Dianne Bondy, E-RYT – Owner

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Dianne is one of the areas most highly trained and well respected Yoga Teachers. She believes that to be a great teacher you must remain a student, and is therefore constantly studying with a variety of world class yoga teachers. Dianne is a former Anusara inspired teacher who just doesn’t seem to fit in to most Yoga gatherings. In addition to being Black and a size 14 she is a typical Type A personality; prone to overworking, being impatient and becoming easily annoyed. She practices yoga because it helps her breathe instead of yell, take a five minute break every three days or so, and not completely fly off the handle when people annoy her. You can find her on
Twitter, Facebook, and her own blog Adventures in Yoga. She also runs Yoga Teacher Trainings in Windsor ON. Dianne’s highest intention is to empower people to create balance, celebrate their innate goodness and reach their greatest potential.

Heather Bailey

Heather began practicing yoga in 2001 and is amazed at how great she feels when her practice is consistent. She mostly practiced at different gyms and studios and by chance stumbled across Eastside Yoga. Ths is when she become a student of Dianne and Anusara. Anusara’s perfect balance of allignment and playfulness speaks to Heather’s need for enjoyment and knowledge.

The classes and environment at Eastside Yoga not only helped deepend her commitment to her practice, it has made her more aware of her body and how to get the most out of her Asana practice. Heather enjoys her yoga practice so much that she simply wanted to share it with others. She recently completed teacher training at Eastside Yoga Studio with Dianne Bondy, has taken an Immersion in Anusara with Noah Maze and is working towards her Anusara Inspired status. Heather has also studied with, Katherine Schaefer, Jamie allison, Todd Tessen and John Friend.

Laurel Hicks

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Mindful Mamas
Laurel Hicks is known for being the foremost prenatal yoga teacher in Windsor, Ontario as well as for her warm, gentle and compassionate approach to helping students enjoy being in their bodies. She believes that any student, no matter the level, can benefit greatly through yoga. She aims to make her classes accessible and enjoyable for all.

Laurel has been practicing yoga for 10 years and is an E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). She has begun prenatal yoga teacher training in Canada and the US with her goal to share her love of yoga and the expertise she has learned over the years with as many teachers an students as she can. Her love of teaching prenatal yoga has also led her to become a Doula and happy to be helping and supporting women with one of the most rewarding and difficult things they will do in their life, have a baby.

She has trained with some really talented teachers. Her teacher training was completed at the Center for Yoga with Jonny Kest in West Bloomfield, MI

She has also completed Vinyasa teacher training and many intensives with Seane Corn as well as being a teaching assistant with Seane at national yoga conferences. Laurel completed her Prenatal Yoga training with Janice Clairfield and most recently completed a workshop with Hala Khouri on “Teaching Yoga to At-Risk Populations.”

In her addition to her yoga practice, Laurel is very involved in non-profit work. In 2009 she raised $20,000 and traveled to Cambodia with Seane Corn, Suzanne Sterling and twenty other beautiful yoginis to volunteer with the Cambodian Children’s Fund.

Gwen Jeun

“Gwen started learning yoga, just 3 years ago, from Dianne and the teachers at Eastside. She was inspired to deepen her practice and recently graduated from the Eastside Yoga Teacher Training Program. Since she’s not particularly flexible, Gwen appreciates proper alignment principles in poses and likes to emphasize them during her classes. She especially believes in doing the poses “from the inside out”, rather than straining to achieve a perfect pose in an imperfect body. Gwen writes a blog (downwarddogdvm.com) about yoga and her other life as a small animal veterinarian.”

Melissa Martin

Yoga has been part of my life since I was a teen. The challenge of integrating stretch, strength and balance in my body is what drew me in, but I quickly learned that Yoga is so much more. Motion has always been important to me. I studied Highland Dance, ran and swam most of my early life and loved them. In University I pursued degrees in Drama in Education and Education so that I could learn to provide opportunities for learning and sharing across all ages and levels of ability. This furthered my love of learning. Nothing however , compares to the joy I get not just from my physical Yoga practice, but from living it. I love the non-competitive, supportive & playful aspects of the Practice, the curiosity it creates in me, the fact that I will never know all there is to know about Yoga and, most of all: the community. My goal as a Yoga teacher is to share this love with everyone I meet.

Stacey Marion

Stacey began practicing yoga in 2004 and discovered that the ancient art of movement and breath offered a place of stillness amid the frenzy of the world. She found enough quiet to hear the voice of her true self and the courage to trust to that voice. In that place, there was also honest effort, health, balance, focus, and friends. This is the ground where her dreams took root and happiness flourished!

After four years of deepening her own practice, she studied to be a yoga teacher. Stacey’s bare feet and soft voice found a home, where she guides her yoga classes into balance by drawing students into peace and challenge, into intense and compassionate effort. She continues to learn and grow along this yogic path, as the opportunities to enhance one’s practice and get to know one’s self are endless!

Stacey is a community advocate, artist, Chartered Herbalist, and world traveller. It is her aspiration to offer people the gift of enhancing their health and well being through yoga and nature, from the inside out.

Namaste

Mesia loves yoga because it makes her a better mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, and teacher.

Her yoga practice was mostly physical until she started practicing hot Moksha yoga, and now her yoga is both on the mat and off!! After 1 year of practicing, she knew her desire to share this with others was calling her to teach. Her training in India changed her life, and now she aspires to inspire people with the joy of yoga.

Teaching has allowed her to celebrate the people in her classes and in her life more fully. Her enthusiasm is obvious, her laugh is big, and her energy comes from being around others.