Meet Your Teacher

Meet Your Teacher

Meet Your Movement by NM teachers. What we look for in our teachers hasn’t changed in over a decade: authentic, passionate, and open-minded people who believe in the transformational power of movement and desire to share their offering with a wider audience. Our teachers are creative, inspiring, and bring a unique approach to their discipline of movement.

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Meet Your Teacher
  • Meet Your Teacher | Kate (1 Min)

    Kate Potter is passionate about all forms of movement, but Yoga is the form that she has spent her life exploring in depth. Having studied with luminary teachers in India, Canada, and the United States, her rich understanding has become its own powerful voice in her decades of international teach...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Amanda (1 Min)

    Amanda has a long history with sports and movement. As a young girl, she practiced gymnastics and figure skating before moving on to a career as an elite junior tennis player where she first developed a foundation in conditioned training. Amanda compliments that dynamic training with over 15 year...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Keighty (1 Min)

    Keighty Gallagher is an influential mover, teacher, and leader in every community she sets her mind on, driven by her love for making movement happen, however it looks. Her movement journey is diverse, much like her creative expressions: Weight-lifting, HIIT, TRX, metabolic conditioning, track & ...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Adrian (1 Min)

    Adrian Gaskin is an avid learner and teacher, striving for both excellence and simplicity in his movement practice. For him, movement is a constant search for improvement and rediscovery of the basics; finding how the body is meant to move. Adrian grew up in New Zealand, climbing trees, biking in...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Dom (1 Min)

  • Meet Your Teacher | Farinaz (1 Min)

    Farinaz is a dedicated athlete, motivational coach, and influential leader. Her competitive spirit and tireless passion became the foundation for a lifelong kickboxing career, fueling her to become the first Iranian and Canadian woman to win the WAKO world kickboxing championship, teach kickboxin...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Rob (1 Min)

    Rob Couzens is a Vancouver native and competitive boxer with more than 15 years of experience in the ring and over 120 fights under his belt. Since attending his first boxing class at age 12, Rob developed a lifelong love for the sport and has competed at both national and international events. A...

  • Meet your Teacher | Leo (1 Min)

    Meet your fitness teacher and boxing coach, Leo Sammarelli. Leo has designed a full body adaptive fitness program that focuses on core strength, stretching, and cardio with moves from a variety of sports – swimming, boxing, handcycling, and skiing. His goal is to assist you in discovering ways to...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Lydia (1 Min)

    Meet your yoga teacher, Lydia Zamorano. Over the past 20 years, she has developed a teaching style that is designed to support people to connect to their bodies and simply feel better. For Lydia, yoga is not about flexibility or perfecting poses but a way to be present with yourself in the moment...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Hannah (2 Mins)

    Learn why Formation Studio teacher Hannah Henney started dancing, why she believes dance is so important, what she hopes for anyone who takes a class with her, and advice for those of you hesitant to start! Hannah leads her classes with encouragement and enthusiasm to help you bring out your inne...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Sylvia (1 Min)

    Sylvia Ozbalt has been teaching fitness for over 40 years. She still remembers the feeling of teaching her first class in 1980 and realizing that getting people moving was her passion. Her love of the science and the art of fitness leadership leads her to create classes that are functional and de...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Livona (1 Min)

    Meet your dance teacher, Livona Ellis. Livona has been dancing since was 6 years old and has danced with the world-renowned ballet company Ballet BC since 2010. She was a guest artist with Konzert Theater Bern in Switzerland, is currently on faculty at Arts Umbrella, and is also one of the Progra...

  • Meet Your Teacher | Trilby (2 Mins)

    Trilby Goouch is a movement teacher who shares tools and techniques to cultivate a more joyful life. Her classes are thoughtful and blend strength and softness, with an emphasis on finding play and grace in the effort. You will explore mobility, low impact dance release, breathwork, and core fund...