Ganga Auer, R.Y.T.
Ganga is a registered Yoga Alliance teacher and is certified in Kundalini Yoga, in Hatha Yoga by the Esther Myers Yoga Studio, Toronto, Canada and in Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga. Ganga has intensively practiced yoga since 1995. Since 1998 she has gained more than 1,000 hours of teaching experience. Ganga opened her studio, the YogaRoom in Downtown Barrie, Canada in November 2005. She also has a teaching degree from Hungary.
Ganga's daily practice and main teaching combines the ancient Indian tradition of Kriya Yoga with the Western style of Vanda Scaravelli’s method. She was greatly influenced by her teachers: Durga Ahlund, Esther Myers, Diana Long and Sat Dharam Kaur. Through the connection to the ground, the breath, the spine and the soul this type of yoga brings awareness, rejuvenation and relaxation into the body and the mind. She has a great passion to teach the very dynamic Kundalini Yoga, the yoga of awareness. Her goal is to help others to live happier and healthier by expanding the yoga practice from the mat into everyday life. She loves to learn and share her knowledge with others.
Barbara Marshall, MA, FOYT C
Barb is a professional planner and partner of McNair & Marshall, Planning and Development Consultants of Barrie, Ontario. She has university degrees from York University and the University of British Columbia. Barb first practiced yoga as a teenager and has been teaching yoga since 2002. She is a graduate of the teacher training program of the prestigious Esther Myers Studio in Toronto and certified through the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers, as well as a Laughter Yoga leader.
For Barb yoga is “self transformation through awareness”. When we become aware of how we breathe, think and move in yoga, we can literally change our lives. Barb teaches in a gentle manner with attention to the individual needs of students. She is inspired by the work of Vanda Scaravelli, whose influential book Awakening the Spine demonstrates that yoga is more about “undoing” than “doing”, and that age is no barrier to the valuable practice of yoga. Barb continues to explore yoga practice with Vanda’s principal student, Diane Long of Italy, as well as her students, including Jayelle Lindsay, a physiotherapist and Advanced Kripalu Yoga Teacher in Guelph, Ont. and JoAnne Royce, a yoga teacher in Sharon, Ont. For Barb it is an ongoing privilege to teach yoga and she is deeply grateful to all her students.
