Category Archives: Yoga Teacher Training

Chair Yoga

How my Chair Yoga career began… After receiving my 200 hour certification, I decided to see what was going on with Yoga and the Older Adult. Working as a music therapist with older people, in all kinds of facilities (Cleveland, …

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A Semperviva Beginner – Part 16

Yoga Teacher Training; three words that were not part of my vocabulary until just a few short months ago.  Three words that I think may forever change my life. There are 42 of us in the Spring session – forty …

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Falling In Love With My Practice

Earlier this summer I felt like there was something missing in my personal yoga practice. So I, like so many before me, asked myself if I was ready to deepen my practice and enroll in 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. It …

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Meet our Yoga Advisor- Amy

If you have ever ventured to Semperviva’s Sun Studio for a late-night Yin class or Sunday morning Kundalini, you have probably met its manager Amy McDougall. For two years now, Sun’s warmth and unique energy has kept her coming back …

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The Gentle Giant

Here at Semperviva we are very excited to be able to host a Master Teacher Workshop and Yoga Teacher Training Intensive with Max Strom in just a few weeks!  Max Strom – or as I call him, The Gentle Giant …

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Meet Our Yoga Advisor – Kylie

If you’ve spent any time around Semperviva’s Kits Beach studio you’re bound to have met Kylie. She joined the Semperviva team in November 2011 and her enthusiasm and love for yoga is contagious. Here she shares how yoga has become …

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Meet Our Yoga Advisor – Laura

  As we all start counting down the days to Gloria’s homecoming, (September 9th to be exact – meet her off the plane at the Yoga Aid World Challenge!) a lucky few are jetting off to Greece for the last …

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Meet Our Yoga Teacher Training Graduate – Emerson Lim

What does ‘yoga’ mean to you? Yoga to me is the catalyst of an inner revolution that changed my life and it continues to encourage me to evolve into my highest and fullest potential. I practice from the center of …

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Impermanence: Blink and You’ll Miss It

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible  – Thich Nhat Hanh Impermanence dictates that all existence is in a constant state of flux. The everyday arising and passing of events, relationships, feelings, and experiences never stops unfolding. One thing that is certain …

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A Magical Experience – Yoga Teacher Training in Greece

By Emily Schach Emily Schach manages Lululemon Athletica’s West 4th store and graduated from Semperviva’s 200 hour teacher training in Greece last summer. Here she shares her experiences on the island of Kythira and what the training meant to her. …

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Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training In Costa Rica

By Beverly Akhurst This past April I gave myself a gift, I signed up for Semperviva’s Kundalini Yoga Certificate in Costa Rica with a very special teacher; Gloria Latham. Kundalini yoga is an inspiring and intense form of yoga centered …

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Summer Breathing: Ujjayi Breath & Yin Yoga

A slow ocean breath while you are holding your Yin Yoga poses will reduce stress, active your rest & digest system, improve your heart and lungs function, lower blood pressure and lead towards a healthier and happier life. 


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The Journey Into Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga is many things to many people. For me, yoga was the discovery that the river had widened, and that I was in fact at the helm. This idea occurred to me during my yoga teacher training. I wondered how …

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Why I Love Teaching Kids’ Yoga

In my opinion, I have the best job in the world. I’m a full-time kids’ yoga teacher, and I have the wonderful fortune to look forward to going to “work” every day. When was the last time you got to …

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Try Everything At Least Twice – Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training

From Alison Boons My personal motto is that you should “Try Everything at Least Twice.” There are so many things that can alter your opinion of a new activity or a new person or a new experience. Nerves, anxiety, skepticism, …

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Yoga YogaWorks Teacher Training Info Session

Free Yoga and Q&A at Semperviva Sea Studio

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From London to Vancouver via Semperviva Yoga Teacher Training

From Callie Gray Whilst packing up my apartment in London UK to embark on a new adventure to set up home in Vancouver BC, – back to the fresh air, mountains and water – I decided to kick start my …

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