Linda Malone – Teacher & Owner
Understanding the connection between the body and the mind has been the focus of Linda’s practice and study of yoga. As a student of yoga for almost 10 years, she is passionate about bringing her own lessons as a student to the class room in her style of teaching. A graduate of the University of Toronto with a major in Semiotics and Communication Theory she understands that the best way to teach is to continue to learn and strives to inspire her students to the same. Her love of yoga has translated into her ability to lead students through challenging and dynamic classes in an attempt to guide students toward developing their own moving meditation over time. She regularly combines anatomical focus, philosophical discussion and intuitive adjustment to each class so that every student may find some way to relate to their own practice and the goals of that practice. She has completed an 800 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training through Moksha Yoga, and has since completed courses on yoga anatomy with Susi Hately-Aldous and has learned from teachings on mindfulness meditation with Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga. She is preparing to begin coursework on The Foundations of Yoga, a yoga study course through Georg Feuerstein’s Traditional Yoga Studies Program. A teacher of hot yoga, hatha and flow yoga, Linda has also worked privately with clients to help improve sports performance and rehabilitate from injury.
Aura Carcueva – Teacher
Aura was first introduced to Ashtanga yoga in 1996. It was part of her movement class in the theatre and dance program where she received her Bachelor in Fine Arts. Her love for hot yoga started with Bikram, introduced to her in 2002, which then led her to Moksha and other kinds of hot yoga and she’s been hooked ever since. Aura carries lightheartedness in her teachings but at the same time challenges each individual to go to their edge. Her training in dance and physical theatre supports her teachings by honing in to proper alignment and use of breath. She has an eye and the touch to support a posture whether it’s for an advanced student or your very first class!
Jess Lemon – Teacher
At the age of 18, Jessica Lemon fell in love with yoga after her very first sweaty class in Vancouver. She has been intimately involved with hot yoga ever since. Well versed in Bikram, Moksha and recently Power Yoga, Jessica also teaches Yin, Resorative, and Kid’s yoga at studios in Toronto, London, Montreal, and Trinidad. She received her Moksha Yoga teaching certificate in 2004 and has been teaching and travelling ever since. While completing her Honours Bachelor’s of Arts degree in French language and literature at the University of Toronto, Jessica took her love for yoga across the pond and taught both in English and French in Nantes, France. She has since trained with Baron Baptiste in Maya Talum, Mexico, and has completed a teaching stint in Port of Spain, Trinidad. What she has discovered through her frequent travels is that yoga transcends all differences in language, culture, and environment. It touches to the core of human experience. She feels privileged to help people find the strength, support, and love they need to heal and grow.
Joanne Jaffey – Teacher
Joanne began practicing yoga 8 years ago, while completing her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at Ryerson University. She has since trained in the Bikram, Moksha and Ashtanga yoga systems. She is ever grateful to the amazing teachers and students who have inspired her along the way, and she has witnessed and experienced the transformative powers of yoga – on and off the mat. When life gets complicated and our minds become cluttered, yoga fosters balance, nourishes our spirits and reminds us to be true to ourselves.
Jonny Belink – Teacher
Jonny has his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences (Trent University). He spent most of 2005 and 2006 in Taiwan at Space Yoga Studio where he taught and studied yoga full-time. Jonny is a Certificated Moksha Yoga Teacher (2005) and has a Certificate of completion in Ashtanga Yoga Teacher’s Training program from David Swenson (2006). Jonny is currently studying Ashtanga Yoga under the guidance of David Robson. Jonny enjoys teaching with a lot of Energy and tries to be very aware and conscious of his own energy. He feels strongly connected to the word “Balance”, which carries him throughout his practice, his teaching, as well as his day-to-day life.
Julie McClure – Teacher
With over a decade of experience working in the intense field of corporate finance in Toronto and New York, Julie is a strong believer that yoga is a support system for both the body and the mind. Having studied both Ashtanga and Vinyasa Fusion yoga at Maya Yoga (Hawaii), she is passionate about yoga and sees the practice as an opportunity to heal physical ailments and to become more in touch with one’s true self. Julie enjoys leading students through challenging flow classes that are rooted in tradition and focused on alignment, flexibility, stamina and strength.
Kosu Boudreau – Yin Yoga Teacher
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” ~Buddha
Kosu completed her initial Moksha-style, hatha yoga training in 2003. Since then she has completed additional trainings with Erich Shiffman, Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers and Michael Stone. A long-time Zen practitioner and a full-time, palliative care chaplain, Kosu integrates the practices of letting go, mindfulness and loving kindness into every aspect of her living and teaching. She is a breast cancer survivor.
Lexi Pathak – Teacher
Lexi was introduced to Yoga during a stressful time as a graduate Journalism student in Montreal. She immediately fell head over heels for sweating it out in the heat under the guidance of the most amazing teachers at Moksha Montreal who challenged her mentally and physically in new ways every day. After completing her studies and not yet ready to jump into career mode, Lexi completed her Moksha teaching training in 2006. She begain teaching in Montreal immediately after, and gravitated towards the opportunity of sharing her passion of yoga with others. Inspired by a variety of yoga practices and the chance to switch things up, Lexi loves the freedom that Iam Yoga studio gives her to make yoga a form of play. The perfect offset for a crazy busy life and type A personality, for Lexi yoga = love.
Natalie Goldenberg-Fife – Teacher
Natalie or Natalie Goldenberg-Fife or Nat or Nat GF or NGF…. has just landed in Toronto after teaching in Montreal for the past 2 years. She is very excited to be in Toronto and able bring all the fabulous lessons about teaching HARD CORE classes that she has learned in Montreal from some of the best teachers that there are out there (her opinion) !!!
She is also a writer and a big foodie and wine-o (hence, the need to do lots of HOT YOGA)
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Lana Sugarman
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