Teachers

Studio Owner & Yoga Instructor

Yoga has been a part of Sue’s life for almost a quarter century, and as an educated student of the practice, she has grown stronger, more flexible, and fearless, both on and off the mat. The sense of peace and joy it offers inspires her to live each moment more mindfully.

Sue is known for her authentic, non-competitive teaching style in Hatha, Vinyasa, Power, Flow, Yin, and Restorative; encouraging growth of the physical and spiritual through compassion-centered, interconnected disciplines, creative sequencing, and powerful, thought-provoking philosophical meditations.

Sue is here to help others build their relationship between body, mind and breath through freedom and release. It is Sue’s heartfelt hope that you step off the mat feeling refreshed, nourished, and balanced.

Yoga Instructor

Ally was born and raised in Vancouver B.C. and she has been practicing yoga and meditation for the past 13 years. Ally completed her yoga teacher training with Yoga East West, studying with teachers from all over the world. Her personal journey with yoga has been one with deep healing, spiritual and transformational experiences .Through her classes, she encourages her students to journey inward through a mindful practice of breath, movement and meditation. Ally's classes include Vinyasa Flow, Yin, and Sound Healing, and are for students of all levels.

Yoga Instructor

After years of dealing with various aches and pains, Anne decided to follow her own advice and took up yoga.   At the time, she was busy juggling work in health care with raising young children but managed to carve out time because she loved how her body felt after class.  Eventually, she took the teacher training course in 2017, then received additional training in yin and Tune Up myofascial release.  Expect a physically challenging class, accessible to all levels, with creative sequencing and ending with  myofascial release using massage balls (provided).  Students will leave class sweaty, refreshed, and ready to face the rest of their day.  

Meditation and Yoga Instructor

My yoga and meditation journey started over 40 years ago during training to become a psychiatric nurse. A lifelong learner, over the years I have had the opportunity to gain additional knowledge and skills, deepen my practice and integrate yoga, meditation, mindfulness, pain management, mental imagery and somatic body work into my roles as a counsellor, child life specialist and university professor. I am a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction facilitator, Labyrinth facilitator, and most recently Yin Yoga and Yin Somatics teacher. I aim to provide an inclusive, safe and welcoming environment for all to discover their practice in meaningful ways. 

When I am not in the studio, I enjoy service to community as a Family Support Volunteer at the NICU at BC Women’s Hospital and Delta Emergency Support Services.  I am ever curious and enjoy discovering places and spaces through travel on pilgrimage, long distance trekking and finding and walking labyrinths.

Yoga Instructor

Dal has been a part of the Open Space community as a yoga teacher for almost 12 years. She embraces a great sense of honour and privilege to be able to serve this close knit community by sharing the gifts of yoga. Her goal is to teach students to practise from a place of gratitude and acceptance, but also to challenge themselves when their mind and body is willing and able. Her classes include meditation, mindful movement and the invitation to connect to spirituality. Dal ends her classes by singing sacred chants during savasna, leaving her students in a peaceful state of being.

Yoga Instructor & Prenatal Yoga Instructor

After Erika finished her yoga teacher training in Hatha-Vinyasa, she completed continuing education certifications in prenatal Yoga, Yin Yoga, and has also received her 85-hour Registered Prenatal Yoga Teaching (RPYT) certification as she places high importance on encouraging the accessibility of Yoga for all bodies. She prioritizes demonstrating a positive and caring attitude inside and outside of the studio while encouraging her students to intuitively listen to their bodies to get the most from their practice

Yoga Instructor

Yoga was introduced to Heathers life through a serious injury - a silver lining as she quickly fell in love with the practice, the variation of yoga methods and the accessibility no matter abilities. Heather is a trained 200hr YTT and 55hr Yin. Her passion lies within restorative yin yoga, focusing on releasing tension and stress and regulating the nervous system through movement and breath connection. 

Heathers classes are designed to cultivate space for students to enter deep relaxation and grounding. Allowing you to creat space in the body and mind as you move through a movement meditation.

Yoga Instructor

Janet’s journey with Yoga started in 2005 after suffering a back injury at work. Experiencing positive changes in her own body, she decided to start teaching Yoga to help others find healing in their bodies.

She brings the discipline of Ashtanga and Hatha, with the freestyle of Vinyassa to her classes.

Janet encourages her students to come to the mat, let go of the stresses and strains of everyday life and to benefit from the amazing powers of Yoga, to transform the body and the mind

Yoga Instructor

Kimberley has been on the journey of Yoga since 2008 and became a teacher 2019. Having an extensive background as a professional, figure, skater and dancer, keeps her classes, creative and challenging. She has a fun lighthearted sense of humour and heartfelt connection to Yoga and Yogis. For Kimberley Yoga is self healing, and the mobility in class keeps you grounded & young. The breath through Yoga is like the dance of life.

Pilates Instructor

I started taking Pilates classes in 2003 and loved it so much I became a certified teacher in 2005.

I continue to grow and learn in the Pilates Method and my next goal is to achieve my certification in Active Aging, as I actively age!

