Choosing a teacher is the first step on your yoga journey, and we want it to be a gentle one. STRETCH is dedicated to creating an inclusive, non-judgmental, and safe space for every student.
Whether you are an absolute beginner who has never been on a mat or a seasoned practitioner, our instructors are here to guide you with patience, clear alignment cues, and endless encouragement.
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Emmanuelle Rousseau
STRETCH co-founder, Emmanuelle came to yoga over twenty years ago on a hunch it might help her anxiety and improve her ability to focus and relax. She found amazing tools to improve her well-being along with a lifetime desire to push her edge as a way not only to get strong but to find balance.…
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Louis Ngo
With over 12 years of experience as a yoga teacher and 5 years as a Thai massage practitioner, Louis brings a dynamic and well-rounded approach to movement and bodywork. His journey has taken him to India for yoga teacher training, Miami to study movement and locomotion, Vancouver to deepen his practice in Rocket Yoga, AcroYoga,…
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Cindy Gu
Cindy Gu is a Yoga teacher, neurodivergent mindfulness coach, Qi healer, and surfer. She is devoted to conscious living and embodied freedom. With a background in engineering and product design, she brings a grounded, intuitive, and integrative approach to movement, breath, and energy work. After leaving her corporate career to follow a more authentic path,…
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Kristi Albernaz
Kristi found yoga as a teen, but truly discovered it in her twenties while living in Dubai asa flight attendant. A remarkable studio and international teachers nurtured her, and,thanks to Dina Ghandour and Fátima García de Andrés, she fell in love with Jivamuktiand Ashtanga Vinyasa. Kristi later completed her 200-hour training in Goa, India, thenspent…
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Nour Maurice
Nour is an enthusiastic yoga teacher and fitness instructor who embraces a holistic health perspective. With a degree in Performance Nutrition Nour is passionate about promoting healthy lifestyles. Nour emphasises the importance of striking a balance between dynamic workouts and the serenity of stillness, conscious movement and meditation. With a strong understanding of mind-body connection…
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Robert Wilson-Smith
Robert‘s yoga journey began with brief dalliances in the 1980s and 1990s, but he became committed to a regular practice in 2003 when he began studying the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Everything changed: his career, his body, his diet… in the last dozen years he completed numerous workshops and retreats in various countries with teachers from…
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Mariah Mennie
A sound sculptor in a coat of many colors, Vancouver based artist Mariah Mennie is a composer, pianist, vocalist, percussionist, fire dancer and music educator. Her eclectic sound world is effervescent, evoking programmatic vistas of mystical lands, wild natural places, fantastical words and psychological intricacies of the mind. Her compositions have been performed most notably,…
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Boyd Thomson
STRETCH co-founder, entrepreneur, engineer, yogi, nerd. Boyd came to yoga to improve his flexibility as an athlete and decades later, is constantly impressed with yoga’s ability to help him find inspiration and to manage every-day life stresses. He feels that yoga has made him a better cyclist, and a better person. In his spare time…
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Ryan Stevenson
Ryan’s transformational yoga journey began in 2005, and he’s been teaching yoga in one capacity or another since 2011. Yoga has been a catalyst for self-study, connecting with community, meaningful travel, and staying healthy emotionally, spiritually, and physically. He is deeply grateful to have served a grassroots non-profit yoga community from 2012 to 2020 as…
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