Our Teachers

Dawn Petrin is an experienced yoga instructor with over 1000 hours of training, the founder of Ananda Yoga and Healing Arts, and the former owner of Tandava Yoga in Kelowna.

Her classes are powerful but playful and she will help you to move gently towards the edges of your strength and mobility while also encouraging you to laugh and smile and not take life or yoga too seriously.

Hi! My name is Kevin and you might know me as the music guy around Kaslo. But you might not know that I studied "Yoga, Ayurveda, Mantra and Meditation" at the American Vedic Institute. I am very excited to begin my yoga teaching journey at Ananda Yoga alongside these other excellent teachers and human beings.

I believe in a holistic approach to yoga for tuning and unifying mind, body, and spirit. It is important to me to share this ancient and profound tool in a way that honours the rich tradition behind it, while being easily approachable to everyone. My classes will focus on accessible asanas, pranayama, and meditation. I hope you’ll leave feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and inspired!

Also, keep your eye out for our regular Kirtan!

I grew up in Ottawa practising gymnastics and dance/Capoeira as a child and teen. I love expression through movement and body. Realizing early on the sweet gift it brings to the mind/body/heart. Presence! When yoga became popular it was easy to dive right into training in various styles and forms of yoga. I have trained in Hatha yoga, different Kreyia techniques through the Art of Living Foundation, Thai Massage, Vipassana and have an undergraduate in Comparative Religion.

I love the practise and study of yoga; all of the different variations humans continue to create with it.

The last thing to mention is my passion for Kirtan/Satsung/Mantra. I have sung and lead Kirtan for 20 years from coast to coast in Canada.

The ancient language of Sanskrit is something I look forward to studying more of. I welcome you to my yoga class to continue these explorations side by side. Namaste.

Shekinah is a dance and yoga teacher who travelled to India annually from 2013–2016 to immerse herself in yoga, dance and Ayurveda as a way of life and elemental body remembrance. Within this three year period she studied the ancient temple dance tradition, Odissi, and trained as a classical Indian dancer [Bhubaneswar Odisha, and Pushkar Rajasthan]. In this same time frame she engaged and practiced Vipassana Meditation [Rajasthan India, Kathmandu Nepal, Joshua Tree CA].

Her first visit to India was in 2007 [Kerala] when she studied to become a certified yoga teacher, completing over 500 hours of study in the yoga tradition. She completed Embody the Flow & Mandala of Asana yoga teacher training modules in 2009 [Santa Monica CA]. This experience forever changed and inspired her view of yoga, serving as an ongoing catalyst for transformation within her own body, life and experience of the world.

Shekinah’s extensive yoga and dance background, and 21+ years of professional massage therapy practice informs her teaching style which guides students to trust the direct feeling experience and gnosis of their own body's wisdom through personal awareness, insightful connection and their living relationship with it, The Body ~ assisting all in the evolution of an empowered, embodied, strong and graceful practice.

Leah offers yoga that is deeply inspired by earth medicine. She is an adventure enthusiast who finds solace in the mountains and the introspection of yoga. Leah weaves in elemental wisdom with all of her practices, gently encouraging delving deeper into self inquiry and acceptance.

Her practices intertwine the teachings of her various 550 hours of yoga teacher training. She offers a slower paced practice of hatha with pranayama, mudra and meditations.

Leah’s grounding yoga techniques invite deep nourishment, patience, and trust ♡