Meet All Teachers

I am the proud owner and founder of Studio Lotus yoga center in Gatineau, Quebec and a certified yoga teacher since 2006 with over 25 years of experience teaching movement from group fitness to personal training, dance and yoga.  At the age of 21, I decided to get in shape which triggered a series of events that have led me down an unexpected carreer path.

Nadjiba Medjaoui has been practicing Yoga since 2004. In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles to study Yoga and healing modalities. Soon she became a YogaWorks 200 hours certified instructor. She is passionate about the therapeutic and healing effect of Yoga which, brought her to study Yoga Tune Up® with Jill Miller and Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky. 

Nancy Drope is a movement specialist who advocates for optimal wellness with her students and private clients. Her career in physical movement commenced with her degree in Physical and Health Education at the University of New Brunswick where she was a varsity athlete. Her passion for movement led her to yoga where she discovered the full circle she had been searching for, the connection of body, mind and spirit ; with the expression of self through controlled movement and meditation had her hooked.

Nancy is an integrated Level 1 Yoga Tune Up® instructor, a Roll Model® Method practitioner, has her 200 hour RYT from Pure Yoga, holds an MA in modern dance and a USCG 100-ton near coastal Masters license.

For decades I ran to relieve stress, but when my knees began to resist, I tried out an Iyengar yoga studio a few blocks from my apartment. I went to weekly classes for two years, learning fundamentals of alignment and breath, which kept me running awhile longer.

My relationship with yoga started in 2005, as a way to bring movement into my corporate professional life. It wasn’t until years later, through the weight of life’s obstacles, that I realized the profound impact yoga had on my heart, mind and overall well being. Yoga has been a way for me to slow down, connect inward and begin the process of choosing to live fully. Gratefully embracing all of the joy and challenge in this life, learning and unlearning as I go.

Orla teaches Yoga Tune-Up and barre weekly at Barre Up in Raleigh, N.C., and also therapy ball massage at Duke University in Durham, N.C. In addition to Yoga Tune Up, she is certified in BarreAmped, yoga (200 RYT) and Power Pilates Mat I & II.

An IT geek since she was young, Patricia believed she would do nothing else in life but follow this passion. Living in Bermuda and randomly practicing yoga on its beautiful beaches, she realized that as much as she loved city life, she resonated with the peaceful practice of just being.
 
In 2007, Patricia started on her path to health and wellness by becoming a Reiki Master and offering her services as a Reiki Practitioner.
 

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Fondatrice de eYo - equiYoga, Patricia est une cavalière spécialisée en dressage et en Équitation de Travail, qui pratique l'équitation depuis plus de 35 ans ! Elle enseigne l'équitation et l'equiYoga depuis plusieurs années - ​et maintenant le Yoga Tune Up - aux cavaliers de tous niveaux, pratiquant diverses disciplines équestres.