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Yoga has saved me 3 times (so far).

Yoga found me when I needed an anchor. In the chaos and joy of early motherhood, in the difficulty of loss, in the search for work that felt true to who I was — each time, it was the practice that held me. Each time, it was the breath that brought me back to myself.

Breath became the thread I stayed with all the way here.

I left a career in graphic design to teach yoga. Yoga became the path, not the destination. Into breathing — functional and traditional. Into trauma. Into the body, the nervous system, the places where old patterns live. Into yoga therapy, where I work one-on-one with people navigating the same kinds of searches I've made myself.

I'm a curious and neuro-spicy person, and that's pulled me down a lot of rabbit holes. I've trained in Buteyko breathing, Integrative Breathing Therapy, somatic movement, ELDOA™, trauma-informed practice, and HeartMath, among other things. I'm currently completing my certification as a yoga therapist (C-IAYT). Along the way, my husband Declan Clark and friend Laura Beth Wenger have become collaborators. Together Laura and I have developed the Murmuration Model of Adaptive Behaviours, the framework that underlies everything I do.

I began teaching in Toronto, and moved to Moncton, New Brunswick in 2020. It's a beautiful place, close to family, with a slower pace of life. The Loft — my studio on the third floor of our home — is where most of this work now happens.

You can read my values statement and land acknowledgement here.

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off the mat

In my spare time I bake sourdough bread, knit, play with my kitties, sing in my local choir, talk anatomy and breathing with my equally nerdy husband, and swing a sword — I'm a 3rd Dan Black Belt in Haidong Gumdo.

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trainings & certifications

  • Bachelor of Church Music, piano performance, Concord College (CMU), Winnipeg, MB, 1996

  • Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, 2013

  • 250h Yoga Teacher Training, Sundara Yoga Studio, Toronto, ON, 2014

  • Rainbow Kids Yoga, Toronto, ON, 2015

  • ​Reiki L1&2 Practitioner, Toronto, ON, 2015

  • Movement for Trauma L1, Jane Clapp, Toronto, ON, 2016

  • Buteyko Client Course, Steve Donald, Toronto, ON, 2016

  • Move Your DNA (Katy Bowman), Petra Fisher, Toronto, ON, 2016

  • 300h Yoga Teacher Training, Carly Stong, Kingston, ON, 2017

  • Buteyko Educator, Christine Bauman, Waterloo, ON, 2017

  • DTS Level 1, DTS. Ben McDonald, Toronto, ON, 2018

  • Animal Flow L1, DTS, Toronto, 2018

  • Movement for Trauma L2, Jane Clapp, Toronto, ON, 2019

  • Yoga Detour, Detour Method Online, 2019

  • ELDOA™ L1,2,3, Petra Baethmann, Toronto, ON, 2019

  • Integrative Breathing Therapy, Dr. Rosalba Courtney, Online from Sydney, AU, 2021-22

  • HeartMath Certified Practitioner, HeartMath Institute, 2022

  • Yoga Therapy, The Yoga Therapy Institute, Online from Amsterdam, NL, 2022-current

  • Body-Mind Centering, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, 2026

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thank you to my teachers

Mary Paterson • Angela Jervis-Read • Alan Gensho Florence • Karusia Wroblewski • Carly Stong • Jane Clapp • Cecily Milne • Kathryn Bruni Young • Jules Mitchell • Petra Baethmann • Christine Bauman • Dr. Rosalba Courtney • Montserrat G. Mukherjee • Marleen Janzen • Esther van der Sande • Britta Dezillie • Caroline Kila ​• Laura Beth Wenger • Grand Master Chung Won Kap • Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen 

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