Serene Yoga Studio

Helen is passionate about transforming fear into love — from her, for her, for all. She expresses her commitment to transformation through writing poetry, self-awareness and yoga books, co-designing organizations into adaptive enterprises and deepening her daily meditation and yoga practices.

Helen maintains her personal yoga practice and her Yoga Actions teacher training programs deeply enrich her transformational journey and provide a much-loved spiritual community.

For a listing of Helen’s weekly Right to Joy blogs, Free Press articles, awareness and writing programs or other books, visit Right to Joy.

Lisa has been practicing yoga since the age of 16. Her experience has taught her self-expression and has given her the tools to grow as a woman in her day-to-day life. Having suffered with anxiety/depression, yoga has been her guide to finding herself. It has also helped her develop the skills needed to cope and become stronger as a person.

Lisa was intrigued to become a yoga teacher because she has always found joy in providing a safe space for others, and as a result, became certified as a 200-hour yoga instructor. To achieve her goal, she has taken many workshops and courses within Winnipeg and the United States. Lisa loves the classes offered through Serene Yoga, as they truly resonate with her belief in the importance of being a part of a supportive community. She strives to guide people to become kinder to themselves in every area of their lives, and to help them find their own path to inner growth.

Valerie started her journey into the world of yoga practicing off and on for ten years at different studios around the city before finding her home in Serene yoga studio in 2015. A couple years later, with the encouragement from family and friends, she enrolled in the 200 hour teacher training program through Serene. She’s looking forward to sharing what she’s learned through her own practice and continued training through the studio.

Sara began her yoga journey at York University where she attended a free Kripalu yoga workshop with a friend. It was love at first cobra. She then moved to the end of the earth, Happy Valley Goose Bay Labrador and taught Yoga there for 13 years.

Sara received her training at the Kripalu School of Yoga in Massachusetts. She then moved to Winnipeg and was offered the opportunity to train as a Yoga for Round Bodies instructor. Being a woman in a larger body herself, Sara was overjoyed to be able to bring Yoga to this like bodied population.

Kat has been on a journey of healing her body, mind & spirit through many different modalities for the past 25 years. She began her yoga journey in 1996 and she eventually found her way to a more focused and dedicated yoga practice at Serene Yoga Studio in 2013. Kat completed her 200-hour Yoga Actions Teacher Training in 2019, and is currently working towards her 500-hour certification.

Kat moves through her own personal yoga practice with the understanding that the more space & ease one can create in the physical body, the more space & ease there will be in the nervous system (including the brain), and therefore also in one's overall emotional state. As more comfort & capacity is found in the body, the more peaceful & quiet mind will become.