Tiina is the founder of Amrita Living Yoga 200 hr training, and Peterborough Living Yoga, and is faculty of the Transformational Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Ally Boothroyd. She has acted as assistant director of Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training in Nosara Costa Rica, and has been faculty for teacher trainings at Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health and Nosara Yoga Institute. https://living.yoga/yoga-teacher-training/
Training Background
– 500hr Professional Level Certified Yoga Teacher through Nosara Yoga Institute
– Prenatal Yoga through Blooma Prenatal Yoga
– 200hr Classical Ashtanga Hatha Certified Yoga Teacher through Salt Spring Centre of Yoga
– Certified Pranassage Practitioner
– Certified Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher
– Yoga Trance Dance Instructor trained by Shiva Rae
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training with Wavelengths Yoga
- Pranayama and Meditation Teacher Training with ShivaShakto School of Yoga
- Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training with ShivaShakti School of Yoga
- Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with ShivaShakti School of Yoga
- Resident Hypnotherapist with Orca Institute
- Expressive Arts Diploma through Fleming College and Bachelors Degree from Trent University
“In being the evolution of yoga, I recognize that the teachings of yoga stem from many amazing lineages. I am in deep appreciation and divine awe of the people and traditions that have shaped and continue to evolve Yoga.” – Tiina
11/14/2025
I'm dreaming of Costa Rica.... The warm ocean air, the bountiful nature ... And the beautiful experience of gathering with a group of souls in retreat.
Retreats are soooo nourishing and special. It's truly such an honour to hold space for deepening practice, communing with nature, and connection with the self. We come together and we remember.... We awaken, and we source what is most true and meaningful. Sometimes it takes getting out of the day to day to remember who we are.
We have a couple of spots open currently in Nosara and Uvita. Both of these locations are magical!
Reach out if you are interested!
10/29/2025
Our fall Heart of Practice Retreat is coming up Nov 21-23 /24 (optional 3rd night). We have had a couple of spaces open up, so if you are interested, please reach out to us asap!
This retreat is co led by Tiina, , Fraser and Dana. The location is a cozy and serene retreat center on Stony Lake in the Kawarthas in Ontario.
Be held in a sacred space, where days are both spacious and filled with beautiful practices, yoga, Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, Kirtan, live music, meditation, and nature connection.
Leave the hustle for the weekend and come be with us! Relax in the hot tub over looking the lake, sip tea in the many cozy spaces, by the fireplace, with friends or spend time relaxing in the meditation or art room. Enjoy delicious and healthy meals prepared with love by our amazing team. Bring your self, as you are, and be deeply nourished by the magic of retreating. Time outside of time.
Contact me for more information, spaces are very limited!
09/18/2025
Leslie’s words say it all:
“Before this training, I would have called myself agnostic.
After this training, I feel a deep spiritual connection with the earth, plants, water, and my ancestors. This training gave me the greatest gift: connection.”
For centuries, the teachings of yoga have been carried and passed on through oral tradition, heart to heart, breath to breath. They were never just the memorised sequences or asanas, or unrelatable texts. These teachings are meant to be lived. They are rich in story and beautiful life messages.
Embodied Wisdom honours these roots, while meeting your needs in the modern world - in your life today. It’s a remembering of your own embodied wisdom, a way to know yourself deeply, to love yourself more wholly.
Ahimsa, the first yama, invites us into non-violence, not only toward others and the world, but toward ourselves. In this training, we practice ahimsa in how we speak to ourselves, how we move, how we rest and how we connect with the world around us - every single day.
This is the essence of yoga. A path of living connection.
⏳ Just 2 days left to join the 25/26 cohort, we start with our welcome call on Saturday, 20th September.
📥 DM or comment INFO for the application link.
09/18/2025
Leslie’s words say it all:
“Before this training, I would have called myself agnostic.
After this training, I feel a deep spiritual connection with the earth, plants, water, and my ancestors. This training gave me the greatest gift: connection.”
For centuries, the teachings of yoga have been carried and passed on through oral tradition, heart to heart, breath to breath. They were never just the memorised sequences or asanas, or unrelatable texts. These teachings are meant to be lived. They are rich in story and beautiful life messages.
Embodied Wisdom honours these roots, while meeting your needs in the modern world - in your life today. It’s a remembering of your own embodied wisdom, a way to know yourself deeply, to love yourself more wholly.
