Lori Lee
I am the founder and owner of Yoga Haven. I will have been teaching yoga for 25 years as of February 2024. I have enjoyed helping so many people become more mindful of the way they hold their bodies so they can move with more ease. My classes are designed to inspire and challenge you to find your edge in all aspects of yoga. We focus on pranayama, intentions, strength, and flexibility. My intention is to evolve our yoga on all levels and explore postures in creative yet authentic ways. I love teaching yoga for it’s philosophy and roots, vinyasa flow for its heat, challenge and intuitive nature, yoga fundamentals for safety and alignment exploration and a slower paced yoga for contemplation. My goal is to take the practice of yoga off the mat, so we are having a mindful experience of life.
I have been leading (2oo hour) Yoga Teacher Trainings for almost a decade that I developed, where i focus on teaching philosophy, alignment, anatomy, individual adaptations in yoga poses and oversee yoga classes being taught by the course participants. This has been a great pleasure watching new yoga teachers start their own teaching practice. This also led me to take the Yoga Anatomy Fundamentals course (20 hours plus teaching the 10 hour content many times) with Leslie Kaminoff and Amy Matthews. I am currently enrolled in the Yoga Anatomy Principles course with Leslie and Amy as well. Yoga Haven with myself as the lead teacher is a RYS (Registered Yoga School) for 200 HOUR Yoga Teacher Training and a provider of YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) accredited through the Yoga Alliance.
I started taking yoga classes in 1994 and I knew after taking my first class I was hooked and wanted to teach. I did my first teacher training (200 hours) at the Sivananda yoga ashram in the Bahamas in February of 1999 and I started teaching soon after. I was then drawn to study Kundalini yoga and The Hidden Language of Yoga at the Yosodohara ashram in British Columbia. This was a (5 day) training of contemplative yoga. It was here I discovered the moving meditations of Gabrielle Roth. Teaching and practicing moving meditation has been transformative, and there is nothing like moving to the sounds of Jai Uttel live with the guidance of Shiva Rea! Shiva Rea’s courses on philosophy, history, ayurveda, and yoga practice for the householder have deeply influence my teaching.
After years of travelling, teaching yoga to all ages and special needs (prenatal, seniors and children) taking yoga workshops, holding retreats and running the yoga studio, I went back to the Sivananda yoga ashram in the Bahamas in 2008 for the (500 hour) advanced yoga teacher training. It was at the ashram I met Ayurvedic teachers, Dr. David Frawley and Dr. Vasant Lad. I completed a (50 hour) yin yoga teacher training with Bernie Clark in Whistler in 2009. In 2011 I was inspired by two retreats in BC with Dharma Mittra in Naramata and a surf and yoga retreat with Eoin Finn in Tofino. In 2011 I had an incredible life expanding experience with Thich Nhat Hanh at a (6 day) mindfulness retreat at the University of Vancouver. In 2012 I did teacher training in New York City for Unnata Aerial Yoga (65 hours) with Michelle Dortignac. I have studied Ayurveda (9 months) with Cate Stillman and another Ayurveda online training with Myra Lewin and have done Ayurveda workshops at the Sivananda Ashram with Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Vasant Lad , Robert and Melanie Sachs and Maya Tiwari. I have been certified by the California College of Ayurveda for Ayurveda Yoga Therapy (100 hours) and Yoga Nidra (32 hours) with Dr. Marc Halpern. I am influenced by workshops with teachers such as Baron Baptiste, Rodney Yee, Rod Stryker( 2001 and 2010), Bhagavan Das (2000 and 2008), Gurmukh Khar Khalsa, Ana Forrest, Ram Das, Sharon Gannon and David Life.
I am passionate about teaching yoga, ayurveda, health and finding joy and pleasure in every day.
