Brandy C

With over 7 years of teaching experience, Brandy is passionate about guiding students through dynamic Vinyasa classes that build both strength and flexibility. Known for her creative sequencing, she helps participants move beyond their minds and into their bodies, fostering a deep connection to movement.

Brandy believes that yoga not only enhances physical performance but also promotes mental clarity, allowing for a release of thoughts and emotions. Her classes are designed to leave you feeling strong, elongated, and at peace.

Join Brandy on the mat for a transformative experience that will empower your body and calm your mind.

Erika L

Erika Lui is an aerialist and acrobatic performer and instructor based in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region of Ontario. In the air, they specialize in aerial silks, rope (aka. corde lisse), and duo trapeze. While on the ground, they’re often seen being tossed around in partner acrobatics or tossing themselves around in dance acrobatics or balancing on their hands. Erika comes from a diverse and dynamic movement background – starting off in gymnastics, cheerleading, and parkour – and honing their aerial and acrobatic skills in Chicago, IL as a student at Aloft Circus Arts’ professional training program and the Chicago Centre for Dynamic Circus (CCDC). This dynamic power and versatility is what sets them apart as a performer, bringing both technical precision and a unique quality of air-sense to every act. They are known locally as an aerial instructor, bringing their own teaching practice to students at the Grand River Rocks Kitchener location. Erika also works as an artistic collaborator, working with a variety of interdisciplinary artists from the region and throughout Canada, often creating work that relates to the environment and other current issues in today’s world, and exploring avenues of healing through art and community.
Website: www.erikalui.com
Instagram: @erikat_acrobat
Photo credit: Alexa Baker Photography

Rich B

Before completing yoga teacher training in 2019, Rich was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces serving for 12 years in Petawawa, ON. In 2009 during a deployment in Afghanistan, Rich was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression. Following a medical release from the military in 2018, Rich found that yoga had a unique combination of physical and mental effort that allowed a deeper healing. In 2022, Rich began climbing with his kids to spend more time together and found that climbing is a very good counterbalance to yoga. Rich approaches yoga from an athletic point of view, often focusing on the relation between yoga postures and real-world applications, and he combines that with an undertone of breath work. Rich shows how a regular yoga practice may be the best way to improve climbing off the wall and reduce your risk of injury. Rich’s classes are light-hearted but grounded. When the weather permits, Rich also teaches stand-up paddling and SUP yoga.  

Tommy K

Tommy Kudoba is actively engaged in rock climbing, calisthenics, hockey, and running. He’s been personally training for well over a decade and has been training others for five years.He specializes in strength and mobility training with a passion for human optimization. Trained under the Functional Range Systems umbrella, Tommy uses  an anatomical approach that considers the internal structures of our bodies – joints, connective tissues, muscle tissues, and the nervous system. This unconventional, yet logical, approach has been revolutionary for his own training, allowing him to become stronger and better at sports, while also becoming more mobile and feeling better than ever.

Tommy’s goal is to share this approach and the benefits that come with it with as many others as possible.

Trish M

With hundreds of hours of training and thousands of hours of experience, Trish has developed a teaching philosophy centred around quieting the mind to be present in the body. She uses foreshadowing and gradual building in order to effectively guide her classes through creative sequencing and challenging postures with the ultimate goal of encouraging students to question their own limiting beliefs of self. As a big fan of props, modifications, and autonomy, she aims to provide a practice that is accessible to all while maintaining an exacting and energizing vibe. 

When she’s not teaching, you’ll find Trish reading, running, or spinning. As a lifetime student and lover of movement, you’ll probably catch her rolling out her mat alongside you at some point or another!