Atta

Atta’s yoga journey began over 30 years ago, as part of a preparation course for a meditation retreat, and he has been a devoted student since. His passion for leadership development and human potential led him to study coaching through Integral Coaching Canada®, where he earned his Integral Master Coach Certificate. With a deep desire to serve his community, and with the support of yogis and yoginis around him, he founded Om Prem Yoga Studio in the spring of 2012.

Atta teaches Restorative, Gentle Yin, Gentle Hatha, and classical Hatha grounded in Purna Yoga alignment principles, alongside sound bath and meditation offerings.

Atta also offers coaching and Enneagram Personality Assessment to clients around the world. If you’re looking to expedite your personal or professional development, feel free to reach out.

Franklin

 It was 1982 when I first discovered Iyengar yoga. My knees were shot from
jogging, my back ached constantly. I knew I needed a dramatic change. Somewhat
skeptically, I enrolled in an Iyengar yoga class. Soon, my once a week practice
become three, then four, and finally a daily part of my life. What had begun as
simply a desire to feel healthier and more flexible became a lifelong commitment.
Teaching was my next, natural step.

After a two-year apprenticeship under Wende Davis in Vancouver, I travelled to
India to study directly under Gita Iyengar. It was the most intensive, challenging
month of my life and reaffirmed my desire to teach others. In 1993, I opened the
North Shore’s first yoga studio while continuing my own personal studies both
throughout North America and on a return visit to India.

Cielo

Cielo’s classes weave compelling themes with intelligent sequencing, balancing right effort and energy so classes can be strong and challenging yet soft, calming, and meditative. A background in competitive sports, alternative healing, and science gives her practical knowledge of human biomechanics alongside the healing arts. She tailors classes to your level in a noncompetitive, safe environment, encouraging deep focus through breath and inner awareness.

A devoted student of yoga for over half her life, Cielo continues studying with teachers worldwide. She has been active in communities and schools across the Lower Mainland, developing Yoga for Youth programs and serving as an Ambassador for the Power of Movement, raising funds for autoimmune disease research.

Cielo (E-RYT 500) teaches Hatha, Power, Vinyasa Flow, Anusara-inspired, Yin, Therapeutics, Hot Yoga, and pre and postnatal yoga, locally and internationally since 2002.

Sandra

Janice

Janice’s yoga journey began in 1974 at a YWCA class in Winnipeg, where she first noticed how much stress she held in her body and how much she needed to breathe more deeply. That release, found through breath work and asana, kept her practicing. After moving to Vancouver in 1979, she studied with Iyengar teachers locally and internationally while working full-time for IBM, then continued with Sarah Godfrey and Brad Waites after retiring. In 2015 she completed 500-hour teacher training with Aadil Palkhivala and Savitri at the College of Purna Yoga in Bellevue, Washington.

She began teaching in 2013, initially to deepen her own practice, and has found her students to be wonderful teachers. Her strength, flexibility, and mental health are better heading into her 70s than her 20s. Janice inspires active seniors to have fun with yoga while building the strength and balance to age gracefully and stay independent.

Gwynneth

In class, expect thoughtful prop use, supportive adaptations, breath awareness, pranayama, and yoga philosophy, with encouragement to explore what your body needs that day. Every body is different, from skeletal variation to injury, age, and life stage, and my therapeutic approach honours those differences rather than asking everyone to fit the same shape. Yoga has moved with me through parenting, perimenopause, and menopause, and my practice keeps evolving alongside how I teach.

My path began early: at eight I imagined finding happiness in a mountaintop cave. Years later I found Vipassana meditation and, eventually, a practice built on self-study and sustained concentration. That led to over 30 years as a practitioner, 1,000 hours of Iyengar teacher training, and 21 years formerly holding Iyengar certification. Yin yoga was my first step outside that tradition, and I’ve taught it since 2023 as I turned toward yoga as therapy, now in my fourth year of study at the Vancouver School of Healing Arts.

As a certified prenatal yoga teacher, I welcome gestational parents to let me know privately before class so I can offer the right adaptations and support.