Harmony is one of eight Authorized Ashtanga Yoga teachers in Canada. She is a dedicated student of this ancient practice and traditional method of teaching, and gives her love and full devotion to Sri K. Pattabhi Jois for continuously sharing his passion for and knowledge of this practice with those who are sincerely seeking.

Harmony grew up in Calgary, Canada, where she started training to be a ballet dancer at a very young age. She began to practice yoga in 1995, when one of her dance instructors introduced it as an alternative way of ‘getting into the body’. However, it wasn’t until five years later when she experienced her first traditional Ashtanga Yoga Class, that she realized that there was so much more to the practice of yoga then merely physical exercise. She remembers leaving the room feeling lighter, brighter, and cleaner, like she had connected with something truly divine. It was at that moment that she knew studying and teaching Ashtanga Yoga was to be her path.

Harmony attended the University of Calgary and graduated with two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies. In 2002, she traveled to China where she studied Buddhism and learned a practice of vipassana meditation while living in several Buddhist monasteries. Her interest in meditation and Buddhism has continued to grow, and in recent years she has experienced profound change and peace through the practice of vipassana meditation in the tradition of S.N. Goenka.

As her body and mind started to open and transform with the consistent practice of yoga, her life began mirroring those changes. Shortly after returning home from China, Harmony began teaching yoga in Calgary, Canada. It was around this time that she met Jeff who was also teaching yoga in Calgary, and it was not long before they began teaching together and sharing their mutual passion for the practice.

Harmony’s love for yoga, and her belief in the importance of following a traditional method of practice, took her to India to study directly under Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore.

The experience of spending several months out of every year, living and practicing Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, directly under the guidance of the living Guru of this lineage, has deepened both her understanding of the method of Ashtanga Yoga, as well as its cultural context. The time she has spent in Mysore has greatly helped to develop her practice in every way: physically, mentally, and spiritually.

In 2004, Harmony and Jeff moved to Thailand, and over the next two years spent much of their time teaching Ashtanga Yoga on the island of Koh Samui. It was at this time that they met Sri O. P. Tiwari, and for the past three years they have studied Hatha Yoga Philosophy and its practices, and have practiced pranayama under his direct guidance. They have also had the opportunity to travel Internationally, to teach Ashtanga Yoga to students around the globe.

As a teacher, Harmony is passionate about sharing her experience of these traditional teachings and yogic practices with others. She encourages and inspires students to live their dreams, and to follow the inner calling of their hearts. She is extremely grateful to all the teachers, friends, and fellow students who have helped her along this path, and to her family for their unconditional love and support.

“Solid like a mountain,
Soft like a cloud.
I sit and await the unfolding.”

~ Bai Yuen ~