Ahimsa, the first yama, invites us into non-violence, not only toward others and the world, but toward ourselves. In this training, we practice ahimsa in how we speak to ourselves, how we move, how we rest and how we connect with the world around us - every single day.
This is the essence of yoga. A path of living connection.
⏳ Just 2 days left to join the 25/26 cohort, we start with our welcome call on Saturday, 20th September.
📥 DM or comment INFO for the application link.
09/05/2025
Embodied Wisdom YTT is beginning with a new cohort this month. This training is an evolution of the YTT program that and I had been guiding in person for over a decade, and it's moving into its fourth year as an international, online Yoga Teacher Training program. We have graduated countless beings who now share their unique gifts with the world with a trauma informed, holistic, and empowering approach to Yoga. We are accepting applications now... If you have been contemplating what it would be like to train to be a yoga teacher, this is your chance! It's also super accessible in that you don't have to travel, the training is self paced with scheduled calls as well to build community and connection
dM me for more details, to book a call, or with any questions!
08/14/2025
Day 4 of the Immersion is Live!!
I enjoyed creating this practice for you! Have you been following along our 7 Chakra Immersion? You can still sign up- link in my bio.
This heart- centered practice is set to a soundscape of ukulele mantra singing. Intended to bring a gentle stretch and release focusing on the spine, chest, and shoulders, this practice is also an opportunity to feel the vibrations of the heart, loving awareness, and the energy of Bhakti (devotional yoga).
08/06/2025
🌈 Free 7-Day Chakra Immersion | Aug 11–17 🌿 LINK IN BIO TO JOIN!
Join us for a week of yoga practices lovingly created by our School of Living Yoga team.
This free yoga immersion explores the seven chakras through:
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Tiina is passionate about the healing benefits of relaxation, and is happy to be offering Hypnotherapy, Yoga Nidra, Inspired Yoga classes, Retreats and 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training. See offerings here www.Living.Yoga. Subscribe to the Youtube Channel for guided meditations and yoga. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfsG-1B9RKfrdm1AKR-Omww
Tiina has been teaching yoga since 2003, and offers classes in Peterborough Ontario and Nosara Costa Rica. Tiina is the founder of Amrita Living Yoga 200 hr training, and Peterborough Living Yoga. She has been involved in other professional yoga trainings, such as assistant director of Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training in Nosara Costa Rica, and faculty for teacher trainings at Kripalu Centre for Yoga and Health and Nosara Yoga Institute. Tiina also offers Relaxation Aromatherapy Massage and Hypnotherapy which you can book here.
She also offers creative, flowing, prayerful, and prana infused yoga, that tunes us into our divine nature. With emphasis on the deeper practices of yoga, her classes inspire a connection to the wisdom of prana (life force) and a deep honouring of inner wisdom and the experience of the present moment. Tiina regularly offers classes and workshops to deepen self inquiry and practice, as well as celebratory, musical, spirit filled yoga retreats in Costa Rica and Ontario.
Tiina was raised in the wilderness of Lappe Ontario and grew up in Thunder Bay involved in young women’s empowerment, social and environmental activism, and community involvement. She was honoured to receive the Citizen of Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001 and the Governer General’s Award for Community Involvement. Tiina completed a degree in Woman Studies and Cultural Studies from Trent University as well as a diploma in Expressive Arts from Fleming College. She enjoys homesteading on her shared permaculture farm, The Living Village, is passionate about off grid living and simplicity, and her pups Breeze and Liila, and partner, Trent.
Training Background
– 500hr Professional Level Certified Yoga Teacher through Nosara Yoga Institute – 1000 hr track
– Trauma Sensitivity for Yoga Teachers with Wavelengths Yoga
-25 Hr Essential Nature Restorative Yoga Training with Jane Fryer, Nosara Yoga Institute
– Prenatal Yoga through Blooma Prenatal Yoga
– 200hr Classical Ashtanga Hatha Certified Yoga Teacher through Salt Spring Centre of Yoga
– Certified Pranassage Practitioner with Nosara Yoga Institute
– Certified Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher and former assistant director of training
– Yoga Trance Dance Instructor trained by Shiva Rae
– Thai Yoga Body Work with Michale Sitzer
– Fusion Massage with Tamara Pereira
– Resident Hypnotherapist with Orca Institute
-Yoga Nidra Teacher, trained by ShivaShakti School of Yoga
