Malina
(they/ she)
libra/ scorpio

This human experience is a trip.  Somedays I love it, other days I struggle.  Yoga has given me a brave space to learn, unlearn, feel my feelings, to grieve, to celebrate, to love myself deeply and integrate the spectrum of experience I have in this body, mind, heart.  It has given me an anchor to a space within that witnesses, loves unconditionally and holds me when the waves of life hit me hard.  

I have been captivated by the reverence, devotion, ritual, spiritual science and service of bothYoga and my own Cree Métis culture.  Both roads have been my saving grace.  They are good medicine.  They let me fall while feeling held and empower me to rise up stronger and clearer than before.  My daily inspiration comes from my own healing through these deep rooted medicinal cultures.  

Healing through cultural teachings has shown me how to offer a decolonized practice that resonates with anyone seeking true healing.  I aim to share with students, how to be in the body with gentle confrontation, with compassion, with curiosity, with humour, with courage, with honesty, with love. 

It is in the body and through brave community that we heal our personal, intergenerational and collective trauma.  Together, may we find a somatic pathway that hits just right and leads us to our own inner knowing.  

Expect to unravel from the inside out until you are warm, melty and remember what relaxation feels like.  I am also a philosophy geek, so expect to contemplate and question reality, society, identity and really, everything, while I play some sweet tunes in the background.