Meet the Glow Yoga Team
Our Glow Yoga Kids and Youth instructors have a love for life, a passion for progress, and a craving for creativity! We live fully, love openly, and do our best to make a difference in the world everyday. You can find us around town spreading Rainbow style yoga bliss to children of all ages!
Robyn Snow
Director & Magical Mermaid
Robyn (RYT-500) has dedicated herself to the practice, study and teaching of yoga since 2007, upon realizing how amazing it was while in high school. Originally trained in hatha yoga, Robyn has since expanded her teaching into yoga for all ages from fertility to senior’s yoga, but especially loves teaching young children. She has been working with Glow Yoga Kids since 2016 and still cannot believe that her "job" is spreading joy and connection to youngsters through yoga, her passion. Robyn is also a third level Reiki practitioner, which she utilizes to encourage connection and healing to people of all ages. She is an advocate for community, volunteering with the BGCBIGS program as well as fundraising for various causes. Her aim is to make the world a better place by spreading light and love everywhere she goes.
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Kim Gilbert
Sparkle Pixie
Kim first discovered the power and solace of yoga 15 years ago and has continued to enjoy yoga since. She has worked as an Occupational Therapist with children for 15 years. Kim believes that every child has the capacity to find balance. She is passionate about sharing the joys and energy of yoga with children. In kids yoga Kim shares a creative, exploratory, and adaptive practice to her lessons.
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Carole Angeles
Crystal Dragon
Carole's passion for yoga has transformed form a dedicated personal practice into a way to share beautiful movement with absolutely anyone, regardless of age, experience or mobility. It continually inspires her to know that with simple modifications it is a practice that can be enjoyed from 0-100+ years old, and one that help build community, encourages compassion and promotes inclusion. Teaching kids yoga is the ultimate fusion of her love for spending time with children of all ages and the absolute joy of teaching yoga. Carole's classes encourage children to express themselves individually through creative movement and playfulness in a safe and supportive group environment.
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Michele Charest
Rainbow Sparkler
Michele's bright rainbow spirit shines through in all that she does! Her many supporting roles and variety of experiences she holds are so valuable to her yoga teaching. Michele worked with preschools in early childhood development, as a mentor for youth, and currently is a social worker with ECSD. Her deep love and passion for hula hooping and yoga is interwoven into her daily practices with clients, and she is so excited to share them with your students too. Michele's kids yoga classes are awesomely playful and silly, yet quiet and serene. Children feel comfortable to be themselves when they are with Michele, and when you meet her you'll know why. She loves bringing Rainbow Sparkle Magic to every person young and old!
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Irene Garcia
Soulful Spirit
Guided by her mom, Irene started doing yoga in 2004, finding a fantastic way to live a happier life and enjoy the present moment. In 2015 she took her Yoga Teacher Training course and went on to become a Yoga Inbound Instructor at Vrindas Vaisnava Academy in Mexico city. She taught a variety of groups in her community, including children. In her experience of working with children, Irene has come to learn that kids have a simple and creative way to see life, and she believes that when their free spirits are given loving guidance as they deserve that children are capable of creating wonderful things. This lesson shines through in her teachings, as she creates space for each child to feel unique and celebrated.
Irene is fluent in Spanish and French, and she loves traveling and learning from different cultures. She is trained in some of the coolest therapies and practices you've ever heard of, from all around the world! She also LOVES cats. Irene is so happy and excited for the opportunity to share with kids the magical and healing world of yoga!
Irene is fluent in Spanish and French, and she loves traveling and learning from different cultures. She is trained in some of the coolest therapies and practices you've ever heard of, from all around the world! She also LOVES cats. Irene is so happy and excited for the opportunity to share with kids the magical and healing world of yoga!
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Lyn Mercado
Star Shiner
Lyn is a wife, mother and yogi fanatic! In 2014, Lyn was introduced to yoga through a hot yoga studio. She was really impressed with how she felt both physically and mentally. Since those first moments of awe and wonder that yoga sparked within her, Lyn wanted to explore and absorb yoga in it's entirety. In 2017, she graduated from her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Wellness Within and continues to delve into many styles and expressions of this beautiful practice. Lyn weaves yoga into her daily life through movement and mindfulness practices, and enjoys the gift of present moment awareness as often as possible.
"I feel happy and blessed to be a part of the Glow Yoga Kids Team. Teaching kids has allowed me to experience fun and exciting ways to share yoga. It has opened my eyes, mind and heart to the possibilities that yoga can truly bring to everyone." Lyn's light filled heart shines through each and every class she shares, she is a star that brightens the room with her loving and playful spirit!
"I feel happy and blessed to be a part of the Glow Yoga Kids Team. Teaching kids has allowed me to experience fun and exciting ways to share yoga. It has opened my eyes, mind and heart to the possibilities that yoga can truly bring to everyone." Lyn's light filled heart shines through each and every class she shares, she is a star that brightens the room with her loving and playful spirit!
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Misty Kuefler
Whimsical Wisp
Misty is passionate about working with kids and has done so for most of her career. She started working at a daycare while in high school, moved on to volunteering with The Girl Guides of Canada and then became a playschool teacher. She is a mom to three busy kids, two of which have special needs, therefore working with children with challenges is second nature to Misty. Having a personal yoga practice has been super important to Misty for many years and in 2019 made the choice to become a yoga instructor and a registered kids yoga instructor. She loves to sing songs, read books and incorporate mindfulness into her kids yoga classes.
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Cheryl McConnellSilver-Winged Goddess
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Cheryl had her first encounter with Yoga over 6 years ago and is still as enraptured today as she was then! Just like her first time on the mat, Cheryl continues to feel ‘at home’ when she is practicing yoga. The more classes she attended, the more she wanted to learn so began to deepen her practice which lead her to Yoga Teacher Training, in Hatha yoga. Her mantra of ‘Learn, Blossom, Grow’ keeps her grounded and reminds her that being a student first brings new knowledge to expand and grow as an instructor. Cheryl embodies the Hatha principle to align and calm the mind, body and spirit and feels all the benefits yoga offers should be shared with everyone, especially kids!
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Vanessa Pouliot
Founder & Earth Fairy
Life teaches us many lessons. One that I firmly believe in, is that we are, and we become an accumulation of our choices. However, I feel that yoga chose me - igniting my passions for movement, creativity, connection and play in one incredible combination like no other. I am so blessed to be inspired daily by the young people around me to be more, to do more, & to love more... Thank You! - V