I truly appreciate being able to work and live in this community and being a part of the Open Space team

Yoga Instructor

Lindsay has an extensive background in teaching. She is a highly experienced dance and certified yoga instructor. Lindsay is also Sugarfoot Therpay certified, a program designed to teach alignment and movement anatomically. She feels yoga to be a natural extension of her dance education. By incorporating the art of breathing, a sense of rhythm is created, connecting mind and body. Lindsay’s teaching combines her love of physical fitness and movement, she finds pure joy in yoga. Lindsay brings light, love, and laughter to the studio.

Yoga Instructor

From a background of teaching and years of involvement in movement both artistically and physiologically Maureen believes yoga found her,and it soon became an integral part of her life !After some 20 years of teaching yoga her focus remains on freeing the habitual patterns of movement that can incumber us physically, mentally and emotionally.Her classes encourage participants to explore their own bodies at their own pace with mindfulness and breathe ,encouraging the innate ability of each of us to move freely with ease in body, mind, and spirit.

Yoga Instructor

Megan began her yoga journey in 2008, quickly fell in love, and has been a practitioner ever since.

Megan's love for both fitness and yoga and everything it brings to both the body and mind lead her to her first 200-hour Yoga & Fitness teacher training in 2019. Megan began sharing her passion with the community through teaching various styles of Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga. Megan has also completed her Yin Yoga teacher training and is excited to share a slower side of the practice with the community.

Megan’s classes are a fun and exhilarating union of yoga, strength, and conditioning, with the intention to tap into the body's full potential, developing strength, and deepening mind-body connection.

Yoga Instructor

Natasha Huth completed her yoga instructor certification at Feel Good Yoga and Pilates in Victoria, and has been practicing yoga for 4 years. Natasha has a background in athletics, in 2003, she rowed for the Jr. Canadian National Team in Greece. Soon after, Natasha received a full rowing scholarship to the University of Miami in Florida, where she raced NCAA’s for the Miami Hurricanes. In 2012, she completed her Master in Education at UVIC, then went to City University of Seattle to compete her Master in Counselling, and became a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC. Present day, Natasha is a teacher and counsellor for Delta School District, where she uses nature therapy, mindfulness, and art therapy to help children in their life. As a bonus, Natasha is a yoga substitute at Open Space Yoga Studio in Ladner.

Yoga Instructor

Nic is a yogic guide who has ventured deep into the abyss of self-discovery, facing trials and tribulations head-on, emerging victorious with a renewed perspective on life. Through the discipline of yoga, he has unlocked the secrets of personal growth and fulfillment. Nic is a teacher in the truest sense, dedicated to sharing his wisdom and guiding others on their own journey of self-actualization, found not only through stillness, but through succinct words, movement, and reflection.

Yoga Instructor

For Patricia, yoga is a way of life and practicing yoga brings a joyful perspective into her daily life. With the belief that yoga has health benefits for Every Body, Patricia encourages students to allow their breath to guide them through their practice while also encouraging them to challenge and explore their own inner strength.

While Patricia was attending the 200 hour yoga teacher training at Semperviva Yoga Centres, she participated in her first Kundalini yoga class. It was at that first Kundalini yoga class that she felt an immediate positive effect for body, mind, and spirit and wanted to learn more. Patricia then obtained her 200 hour accreditation in teaching Kundalini yoga.

Pilates Instructor

Movement has always been a part of my life, I was on a horse and swimming before I can even remember and I continued pursuing different forms of fitness throughout my life trying out kickboxing, yoga and finally pilates. I completely fell in love with both mat and reformer pilates in Sydney, Australia and discovering the immediate change in my physical strength and mental wellness I immediately decided to pursue my mat pilates training and completed 300 hours at the beautiful Body By Berner studio in Bondi Beach. I have since moved to Vancouver and am excited to share my unique pilates training from down under with the community by incorporating classic mat pilates with fitness movements to bring a hybrid class to life.  

Yoga Instructor

Sheena loves guiding people in all forms of yoga, yoga fusion, slow paced, fast paced, power and passive.

She has been a Yogi since the early 90’s practicing wherever she could find an authentic class and teacher. Sheena’s reason for becoming a teacher is simple, she wanted to be an authentic teacher and learn all there was to learn about yoga. She has since realized that is a life long path and love.

Yoga Instructor

With more than 20 years experience as an Occupational Therapist in neurology with children and adults, Shelley has practiced yoga since the 90’s , but she truly embraced the fullness of the practice after a series of concussions from 2016 forced her to slow down, focus on body and mind awareness and get in tune with her nervous system. She then added full yoga training and certifications to her tool kit, training in the Modern Yoga Method, (anatomy and nervous system based) .

Much of Shelley’s teaching experience is unique as she has combined it with her OT practice; teaching adaptive yoga, post concussion yoga, children’s yoga, sport specific yoga, post covid recovery and injury recovery yoga. She hopes to offer workshops of the like at Open Space.

Shelley is positive, encouraging, creative and loves flowy moves that help our nervous systems reset. She helps you discover that yoga is an empowering and healing way of moving, breathing, thinking and being.