I am a yoga teacher with over 20 years of personal practice and a deep respect for yoga as a grounding, supportive, and lifelong journey. I completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga by the Sea, where I strengthened my commitment to teaching with care, clarity, and intention.

My classes focus on mindful alignment and conscious breath, creating a space where students can feel safe, supported, and connected to their bodies. I aim to offer practices that encourage stability, awareness, and ease—meeting each student where they are and honoring the uniqueness of every body. My goal is for students to leave class feeling more grounded, balanced, and at home within themselves.

Ross McKeachie is a practitioner and teacher of Arkaya Tantra Yoga. He is the Community Director / Asst. Teacher Trainer with the not-for-profit Arkaya Foundation. Ross has been apprenticing and working with his teacher, Yogacharini Maitreyi, since 2015 and is grateful to be part of this South Indian lineage. He is an avid student of all of life’s wisdom and indigenous traditions, hosting Branches of Wisdom the Banyen Books podcast. He offers Integrative Coaching, Healing & Yoga Therapy sessions to private clients.

Jean has been studying tai chi for more than 25 years with sifu’s Brock and Laurie O’Byrne and has been teaching for the past ten years. She integrates elements from qi gong, a closely related practice to taichi, into her classes which focus on balance, centering and awareness. She also likes to have her classes infused with laughter.

Beata Barinbaum is a certified Practitioner and Educator of Meir Schneiderʼs School for Self- Healing method and has been blending this knowledge with an extensive range of other healing modalities since 1999.

She has trained in advanced Lymphatic Drainage therapy with Bruno Chikly, assisting the body in evacuating toxins from all body systems; has studied at the Canadian College of Osteopathy; has trained with Sam Berne and Joseph Shapiro in natural vision improvement; and is a graduate of Integrated Body Psychotherapy, Anthroposophical Psychology and Spacial Dynamics.

From Beata:

I began studies in Natural Vision Improvement in 1996 following different teachers for 28 years. 

I never wanted to teach it to clients as I was not able to use the practice myself. I carried so much tension in and around my eyes that I would usually feel worth after my attempts to practice.

Later in my Osteopathy training I have learned about embryological development of Nervous Tissue and its connection to eyes.

In my work in addiction recovery centers where clients had come with deep emotional trauma there was another lair of understanding the emotional experiences with relationship to eyesight.  

6 years ago I was asked to co-lead a 5 day Eyesight Improvement Retreat and brought in emotional aspect of vision together with somatic movement and massage.

It was a breakthrough in my own vision and ability to discover deeper reasons for not seeing well. Since then I began to offer vision work to my bodywork clients and lead group lessons.

Beata is offering massage, bodywork, movement, self inquiry, and meditation. In her practice, Beata draws on exercises involving passive and active movement, coordination, breath and visualization. She helps clients experience their potential mobility, improved vision, balance, well being, and relief from pain. Her focus is to give people the tools to self sufficiently help their bodies create their own wellbeing.

Beata invites you to become present and connected within your body including the parts of self that could benefit from nourishment, rest, balance, compassion and vitality. After twenty years of working with patients with serious neuromuscular conditions, people in addiction recovery and rehabilitation, she is now supporting people in caretaking roles.

“Neufeld invites us to see the minutiae in the heavens and the magnificence in a leaf, to ponder the (in)significance of humankind.  Each shot asks “What is our place in this?”  He succeeds in taking us beyond the binary “Us or Nature” stance to some place more overarching-maybe it’s immersing”

• Nancy Pincombe, Zoom Magazine.

In the last 23 years I have lovingly explored natural beauty all around BC, particularly the Coastal areas.  Immersing myself in wilderness has healed and transformed me in so many ways. 

I have been sharing these journeys through reflections in the form of photos and writing.  I have displayed my work across Canada in art shows, markets, calendars and magazines.  Cards, fine art photographs on canvas, and HD Aluminum prints are available through my website up to 40X60 and larger.

 Completing my 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Hasu, Marney Coulter in Spring, 2023 has helped me answer the question of how to bring the presence and beauty I experience while in wilderness areas, back into my regular daily life.   I look forward to helping others connect with their own body, Spirit, and the landscape. I am grateful to the Skwxwú7mesh and shíshálh Nations whose lands I now live on, and photograph.

www.shelneufeld.com

I love to weave together the wisdom of yoga and mindfulness to curate an experience that nourishes both body and soul. Through gentle yet purposeful movement students will delve into the depths of their being, exploring the subtle energies that flow within. With each breath, I will guide students to release tension and surrender to the present moment, unveiling a profound state of relaxation that transcends the boundaries of the mat. 

What you can expect from my class: Expect a journey inward, a focus on breath and body awareness, and an energy of calm embodiment. My classes will invite you to deepen your connection to yourself through self-compassion, kindness, and curiosity.

Elin  (Deg Sanjeet Kaur) is a local artist, producer and kundalini yoga teacher in Roberts Creek. She has been practicing different forms of yoga for the last 20 years. She moved from Sweden to Canada and came across Yoga West, a kundalini yoga studio that has been teaching Kundalini Yoga in Vancouver since 1973. 

She quickly experienced the effects of this powerful yoga and decided to become a teacher in 2020 and finished 200 h Kundalini Yoga teacher training in June 2021. She is currently working towards her lv 2 teacher training. Elin is trained by the well respected Kundalini Yoga teachers Guru Raj Kaur, Nirmal Kaur and Hari Sing. Elin follows 3HO’s traditional Kundalini Yoga format, and guidelines. 

Kundalini Yoga uplifts your body, mind, and spirit using a dynamic blend of postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayam), kriya, mantra, music & meditation.

Doug recently completed his 200-hour teacher training and is continuing on with his 300-hour training starting in April 2022. He is passionate about learning and has been a school teacher for nearly 20 years. Doug played football through his university years so yoga has been a major source of healing for his physical and mental scars from his playing days. He looks forward to engaging more people, especially men, to the spiritual aspect of yoga so that we can live as our greatest version of ourselves in this experience of life. Doug brings a sense of playfulness to his meditative yoga classes.

Monika first experienced yoga in a vinyasa class over 20 years ago, and it transformed her experience of breath, mind and body as a unified meditation. It took 20 years for her to find Yoga By The Sea and delve deeper into the understanding and experience of a full yoga practice through YBTS 200 & 300 hour teacher training. Her heart, soul and spirit have found their foundation and home.  Monika is delighted to offer a shared practice grounded in body, mind and spirit to both enliven and expand your experience of Being in and through yoga.