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JONATHAN AUSTMAN
Jonathan has been a student of hatha and raja yoga since 1979. After an introduction to the Upanishads in high school he took up a meditation practice whilst exploring Buddhist and Taoist philosophies and practices. He studied and trained with Iyengar teachers for some fifteen years before starting to get what yoga is, or isn't. He began the practice of Ashtanga yoga in 1996. From 1999 to 2004, he was Senior Staff Teacher at the Yoga Sanctuary in Toronto, where he co-developed and co-directed their Yoga Teacher Training, while also teaching classes and workshops to all levels of yoga aspirants. He gives thanks to all the teachers who have inspired him along the way. Principle among them are; Richard Freeman, Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, and Sharath Rangaswamy.
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LORI NEUFELD
Lori is a practitioner and instructor of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga. Having practiced many styles of yoga in turn, Lori has found unparalleled strength, flexibility and wisdom in the science of Ashtanga. With over 400 hours in teacher training, most recently through Jonathan Austman of the Winnipeg Yoga Shala, Lori follows a path of ongoing study and acceptance. At the heart of her instruction lies the humility and patience developed through the challenges of daily practice.
You can contact Lori at yogalori@me.com.
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SHIVAUN BERG
Shivaun began practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in 2004 while living in North Carolina. After returning to the wide, open space of the prairies, she completed the Yoga Teacher Training course with Jonathan Austman at the Winnipeg Yoga Shala. Teaching yoga classes and workshops for adults and children has become a natural extension to her personal practice; within both are lessons in compassion and acceptance. Shivaun sincerely appreciates the patience and good humour of her own teachers, in particular, Jonathan Austman and Nancy Kimberly, and continues to seek out opportunities to deepen her understanding and practice of yoga.
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LIA KRUGER
Lia began practicing yoga in 1999, while living and working as a wildlife biologist on the West Coast of the United States. She traveled to India for her first time in 2003 and completed Ashtanga Teacher Training Certification Program with her teacher Masterji Vishwanath. Upon returning from India, she moved back to Winnipeg and she began teaching ashtanga yoga while taking an additional two-year yoga teacher training certification course with the Yoga Centre Winnipeg. She continues to return to India to study with her teacher. Her teaching has been influenced by several teachers including, her teacher M.S.Vishwanath, Hart Lazer and Jan Debenham, Fiona Stang and Ramanand Patel, Jonathan Austman and Mark Darby.
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ALANA LAJOIE-O'MALLEY
Alana has been a student of yoga since 2001 and of Sanskrit since 2007. The completion of Jonathan Austman’s teacher training course in 2006 established her commitment to the in-depth study of India’s traditional yoga systems. On a Rhodes Scholarship she attended graduate school at the University of Oxford to begin intensive Sanskrit study, along with the study of history and philosophy of yoga, Indian knowledge systems, and Indian astronomy. Alana has had the privilege of travelling to Mysore, India twice to practice at the K. Pattabhi Jois Research Institute and to study traditional yoga and astronomy texts with Sanskrit scholars. Her daily practice is informed by the lessons she gleans from these texts, as well as by her many teachers - most notably Jonathan Austman, Bella Galt, Emanuele Rossi, Shri R. Sharath, and Saraswathi Rangswamy. |
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