About Us
Trinity Yoga Centre
Trinity Yoga Centre's team brings a wealth of experience to every session. Trinity Yoga Centre offers a wide selection of instructional series and drop-in yoga classes to fit your schedule.
Choose from a variety of exceptional health services to meet your personal needs.
Jeff (Harshad) Thomlinson, E-RYT 500
Jeff Thomlinson (Harshad) co-directs the 200, 300, and 500- hour training programs through Trinity Yoga Center. He first explored yoga in 1980, and began teaching at the YMCA in Bellingham, WA, in 1991.
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Sonya Thomlinson, E-RYT 500
As co-director of Trinity Yoga Centre in Kelowna, BC, Sonya has taken her passion for yoga and wellness to create classes and health programs which promote lasting change. Sonya is known for her compassionate, strong, yet graceful style of teaching which includes a deep appreciation for both the physical and spiritual aspects of yoga.
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Bill Eager
Bill has been a long time athletic enthusiast with long distance running, downhill ski racing, mountain climbing, cycling, tennis golf and frisbee with dog friend, Otis and many cultural pursuits studying, voice (singing), acting, writing and film making.
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Cari Ionson
In 2005 I left the city of Victoria and moved to the woods with some friends. I found myself alone with my thoughts and amidst wilderness and solitude. A friend living with me was a yoga teacher, and spent every morning teaching me asana, pranayama, and meditation.
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Carrie Dawn Schultz
I feel that when people live in true freedom in the body and peace of mind, we can be more compassionate, energetic & spontaneous and thus contribute positive action and love, to our families, communities and to the world.
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Colleen Tiltman
Colleen is a certified yoga teacher/yoga therapist. She has been teaching yoga and meditation classes privately and to groups since 2000, and has been a devoted yoga student since 1995. She is an iRest Yoga Nidra certified teacher through the Integrative Restoration Institute.
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Elaine Stamcoff
After many years of practicing yoga to support my physical body, I found Trinity Yoga Center and knew right from the first class I attended that I had found myself in a special place...a place where I have been able to discover ways to nourish and nurture my whole being...body, mind and spirit.
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Elise Dunn
Yoga has largely been a part of Elise's life since 2000... Formally trained as a dancer from early in life, Elise was naturally drawn to the physical practice of yoga. After a car accident, her yoga practice transformed from a love and passion for yoga to a deep respect and appreciation for what yoga really is, far beyond the physical practice.
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Emily Mark
I attended my first yoga class in 1999. Since that time I have practiced various styles of yoga from hot power yoga to taking courses at a British Columbia based Ashram. I eventually started taking classes at Trinity Yoga Center in Vernon and completed the 300 hour Yoga and Lifestyle Training through Trinity in May 2011.
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Joanne Mariutti
Joanne’s first experience with yoga began at the YMCA in Vancouver with Hatha yoga. Since then, she has embraced the Kripalu style of yoga – having completed her 300 hour teacher training in 2007 and more recently her 500 hour training with Trinity Yoga Center.
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Joanne Van Ee
My yoga experience started over 23 years ago in Vancouver. I wasn't a steady practitioner until I realized that I needed yoga in my life, which brought me toTrinity Yoga. I took the teacher training in 2007 for my own growth.
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Kate Orchard
Kate is a YogaFit Instructor and Personal Trainer who has had a lifelong passion for physical fitness. Although she always recognized the emotional and mental benefits of leading an active life, it wasn't until she found Trinity Yoga during a pivotal moment in her life that she realized the deep spiritual healing exercise can bring.
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Leanne Ruechel
Leanne discovered yoga in 2000 and was captivated. She biked or walked daily to yoga classes, continually drawn and curious to the unfolding of yoga in her body, mind and spirit.
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Lisa Millard
I was introduced to the practice of yoga in 2005 and explored different traditions including Hatha, Iyengar and Ashtanga before finding the community that is Trinity Yoga Center. I knew immediately that TYC was where I could put down my yoga roots and delve into the depths of yoga as a daily lifestyle practice.
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Moira McNairnay
Hi, I'm Moira McNairnay. Nice to meet you! I began practicing yoga 15 years ago. Over that time, I've explored many approaches to yoga, and I've found myself continually drawn to Kripalu yoga, a practice that I find invites me into my body and into relationship with all aspects of mySelf in a way that feels both sacred and deeply compassionate.
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(Naresh) Ron King
Naresh Ron King is a yoga student, practitioner, teacher, and mentor. His practice began in the late 1980's in Toronto, where he lived and worked as a photographer. A chance visit to the Kripalu Center in Massachusetts, USA, led him to move there.
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Paul Emerson
Paul's love for yoga began at a simple Rec Centre in Burlington, Ontario. Moved by the power of the practice and the quiet strength of the instructor, he knew there was something here for him. It is alongside the community at Trinity Yoga Centre that he found a way to put that something into action.
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Rachael Rossetti
Rachael's journey with yoga started in 1998 with a yoga class at Simon Fraser University. She loved exploring her physical body in a way other than through varsity volleyball and her study of Kinesiology. In 2003 Rachael taught yoga on the bow of two Princess cruise ships where she found her wonderful husband, Paul.
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Sherie Cormier
Sherie Amrita is an inspiring, fun loving and knowledgeable yoga teacher. She began her yoga practice in 2005 and was immediately surprised by the strength and awareness the practice offered her.
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Shirley Catton
Shirley has been an avid yoga practitioner for five years, exploring different approaches to yoga practice. Certified as both a 200 hour and 500 professional level teacher, Shirley brings her quiet energy, open heart and approachable style to offer the Cultivating Calm classes at Trinity Yoga.
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