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ABOUT US
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 Françoise Armand Kundalini
Françoise works in the education field for the past 25 years. With respect to being a yoga Instructor, she offers clear and concise explanations, favoured with a stimulating and rigourous class. |
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 Hari Arti (Michael Dudemaine) Kundalini
Hari Arti (Michael) discovered Kundalini yoga in 2006.
Passionate about the visual arts, he focused on the effects of yoga on creativity. The practice of Kundalini has helped him to elevate its art on all aspects of his life. He believes that we can can only create outside our limits. His practice and his teaching converge towards this liberation. |
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 Alfonso Arzapalo Kundalini & Hatha
Ever since his first contact with yoga something resounded inside Alfonso letting him know that this ancient science of personal realisation will accompany him for the rest of his days. In 2004, he started studying yoga, a path that would take him to discover many different traditions and schools motivating him to pursue various workshops and trainings with the objective of teaching to further understand and integrate this science. He quickly realised that the well being experienced through the practice of yoga, was in fact a powerful healing treasure to be shared with others. In this way he made teaching his main vocation.
Alfonso aspires to transmit a teaching that serves as a reminder of yoga’s profound essence, the fact that yoga uses the body like clay in which one sculpts an inner landscape of consciousness, which purifies the mind. Encouraging keen awareness and deep presence to listen to one’s self though one’s body, he wishes to share the benefits of this ancient art of self-realisation and awakening.
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 Celinda Brady Kundalini & Hatha
For Celina, yoga is a place of unconditional acceptance and surrender, essentially a practice of getting to know the true Self. Celina's journey as a teacher started right here at Equilibrium! In 2008 she trained with Shabad Saroop Singh. She is continually inspired by taking classes and workshops from all traditions as well as the joy and dedication of students. Her path is one of study, practice and growth. Celina aspires to serve as a reminder, that everything you need is already within you, everything is already ok and the only Hero of this journey is you.
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 Jennifer Cloutier Hatha Yoga
Jennifer Cloutier has been a yoga practitioner for over 10 years. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Jennifer moved to Calgary in 2000 after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts and traveling the world. Seeking to root herself in her new city, she reached out to the yogic community to make this connection. She began at Calgary's Yoga Passage studio first as a volunteer, then a student and then eventually took the next natural step and left for Baja California, Mexico to do an intense teacher training program at the Yandara Institute. She came away from this amazing experience not only as a certified Hatha yoga instructor but with a new sense of self.
“Yoga gives me a chance to slow down, step back, and reflect - to take the moments for what they are, as they arise, good or bad. I walk away calm, grounded, more focused and full of energy. I love to take this energy and share it with others in hope that it will inspire them to find this connection and balance within their own lives”.
Jennifer truly believes that the world is a reflection of what we put out, making a point to laugh every day and keep a smile upon her face. Besides teaching yoga, Jennifer also expresses herself through painting and photography. |
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 Cory Garfinkle Hatha Vinyasa
Following a career as a professional dancer, Cory started practicing yoga 10 years ago seeking to bring depth, calmness and clarity to her life. After exploring different styles of yoga, she found herself most interested in and inspired by the flow of movement and breath in vinyasa style yoga.
Through her teaching, Cory guides her students towards an understanding of the asanas through breath, clarity of focus and flow of energy which enables individuals to discover the richness and depth in their own lives. Cory brings to her yoga classes a love for movement and a desire to inspire a feeling of freedom in the body – freedom in the body to bring a sense of freedom to the mind and spirit.
Cory also teaches classes in classical and contemporary dance forms continuing to bring her committment to the human form in movement and breath. |
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 Daniel Gauthier Hatha Mudra
Daniel Gauthier is a hatha yoga instructor with over 500 hours of teaching experience. He started his spiritual journey over 30 years ago. He touched Taekwondo, TM, polarity, kundalini and even Bhakti before he stopped searching. He was initiated to Nadis Yoga on May 4 1978. He blogs by making films over YouTube and does mandalas. |
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 Sophie Girouard Kripalu
Sophie started yoga practice over twenty years ago. However, she became more involved in 1999. She took her first yoga 200 hrs teacher's training in 2011 with Pierre Bélisle and Marie-Daphné Roy from "Yoga Corps et Âmes". She's also actively pursuing the advanced Kripalu's 500 hrs training credited by the Kripalu Center in Massachussets and the Yoga Alliance. She also teaches yoga for pregnant women and for kids (Rainbow Kids yoga).
Sophie is particularly interested in witness consciousness and letting go of performance in the practice, meaning: to explore the limits of the practice while still being good to ourselves.
A massage therapist since 2003, she practices many approaches: Swedish, Thaï, Reflexology and Fasciatherapy, of which she is particularly fond. She also specializes in working with pregnant women.
Moreover, Sophie is an artist-painter, and has
participated in many exhibitions in solo, duo and groups since 1996. |
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 Mohan Kaur (Ségolène Gautier) Kundalini
Since 2007, Mohan Kaur totally immersed herself in Kundalini Yoga. She studied with teachers like Shabad Saroop Singh (Level 1), Gurmukh, Tej, Harijiwan, Gurushabad and Sat Siri (Level 2).
