Meet Our Instructors

Meet Our Instructors

Rebecca

     Rebecca is the owner of Shanti Yoga and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She studied under the guidance of instructors with strong backgrounds in Sivananda Yoga. Her diverse training enables her to teach adult, kids, family and couple yoga classes.
     Rebecca approaches life as a creative process to live passionately. Through her continued journey with yoga she has learned to view the present moment as an opportunity to grow. She is committed to being authentic in her life and encourages authenticity in others. Her adventurous and compassionate spirit shines through to her students. When teaching, she encourages her students to tap into and trust their own inner wisdom.
     Rebecca has also been in the financial services industry for thirteen years and with the grace of her transformation through yoga has applied her two passions into Yoga of Finance workshops, which are designed to work with both individuals and couples in creating breakthroughs in their lives and their relationship with money. Her goal in her life’s work is to help others in creating a healthy mind, body and spirit to assist them in their quest for finding peace of mind.

Elaine

     Elaine has been practicing Hatha Yoga for 15 yrs. This path later led to Vipassana Meditation, which served to deepen her yoga practice and the desire to someday become a yoga teacher.
     In 2008 Elaine completed Yoga Alliance Teacher Training under Katherine Austin of Karma Yoga, after ending a 25 year career in Telecommunications. At this time she also studied under William Lee Rand, world renowned Reiki Master and teacher, who now enjoys a freelance career as a Yoga Teacher and Reiki practitioner.
     Elaine’s favorite statement is “You are as young as your spine is flexible”. To achieve the flexibility of the spine the main focus is on developing breath awareness to calm the mind, allowing time for the body to soften. Students learn to set the ego aside with their shoes and go on a yoga exploration, learning through breath awareness and asanas how to free oneself from self imposed barriers.

Katy

Katy Hinz is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She has taught yoga in corporate, studio and private settings since 2008. Katy is focused on helping her students deepen their own practice by accepting each moment and each pose as it is, in order to explore the deeper truth within. She feels that life is constantly evolving, and this evolution can be observed through yoga. Some days "yoga" means resting a sore body with restorative poses, or just going for a simple walk and listening to one's breath. Katy loves to share yoga as a practice that nourishes the body, mind, emotions and spirit.

Hannah

Hannah Kanter is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She studied at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas where she was classically trained in Sivananda Yoga. Hannah’s passion about yoga and yogic philosophy extend over into her everyday life. Hannah views yoga as a path to connect with the Divine. She is dedicated to helping her students relax and go inward to connect with their Higher Selves. She aims to help others break their self-imposed limitations in order to reach their full potential as yogis and yoginis. She is incredibly grateful to be able to share her practice with you.

Stephanie

After many years as a dancer and fifteen more years as a runner, Steph began to seek an alternative form of exercise that wouldn’t strain her joints so much. It was this intention that brought her to ashtanga yoga. Within weeks she began to recognize that yoga was so much more than just physical postures. She soon enrolled in shala at Namaste Yoga in Royal Oak and absorbed herself in the deeper philosophy of the practice. After nearly ten years of teaching, she recognizes how much more there is to learn, and honors her students as some of her greatest teachers.

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