Why Study With Allie?

I believe that we are all here, carrying a soul’s reason for incarnation.

That reason becomes our dharma (that which supports). I am blessed to have been able to follow my dharma of teaching for the past 25+ years. I love this practice and I really believe in it. However, my dharma is not to ‘teach yoga’. 

This is my core value statement or my dharma: I hold space and reflections to allow for the alchemical process of turning shame and fear into self-love and belonging so that we can all become effective stewards of our lives and our planet.

Said another way, I teach yoga to seekers and sensitive ones so that they may better love themselves, those around them and the planet. I use yoga as the vehicle but the destination is love, belonging and stewardship.

There are many yoga teachers in the world but none of them are you.

Working with me, you will explore the question of why your soul chose to incarnate into this life and begin to access your strengths that likely emerged out of your obstacles and struggles. What kind of people will be drawn to you? What will allow you to emerge as the unique teacher or being that you are here to become? What is your dharma?

To become a safe and effective teacher, this learning needs to be filtered through the rational and the reality of being a human in this time. You carry symptoms, patterns and issues in your being. Your students will do the same. Yoga is a beautiful science that can promote healing and it can also cause harm. 

Working with me, you will learn and deepen your craft in the art of creating safe space, effective lesson plans and how to apply clear and concrete assists that do not injure.

Your intuition is a blessing and, to be an effective teacher, you must also be able to filter gut knowing through the rationale of good training. I was taught really well by Esther Myers and I have continued to learn every day since my certification in 1997. We will never stop learning.

Working with Yoga teachers is one of my favourite aspects of my career. I love the deep dive that I get to do, time and again with my students. It is a deep dive into the bottomless world of yoga but also into the best of each of us. I love watching people fall in love with themselves. This is what we will get to do together.

I hope you will walk beside me for a while. I’d love to share space and this deep learning with you.

om shanti, in peace,

allie