Trillium Healing Arts Centre

Clare Preuss was certified to teach by the Yoga Studio in Toronto in 2000, and became one of their principal instructors. She has taught at fitness clubs, high schools, theatres and community centres across southern Ontario. She trained under Dharmanidhi Saraswati in the Satyananda style of yoga, and was initiated into the Saraswati lineage as "Sivapriya". Clare lived and practiced at the Yasodhara Ashram in B.C. Clare is also a choreographer and theatre creator.

Frances Brown began practicing mindfulness meditation in 2003 and furthered her studies during week-long retreats with Shinzen Young as well as a 3 month silent retreat in a Burmese monastery. She returned in 2007 from a 6 month term in India with Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity, helping the sick, poor and dying. After her return from Burma and India, she began teaching Mindfulness Meditation to beginners at the Trillium Healing Arts Centre in 2008.  Every other month she leads a 1/2 day Meditation retreat to those who are interested in deepening their practice.  She also teach individuals or groups who are unable to attend scheduled sessions at the Centre.  Mindfulness Meditation provides an opportunity to bring balance and focus to one's life.  The meditation techniques help to reduce stress, be present in the moment and allow individuals to become in tune with mind, body and spirit. 

 Jana graduated with an honours degree in biology and a minor in nutrition from the University of Guelph in 1992. She has been practicing as a registered massage therapist since 1995 with training in Swedish massage, cranial-sacral therapy and shiatsu. She has taught and practiced Mitsfa postural body work since 1995, which consists of remedial exercises and table work. Jana has lived in the Wiarton area since 2003. She received her Yoga Teacher Training certificate through Yoga Alliance Canada in 2009 after many years of practice. Jana brings skill, experience, radiant enthusiasm and caring to her yoga teaching. 

Kim Hick has been practicing yoga for over 10 years and is completing a Kundalini Yoga level 1 Teacher training course in Toronto. She is certified as a personal trainer through Can Fit Pro and has a B.A. in psychology.

Laura Heming's medicine name is Turns Around Woman. She looks at every obstacle as part of her spiritual adventure. In her personal life and work she has sought to understand the mystery and magic of how to engage the Living Energies of the Earth for healing and to gain direct experience of spirit. She apprenticed to the Twisted Hair Metis Medicine Society in 1996; was adopted into the Cherokee Nation in 1998; became a Fourth Level Paqo in the Peruvian Inca system in 2008. To this end she completed a multitude of personal and community ceremonies in Canada; Sun Danced twice in Arizona; completed the Hatun Karpay Initiation in the Andean Mountains of Peru; and connected to the Star Nation people in Hawaii.

 Lishui Springford is a white belt Nia instructor who loves to move. With a background in ecology, holistic healing, consciousness work and human neurological development, Lishui brings to her dance a shamanistic and playful feeling. Her Nia classes are about exploring Your Body's Way through your five senses in play with the environment.