Instructors – Yoga By The Sea

Ashley Cornelson

Vanessa Ooms — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:22:57 +0000

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... Read more

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Ross McKeachie

Vanessa Ooms — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:20:22 +0000

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... Read more

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Jean Bennett

Vanessa Ooms — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:32:31 +0000

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... Read more

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Beata Barinbaum

Vanessa Ooms — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:04:58 +0000

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... Read more

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Shel Neufeld

Vanessa Ooms — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:25:20 +0000

“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” In the last 23 years... Read more

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Melissa Enyedy

Vanessa Ooms — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:37:03 +0000

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... Read more

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Vanessa Ooms

Vanessa Ooms — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:54:24 +0000

Vanessa first found yoga and meditation in the rec centre of her hometown of Elkford, BC and found the combination of breathwork and visualization to be calming and grounding. Vanessa’s passion is sharing holistic practices that are accessible to all, so that everyone can experience growth, freedom and peace. She is an Entrepreneur, Graphic &... Read more

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Deg Sanjeet Kaur

April Qureshi — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:15:42 +0000

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... Read more

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Doug Styles

April Qureshi — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:25:15 +0000

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... Read more

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Monika “Veda” Stein

Alex Nightingale — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:00:29 +0000

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 &... Read more

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