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Instructors
We strive to offer you a variety of highly qualified instructors &
speakers. Our network includes internationally renowned experts from
many disciplines: yoga professionals, meditation and breathing
experts, dancers, artists, motivational speakers, psychiatrists,
magicians, and many others
Below is a list of instructors & speakers for our upcoming events.
Since we offer you different instructors at different times, we
update this page quite regularly.
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Dr. Bali Madan, PHD
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“Being brought up in India, amidst the cultural milieu of yoga and
its philosophy gives a certain edge to understanding the
comprehensive, broad-based nature of a very well structured system."
Dr. Madan Bali is the founder-director of "Yoga Bliss", a research
and training center since 1969, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He was born in Northern India where he developed an interest on the
spiritual path from a young age. A long time yoga practitioner he
immigrated to Canada in 1969 and began sharing his knowledge.
For the past 35 years Dr. Bali has successfully introduced Yoga in
Montreal at several CEGEPS, school boards as part of the curriculum,
hospitals, corporations and community centers. He has developed Yoga
as an alternate form of therapy in treating psychosomatic disorders.
His practical and extensive experiences of the therapeutic benefits
of Yoga techniques today are particularly useful in a fast-paced
stressful way of life.
Dr. Bali is an extraordinary example of a healthy lifestyle. At 81
he continues sharing the joy of yoga in his classes and workshops.
He is a Vedanta scholar with a Doctorate in Complimentary Medicine
and one of the best sources of wisdom and knowledge about yoga and
its applications in everyday life.
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Jackie Roberge |
Jackie is a certified yoga teacher and specializes in Hatha yoga.
She received her certification from the Yoga Bliss Research and
Training Institute where she has been training and teaching under
the guidance of Dr. Bali, yoga guru and therapist.
Jackie has been practising Transcendental Meditation (TM) twice
daily for over 15 years. Jackie teaches various forms of meditation
and has also developed online-guided meditations to help encourage
and make it easy for people meditate on a daily basis. Her
meditations, weekly tips and other helpful information can be found
on her website:
www.peacefullife.ca
Over the years, she has also pursued studies in Spiritual Experience
of Meditation, Creative Meditation and Visualization, Ayurvedic
Medicine, Reiki as well as Spiritual Psychotherapy and
Psycho-oncology. Jackie has been working with cancer patients,
teaching yoga and guided meditation for over 7 years. Jackie has
been teaching the Dr. Bali Yoga Method for Cancer Patients for the
past several years as part of a doctorate research project with the
aim of scientifically proving the benefits of yoga for breast cancer
patients during treatment.
Jackie has 2 young daughters who are avid yogis and will be
participating at the Mommy & Me retreat.
For more information about Jackie please visit her website at
www.peacefullife.ca
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Louis Guillemette |
A versatile artist and performer, Louis Guillemette has worked on
stage, cinema, and video for the last 25 years. He has danced with
world-renowned artists, LALALA Human steps, Margie Gillis, Paul-
Andre Fortier, Andrew Hardwood and Benoit Lachambre. He is also the
creator of many choreographic works, which have been presented in
Canada, the United States and Europe. Guillemette has taught at
Concordia University and in several other institutions in Canada and
abroad. Since 1996, he has been artistic consultant to the National
Theatre School and has given several workshops at Cirque du Soleil.
This abundant variety of creative and professional experiences has
allowed Guillemette to develop a rich and inspired style to his
voice & movements workshops.
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Michelle Sands
Co-Owner
of Ambaa Yoga Studio
B.Sc.,Certified Yoga teacher and Pilates Instructor) |
Michelle completed her Yoga Teacher Training at 7 Centres Yoga Arts
in Sedona, Arizona (now the home of the American Yoga College). Her
background includes work in Classical Hatha, Ashtanga and Iyengar as
well as dance, movement and Pilates training. Her classes combine
her passion for physical alignment and a sense of play.
She is also a certified Pilates Instructor (both for mat classes and
using the Pilates machines such as the reformer and the Cadillac)
and she now has a Reformer set up in the studio. She is most
passionate about the Pilates principals of balance, harmony and
moving from the centre, as well as Pilates' ability to help people
connect with their bodies and lead happier and in many cases,
pain-free lives.
Michelle teaches group classes for the community and in schools as
well as working privately with individuals such as athletes and
post-rehab clients.
Michelle is also the Studio Coordinator of "CORE BASICS Centre de
Osteopathy and Pilates" in Kirkland.
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The Amazing Todsky - Magician extraordinaire |
Once every generation there emerges a shaper of magic who changes
the way society sees the very fabric of existence. Regrettably, The
Amazing Todsky is not that magician. However, he is a legend in his
own mind, and is always good for some nifty illusions and a few
laughs, and even manages to amaze. After all, it is no coincidence
that he is known as the Amazing Todsky. Or is it? The Amazing Todsky is one of Montreal's top children's entertainers. He has been
entertaining young people for over 25 years now, and has entertained
at thousands of birthday parties, at schools, daycares, and
community events.
The Amazing Todsky has also appeared at most of Montreal's major
hotels, and in many of its fine restaurants. And while he was in
London, Todsky entertained The Mamas and Papas with card tricks, was
escorted out of the London Tube by Bobbies while making a
handkerchief float, and, in his greatest feat ever, amused a family
of Venezuelan goats with a rope trick.
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Natalie Roper, MA, PPCC |
Natalie continuously strives to achieve balance between her multi-faceted career and her love for being a Mom. Her passion involves engaging people in meaningful ways in order to inspire, empower, motivate and create space for individual's, groups and organizations to gain insight both from an intrapersonal and interpersonal perspective. In her private practice with Trust the Process Consulting she is a life coach, facilitator and process consultant helping individuals and groups through change and transition. Natalie is also a part-time faculty in the Department of Applied Human Sciences and manages the Centre for Human Relations & Community Studies (CHRCS) at Concordia University.
Natalie holds a MA in Human Systems Interventions from Concordia University, and a certification in Personal and Professional Coaching with CHRCS, Concordia University.
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