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Kelly Mcgrath, owner of the Joy of Yoga Studio and director of Yoga Teacher Training, is a certified and experienced Kripalu Yoga Instructor and Shiatsu Massage Practitioner. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Kelly began practicing yoga as a young girl in the 1970's with her mother. After many years of globe trekking, and studying Fine Arts at Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Vancouver, Kelly realized her true passion was right under her nose all along, which led her to the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (Lenox, Mass, U.S.A.) where she received her professional training and certification. She then settled in her favorite city, Montreal, and founded the Joy of Yoga Studio. Kellys classes are high in demand, as she has inspired and taught countless through community yoga classes, workshops, conferences, and yoga teacher training. She is a compassionate and knowledgeable teacher, whose classes are challenging, safe and infused with spirit to uplift the heart.
She specializes in teaching advanced asana and sequencing, yoga for a healthy menstrual cycle, restorative yoga, and loving-kindness meditation. Kelly is also dedicated to maintaining a regular Buddhist meditation practice.
Over the years, Kelly has discovered that integrating Yoga and Buddhist meditation has provided a beautiful opportunity to experience steady presence, openness, health, joy and insight.
“Kelly McGrath has a contagious enthusiasm for learning that inspires students to make a deeper commitment to their Yoga practice. Her warmth and sincerity shines through in everything that she does.” ~ Donna Farhi, author of Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship |
 
Anthea Browne has recently arrived in Montreal from Vancouver Island, where she founded and ran a successful yoga and dance school. Anthea's
25 years of teaching experience are rooted in formative ballet training, and a dance teaching degree from Ryerson University. Throughout a concurrent careers as a dancer, aerobics instructor, and personal trainer, Anthea has gained international popularity as an empathetic, inspiring, and knowledgeable teacher.
In 1998, Anthea discovered Ashtanga Yoga, deepening her practical knowledge of movement and exercise physiology through delving into more energetic and spiritual teachings. She also trained in Thai Yoga Massage and Clearheart Bodywork, developing her skills in massage, which she often brings into her classes. Most recently, Anthea's focus is on creating a light, strong practice. This investigation is informed by the work of Dona Holleman, Orit Sen-Gupta, Donna Farhi, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Thomas Myers. Anthea continues to dance, mostly improv-based work, maintains a regular yoga practice, and walks on the mountain every day with Sashia the yoga dog. |
 
Dawn is a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher trained in the Kripalu Tradition.
She had been involved in sports and physical activity all her life, but always felt that something was missing. It was in the year 2000 that she discovered yoga in Montreal, where she soon realized the potential for spiritual fulfillment that she had yearned for.
In 2005 Dawn traveled to South East Asia where she visited a Buddhist monastery and completed a Vipassana meditation retreat. When she combined both Hatha yoga and Buddhist meditation, she felt profound results and an intense happiness that she immediately wanted to share with others.
Upon her return to Montreal, Dawn began a Yoga Teacher Training with Hart Lazer. Since then, she has been continuing her Yoga education, studying with exceptional teachers such as Maalaa for Kids’ Yoga, Kelly McGrath for training in the Kripalu tradition, and Janice Clarfield for Pre-Natal Yoga. Additionally, Dawn has just started an 18-month Mindfulness Yoga and Buddhist Meditation Training Program based at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, California, lead by reknowned teachers such as Jack Kornfield and Stephen Cope.
Dawn has a big heart, which is always evident through her contagious smile. She is generous, down to earth, and always makes her students feel welcome and at home.
She looks forward to sharing her passion for yoga with you. |
 
Fanou Lanciault is a certified hatha yoga instructor trained in the Kripalu tradition and a professional actress. An astute observer of the body’s physical and emotional possibilities, she studied in dance, martial arts, physical training, writing and acting. After graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada, she dove into yoga, that united her two great loves: body and soul. Curious, dedicated and passionate, she channeled all her energy into deepening her knowledge. A self taught yoga practitioner for six years, she felt the need to take her personal practice and her love of teaching (she also teaches acting) to the next level by doing the teacher training program at JOY OF YOGA STUDIO. Becoming a yoga teacher was the inevitable continuity of her personal and professional path and the ideal opportunity to share her imagery, her vision and her passion.
Being part of Fanou’s classes, offers you the opportunity to work on your breathing, your postures, and relaxation… But, first and formost, it is mostly to work on yourself, with your own heart, swept away by the positive energy, both strong and soft, that she brings into her lessons. Serenity is garanteed.
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Jasvinder is a Certified Kundalini Yoga and Khalsa Way® Pregnancy Yoga teacher. She is the mother of two remarkable children, and considers those pregnancies and births to be among her most sacred and beautiful experiences.
Her spiritual journey began with Integral yoga in 1998 while living in NYC. Since returning home in 1999 she has deepened her yogic practise over the years by studying Kripalu and Ashtanga yoga. It was through exploring the transformational power of breath and movement that sparked her interest in Kundalini Yoga. Her power and grace come through warmly in her practice and teaching. She feels truly blessed to be teaching and creating a space where students can explore and discover the wonderfully dynamic and creative energy of Kundalini yoga.
“The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.” ~Yogi Bhajan |
 
