Allison believes that yoga is not one size fits all practice and that the strength of the practice is diversity inclusion and accessibility. Yoga can offer options, explore edges and help build physical, mental and emotional confidence.

Allison came to practice yoga 25 years ago during a Crohn’s disease diagnosis. Yoga has remained as a constant thread in each phase of life allowing for balance, wellness, strength and consistent discovery and growth.

Allison is an educator with twenty years experience in the public-school system. She has a Master’s in Teaching and utilized her training in ‘Mindfulness in the Classroom’ to support her students. After her initial 200 hour YTT training Allison worked with Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes to obtain her ‘Yoga For All’ training in order to better serve diverse communities and yogis with bigger bodies with an in-depth exploration into issues of equity, inclusion, bias and privilege surrounding the practice of yoga. Furthering her studies, Allison completed the New Leaf training ‘Reaching Out, Reaching In’ to understand best yoga practices in making mindfulness and yoga inclusive, accessible and trauma informed for ‘at-risk youth’, in diverse and underserved communities.

Allison has also obtained her Level 2 Reiki training as well as completing the ‘The Art of Adjustments’ workshop with Pure Yoga in Ottawa and ‘Adjustments and Alignments’ workshop and ‘Language and Sequencing’ course with White Pine. 

When Allison isn’t on her mat or meditating in nature, she can be found with her two children, her dog, Ivy, hanging in her hammock with a good book or laughing with her partner, Jason. She loves people, quiet places, dark coffee, books, the beach and summer.

Allison believes in teaching to help fit the pose to YOUR body instead of forcing your body to fit the pose while creating safe and supportive body positive classes to explore our unique bodies in our own unique practice.