In addition to Montreal, she taught in environments as diverse as Burning Man (Nevada desert) and the French Alps. Year after year, she has been able to witness the huge changes that this technology produced in her life and her students. To her, this is really the Yoga of Transformation!
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 Sat Narayan Kaur (Laurie Reinhart) Kundalini
Sat Narayan Kaur, a certified Kundalini yoga instructor, trained in Kundalini Yoga, has been practising since 2004. Her involvement in the business side at Equilibrium has given her opportunity to pursue the spiritual. Her teachings have been focused primarily in the meditation aspect of Kundalini Yoga. The Science of Naad and the mind. |
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 Antoine Marclay Hatha Yoga
Antoine Marclay has practised yoga since 1997. In the year 2004, he followed a teacher training course, and since 2005 he has gone deeper in his practise with Hart Lazer. Antoine has respect for the body,and the messages the body conveys.
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 Eva Red Hatha Vinyasa
A true Vinyasa lover, Eva teaches a dynamic form of Hatha yoga, that links the mind, body and breath while maintaining the heat of the body to allow for deep releasing stretches. While reputed for her attention to detail, Eva's overall approach to asana sequencing is creative and free-flowing. She also draws inspiration from core strengthening techniques and martial arts, adding a real workout feel to her practice. Instruction is for all-levels and includes suggested variations for beginers as well as advanced students. Always striving to create an environment of compassion and acceptance in class, Eva hopes to reach a broad spectrum of students, regardless of age or degree of experience.
Passionate for travel as well , Eva`s journey has brought her around the world to some of the most precious natural sights and yoga communities one can find. She has been practicing yoga for over 10 years, and got trained in Nosara ,Costa Rica, by highly skilled yogi and therapist Ashley Ludman. Eva has been teaching full time since she received her certification from the Yoga Alliance in 2009. Born and raised in Montreal, Eva spends most of her winters by the ocean, jungle and desert where she organizes Yoga Adventures with upcoming unique concepts: Yoga & Surf, Yoga & Salsa dancing, Yoga & Exotic Cooking, just to name a few. |
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 Shabad Saroop Singh Kundalini
Shabad Saroop Singh is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, co-founder and director of Equilibrium, and an independent business owner. In 1981 he met Yogi Bhajan and has since studied under his personal tutelage. He has been teaching Yoga for 30 years and regularly travels to study and deepen his knowledge of yoga. Shabad shares the teachings of Yoga with a rare warmth, humanity, wisdom and a sense of humour. Teaching for him is a vehicle to serve others and to contribute to the upliftment of humanity. |
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 Vanessa Théroux Kundalini
Passionate about yoga for several years, Vanessa was deeply touched by Kundalini yoga, which appeared in a key point of her life. It allowed her to integrate yoga into her everyday and helped her to re-connect with this inner flame that shines in every human being.
Yogic practice and its various approaches allowed her to raise the veil gradually revealing her real essence favouring her self-fulfillment. Much more than merely asanas, yoga is a way of perceiving existence, which allows her to live harmoniously with herself and those around her.
Her practice brings her a growing lucid intimacy with her body, mind and soul.This consciousness of being allows her to act and consider others through openness, compassion and love. And thats what she wishes to share in her teaching of yoga: opening to compassion, to the love for oneself and others as well as everything that constitutes our universe to be able to realize and feel life in its simplest and purest form.
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 Marisa Verdone Kundalini
Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor since 1997. My mission and passion is to provide an opportunity for each individual to find their pathway to well being, and to make a positive difference in my students’ lives whether by simply improving their health or by helping them progress towards inner peace. I am passionately dedicated to bringing the art and science of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to individuals as a resource to care for body, mind and spirit. Teaching group, private and corporate classes. Continued interest and dedication to personal growth through the teachings.
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 Anne Desaulniers Massage Therapist (Tao Shiatsu)
Anne had her first encounter with Tao Shiatsu in 2007. It turned out to be a life changing experience. She discovered her true wish is to devote to the spiritual development of all beings. She was certified to give treatment from Tao Sangha North America in 2010. With deep gratitude for the teachings she received, Anne passionately participates in volunteer work and charity events. |
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| ADMINISTRATORS |
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 Shabad Saroop Singh Khalsa - Founder / Owner
Shabad Saroop Singh Khalsa is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, co-founder and director of the Institute, and an independent business owner. In 1981 he met Yogi Bhajan and has since studied under his personal tutelage. He has been teaching Yoga for 30 years and regularly travels to study and deepen his knowledge of yoga. Shabad shares the teachings of Yoga with a rare warmth, humanity, wisdom and a sense of humour. Teaching for him is a vehicle to serve others and to contribute to the upliftment of humanity. |
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 Sat Narayan Kaur - Director / Co-owner
Sat Narayan Kaur is a certified Kundalini yoga instructor and has taught since 2004. Studied with both Shabad Saroop Singh khalsa as well as the late Satjit Kaur Khalsa in the style of Yogi Bhajan. Using the skills of 25 years of business, administration and promotion, coupled with the knowledge of health and well being, has fused a dynamic synergy for on-going growth and development to the yoga center, Equilibrium. |
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