A certified yoga instructor trained in the Kripalu tradition. Jayme is a graduate of The Pranayama Center in Toronto where she completed her training in meditation, breathing, body awareness, as well as studies in anatomy, health, communication, mantras and Indian philosophy.
Jayme’s passion for the study of yoga and personal development has fueled her constant growth in her professional training as a yoga instructor. In 2003 she completed the Mindful Meditation program by Jon Kabatt Zinn. In 2004 she traveled to the sacred island of Hawaii to study nutrition and spiritual life. During classes she enjoys helping students become aware of themselves through alignment, breathing and mind focus, allowing her students to develop intuition towards their own personal practice. She is happy to teach classes in both French and English. |
 
Josephine is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and Hatha Yoga. After many years of Buddhist practice and study, she discovered the grounding, energizing and relaxing effects of yoga, and began integrating the two practices. Josephine is also a student of Do-In, Tibetan yoga, and sacred dance. Both a meditation instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and a yoga teacher trained in the Kripalu tradition, her practice and teaching combines the wisdom of these ancient approaches.
Josephine explores the dynamic interplay between mind and body. Her primary inspiration is to share the teachings and practices closest to heart, so as to develop awareness, strength, flexibility, and compassion. Her qualities of warmth, openness, and precision make for classes that are safe, inspiring, revitalizing, and calming. |
 
Kim Zombik is a Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, and a professional jazz vocalist. Originally from Massachusetts, her quest for life’s deeper meaning lead her to the rich and profound world of yoga in 1986, and has since attained professional certification to teach from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Mass. U.S.A..
Kim has always been one to be found dancing, singing, laughing or exploring movement. She has also trained in martial arts for 6 years, and earned her black-belt in Goju-Ryu Karate in 2000.
Her practice of yoga is inspired by many wonderful teachers: the lyricism of dance, the fortitude of the martial arts, the wisdom of the I ching, the precision of BKS Iyengar, as well as the subtle anatomy work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the energy and chakra work of Barbara Ann Brennan, and the transformations found through Network Spinal Analysis.
Swami Kripalu said “Yoga is the meeting of the drop with the ocean.” With humour and love, Kim helps her students create a bridge between “the drop” of their physical selves and “the ocean” of the innate ease, happiness, wisdom and divinity we all possess |
 
Leah R. Vineberg is a Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher, trained in the Kripalu tradition. Leah has been practicing yoga for about 12 years. Yoga, meditation and chanting have become vitally important aspects of Leah’s life and it is through regular personal practice that Leah re-aligns with her heart and strengthens her spiritual path.
Leah believes in holding a space for the “Whole Self” to find a home on the mat, expanding our orbits to include and integrate all of our physical, mental and emotional goings-on on any given day with an attitude of spaciousness and true kindness towards ourselves. Healthful breath and alignment provide a beautiful foundation to practice yoga in safety and in confidence. Through asana practice we come home to the present moment where we may learn to lovingly move with whatever energies surface so that we can experience more and more peace, freedom and joy, both on and off the mat.
Leah thinks that yoga is very fun, deeply renewing and endlessly wondrous and wonderful.
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Mélanie Chevarie, co-teacher of Yoga Teacher Training at the Joy of Yoga Studio, is a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher. Born and raised in the Magdalene Islands, Quebec; at the early age of 19, Melanie ventured off to travel through out India and Asia to pursue spiritual study. She later moved to New York City to work at National Geographic and to study Yoga, Buddhist scriptures and meditation, and became involved in counseling for rape/incest victims and worked as a doula in prenatal care. Eventually, Melanie attained professional Yoga Teacher Training at two on New York’s most renowned school’s: Laughing Lotus and Om Yoga Center. After which, she co-founded Kusala Yoga Center, NYC.
Mélanie has since moved back to her native Canada and has settled in Montreal where she is continuing her passion for yoga & Buddhist meditation through study & teaching, and is perusing to become a midwife.
Mélanie is experienced at leading vipasana meditation groups and is known to give inspiring Dharma talks, which are captivating, heart felt and based on her own experience. She is also known for her unique ability to see beauty in others. This warmth is often felt in her presence, leaving people feeling nurtured, un-judged and supported. |
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