is ever be the same as the next.

Valérie Avondo It was in Asia, in the year 2000, having travelled the world for several years, that Valérie began practicing yoga and meditation. She continued her inner journey, deepening her practice with her husband, a yoga teacher as well, and through three natural home births. Her calling to share her experiences led her to the renowned teacher Janice Clarfield, with whom she did her prenatal yoga teacher training.

Nicolas J. Adeline Born in Montreal, Nicolas was raised on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean as a child and spent his teenage years in Europe. The experience of living in several different cultures in the southern and northern hemispheres is reflected in his balanced classes, which put a spin on the proverbial east meets west. Drawing inspiration from a broad range of influences, including the ancient scriptures, popular culture, metaphysics, poetry and philosophy, his classes are physically dynamic and invigorating, humorous and infused with a subtle spiritual essence. A student of Darby in the Ashtanga tradition, he also incorporates elements from his explorations in nine different yoga methods in his fluid dance-like vinyasa classes, which often include inspirational music for the body and the soul. He lives with his feet in the air, his head on the ground, and the heart somewhere in between.

Albert Bissada Albert is a teacher dedicated to the path of yoga, yoga as a science of awareness, healing and compassion. In the traditional Hatha yoga he teaches, each posture serves as a tool to dive within, a doorway into the experience of the Self. Albert is a student of the very inspiring Sri Dr Mada Bali of Montreal's Yoga Bliss and was also trained by Sri Ram, master of yoga and direct disciple of SwamiVishnu Devananda.

Jodie Duplisea Jodie began her health care career conducting studies and research for Montreal's Public Health Department. Her philosophy of balancing the mind, body and spirit to maintain and regain optimum health led her to a more hands on approach to health care. She is a lifetime practitioner of yoga and teaches several styles, including pre- and postnatal yoga, Hatha, yoga for children and Acu-yoga. Jodie also studied various alternative healing courses and is a massage therapist. Her goal is to restore her clients to optimal health, energy and balance. (www.serenissima.ca)

Alice Habel Alice (Sat Charan Kaur) lives to help make this world find more peace, more beauty and truth. From an early age, she learned to have a passion for philosophy and a deep understanding of what it means to be different. She spent her youth attempting to challenge the constructs of society through various non-constructive ways. Unfulfilled in a desolate lifestyle, she found herself at a crossroad where, with the help of yoga and the study of shiatsu, she finally began to live in her destiny. She has cultivated a strong love for serving the community and a deep trust that the future is a bright place for us all. She is a certified kundalini yoga teacher, honored to have the privilege of sharing the teachings she loves so dearly. With her bright smile, she brings a refreshing spirit that adds lightness to any challenge. Alice has a profound appreciation for the practice of Sadhana which she looks forward to sharing with the community.

Leah Hendriks Léah Hendriks teaches yoga from a movement-oriented approach inspired by Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. She began practicing yoga in 1994. In 2003, she brought yoga to the forefront of her life by enrolling in a yoga teacher-training course. In 2005, Léah completed an extensive Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training program with additional teacher training in the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga. Léah continues to deepen her studies in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga through her personal practice and working with teachers Mark and Shankara Darby. She has most recently been inspired through workshops with Richard Freeman and John Friend. Over the years, Léah has developed a concentrated area of interest in yoga for the shoulders, neck and spine and develops programs to help students learn how to anchor and elongate their spine to help release compression, improve posture and stabilize the body in a healthy postural alignment.

Matthew Risk Matthew Risk has been interested in meditation and alternative medicine since childhood. He was introduced to Reiki by a family friend as a teenager and since then has gone on to explore as many different systems of working with energy as he could find access to. He has been practicing Qigong through both martial and healing arts for over a decade. He graduated from the Shiatsu School of Canada's 2200 hour professional Shiatsu Therapy program in 2003 and since then has been working as a professional Shiatsu therapist in Toronto, Halifax, and Montreal. In 2002 he had the great pleasure of achieving his shinpiden (master) level in Usui Ryoho Reiki. Matthew understands that regardless of what system of language one uses to explain one's practice, there are common experiences underlying all systems.

Geneviève Larocque Genevieve has been practicing yoga for 10 years and has been teaching for 3 years. She is a Hatha yoga instructor working with the Anusara principles of alignment and philosophy. Her classes are fun, positive and lighthearted. She aims to correlate the practice of yoga to everyday life. Her attitude towards her students is open, loving and accepting and she is always willing to share all that she has learned.

Harmony Poirier With a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Kinetics, Harmony’s quest for knowledge in health and science was set in motion. She felt the need to balance and discover “whole health”, by exploring the spiritual mind and body connection through yoga. Harmony completed her teacher training through the Sivananda Yoga Institute, focusing on the ancient traditions of Vedanta philosophy and the Five Points of Yoga: Proper exercise, breathing, relaxation, nutrition and meditation. Her energies are now being directed toward bringing Yoga to people living with heart disease and cancer. Her focus is on improving quality of life with yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing.

4010 Ste. Catherine St. West
Suite 200
Westmount, Québec, Canada
H3Z 1P2
514-846-YOGA (9642)
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