Yoga On and Off The Mat
Practical Mindfulness and Self-Management for Highly Sensitive People
Online and in Ottawa, ON, Canada
Flow, Yin, Power, and Mobility Yoga Classes from 5-60 minutes
Weekly Classes and Specialty Workshops in Ottawa, Ontario at PranaShanti Yoga Centre
From both education and personal experience, Bren shares how to go from feeling overwhelmed to in control using a variety of modalities:
Accessible Meditation - Actionable steps to start feeling the benefits of meditation. Moving meditations, short guided meditations, and mindset coaching to help you through the hard part!
Strong Flow Yoga - Feel empowered through strength and accomplished after mindfully challenging your body. Focus your attention through intentional movement.
Yin Yoga - Soften into relative stillness - a grounding, quiet practice that benefits the joints and deep tissues of the body with the challenge of focusing the mind.
Nervous System Regulation - Drawing from modern psychology & mindfulness, Buddhism, and yogic traditions, learn to change how you're feeling and what you're focusing on.
Seasonal Attunement - Bringing ancient Daoist practices through a modern lens, align your diet, routines, and activities with the seasons for ultimate wellness and balance.
Nice To Meet You
Hi, my name is Bren. And I LOVE teaching yoga.
My first experiences with yoga were self-taught at the young age of 11 or 12 from a library book about how to practice yoga asana. As my developing mind became busier and more anxious, I wanted to learn about this 'meditation' I had heard would help. For another decade I researched and practiced all I could about Buddhism, yoga asana, meditation, and mindfulness, through many of life's dramatic ups and downs.
In my early twenties I met my now husband who was a student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which added a layer of Daoist philosophy to my practice. I had, by then, found my love for practicing Yin Yoga, a style deeply connected with TCM, learning finally that it is possible for me to find peace in stillness.
Several years later we found ourselves in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley where I attended multiple yoga teacher training programs with a focus on philosophy.
My teaching specialties are Yin Yoga (finding balance of stillness and sensation in longer-held grounded postures), sharing nervous system regulation techniques, and helping practitioners to advance their asana practice for ultimate mobility and function, all through a trauma-informed lens.
After teaching and attending classes at many yoga studios, I am inspired to raise the standards of teaching in the yoga industry.
EDUCATION
500hr Yoga Teacher - Registered with Yoga Alliance (RYT500)
+41hr Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
+50hr Yoga for Chronic Pain Certificate
+50hr Yin Yoga Specialty Certificate
+60hr Mindfulness Practitioner Training
+100hr Trauma Informed Facilitator Training
+1000hrs teaching experience (E-RYT200)
