Yoga in Edmonton
I teach hot yoga at three Oxygen studios across west and southwest Edmonton, and take a small number of private clients around that schedule.
Where I teach, and what I do
the rest of the week.
I teach yoga at Oxygen Yoga & Fitness — at the Chappelle, Windermere and Edgemont studios, across west and southwest Edmonton — and I take a small number of private clients around that schedule. If you want to practise with me in a class, the formats are below and you book through the studio. If you want one-to-one, that goes through me.
The rest of my week is strength and nutrition coaching — that is the business, and it is what most people come to me for. Yoga is the practice that got me there. I trained 500 hours in it, I have never wanted to stop teaching it, and it is still the thing I would do if nobody paid me for any of it.
That is worth saying plainly, because it shapes how I teach. I am not trying to fill a studio or sell you a membership. I teach the classes I teach because I like teaching them, and the private work I take on is limited by how much time is left.
Classes I teach at Oxygen.
I teach across three Oxygen Yoga & Fitness studios in west and southwest Edmonton. Every room is heated with far-infrared rather than forced air, and every class is drop-in or membership through the studio, not through me. Times move around week to week, so the live timetable below is the one to trust.
Hot Hatha
Slower-paced, and the closest thing on the timetable to actually learning the postures. Hatha in its real sense is about balance rather than intensity, and the pace leaves time to explore a shape instead of passing through it. This is the one to start with if you have not practised before.
Hot Slow Flow
A gentle, well-paced flow — sun salutations, standing and balance work, some strength, then folds and heart openers to finish. It moves, but it never rushes. A good middle ground between hatha and power, and a good evening class.
Hot Power Yoga
The strong one, but not the fast one — this class builds through longer holds and arm balances rather than racing you through a sequence. Oxygen runs it as all-levels with modifications offered throughout, so it is less gatekept than the name suggests. Come to this if you want to find out what you can hold.
Hot Freedom Flow
Vinyasa in its purest form: one breath, one movement, flowing pose to pose without stopping. The rhythm is the point. Best once you know the shapes well enough not to think about them, because this class does not pause for you to catch up.
Hot Candlelight Deep Stretch & Relaxation
Two halves by candlelight. The first is gentle seated stretching and easy movement to unwind; the second drops into long-held yin postures that work connective tissue rather than muscle, which is exactly what a warm room helps with. This is the class people book when the rest of their week is loud.
Class names in the timetable use Oxygen's own format names, which is what I have used above. 'Reduced Heat' on a class name means a warm room rather than a fully heated one.
Where these run.
Oxygen Yoga & Fitness — Chappelle. 14131 28 Avenue SW, in Heritage Valley. This is where most of my week sits, mornings and evenings both.
Oxygen Yoga & Fitness — Windermere. 1273 Windermere Way SW. Mostly late-afternoon and evening classes.
Oxygen Yoga & Fitness — Edgemont. 20047 Lessard Road NW, in west Edmonton. Mostly mornings, including weekends.
I also teach strength and conditioning classes at all three — 20/20/20, Total Body Conditioning, O2 Pump and Sculpt formats. If you found me through yoga and want to know what I am like coaching a lift, those are the classes to come to.
Private yoga sessions.
One-to-one yoga, at your place or somewhere we arrange, built around what your body is actually doing rather than what a room of thirty people needs. I take a small number of private clients, so this is not an unlimited offer — but if it is a fit, it is the best version of what I do.
Private sessions make sense when a group class does not. That covers more people than you would think:
You want to start, and a heated room full of strangers is not where you want to do it. You are working around something specific — a shoulder, a hip, a back that has opinions. You want to practise at a time no studio schedules. Or you want the hour built around one thing, whether that is getting off the floor more easily, sleeping better, or holding a shape you have been circling for a year.
One kind of private work comes up often enough to have a page of its own:
Chair and gentle yoga for older adults.
Seated and supported practice for people who want to move well and stay independent, without getting on and off the floor repeatedly. Often this runs alongside strength work, because the two do different jobs. More on the chair and gentle yoga page.
How I teach
Five hundred hours of formal training, and a practice of my own that predates all of it. What the training actually changed is unglamorous: I know a lot of ways to make a posture available to a body that cannot do the standard version, and I am comfortable saying when a shape is not worth chasing.
I do not teach yoga as a belief system. I will use the Sanskrit name for a posture because it is the accurate one, and I am happy to tell you where a sequence came from and how old it actually is — which is usually far more recent than people assume. But nothing in my class requires you to believe anything.
I also lift, and I play ringette. That combination shapes what I notice. I am more likely than most yoga teachers to tell you that your hamstrings are not tight, they are just doing a lot, or that the flexibility you are chasing needs strength underneath it before it will hold.
What yoga will and will not do for you.
Yoga is very good at some things: mobility you can actually use, body awareness, breath, and the part of your week where your nervous system gets to stand down. Practised regularly, it will change how you move and how you feel in a way that is hard to get elsewhere.
It is not, on its own, going to build much muscle or do much for bone density. Those need progressive loading — real resistance, added over time. If that is what you are actually after, a yoga class is a slow route to it, and I would rather tell you that than sell you the wrong thing.
That is the other half of what I do. If strength is the goal, my strength coaching is built for it. If the goal is body composition, that is mostly what you eat, and nutrition coaching is where that gets handled. Plenty of people do yoga with me and none of the rest — that is a completely reasonable place to land.
Looking for Pilates?
I teach mat Pilates at the same studios, and Oxygen Chappelle has reformer machines available as well. Both are covered on the Pilates page, including the honest answer to whether you need a reformer at all.
Common questions.
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No, and this is the single most common reason people give for not starting. Flexibility is an outcome of practising, not a requirement for it. Every posture has a version that works for the body you have today, and finding that version is most of what a teacher is for.
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It heats you rather than heating the air, so the room feels warm without the heavy, hard-to-breathe quality of a forced-air hot studio. Most people find it more comfortable than they expect. It is still a heated room — you will sweat.
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A mat, water, and a towel you do not mind sweating on. All three studios have water refill stations. Arrive fifteen minutes before your first class so the front desk can set you up.
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Yes, and it is often the easier way in. A first private session is mostly me watching how you move and finding out what you want out of this, and there is nobody else in the room to compare yourself to.
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Group classes, no — those are all through Oxygen, across their Chappelle, Windermere and Edgemont studios. Private sessions are separate and are arranged directly with me, at your place.
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Broadly: yoga works range of motion, breath and held shapes, and carries a philosophical tradition you can take or leave. Pilates is a more recent method focused on core control and precise, repeated movement patterns. They overlap more than purists like to admit, and doing both is a reasonable answer. There is a fuller comparison on the Pilates page.
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$90 an hour, taught at your home anywhere in Edmonton and the immediately surrounding communities, with travel and props included. Two or three people in the same house is the same price. There is more detail on the private yoga page.