Joy and Vitality Centre

Yoga made an appearance in my life when I first started University. It was a way to deal with the stresses of life, in a healthy and holistic way.  Ever since then I've been hooked! I took my training in Rishikesh India, and fell in love with the people as well as the yogic way of life, and hope to bring a bit of that magic back to Canada to share with my students. 

I have always been passionate about living an active, healthy life style. I grew up dancing and competing in Track and Field, so when I was introduced to yoga it was theperfect fit for my life. When I was 18 I had my second knee surgery and had to give up dance and track and I was devastated. During this time yoga was my saving grace and I became immersed in it as a means of healing my body and soul. I have been practicing yoga for the last 10 years and am a 400 hr RYT certified to teach Buti yoga. I feel a lightness in my heart when I am practicing yoga, and it is my wish to share yoga with others.

Sarah is excited to meet the students who will be joining us at the Joy and Vitality yoga studio. She  has a contagious energy and is happy to chat about all things yoga! She has a regular yoga practice and also enjoys teaching. She has finished 2 yoga trainings in the last year and is always keen to learn and share knowledge with anyone she meets. Yoga has been an integral part of Sarah’s mind and body health –  healing her physically and emotionally. When Sarah isn’t at the studio she’s on adventures with her 2 dogs, having fun and trying to live her best life.

Alanna studied traditional Hatha yoga in India and Nepal to achieve both 100hr and 200hr RYT certifications and has a background in Education and Coaching. She has been teaching yoga for 2+ years and practicing for more than 10. Alanna enjoys teaching gentle Hatha and Vinyasa style classes and has most recently fallen in love with kids yoga.  She is known for helping her clients connect their breath to their mind, body and ultimately soul, and allows students to experience a high level of body awareness, calmness and rejuvenation. Alanna is a positive and friendly instructor who realized yoga was essential in her life, when she noticed her yoga practice was making her a happier, healther and a more loving human.

Since I can remember, I have been heavily involved in exercise and athletics. After High School I retired from playing Ringette after 13 years, both my long term Field Hockey and Dance career had ended, and I found myself wondering what I could do to keep in shape. I started Hot Yoga 8 years ago on a whim with and after my first class I was completely hooked! I began attending classes up to 5 times a week, and developed a strong passion for the community and the people in it. Yoga engulfed me in world full of positive energy, spiritual awareness, and a drive to push the mental and physical limits of my body. I loved the strength component and the feeling of working hard and coming out drenched in sweat. My one-hour therapy outlet completely silenced all aspects of my busy life and allowed me to focus onsomething as simple as the movement of one single breath. It also encouraged me to work on the spiritual side of my life that I’ve grown to love and turn to in times of need. Yoga has unraveled a deep curiosity and a strong passion for me in the world of natural nutrition, health, and fitness. Fast forward, a couple of years later and I have always made my way back onto my mat and instilled these values in my daily lifestyle. Yoga has given me the mind body balance to connect with myself on a level much greater than I could have imagined.I completed my first 100-hour certification in 2013 and later went on to complete another 200 hours in May of 2016. I adore a fast-paced juicy Vinyasa Flow, but I also truly enjoy the tranquility and ultimate relaxation of Yoga Nidra. Becoming a Yoga Instructor has always been an aspiration for me, and I could not be more excited to dive in!

I grew up in Tyumen, Russia. When I was 2, I was diagnosed with cancer and went through chemotherapy. My mother gave my Chaga mushrooms from the local forest to boost my immune system as I went through this harsh treatment, and I believe this really helped with my recovery.

I lived in a small village where the food was never treated with chemicals and was always organic. As a young child, I loved to cook with these wholesome foods and found creating healthy meals was natural for me. I especially loved making sauerkraut with my mom and grandma.

I have always had a very strong work ethic and have enjoyed working with my hands. I remember helping my father build a sauna. It was hard work, but I found it very rewarding.

Growing up in a family that was focused on eating only whole, organic, non-processed foods, using Traditional Medicine led me to the path that I am in today.

In 2015 i became a Certified Yoga Instructor with The Alberta Yoga Teacher Training College and Certified Vibrational Sound Relaxation Master with Vibrational Sound Association to help and heal  people around the World.

Laurette embarked on her yogic path after becoming an empty nester in 2007. She began her training
while living in Leduc, trained under Michele Theoret, Empowered Yoga, completing her 200 HR Power
Yoga Teacher Training in 2013.  She returned to her home town in deep SE Saskatchewan and operated
a yoga studio and wellness centre for two years, returning to Alberta after her 2 nd grandchild came to
this world.  Throughout her journey, the last 5 years, she has also taken 40 HR Yin, 20 HR Restorative,
Thrive Yoga training and Yoga for Pain Care and Adaptive Yoga workshop and continues to broaden her
scope of practice, most recently enrolled in Myofascial Yoga training program.  Laurette is also a
Registered Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, Reflexologist, as well as an Access Bars
Practitioner.  Laurette teaches a broad range of classes from Yin to Restorative to a variety of Flow
classes, Gentle, Foundation, Vinyasa, and Power with her main focus being, building poses from the
ground up and guiding you through a practice with proper alignment, body, mind and spirit

Ola, bonjour and welcome friends! I am over the moon to be a part of this beautiful space and intoxicating community! It took me over a over a quarter to find myself, sometimes still a tad lost but who isn't on occasion but in those moments I might get lucky enough to find a new version of me along the way. Buti Yoga did this for me far beyond my dreams.

