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Heather's style of teaching is founded in the Ashtanga lineage. She is registered at the 500-hour level with the Yoga Alliance, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and was the Professional Development Chair of the Ontario Yoga Association, formerly the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers (FOYT)l. She has a private practice as a hatha flow yoga teacher, a yoga therapist, and a Healer Empath.

When she was two years old, living in London, England, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She was quarantined and treated in a sanatorium for almost a year, where parental visits were only allowed on weekends. The year of isolation became, as B.K.S. Iyengar says “a gift of illness” and Heather believes it allowed her to see reality clearly by lifting the veil of all illusion. She practices and teaches yoga to keep her grounded in this understanding.

Through her yoga and empath practices Heather has come to realize that the human need for love uncovers a mysterious sense of separation that we have from our authentic selves.

In this instance, authentic self means our true and basic nature, beneath the fantasies, artifices and constraints that distort our usual experience. In this subtle and clear attunement, not only to ourselves but to the world around us, life is allowed to flow.

Yoga brought Heather into a closer relationship and understanding of spiritual Oneness, the balance of inward and outward human experience. The deepest contact we can have with our own self and with everyone and everything that we encounter. It means we are able to see through the surface of people and things to their essence. That when we touch a plant, rock, animal or another human being, we can feel the streaming of their life force and the responsiveness of the subtle intelligence and love within them. This is why she called her style of yoga “Awakening Lotus”.

OM SHANTI



PROFILE Heather's style of teaching is founded in the Ashtanga lineage. She is registered at the 500-hour level with the Yoga Alliance, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and was the Professional Development Chair of the Ontario Yoga Association, formerly the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers (FOYT)l. She has a private practice as a hatha flow yoga teacher, a yoga therapist, and a Healer Empath. When she was two years old, living in London, England, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She was quarantined and treated in a sanatorium for almost a year, where parental visits were only allowed on weekends. The year of isolation became, as B.K.S. Iyengar says “a gift of illness” and Heather believes it allowed her to see reality clearly by lifting the veil of all illusion. She practices and teaches yoga to keep her grounded in this understanding. Through her yoga and empath practices Heather has come to realize that the human need for love uncovers a mysterious sense of separation that we have from our authentic selves. In this instance, authentic self means our true and basic nature, beneath the fantasies, artifices and constraints that distort our usual experience. In this subtle and clear attunement, not only to ourselves but to the world around us, life is allowed to flow. Yoga brought Heather into a closer relationship and understanding of spiritual Oneness, the balance of inward and outward human experience. The deepest contact we can have with our own self and with everyone and everything that we encounter. It means we are able to see through the surface of people and things to their essence. That when we touch a plant, rock, animal or another human being, we can feel the streaming of their life force and the responsiveness of the subtle intelligence and love within them. This is why she called her style of yoga “Awakening Lotus”. OM SHANTI