Loves

I am ridiculously passionate about yoga, and very eager to share that passion.

I love being the mother of two beautiful girls.

I love teaching and running my yoga studio, Semperviva. We have a great community of students! Our goal was to make yoga accessible to people of all ages and all abilities. We have made it our purpose to create a welcoming, supportive environment for people to come and practice yoga, and we have been blessed with an amazing community of students.

I love the full moon but it does keep me up very late at night

I love farmer’s markets and purchasing food that has been handled very little before it reaches my table

I love basil. I grow it in rows in my garden

I hate yoga clothes with super tight elastics. Can someone please make a yoga top I can breathe in?

I love Nia Vardalos for capturing the humour of being first generation Greek in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I promise you, nothing was exaggerated in that movie

When I grow up, I would love to have a goat. And I would really love to learn how to make cheese

I own 17 olive trees, and someday I’d like to have a yoga/olive harvest retreat

I am very fortunate that my work is something I love. I don’t have a distinction between work and play. I love it all.

I love all yoga styles, but Kundalini in particular. I love the way Kundalini yoga makes me feel. Kundalini helps you feel better fast. It is the most efficient yoga I know. You can work physically hard, chant, meditate, dance and sing all in an hour and fifteen minutes. I love teaching it, because it requires less “technical instruction” and thus there are more periods of silence that allow students to go inside and discover themselves.

I love Tom Jones music.

Favourite Music
My newest favourite is Trevor Hall. Have a listen to Om Shakti Om, on i-tunes. You’ll love it.
My all time favourite, is definitely Bhagavan Das
I’m also a big fan of David Newman and of course Krishna Das. All three of these artists have amazing soulful voices.
If I’m in a quiet mood, I love to listen to Satnam Kaur or Donna De Lory.

Favourite Books
I love to learn by reading stories.
Books I have really enjoyed include:
Shantaram
Holy Cow
Idiot’s Guide to Enlightenment
A Gift From the Sea
Bhagavan’ Das book It’s Here Now (Are You?) is a must read. It is a riveting page turner. One man’s journey from spiritual seeker to car salesman, to born again Christian and the journey continues. Bhagavan told me, that his first “spiritual epiphany” occurred in a monastery right across the way from where we hold our Yoga Retreats in Kythira, Greece in a tiny town called Monemvasia.

Of course every yoga teacher must have the following:
Donna Farhi’s Body, Breath and Movement
BKS Iyengar’s Light on Life
Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

Favourite Kundalini Yoga Books
Kundalini Yoga, The Flow of Eternal Power
Sadhana Guidelines

Favourite movies
Mama Mia
A Good Year
Essentially anything filmed in the Mediterranean works nicely on a November day in Vancouver.

Best coffee in town
Spanish Lattes at Artigiano. Just ordering them makes me feel sunny and warm, like I’m taking a stroll in the Barcelona sunshine.

Best chai in town
Green chai tea at East is East. Don’t drink the black chai unless you don’t mind staying awake for a full week.

Best Greek food in town
Piato Restaurant. Surprising new twists on lots of traditional recipes.

This is a paragraph
This is a sentence using soft return (shift key + enter/return key)