I grew up relatively active, plenty of sports, dance and play, then somewhere along the way I quit doing me. I quit doing what I loved to do and I quit loving being me.

I was overweight, and unhealthy. I was just existing, working, eating and sleeping. Well maybe some fun but not the good clean kind and nothing that spoke to my soul. Then I found the gym and realized how an active body makes an active spirit, but years and hours of mindless training my body still was missing a certain “je ne sais quoi”. So I became a Certified Personal Trainer, and still something just wasn't fitting and I'm not talking about my pants.

Thats when Buti Yoga stumbled across my path. Within a short period, my first experience turned into a passion, then an obsession and now into a career I'm ecstatic to pay forward! It has changed my mind, body and soul in ways I would've never imagined along with some pretty sweet side effects...its shaped my body!!! Breathed new life into my world and shifted my perspective of myself and have me new confidence. It has reminded me that authentic fun with a pinch of effort is at my fingertips, it's grounded me into my spirit and I'm having more fun in this practice than any other. Dancing, strengthening and toning every inch of my being all while laughing (mostly at myself cuz I'm pretty funny). I have watched it light up friends, colleagues, acquaintances and even my mom, her favourite pose... shavasana
But seriously, it's a class for EVERYONE, it gets you out of your head and into your heart. It allows your body to flow and flail freely, it gets your body moving and your heart pumping, with the occasional fist pump but mostly it gets you to feel your body and move your butt!

If I could do one thing it would be to share my fire, energy and passion to life your life with zest.

Come join me for Buti Yoga, if anything we'll share high five, sweat it out and have a “time” together!
Xxo

Wholistic Massage and Manual Therapy, RMT, WORKING WITH ALL BENEFITS.

In 2005, I finished at the Foothills College of Massage in Calgary and took initial courses in Shiatsu, Myofascial Release,Visceral Manipulation and CranioSacral Therapy. These courses opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me in healing.

Since this formal training, I continued to study Myofascial Release and Visceral Manipulation. I am intrigued by fascia (or connective tissue) and exploring its many faces and functions. As a major movement conductor in the body, fascia serves as the body memory, both physically and emotionally.

In wishing to introduce more movement and mobilization into my treatments, I took my first course in Thai Massage – and this quickly became a foundation for a lot of my treatments. The wisdom of whole body treatment using simple but inspired ancient techniques allows clients to achieve another dimension of healing, bringing the body and psyche into a self-healing mode.

Still intrigued by the belly, the emotional brain of our bodies, I took my first course in Chi-Nei-Tsang. This added new power to Visceral Manipulation techniques! When doing guided Chi Gong breathing, the client is in control of releasing his or her own tension, energetic blockages and emotional memories.

I’ve spent quite a few years gaining more knowledge in CranioSacral Therapy. It is a gentle and very precise way of releasing deep tensions in the body and allowing it to relax and self-correct, improving function of the central nervous system along withthe health and performance of the whole body.

I’m always on the path to learning more and am very grateful to my mentors, colleagues, friends, and most of all to my clients who are my best teachers.

I treat the body as a whole, respecting the numerous deep interrelationships on all levels with a spirit of loving-kindness and compassion. I know and trust that I can’t fix anyone, but everyone of us can heal ourselves. I am simply providing a safe space for healing to happen and facilitating the healing process by encouraging body-mind-spirit communication and self-awareness.

As a yoga teacher and student Kayla views yoga as a therapeutic practice for the body, mind and soul. Kayla's classes integrate lessons of yoga on and off of your mat. She sequences postures and movements to help you feel better physically, and helps you into a state of mindfulness for developing presence and positivity.

Kayla was introduced to yoga at a young age and practiced on-and-off throughout the years. However, it was when she moved to Thailand that she became much more serious about yoga. This is when her true passion developed; she practiced and studied yoga while travelling all over South East Asia, and then ended her time abroad in Rishikesh, India - the birthplace of yoga -  to become certified in teaching.

I was born and raised in Russia and moved to beautiful Calgary Canadian 2004. English is not my first language, so you will see some of my Russian background and its influence on my writing style.  In my early years, I lived with my father, mother and brother in a small city Tyumen, Russia. I grew up in such a loving, respectful and very supportive family. Every second of my life I was and continue to be,surrounded with unconditional love, understanding, friendship and colossal support in every possible way from my parents, my brother and my amazing grandmothers.