Yoga On and Off The Mat
Practical Mindfulness and Self-Management for Highly Sensitive People
Online and in Ottawa, ON, Canada
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)
