Michael Rudd
Principal & Yoga Instructor

Passionate about yoga for several years now, Michael has found it to be a path of the most profound personal exploration, and is devoted to sharing the spirit and joy of yoga and minfulness meditation in his classes.

Michael currently deepens his own yoga practice with teacher of teachers, Gioia Irwin. He is also greatly influenced by the concept of tensegrity and the myofascial lines within asana and feels blessed to be able to study with teachers Deb Swan and bodyworker and anatomist Mark Finch.

He is also a certified Thai Yoga Massage Therapist and offers private sessions as well as private yoga and yoga therapy classes.

Michael teaches yoga in a fun, friendly, non-intimidating style making it accessible to all age groups and levels of ability.

Kristina Wilkes
Yoga Instructor

Kristina is a certified Yoga Instructor, for both adults and children and is a registered Fitness Leader with the BCRPA. She also has a bachelor's degree in Human Kinetics from UBC, specializing in Physical Health and Education. Her love of movement and activity brought her to yoga, but experiencing the transformational quality that yoga has, not only for the body, but for the whole self has fueled her passion to continue to practice and teach. She strongly believes in the power yoga has to create harmony between the physical, mental spiritual, and emotional components of our lives. Her classes and personal practice are inspired by the essential connection between movement and breath, and by a quality of self- care and awareness that develop with yoga practice. She is grateful for the influence and training of Maureen Frewer and also the teaching of Gioia Irwin, Deb Swan, and Mark Finch regarding tensegrity and the myofascial lines has also been extremely inspiring and influential. Kristina really encourages all people, regardless of their perceived ability, to open themselves up to the enjoyable, adaptable, freeing nature of a yoga practice.

Maureen Dufresne
(Yoga Mo)
Yoga instructor

From a long background of teaching and years of interest in movement both artistically and physiologically, Maureen believes that yoga found her. Initially, she followed a home practice of her own, soon realizing that she needed to learn and experience more. Her initial training was at Saltspring Yoga Centre and she continues to study with Goia Irwin and is greatly influenced by the body breath work of Donna Farhi, Deb Swan and Mark Finch. Her focus is on facilitating the freeing of habitual patterns of movement that encumber us physically and emotionally, to encourage the releasd energy, integrated with the breath, to bring us to a place of quiet and contentment both in our lives and in our yoga.

Lindsay White)
Yoga instructor

Lindsay is currently both a dance and yoga instructor. She discovered yoga upon her return from Asia in 2001 and received her teacher training certificate in 2003. She began teaching yoga classes in Ladner shortly thereafter.

Lindsay feels yoga to be a natural extension of her dance. By incorporating the art of breathing, a sense of rhythm is created, connecting mind and body and thus deepening our individual understanding of physical movement, completing a dance of the self. Lindsay's teaching combines her love of physical fitness and her interest in the anatomy and physiology of the body. She brings to the studio a sense humor, a love of dance, and the pure joy she finds in yoga.

Lindsay is represents Delta as a Lululemon Ambassador for the Oakridge location.

Wendy Robertson
Yoga Instructor

Wendy's teaching is very much influenced by her studies of experiential anatomy and yoga therapy with Leila Stuart and she continues to explore the healing benefits of yoga and energy work. Wendy hopes that those who come to my classes find themselves a little closer to their wholeness in body, mind and spirit. The blessing of Wendy's family & friends inspire Wendy every day and the lessons she receives from her students students are a continual education in respect and humility.

Beth has benefited from the deep healing
nature of yoga since her third and final pregnancy
over 13 years ago. It was then she discovered
that breathwork and postures providedan amazing connection between body and mind. Since then Beth has completed several teacher trainings in pre and postnatal yoga, yoga with baby, hatha and restorative yoga, as well as many workshops on yoga for depression and meditation.

Beth is currently working toward her certificate in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. Beth is returning to BC after several years in Toronto where she managed Ella Centre for Pregnancy and Parenting, a full-service parenting centre that set the industry standard in Canada. Beth assisted in the development of the centre’s yoga programming
as well as overseeing client services and coordinating client events etc. Some instructors who have had an impact on Beth’s style of teaching, include but are not limited to: Michael Lee, Donna Fahri, Judith Hanson Lasater, Sara Powers, Laura
Staton and Sarah Perron (BabyOm), as well as countless other instructors who’s classes she has attended. Beth’s childrencontinue to be her greatest teachers. Yoga classes led by Beth include pranayama (breathwork), asanas (postures), chanting and meditation.

Janine has worked within the fitness industry since 1994, initially owning a successful diet and fitness franchise in the UK. After suffering from repetitive injury she discovered Pilates and successfully completed an advanced professional fitness instructor certification in the discipline of Modern Pilates and set up her own classes in the UK. Since moving to Canada in 2004 she became a STOTT Pilates certified instructor. Janine has a true passion for Pilates and is committed to the highest level of client success, personal health and wellness.