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!
Vanessa Pouliot
Founder, Director & 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
Kids love Vanessa the way that polar bears love snow, because with her children feel honoured, loved and cherished for who they are. She creates a genuine connection with each child and encourages them to let their inner light shine!
Kids love Vanessa the way that polar bears love snow, because with her children feel honoured, loved and cherished for who they are. She creates a genuine connection with each child and encourages them to let their inner light shine!
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Keira Burgess
Magic Maker & Soul Shaker
Intrigued and inspired by all that yoga has to offer, Keira was introduced to yoga by a friend, and hasn't looked back since. With experience as a dancer in her youth, Keira found an immediate comfort in the physical connection of yoga. As her experience with yoga grew, so did her awareness of the beauty of the mental, spiritual, energetic and universal connections that yoga has to offer. Keira loves having the opportunity to assist children in connecting with themselves and the world around them to discover their uniqueness through yoga. A lover of peace, play, joy, compassion and gratitude, Keira brings an open, experimental, fun and forgiving attitude to her practice & lessons.
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Jennifer Thompson
Rainbow Unicorn Queen
Jen is a passionate yoga teacher with her training and experience residing in Hatha yoga, in particular with Restorative and Kids Yoga. She has enjoyed teaching yoga to children in a variety of settings including daycare, elementary/high school, community outreach programs and in the yoga studio. Jen believes that yoga teaches children invaluable skills in mindfulness, breath and body awareness and her classes are a testament to this. Her teachings offer children the opportunity for self-expression and positivity through play, movement and creativity.
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Robyn Snow
Magical Mermaid
Looking for an emotional outlet, Robyn began practicing yoga in high school and never realized how it would change her life. No matter what curve balls were thrown her way, yoga always called her back and she continued learning and growing within her practice over the years. She made the decision to take her 200-hr yoga teacher training after a year of travel and soul-searching. Upon completion and her background in early childhood development, she knew that working with children was her passion and it was listening to her truth that landed her a position sharing yoga with Glow Yoga Kids. She brings passion and authenticity to her classes, encouraging students to be themselves and grow in a safe and supportive atmosphere.
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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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Asha Thomas
Shining Star
Asha fell in love with teaching children in 2003. Her education and experience brought forth a passion towards learn-through-play philosophy and the emergent curriculum. "Children in play are like bees at work, they do what comes naturally and love what they do. They work hard and make music when they do." Yoga found it's way into Asha's life during university, as she turned to it for stress relief but also discovered a connection to self on a personal and emotional ground. "I developed a beautiful connection between my body and soul through movement, breath and stillness." By connecting her love of teaching children with her love of all things yoga, Asha is living the life of her dreams!
https://www.atyoga.ca/
https://www.atyoga.ca/
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Natasha Michaud
Golden Explorer
'All we need is Love' ~ John Lennon 'and yoga' is my addition. Yoga is a powerful way to achieve love in many ways including the love of our bodies, souls and minds. In the beginning of my yoga journey, I had it all wrong. I thought it was about achieving physical perfection and, if I did not, I was not a good enough yoga student. It took many years, a wide variety of training and a kind heart to realize that it was much different from that. Through having yoga as a way of being rather then just a physical practice, I have learned a significant amount of empathy, compassion, love, joy, youthfulness, balance and safe ways to practice the physical aspects. When teaching yoga, I focus on all of the above creating an open and kind space for my students. I love teaching all age groups and young kids are my focus. I am the owner of a kids' yoga company and have created some products including 'The Yoga Alphabet by Go-Ya! Kids' book. I have a well rounded education in different styles of yoga, meditation and movement therapy and still seek further development not only as a teacher but as a continuously expanding student as well.
https://www.go-yakids.ca/
https://www.go-yakids.ca/
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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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Angelene Huffman
Joyful Mover
Introduced to yoga at a young age by her mother, Angelene has always been in love with the playfulness, joy, and comfort yoga has brought her. Angelene's yoga journey continued to grow as she studied theatre and dance training in Edmonton, Chicago, and England. Yoga was the constant among her travels as it helped her to find center, breath, and connection to her self in transitionary times. Now after graduating from Elementary Education at the University of Alberta, Angelene is so excited to share with students the playfulness, joy and comfort yoga has taught her and hopes to teach students mindfulness, relaxation, and a joy of moving in our busy and growing world!
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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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