Teaching Training Faculty

teachers

Laurie Campbell,
Senior Instructor

Laurie has been teaching yoga for over 12 years and has been with Breathe Yoga Studio for 7 of those years. She credits her success as a teacher to her own teacher Ron Reid.

While studying she practiced and later taught traditional ashtanga yoga right up to advanced series B, today she teaches a mixed style of vinyasa yoga. She endeavours to honor her roots in ashtanga yoga but weaves in her love of movement and sequencing. Her wish is to communicate that the essence of this practice is not felt solely on your mat as your body opens but the rewards of this practice are felt deeply in the heart when our minds begin to open. As a senior teacher, Laurie is the Founding Director of Breathe Yoga’s training program, leads international retreats and teaches at international conferences.

Christine Felstead,
Program Director

Christine started her yoga journey in 1996, with one class a week and primarily motivated to improve her slumping posture.  She has successfully married her twin passions for yoga and running by pioneering the development of Yoga for Runners and today is the leading authority on the practice. 

While Christine embraces the 8 limbs of yoga, she is keenly interested in the anti-aging effects of yoga – that is using yoga to maintain a strong and supple body and mind!  Her classes integrate alignment principles with fun and challenging vinyasa sequences. Christine continues to evolve as a teacher primarily through the experience of her own practice and witnessing the effects of the practice on her students.

Tanya Dei Tigli,
Osteopath

Tanya has been practicing in the field of athletic therapy and osteopathy for 11 years.  She has a B.Sc. in Exercise Science from Concordia University, is certified nationally as an Athletic Therapist and has a diploma in Osteopathic Manual Therapy from the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Montreal.  She defended her research thesis in 2011.  

Tanya has continued her strong interest in the field of orthopedics and sports medicine.  She has worked with recreational to international level athletes through the years. She has participated as a medical team member for the 2010 Four Continents of Figure Skating, the 2009  Junior World Synchronized Skating Championships, the 2008  ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, the 2002 & 2005 ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Pan American Games for the Deaf Youth (2004) and the Canadian Figure Skating Championships (2002 to present).

Scott Petrie,
Senior Instructor

Inspired by Toronto’s diverse yoga community, he has helped develop greater dialogue between practitioners through roundtable debates, festivals, symposiums, ethics committees, outreach and community service programs.

As director of Yoga Community Toronto (a non-profit, volunteer-run, organization designed to facilitate community projects and interactivity), the Yoga Festival Toronto (an annual three-day, non-profit, local conference), and theAcorn Fund (a yoga community fund that offers annual grants to socially-engaged, local, yoga projects that serve the greater community outside of studio culture).

In 2010, he co-authored Yoga 2.0 with Matthew Remski, an exploration of the evolution of yoga in modern culture.