Judy’s journey with practicing yoga began around 2006 when she took her first Bikram yoga
class whilst attending college in Vancouver exploring Kinesiology and figure skating for Canada
Ice Dance Theatre. As a trained figure skater Judy felt yoga was another way to explore
movement. This later grew into a desire to teach yoga after attending the first Wanderlust
Festival in Whistler. In 2012 Judy decided to register for her first yoga teacher training at the
Vancouver School of Bodywork and Massage. This was a weekend course over a few months
and a way to deepen her practice and find healing, balance and calm amidst a busy life. This
interest in teaching yoga became a lifelong passion for helping others discover the physical and
mental benefits of the practice. Her supportive approach to teaching inspires students to
embrace self-awareness and growth, both on and off the mat.

An E-RYT 200 certified yoga instructor Judy creates a welcoming space for individuals of all
backgrounds and experience levels to explore the transformative practice of yoga.
Trainings taken with teachers that have influenced Judy’s yoga teaching include:

2013 – 240 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Daniel Clement
2013 – Level 1 Yoga Tune Up Teacher Training with Jill Miller
2014 – 8 Day Vinyasa Teacher Training with Tina James
2015 – 300 hour Shanti Seva Hridya Teacher Training with Tina James
2016 – Therapeutic Ashtanga Yoga Training with Manju Pattabhi Jois
2017 – Thai Fire Cupping Therapy with Kristin Nutall
2020 – Natural Health Fundamentals with alive Academy of Natural Health
2020 – Living the 8 Limbs of Yoga with Janet Stone

Outside of teaching, Judy holds a MA in Communications and can be found connecting with
colleagues volunteering with IABC/BC, reading a book, or playing outside with friends (climbing,
biking, skiing/boarding), which always brings inspiration into her practice and teaching.

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.

With over 20 years experience as a yoga and fitness facilitator, I’m passionate about helping individuals achieve their wellness goals through mindful movement. My training in Hatha yoga has equipped me with a deep understanding of alignment, strength and balance.

I’m excited to offer a new core-focused yoga class on Monday evenings. This session will concentrate on building core strength and integrating flowing transitions for a well-rounded practice.

Tommy has been on a life long search for Truth. Luckily, around 2015 he was working a stressful job which nudged him towards meditation. Like he does with most things, he jumped in with both feet. Via meditation a light body experience with physical healing solidified an experiential knowing. After a few years practicing Buddhism exclusively, Tommy found his Anglo Saxon roots, and is now an active Druid. He holds a deep reverence for nature and the place for ritual and divination in inner work. 

A few years ago he was introduced to yoga as silence and he embarked on the yoga teacher training journey with Hasu, completing both the 200hr and 300Hr YTT.

Tommy is grateful for the growth and community found at Yoga By The Sea and looking forward to meeting, guiding and exploring the great mystery with you.

Coach Asha has been coming to the coast since she was a kid, and made it her permanent home in 2016. Soon after the move, she found a passion for movement and wanted to inspire others, and so she began her group fitness certification.

Since getting her group fitness certification, her passion led her to get certified in CrossFit, nutrition, and Level 3 as a Health and Human Performance Specialist from Institute of Motion. Over the years she has gone from being a runner, to MMA circuit training, to Crossfit and now to blending it all together to create the Cherry Picker: helping people be stronger at life. 

Coach Asha has the expertise and commitment to create a positive transformation in your life. She not only provides professional movement coaching, Asha will help you balance and well-being in your life. Its like having a life coach, personal trainer and nutritionist all wrapped into one – Coach Asha will help you reach your goals and show you the power of unlocking your full potential.

Izabella hails from the beautiful Eastern Coast of Canada. From Halifax, Nova Scotia to the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Izabella can usually be found frolicking by the ocean — her happy place. Izabella has a deep love for yoga and has been practicing on and off the mat for 15 years. What she loves most about the practice of yoga is its potential for healing, playfulness, and curiosity in one’s life. Certified 200h in Hatha yoga at our very own Yoga by the Sea, and 500h pranayama in Ubud, Bali, this is Izabella’s first time instructing for the public. She welcomes any feedback you’re willing to provide. With love and light. 

Lauren Hemmes is a Certified Life Coach and Reiki Practitioner who offers Empowerment Guidance to those who have come to a crossroads in their life. As a guide and mentor, Lauren supports you in taking the steps you wish to take to better your life. As a Reiki channel, she is a conduit for healing energy, offering you an opportunity to heal yourself.

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.

Taegan found yoga in 2017 while she was traveling the world and now finds herself studying and teaching yoga on the Sunshine Coast. She recently completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training with YBTS and is continuing on to complete her 300 hour.

She is also an intuitive, a reiki practitioner, and has a deep passion for spiritual and self development as well as energetic healing that she wishes to pass on to other people. She finds yoga to be a place to come back to to find one’s center and it has been a blessing in terms of her own healing journey.

“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