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.

Jena completed her 200hr anatomy focused YTT and her 50hr Advanced
Vinyasa Training from Shanti Yoga in Nelson, BC in 2020 as well as her
20hr Mobility Training online from Matt Phippen in 2023. She uses a
lot of anatomy and somatic cues to help students bring awareness and
awakening to sensations deep within their bodies, strengthening their
innermost core muscles, while embodying expansion and connectedness.
She also uses “I am” mantras and seed sounds that are supportive in
healing, transforming and awakening the mind, body and soul. Her
embodied experience of healing from a lot of sexual and physical abuse
and her ability to hold a safe space from rising through this
experience, helps people to let go, feeling supported and stabilized
in the release.

Jena continues to develop her knowledge of somatic healing,
breathwork, energy work, sound healing, mobility and other various
movement practices to create an empowering, healing and wholesome
experience for people to feel harmony and belonging within themselves.
Her teachings bring out the power of choice and the greatness that
comes when you willingly make the choice to show up for you. Self-care
is a building block of healing, which leads to gratitude and trust in
something bigger than yourself. She supports students in embodying
their truth and wisdom and cultivating acceptance in their experience
on and off their mats. Her continuous commitment to growth allows her
teachings to always be expanding and evolving, empowering everyone to
rise through low density energy and to step into their true power.

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.

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.

“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