Amy is the creator of this event using her position on the Board of Directors of Wide Arts and her connection to the yoga community through her yoga studio, Wild Daisy Yoga.

Amy knows firsthand the healing power that yoga has on mind, body, and spirit and views yoga as her medicine. She is passionate about sharing her love of this ancient practice to help others find the peace, joy, and self-worth that she has found through dedicated practice and study.

Amy offers safe, supportive space for all. She believes that EVERY body is a yoga body, that if you can breathe, you can do yoga. She meets her students where they are at, inviting them to honour their bodies in every pose.

Amy is an RYT500, Pain Care Aware, Trauma Informed, Yin, Prenatal, Nidra, and Accessible Yoga Teacher.

Lalitā is the spiritual name of Natasha Scott, one of the founders of The BE Hive. She is an E-RYT 500 YACEP certified teacher, a passionate yoga practitioner and eternal student. With her deep knowledge of how to live YOGA, she is grounded in her desire for living an intentional life. Having taught yoga for 15 years, she specializes in yoga for persistent pain and teaches Pain Care Yoga along with being a certified Thai massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, and Prenatal and Children’s Yoga teacher. Lalita is rooted within this community, having created a strong foundation with her family in the Okanagan. She is a lead teacher for SOYA and chooses to engage through love and action.

Long time yoga practitioner, Shauna was inspired by yoga as a teen and has embraced yoga and mindfulness practices ever since. An E-RYT 500 teacher, she has been teaching yoga classes for over 20 years. Grounded in the Okanagan with her family and love for nature at the heart of her actions, her devotion and compassion to offer pre/postnatal yoga has had a beautiful ripple effect on our community. Shauna has training in pre/postnatal, restorative, and children’s yoga, and is a birth and postpartum doula. Her accessible approach to teaching is defined by trauma-informed and pain care aware certifications. Shauna teaches through the inspirational lens of her own experience. Always humble and open, her care for living a life on purpose extends out to teachers in training as she is a lead teacher for SOYA and one of the founders of The BE Hive.

Amrika is sunshine. Her entire purpose in life is to spread joy and happiness, lifting up all around her. Born and raised in Trinidad, in a strong hindu, yoga community, she truly believes that yoga is a way of life, deep connection to everything and this translates into deeper, traditional yoga practices, blended with affirmation and a deep sense of self love and community.

She is a Yoga Alliance RYT- 500 hour SOYA graduate, Pain Care Aware teacher and Alzheimers Research and Prevention Society Certified, Brain Longevity Specialist. She teaches Hatha yoga in way that makes you feel good in your body in a deeply spiritual way. She creates a safe loving, accepting space for all bodies to express their most beautiful selves, merging mantra, meditation, pranayama and asanas, strengthening the mind body connection.

We are Mayca Lureco (born Oaxaca, Mexico) and Heidi Marie Rasmussen (born Penticton, Canada). We have been singing together and co-hosting women's circles, medicine song circles and other sacred events here in the Okanagan since 2021, including being co-founders of @ElevatePenticton.

Shambhavi Dalwood is very passionate about practicing and teaching both the Ayurvedic and yogic sciences! She has her B. Ed, has been teaching holistic yoga for 14 years and is also an Ayurvedic Bodywork Practitioner (primarily trained under the amazing Ian Hayward!). Shambhavi feels blessed to share ayurvedic wisdom, treatments, workshops and trainings to help support and empower people in living a more balanced lifestyle to optimize their health and well-being.

Shambhavi currently runs her practice and teachings out of Penticton, B.C. as well as online. Contact at shambhavi.hughes@gmail.com for further info.

Michael Bowling is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of yoga, and ancestral healing arts, specializing in holding space for personal healing and transformation. He is a 200 HR KRI certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga, 200 HR CYA certified teacher of Vinyasa Yoga, and has received the highest degrees of certification in Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki, Lightwave, and Melchizedek Method energy healing techniques. Michael is also a lifelong learner, having graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Divinity, and more recently graduated as a Certified Executive Coach. He is currently working towards completion of a Master of Divinity in early 2024, with plans to continue working towards a Ph.D. in Holistic Life Coaching.

For the past 14 years Darcie and Natasha have grown and raised their families together in Penticton, BC. They fell in love with yoga when they were both expecting during prenatal yoga classes. Guidance from the most amazing teachers led them to be RYT500 yoga facilitators, certified in Pain Care Aware, Aerial yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Youth. As life long students, they have taken countless workshops and retreats together, have taught at children’s festivals and yoga teacher trainings and have hosted many partner yoga experiences and community wellness events together. Darcie and Natasha love to fit yoga and wellness into their families' and friends’ lives every chance they get and have completed over 2000+ hours of BFY (Best Friend Yoga) together. They would love to share their joy with you!

Michela Carloni is passionate about all things movement, drawing much of her inspiration from the natural world. Born and raised in the Okanagan Valley but known to wander the world, she has spent much of her time in Africa and Europe and recently started exploring South America. She is a 500hr SOYA graduate who is thrilled to share yoga with her community. She also holds a Level 2 Certificate in Pain Care Aware teachings, a Death Doula Certificate and trainings in Paddle Board Yoga as well as Pre+Post Natal Yoga. Passionate about the soul phases of the feminine, she also hosts Menarche or First Period Celebrations privately and through public spaces.

Her class is an interactive space where everyone is encouraged to curiously explore mind, body and spirit. Her dance background is prominent in the style of yoga she teaches, with fluidity and room for authenticity in movement.

Ravi is a student/teacher of qigong. He is deeply passionate about being of service to humanity and doing his part to bring healing to our modern world. Ravi strives to discover deeper truths about himself, life, and create a positive influence in the lives of others, emulating his teachers. He shares insights and challenges from his inner journey, finding solace in all indigenous traditions, eastern medicine, and ancient healing practices.

Ravi is a trauma informed teacher with his formal education including a 200 Hr Traditional Qigong Teacher Training, Therapeutic Qigong, Shaolin Strength Training and Nei-Gong or Daoist Embodied Meditation through Soma Dao Qi Gong.

A carefully crafted combination of visualization, breathwork, meditative awareness and gentle flowing movements Ravi's classes provide an immersive whole-body experience leaving you feeling relaxed, stretched, rejuvenated, and peaceful.

Dr. Shekinah, MA, DNM, DHS, holds a PhD in Natural Medicine and a Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis & Management. She is also trained in sound & vibration systems (Acutonics; Biofield Tuning). Additional training, to name a few, includes energy management, Reiki, ThetaHealing®, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Meditation.