Mike Munro
​Founder, Owner + Teacher

Mike is a Certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor at the Professional level (500 hours) and a licensed and practicing physiotherapist. His yoga studies, which started in 1993, involve Iyengar, Interdisciplinary and Ashtanga. He strives to incorporate yoga, physiotherapy and meditation knowledge to promote a balanced approach to active wellness. Mike also offers physiotherapy through our Health Center. Mike is the director of our 200 and 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training programs. 

Maxine Jeffrey
​Teacher + Osteopath

Maxine has been teaching yoga since 1997. She is a Certified Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor at the Professional level (500+ hours). Maxine has degrees in Kinesiology and Occupational Therapy (honours) and is an Osteopath (Diploma Osteopathic Manual Practice). Maxine loves teaching yoga. Her enthusiasm and passion are apparent in each class that she offers. Maxine teaches Hatha Basics and Gentle classes on Mondays and Thursdays during the daytime hours.

Abra Morrison
​​Teacher + Administration

After more than 10 years of practicing yoga, Abra had the opportunity to complete her 200-hour and 500-hour Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training with TAYS. Abra's classes are strongly alignment-based, with the emphasis of breath and maximizing potential in a safe and open environment. Hosting workshops that span from introductory yoga to advanced education are one of the main focuses of Abra’s teaching career. 

Nicola Parker
​​​Teacher+ Administration 

Andrea Andriopoulos
​Teacher+ Administration 

Nicola is a 500 hour TAYS certified Hatha Vinyasa yoga teacher who has also studied in the ashtanga tradition with Manji Jois. Teaching since 2006, Nicola infuses a playful balance of both effort and ease in her yoga classes and she encourages everyone, no matter what age or flexibility level, to come and practice yoga with her. Nicola is also a Certified Integral Facilitator and a TAYS YTT teacher of teachers

Yoga has been a part of Andrea's life since 2000 and her practice has helped her grow stronger, more flexible, and fearless, both on and off the mat. Yoga inspires her to live each moment more mindfully. In 2000, Andrea went to see her doctor for chronic lower back pain.  Her doctor said, “you can either take pills to help with the pain or start yoga.”  She left her office and went directly to TAYS, grabbed a schedule and never looked back. Andrea completed both her 200 and 500 hour teacher training with TAYS.

Helen Fong
​​Teacher

Helen is an award-winning certified yoga teacher who calls Halifax her home. She has been teaching yoga since 2006. She has played an instrumental role in many cancer patient care and support projects, guest demos at health and wellness events and is a faculty at the TAYS 200hr and 500hr YTT programs. She is a certified Hatha Vinyasa Yoga teacher (TAYS Yoga), Certified Yin Yoga teacher (Semperviva) and Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher (Laughter Yoga University). ​

Maureen Nowlan
​Teacher

A lifelong yoga practitioner, Maureen began teaching at TAYS during the first Yoga Teacher training in 1991 and has been at teaching yoga at TAYS ever since. Her most recent training programs have been for people with cancer, yin yoga and designing sequences. Her inspiration for teaching is rooted in her longstanding meditation and yoga practices and through her students over the years. Maureen also takes annual trips to Kripalu Yoga Institute in Massachusetts for ongoing direction and ideas.

Alesia Komarnisky
​Teacher

Alesia is a TAYS-trained teacher and also studied Art at NSCAD University. Alesia has a heart centred approach to practice and has trained in a myriad of yoga modalities. She has taught yoga to people with a variety of physical abilities, and health conditions, in many settings including hospitals and at the Mental Health Association of Nova Scotia, the Alzheimer's Society, Senior Care Centres and the Canadian Cancer Society. Alesia believes that with a little creativity, and a lot of heart, everyone can receive the life enhancing benefits of yoga.

Leslie Bishop
​​​Teacher

Leslie has been teaching yoga for more than 15 years and with an ERYT-500 designation. Certified as a yoga teacher trainer and yoga life coach, Leslie leads exhilarating and unscripted Vinyasa yoga classes that are both challenging and heart pumping, while staying true to the ease and grace of the inner intention of the practice. As a relationship coach and facilitator, Leslie uses the Yogic philosophy of Ahimsa (non-violence) to help individuals and couples to investigate habitual patterns in relationship behaviour. ​

Andrea Gracia
​​​Teacher + Administration

Andrea started her yoga journey while living in México 10 years ago and eventually travelled to India to study yoga in its birth place. She was trained in both Ashtanga and Hatha yoga by her teacher Yogiji Yogendra Mishra, in the banks of the beautiful Himalayas in Rishikesh. This immersive training gave her a different perspective of this ancient practice. Apart from her 200hr YTT certification in India, she is 200 YTT certified through TAYS and has taken several courses with David Robson and Jelena Vesić from Ashtanga Toronto. She recently concluded pre and post natal training with Clare Newman from Mamata Yoga. 

Maryam Vahedi
​​​​Teacher 

Maryam started practicing yoga in 2011, as  a form of exercise and to reduce stress. Very soon she realized that yoga is so much more. Yoga reminds us of how strong we are and gives us the courage and inspiration to move on when life gets hard. 
Maryam completed her 200 hour Hatha/Vinyasa teacher training at TAYS and is also a Certified Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra Instructor.Favorite Quotes:
"What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create."
- Buddha
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
- Rumi