ENDLESS SHORE YOGA AND MEDITATION

Edi has been influenced by movement her whole life. Growing up in a family of movement educators and coaches (sports), she began her formal movement training early in gymnastics, figure skating and dance. A natural transition into teaching fitness classes (BCRPA Certified) in her twenties began Edi’s shift from sport to personal movement based practices. Edi discovered yoga in her thirties but it wasn’t until transitioning through a significant life change that yoga embraced her ~ “Yoga is the

journey of the self, through the self, to the self” The Bhagavad Gita

Edi is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT500 hour certified yoga teacher, aYACEP (yoga alliance continuing education provider) and holds

certifications in Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra (guided meditation), Somatic Yoga and Mat Pilates. She is also a Reiki Master and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (life coach).

Edi’s personal practice and teaching style is exploratory and somatic in nature. As no two bodies are alike, no two postures or movements are alike. Finding balance in the body is essential. Edi believes we need both gentle and strong practices to invite the body to remember what it is to rest and also what it is to grow. Whether a gentle or strong practice, Edi teaches through somatic inquiry; What are you aware of as you rest in stillness or as you move? How does sensation inform you? We are each our own best teacher if we are willing to listen from within and let go of preconceived ideas of perfection. When we listen deeply, allowing the body to inform us, it will learn to trust us again.

Why did you start teaching?

I was a stay-at-home mom of three young children and had started going to yoga and loved how it made me feel - especially how it supported my emotional and spiritual self. My yoga teacher at the time had always said to be open to signs no matter the size of them.... sometimes they come to us very quietly and other times it can be a loud are-you-paying-attention kind of way! One week I felt this deep sense that I was meant to be a yoga teacher and in a matter of days I had numerous people tell me I should teach or thought I already was teaching. I took that as a “are you listening” kind of sign that I should think seriously about becoming a yoga teacher. Shortly after that I enrolled the Teacher Training with Sandra Sammartino. This was an experiential training, going deep into all the limbs of yoga and I have never looked back.

Since becoming a teacher, I have stronger sense of how we hold stress (emotional & physical) in our bodies and how that can lead to dis-Ease. The more we can allow ourselves to let go and open up first through the physical body (asanas) we can peel away the layers of armouring and hardening that not only shows up in the posture, joints & muscles but more so in our state of well being - our emotional bodies and personalities. We become softer, more accepting, and non judgemental of others and ourselves the more our body opens through yoga. We all have a storey, good & bad, but not all of us have learned how to let go and move forward in our lives in a positive direction and be Kind and Humble during the process!