Choosing a teacher is the first step on your yoga journey, and we want it to be a gentle one. STRETCH is dedicated to creating an inclusive, non-judgmental, and safe space for every student.
Whether you are an absolute beginner who has never been on a mat or a seasoned practitioner, our instructors are here to guide you with patience, clear alignment cues, and endless encouragement.
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Boyd Thomson
STRETCH co-founder, entrepreneur, engineer, yogi, nerd. Boyd came to yoga to improve his flexibility as an athlete and decades later, is constantly impressed with yoga’s ability to help him find inspiration and to manage every-day life stresses. He feels that yoga has made him a better cyclist, and a better person. In his spare time…
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Emmanuelle Rousseau
STRETCH co-founder, Emmanuelle came to yoga over twenty years ago on a hunch it might help her anxiety and improve her ability to focus and relax. She found amazing tools to improve her well-being along with a lifetime desire to push her edge as a way not only to get strong but to find balance.…
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Mariah Mennie
A sound sculptor in a coat of many colors, Vancouver based artist Mariah Mennie is a composer, pianist, vocalist, percussionist, fire dancer and music educator. Her eclectic sound world is effervescent, evoking programmatic vistas of mystical lands, wild natural places, fantastical words and psychological intricacies of the mind. Her compositions have been performed most notably,…
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Risto Duggan
Risto Duggan is a “physical” power yoga teacher with a positive vibe. His yoga practice has helped him recover from a lot of damage and broken bones. A former multi-sport athlete and Hip Hop teacher. Risto keeps it funky, flowing, and strong! He believes that adjustments done properly, will change your practice and is getting quite…
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Robert Wilson-Smith
Robert‘s yoga journey began with brief dalliances in the 1980s and 1990s, but he became committed to a regular practice in 2003 when he began studying the Ashtanga Vinyasa method. Everything changed: his career, his body, his diet… in the last dozen years he completed numerous workshops and retreats in various countries with teachers from…
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Suze Mercado
Suze Mercado is …
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Tonya Kay
Tonya Kay is a career dancer and vegan of 30 years. She’s danced on Broadway, in Hollywood blockbusters and on international tour and brings her love of movement, shapes and clean living to the hot room. She is a 600 hr CYT with certifications in Hot Hatha, Vinyasa, Hand Balancing, Yin, Prenatal and Mat Pilates whom…
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