Our Trainings.
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PILATES TEACHER TRAINING
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200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
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20 HOUR YIN TEACHER TRAINING
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RESTORATIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
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TEACHING SKILLS - TEACHING INSPIRED CLASSES ROOTED IN TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE
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TRAUMA INFORMED YOGA - LEARNING TO TEACH WITH COMPASSION
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MEDITATION - LEARNING TO LISTEN + FACILITATE LISTENING IN OTHERS
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CREATIVE NAMASKARS
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ELEMENTAL VINYASA - MOVING WITH BREATH, INSPIRED BY NATURE
Yoga Teacher Training Faculty
April Janzen
April is known for her creative and compassionate teaching style. Looking to bring real life onto the mat and the mat into real life you can expect to be challenged, supported and have your imagination awakened in her classes.
Being a social worker in the field for almost 15 years, April started to see a need for body based trauma treatment and this began her journey to become a yoga teacher. Wanting to merge her faith with her love for yoga and trauma treatment she completed 500 hours of Christian faith based yoga and another 300 hours of Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga under the leadership of David Emerson at the Centre for Trauma and Embodiment
After teaching for several years April decided to take her training further and enrolled in a 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training Program through YogaSpace in Toronto. Here, she found herself gaining a deeper understanding of the practice and finding the intersectons between her faith and yoga in a new and profound way. It was here that she truly found her voice as a teacher.
Diana Harpwood
Diana began her journey with yoga in 2003 while completing a degree in Contemporary Dance at York University.
Yoga helped her build strength and balance in her body and also helped her to become more mindful and aware of her breath and the connection it has with her movements.
After many years of practice and the urge to pass on her knowledge and passion, Diana decided to become a yoga teacher and then a Comprehensive Pilates teacher.
Diana’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance, the 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Yoga By Sarah in 2010 and a 475 Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training program at Movement Unlimited.
Her students will feel strong and agile in their asanas, graceful as they flow with their breath, and peaceful as they become connected body, mind and spirit.
Monique Idzenga
Monique began her yoga journey in her late teens after watching Ed Sullivan interview B.K.S Iyengar. Fascinated with how his body moved, she began practicing with grainy homemade videos a friend of the family recorded for her.
For over two decades Monique has deepened her love and appreciation for yoga and teaching is a natural progression. She completed the YTT 200 hour program at Yoga by Sarah in March 2011. In November of 2013 Monique completed a 2 year long spiritual unfoldment program and a mediation teaching training program with Tony Murdoch. She completed the 300 hour YTT program at Lost n Found Yoga Studio in May of 2024.
Monique is a lifetime student of yoga and shares her love of the practice with compassion and accessibility.
“Yoga is a practice that is ever changing and evolving. It can be adaptive to wherever I am in life and co-operates with my many moods and energy levels.”
Prior knowledge of anatomy and physiology allows Monique to blend the physical and philosophical practices of yoga and the deftness to adapt poses to meet her students' ever changing abilities and challenges.
Monique creates a calm and compassionate environment that fosters students to feel safe, challenged and empowered.
She is looking forward to sharing her knowledge and passion within the teacher training program at Lost n Found Yoga Studio.
Taryn Diamond
Taryn (she/her) will forever call herself a ‘new mom’, despite having a five year old.
Her entry to yoga was through movement, but her passion ruminates in studying its roots in Eastern philosophy.
She is unabashed in her commitment to cheesy jokes and not taking this thing called ‘life’ too seriously.
Taryn is most passionate about teaching movement that breeds self-inquiry and compassion. Her classes purposefully amp up the agency of her students because, ultimately, we all have the best teachers within us.
If she had to pick one modality to be monogamous with, it would be Yoga Nidrā. Through nidrā, Taryn is able to express the golden nuggets embedded within the philosophy of yoga, while also facilitating some meaningful rest for her students.
Taryn holds the Yoga Alliance’s highest certifications, ERYT-500 and YACEP. This program can be counted as continuing education credits within the Yoga Alliance.